Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

Top Three Thursday- Social Media News You Can Use

Top Three Thursday- Social Media News You Can UseWelcome to my Thursday feature. Here’s where I link three useful and interesting articles from excellent information sources that deal with social media and marketing subjects.

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

Visual content is where online marketing and social media is headed. An article by Sprout Social compares the viability of two giant, visual content apps – Instagram vs. Snapchat: Who Rules the Visual Content World? Check out all the interesting statistics about these two companies.

Since the innovation of Twitter, hashtags have pretty much been a free-for-all. Throw a pound sign in front of it and use it. Now corporations are beginning to trademark their own hashtags. MarketWatch covers the phenomenon in Here’s One More Way the Corporate World is Trying to Infiltrate Social Media.

Have you been doing social media the same way for a while now? Does everything you do work? Do you have some Social Media Marketing Habits You Should Break NOW? The Top Rank Marketing Blog has developed a list of seven habits you need to break right away.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.

Wordless Wednesday on SMMS

Time for your Wordless Wednesday rest stop on the highway of constant social media chatter! Just for fun. Take a break.

Rose from the garden of Melody Jones
Can’t wait for rose season again. Here’s a beautiful white rose with touches of pink and a few drops of rain from my garden in Parker, Colorado.

Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

Top Three Thursday- Social Media News You Can Use

Top Three Thursday- Social Media News You Can UseWelcome to my Thursday feature. Here’s where I link three useful and interesting articles from excellent information sources that deal with social media and marketing subjects.

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

Politics is a hot topic right now. This article by Teen Vogue has chosen to focus on something a bit more positive this election season. In Why Michelle Obama is the Coolest First Lady Ever, the magazine highlights Michelle’s social media strategy and why it should set the new example.

It’s the ultimate catch-22. As social media becomes increasingly popular, newsfeeds on social platforms become overwhelmed. This causes social media sites to start adapting their algorithms to organize the feeds. Has the algorithm killed social media? ABC’s The Drum explores this theory here.

How to Use Social Media to Become a Thought Leader taps into the popular concept of becoming an expert or influencer online. If the idea of establishing yourself as a figure in your industry appeals to you, this piece by Mark It Write gives some tips and suggestions to get started.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.