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February 18, 2016March 3, 2016

Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

Welcome 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!

Having a tough time keeping up with all the changes in social media? Even those of us who work in social every day sometimes experience whiplash due to the astonishing rate of change that goes along with this industry. Jeff Bullas has put together an interesting group of stats in his 79 Social Media Facts That Reveal How Our World Is Changing.

We’ve been getting hints about Facebook’s new article publishing platform. Sounds like this social media giant is ready to open up Instant Articles to the public. Here is a Digital Trends article on Facebook Instant Articles is Finally Going Wide.

Twitter keeps looking like it’s going to make some massive changes soon. While we wait to see how it unfolds, the site has announced that Twitter is adding a dedicated GIF button to make your timeline and DMs more animated. Check out this article at TNW News to find out more about this new feature.

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.

February 11, 2016March 3, 2016

Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

Welcome 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!

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

Snapchat is a social media platform that is really making headlines right now as it moves up the ladder of popularity. There are some strong opinions about this app and it has also garnered quite a bit of attention. Check out this infographic from Social Media Today that breaks down How Are People Really Using Snapchat?

Are you the owner of multiple Instagram accounts? Often been annoyed at the need to log out of one account in order to access another? Instagram has people talking this week when it made an announcement that it plans to make in-app account switching a feature soon. Find out more about this new development in Kim Garst’s blog post – Finally Instagram Makes It Easy to Manage Multiple Accounts.

It’s difficult to do anything marketing related without running into the beast that is social media. There is so much data out there about the value of social media. Maybe you still have doubts about its ROI and have yet to test the waters? The Timmermann Group put together this thoughtful piece on The Financial Value of Social Media.

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.

February 4, 2016March 3, 2016

Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

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

If social media is designed to facilitate an online conversation, it makes sense that content should be geared towards that intention. Copyblogger wants to teach us how to engage readers with a conversational writing style in their new article How to Write Conversationally: 7 Tips to Engage and Delight Your Audience.

People are talking about Twitter this week. While there are a lot of rumors going around, nothing seems to be legitimately confirmed. That isn’t keeping Twitter’s stock from fluctuating, though. Here is a CNN Money report focusing on how Twitter surges on yet another takeover rumor.

Snapchat is really moving up in the social media world, especially with younger users. Now they have a quiet partnership with Stats.com and are getting more involved in the sports industries. Tech Crunch lays out some of this strategy in Snapchat Challenges Twitter and Facebook for Sports Talk.

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.