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March 24, 2016March 29, 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!

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.

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 4, 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!

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.