In recent years, Instagram has demonstrated significant growth with over 400 million active users. The popular photo sharing social network has the potential to become a central visual content strategy for your brand. Instagram can be leveraged to build brand awareness and high-levels of engagement. Far exceeding the level of engagement businesses are seeing in…
Chances are you’re counting down the days until Memorial Day Weekend and the official kickoff of summer. The three months between summer’s holy grail holidays of Memorial and Labor Day are a prime season for marketers. Your audience is generally out enjoying warmer weather, traveling, attending parties, and more. Now is the perfect time to…
Conferences give you and your team the opportunity to network with leaders in your industry and learn about the latest innovations you need to know to stay current. But how can you meet the people you want to in a group of several hundred or even several thousand? Social media can be used to enhance…
Social media has been around for less than 15 years but it is quickly changing the way we all gather news, information, and communicate with each other, particularly with attending events. Have you noticed the increased usage of hashtags for industry conferences, sporting events, fashion shows, and other types of events? It is quickly becoming…
It’s been a little over a year since the professional network did away with LinkedIn Signal, a LinkedIn feature which allowed people to filter their updates and news stream. Professionals were able to easily search for relevant information and contacts, and receive auto updates of rich content in real time. Signal mined through the daily…
Learn how to use hashtags with hashtag science and join the #hashtagscience conversation on Twitter. Hashtags are simple to use yet, it takes some thought to use them well. They can add value to communications or detract from the message when they are misplaced or excessive. Hashtags are used to participate in conversations around events, add exclamation, make a…
Yesterday a candy bomb dropped on the social media community and rainbow-tongued teens when a major brand website was transformed into a mash up of social networking sites. Welcome to Skittles “Interweb the Rainbow” (Yes, this is the homepage!): Innovative? Absolutely. The future of web design? That’s yet to be seen. It has the industry…
