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You've had some fun with Vine, but now you want to get serious. Here are some tips to turn you into a Vine pro.
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Some great advice on how to turn Vine from a fun plaything into part of your professional social media offer . . . Delete the scoop?
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Track your competitors on Facebook: Use these tools to identify tactics used by your competition and get ideas on how to improve your own Facebook marketing.
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Some great ways to see how your Facebook page matched up with the competition . . . Delete the scoop?
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In an update to their mobile apps today, Instagram has added Facebook-like tagging to uploaded images.
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Instagram get in your face! Do you like this new innovation? . . . Delete the scoop?
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Pinterest analytics: How to measure your Pinterest activity to help your business identify what types of content resonate best with your specific audience.
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Five employees manage Starbucks’ social media and, with 34 million fans, have developed the fifth-largest brand on Facebook. Via yeohyc
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Great story of a brand that really understands social media. Thanks @yeohyc Delete the scoop?
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LinkedIn Contacts is a new mobile and web solution for building and maintaining relationships that are important to you.
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LinkedIn adds another great tool to cement its position as the social channel of choice for business people. Great idea . . . Delete the scoop?
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Passion if focused in the right direction can fuel your life and business. Embrace the why of life, the reasons you do what you do for success and joy.
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Social media is all about inspiration, passion and honesty. These three tiny-enormous words underpinned the fabulous Pam Moore's speaking and training for the British Council's #SocialMediaTapas in Madrid . . . Delete the scoop?
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How do you manage time as a social media addict business leader? Focus on goals, objectives and inspiring and connecting with your audience and community
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Pam Moore is a leading light in social media today. But just how does she balance social media with, you know, real work . . . Here she share 21 tips on how get your social media rocking . . . 
yeohyc's curator insight,
April 16, 7:16 AM
Less than 45 hours to go to meet @PamMktgNut, @BritishCouncil & @esBritish friends at Social Media Tapas, Madrid! :) 
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April 16, 8:41 AM
It's so important to maintain a balanced lifestyle. In our quest for succes we must not allow ourselves to become to obsessed with things. I always enjoy content from The Marketing Nut. 
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April 18, 6:11 AM
I hope to not just learn, but to IMPLEMENT at least some of what I learn from this article. Time management continues to be a major problem with me.
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Twitter for Business: Read an updated checklist of everything your business needs to do on Twitter and start seeing great results.
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So you think you know Twitter? I'm sure you do but Charlene Kingston's comprehensive guide might remind you of some things you can do to tweak your Twitter approach . . . Delete the scoop?
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Acquiring Facebook "likes" has become the major goal of many social media marketing efforts.
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What is the ROI of social media? This is one of the most common questions asked (usually by Senior Managers!) and Jeff Bullas has an answer related to Facebook, thanks to Experian Hitwise UK . . . Delete the scoop?
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Check out these tips for making content creation faster, easier, and more effective.
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@HubSpot create great, shareable content. In this post they explain how with 15 cool tips . . . Delete the scoop?
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Facebook today is rolling out two more features for Pages used by brands and businesses and public Profiles for individuals with more than 10,000 followers: it is adding replies and threaded comments.
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It's that time of the week when Facebook roll out a new update! Very intersting it is too - a replies and comments thread . . .
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March 27, 3:51 AM
New: Reply links make it easy to have conversations on Facebook! Delete the scoop?
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Facebook quietly lifted almost all of its restrictions on cover images for pages, keeping in place the rule that text can only occupy 20 percent.
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Wow! This could be very significant in how you use your Facebook cover images from now. Very interesting . . . Delete the scoop?
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Pinterest is unveiling a new pin structure for different types of products and an integration with a large number of retail brands, as it continues buildng up the platform and paving the way for growth.
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Pinterest is inching toward monetisation. Here's the lowdown . . . Delete the scoop?
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Nurturing relationships with your customers is a crucial part of growing a successful business. In this age of automation and innovation, caring for your customers has never been more important.
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If you care about good customer service, make sure you read this . . . Delete the scoop?
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Why images are so important if you are trying to get your content to the Facebook News Feed and how to optimize them
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Great post on how to optimize your Facebook images to increase engagement . . . 
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May 10, 6:42 AM
Another great example of how the infographic format makes it easy to deliver information for the author and easy to learn for the consumer of the information. 
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May 13, 7:44 AM
More about the magical, image dominated news feed. Delete the scoop?
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The big question that is often asked about social media when it comes to investing money, resources, and time is "what is the return on investment?
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This question is comes up time and time again but is it actually the right question? . . . Delete the scoop?
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Partner Categories: learn how to use Facebook’s Partner Categories to reach the audience you want and get better results from your Facebook advertising.
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Facebook audience targeting just got a whole lot more sophisticated . . . Delete the scoop?
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Here is how your brand can become a content organization or what I would call a "media company"
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A bucket load of common sense. It's all about your content . . . Delete the scoop?
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Social Media - Among online women, 75% use social media sites, whereas only 63% of online men do. To find out more about women's online social media activities and influence, check out the ...
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Very interesting study. Have just spent a few days with Pam Moore (@PamMktgNut) who spoke and trained at our British Council #SocialMediaTapas event, and I'm still in awe. She's just been voted Top 5 woman in social media by Forbes 2013 and is the no. ten influencer in the whole world. Pam rocks! . . . Delete the scoop?
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Get ready to rock. Twitter is about to launch its long-rumored standalone music app Friday, according to a report. The app's existence was rapidly becoming one of the worst-kept...
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And Your Bird Can Sing . . . Twitter dives into music with a new music app launched today (or at the weekend, depending on who you believe) . . . Delete the scoop?
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Now you can track, in any given period, what content your customers are engaging with the most. What content resonates with your audience? What is driving traffic to your website?
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Pinterest has got now got some serious new data analytics options to help businesses . . . Delete the scoop?
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If you don't want to miss any updates whatsoever, you can kick it old school and set Facebook News Feed to view every single post in real time.
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Facebook Newsfeed redesign coming very soon - looks like you'll be able to have much more control over your stream. Good news for everyone, I feel . . . Delete the scoop?
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Facebook is changing things again, which of course means we have to change things again. Here are our top 5 tips to benefit from the new Facebook news feed.
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Nice summary of the latest Facebook changes from @MySocialAgency . . . Delete the scoop?
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Bitly, the popular URL-shortening service, released a graphic visualization of the world's social networking site usage this week. The interactive graphic, which includes international favorites such as Weibo and Renren ... Via Os Ishmael, yeohyc
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