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Between the endless Euro drama and the Bitcoin brouhaha, currency has been much in the news of late. Most people would probably name the US Dollar as the dominant currency in this day and age.
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A massive survey of internet users reveals trends in social media usage across numerous platforms, ages, races, genders, population density and which social media sites do they frequently visit. The Pew Research Center has released the results of a comprehensive social media survey, conducted over several years to evaluate which demographics were using social media, and on which platforms. Which social networking sites emerged on top? Of the online adults surveyed at the end of 2012: 67% use Facebook 20% use LinkedIn 16% use Twitter 15% use Pinterest 13% use Instagram 6% use Tumblr A decent amount of Americans appear to be using social media, but which demographics use social media in greater numbers? It appears that women use social media 9% more than men do, at a whopping rate of 71%. Other frontrunners with the highest social network activity in their demographic include city dwellers(70%), Hispanics (72%) and adults with a household income below $30,000 annually (72%). The most pervasive and consistent divider amongst social media users remains, unsurprisingly, their age. 83% of the young adult demographic (18-29 year olds) use social media, which is well over double the activity of online adults over 65 years old (32%).
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A blog about ecommerce marketing, running an online business and updates to Shopify's ecommerce community.
From company blogs to Pinterest boards, social media and content marketing integration is a must-do for today’s businesses. Strategic content marketing
Via Neil Ferree, Robin Martin
The police department’s stream of tweets ended up being the best defense against misinformation and Bostonians’ lifeline for communication about the men terrorizing their city.
This single Twitter account, perhaps more than anything else on the Internet, memorialized the horror of the bombs and the joy of the capture in real time.
Best tips from the 2 day conference!
Here's a sample of the gold:
Schedule Your Social Media Updates: I use BufferApp to schedule tweets, Facebook posts and LinkedIn posts. I typically share my favorite quotes and links to articles I’ve written and great articles I find on the web. Since a lot of what I share is timeless, I can use the analytics from BufferApp to take the most popular content and schedule it again for another time.
– Dave Kerpen, CEO, Likeable.com
Mobile Marketing Tools: One of the great tools that I heard about at Social Media Marketing World was Mogreet Express.
Pat Flynn mentioned that he used it to text his listeners after his podcast with follow-up links. I plan on using it in both my product and service based businesses to market promotions and follow-up with mobile users after my webinars.
– Melanie Duncan, MelanieDuncan.com
[Remember] the Power of Email Marketing: Don’t be distracted by the shiny new toy of social media to the neglect of building an email list from day one of launching your blog or website.
Subscribe to an email platform such as Aweber, Mailchimp or Exact Target and make it easy for people to subscribe to your newsletter and receive your articles.
You own your your email list and it is an asset worth building from day one. – Jeff Bullas, JeffBullas.com
"We are living in a world where your reputation and influence is migrating from offline to online. Reputation is moving from local to global."
Connect and meet your global tribe!
Via Salah ALhaj Ahmed, Robin Martin
In an effort to personalize user experience, Facebook automatically suggests related Facebook pages for you to like, both when you send out status updates via Facebook and when you use partner websites.
Here's how to turn turn-off "suggested pages"in your Facebook feed. Click on the title for directions.
"SlideShare for lead generation: How to use SlideShare as part of your visual content marketing strategy."
From Social Media Examiner
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Google just revealed plans to shut down eight of its services as part of what it’s calling an ongoing spring cleaning effort. Some of them are pretty arcane, but among TechCrunch writers, anyway, we’re pretty bummed to see that Google Reader will be shut down on July 1.
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Twitter continues to be a happening place to be in social media. It's great for making connections everywhere including conferences, among colleagues and especially with prospective clients.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 11:45am - 1:00pm
Location: Conor O'Neills, 318 South Main Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Learn how Deb uses twitter to connect with important influencers. She'll also share 5 smart strategies to make the most of twitter and how you can make solid, fruitful business connections as a Super Connector.
Users can now sign in to your app with Google, and bring along their Google+ info for an upgraded experience. It’s simple, it’s secure, and it prohibits social spam.
Simplicity and security come first
If you sign in to Gmail, YouTube or any other Google service, you can now use your existing credentials to sign in to apps outside of Google.
Add the ultimate personal touch: turn your handwriting into a font, thanks to MyScriptFont.
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Yahoo’s move aims to make up for years of missing out on the growth of social networks and mobile devices.
Excerpts:
The deal would be the largest acquisition of a social networking company in years, surpassing Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram last year.
Tumblr has over 108 million blogs, with many highly active users. For Yahoo and its chief executive, Marissa Mayer, buying Tumblr would be a bold move as she tries to breathe new life into the company. The deal, the seventh since Ms. Mayer defected from Google last summer to take over the company, would be her biggest yet.
It is meant to give her company more appeal to young people, and to make up for years of missing out on the revolutions in social networking and mobile devices.
News from Deb:
Being a content curator is all about displaying information. We don't create the content, we display it. We share it - and people read it. But, first you have to display it. There are several skills involved in displaying content.
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A new wave of sites based on topic curation, both human and algorithmic, are creating opportunities to reach targeted audiences.
Via Robin Good
Download Free Today: "For whatever reason, we tend to think that "someone" is going to make us better, that we're broken, that we're missing the key ingredients to succeed."
"We feel envy and we're certain that we're the only failures this world has ever seen. It's a tough row to hoe."
"I'll teach you about Confidence, Acceptance, Permission, and Execution, and how Practice in all those areas will guide you to find those missing success points in your life."
Content curation is, in a nutshell, picking and choosing content from around the Web, and sharing it with your followers. Running a curated blog is not just about finding interesting content to share.
Via Robin Good
Google just revealed plans to shut down eight of its services as part of what it’s calling an ongoing spring cleaning effort. - Google Reader will be shut down on July 1.
Via gdecugis
Seamlessly export your Scoop.it topic to a newsletter template or send to your email lists in MailChimp by connecting your accounts with the new MailChimp integration.
This feature is free with all Scoop.it accounts and is unlimited until April 15th. To access it, simply click “Manage” on your topic of choice and click “Create a Newsletter.”
From a press release:
About Scoop.it
Scoop.it lets professionals, small businesses, educators and non-profits express their unique perspectives on topics that matter with beautiful topic pages, driven by content discovery and curation, social sharing and efficient content management.
With nearly 7 million unique visitors per month, users can reach a large audience, feed relevant content to their social media channels including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ and effectively build their online presence. For more information or to sign-up as a new user, visit Scoop.it.
About MailChimp
MailChimp supports more than 2.5 million subscribers worldwide, sending 4 billion messages per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user -- someone looking for all of the power of an enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Hootsuite,
Pinterest, Instagram, SurveyMonkey, Eventbrite, Etsy, Salesforce, Wordpress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free. For more information, visit MailChimp.com.
Someone's found a posting or comment about you or your organization? What's next? Flow it out > The Social Media Response Flowchart.
Click on the title above to access the full Slideshare.
~ Deb
YouTube is one of the most popular online music players in the world, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the video platform is planning to launch a paid-subscription music streaming service later this year, Fortune reports.A YouTube...
Business blogging gets you 55% more web traffic and 70% more leads. Check out the infographic for more exciting stats that prove blogging works!
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