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Photographer Denis Cherim began taking photos for his “Solo Para Locos” project when he was living in various countries for a year.
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Apparently, there are 4.6 of you for every one of me, and yet most of the time, I can’t get a call back from a communications person to save my life.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Media relations 101: answer your phone and return media calls!
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Think back to your first memory: Can you still see the watermelon pink dress you wore? Do you remember the unique checkered pattern of your father's jacket?
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Here's why our brains crave infographics... in an infographic.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
June 6, 2016 12:00 AM
Here's why our brains crave infographics... in an infographic.
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In the past, I’ve discussed a variety of ways for businesses to improve their reach through social media. From step-by-step marketing guides to advertising-based posts, I have done it all.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Neil Patel shares 13 essential social media tools for your social marketing toolkit.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
June 5, 2016 11:40 PM
Neil Patel shares 13 essential social media tools for your social marketing toolkit.
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This is the gospel according to Mary Meeker, a living legend amongst venture capitalists. Instead of just blindly clicking through her 200+ page 2016..
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Tech Crunch has done us a huge favor in producing a 49-slide interpretation of Mary Meeker's 211-slide mashup. Save yourself two hours.
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It’s the third greatest cause of relationship strife, behind trips to IKEA and debates over whether Fridays are for Island Hunters or Say Yes To The Dress: hanging art. It’s always either too high, low, crooked, or inspirational—and for these moments, there’s Hangsmart.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
OMG! This is better than marriage counseling.
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Are you ready to give content marketing the time, money and resources it deserves?
Jeff Domansky's insight:
If you're new to content marketing or just starting up for your business, Neil Patel's list of tools is a great place to start.
rodrick rajive lal's curator insight,
June 5, 2016 12:34 AM
Neil Patel's tools will help novices and pros alike to develop an effective Content Marketing Campaign. Even though the Internet helps promote and market content in a big way, effective reach and consistent appeal will require much more than a single strategy.
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The American economy depends mightily on consumer spending, so this report bodes well for a healthier 2016, economists say. The wage gap and the economy’s failure to produce adequate income improvements even in a healthier economy have stymied spending for months. But that’s recently been changing, as reflected in this report.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Is there a consumer spending bright spot ahead for retailers? Economists think so.
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Pablo Picasso once said: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.”
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Lots of lessons to learn from these 30 lead-generating landing pages.
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Tronc. Few words have garnered as much hilarity in such a short period of time. On Thursday, Tribune Publishing announced that the historic media company would rename itself "tronc." Media Twitter nearly lost its mind. For hours after the announcement, the jokes rolled in. They're still going strong as of Friday morning. Disastrous company rebrandings aren't particularly new, even for newspaper companies. Gannett, which publishes USA Today, spun off its digital businesses into something called TEGNA. None of them drew quite the ridicule that tronc elicited. And since it's Friday, here's 30 of the best tronc jokes from Twitter....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Few words have garnered as much hilarity in such a short period of time. tronc if you like it! Yes, this bad branding, PR fail deserves to be the butt of all journalism jokes.
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Well, that sure got weird, didn’t it? Tribune’s takeover of what used to be called Times-Mirror was messy when it started, a decade and a half ago, and has gotten worse every few years: This is the company, after all, that took over several great newspapers, crowed about “synergy,” and made a few legendary editors so uncomfortable that they left their posts. (One of them was Dean Baquet, who’s now executive editor at the New York Times.) And they sold their papers to Sam Zell, who had no background in newspapers and made an even bigger mess of things before filing for Chapter 11. Last fall, the company put Tribune Tower, where its original newspaper is based, up for sale. But now Tribune has a new trick: It has renamed itself tronc – a term that means, in French, “poor box,” and if modulated to “trunk,” something worse. According to Tribune’s current chair, Michael Ferro – who was invited onto the board by former CEO Jack Griffin, whom he fired — this is a bold step into the future. Here’s a corporate release:...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
The goofy new brand emphasizes "content curation and monetization," not the Pulitzer-quality journalism of before. Whatever!
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Forget about PowerPoints with voice-over — that's old school. These "new school" apps can help you engage your students while they're learning from your lectures. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Check these video tools out and pimp your presentations.
Willem Kuypers's curator insight,
March 18, 2017 3:04 AM
Certainement des outils à utiliser pour créer de la vidéo et ajouter des instructions.
Oscar Carrera's curator insight,
October 5, 2018 2:22 PM
Great tools to make interactive videos. Specially for class projects that involve media presentations.
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Yesterday, Tribune Publishing, purveyor of news since 1847, changed its name to “tronc” (short for “Tribune Online Content.”) It’s now a “content curation and monetization company” — a company that makes money from content, what we used to call a media company. Today, I deconstruct the rest of its attempt to use techno-drivel to misdirect our attention from its problems. Crisis-tossed Tribune Publishing, which owns the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, and dozens of other papers, has suffered through a sale to a billionaire, a bankruptcy, a corporate split, newsroom turmoil, massive layoffs, and an unsolicited takeover offer. Now, as “tronc,” the company wants to be considered alongside Silicon Valley startups. (If this trend catches on, will the Boston Globe company become “hubstuff” and the New York Times “gray_lady”?) The tronc press release is a classic, because it reveals that when a media company wants to reinvent itself as a technology company, it drapes its press release in the same techno-drivel that tech companies use. Instead of meaningless media and corporate bullshit, we get meaningless, shiny Silicon Valley bullshit. It’s a transformation (you can tell because the release mentions “transform” or “transformation” six times).In the commentary below, I’ve added bold to indicate passives, meaningless superlatives, and especially, new-age jargon. I add commentary in brackets and commonsense translations below each section....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
tronc - the self-proclaimed, high-tech, low touch reinvention of Tribune publishing is a silly name that tries to deflect from all of its problems according to Josh Bernoff. The news release is a classic PR fail for this sudden rebirth as a "content curation and monetization company”.
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By now, every business knows it has to be smart in its online strategy. Gone are the vanity metrics of yesteryear, with numbers of downloads, visitors, and the like. Now it’s all about user engagement, customer loyalty, and business results.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Need sales? Get an AI gorilla on your team!
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What's the #1 thing clients value in their agency partners? According to the Society of Digital Agencies, it's expertise in emerging trends. Now think about the last time you delivered this type of information to your client. If it's been a while, then you've got some work to do. Clients want this information, and if you are able to provide advice and direction on how they should be investing in not only growing their business today but what they need to do to prepare their company to compete one, two, or five years from now, your agency will be in a better position to retain the relationship or even benefit from upselling opportunities.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Sage client service advice.
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A picture is worth a thousand words – based on this, infographics would carry hundreds of thousands of words, yet if you let a reader choose between a full-length 1000-word article and an infographic that needs a few scroll-downs, they’d probably prefer absorbing information straight from the infographic. What’s not to like? Colored charts and illustrations deliver connections better than tables and figures and as users spend time looking back and forth the full infographic, they stay on the site longer. Plus, readers who like what they see are more likely to share visual guides more than articles.
While not everyone can make infographics from scratch, there are tools available on the Web that will help you create your very own infographics. In this article, we’re listing more than 20 such options to help you get your messages across to your readers, visually.... Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Nice updated list of infographics tools.
Bart van Maanen's curator insight,
June 6, 2016 11:38 AM
Soms kun je een verhaal goed vertellen met een infographic, regelijk een vorm die zich goed laat delen op sociale media. Misschien kun je er ook wel een creatief cv mee maken. Maak je eigen #infographics met een van deze online tools.
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Gone are the days where a humorous picture or phrase will get your site's 404 page noticed. In a version of the Internet where GIFs are the new text and where videos are the new photos, it's going to take a lot more than a witty phrase to stand out amongst the crowd....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Fun animated 404 pages.
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What horror story ingredients are most common in viral creepypastas?
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Time for creepypasta horror stories and what makes them go viral for all you writers and inquiring minds.
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By now everyone has heard of Google’s RankBrain, the new artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm that is supposed to be the latest and greatest from Mountain View, Calif. What many of you might not realize, however, is just how fast the SEO industry is changing because of it. In this article, I’ll take you through some clear examples of how some of the old rules of SEO no longer apply, and what steps you can take to stay ahead of the curve in order to continue to provide successful SEO campaigns for your businesses.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
John Rampton offers a useful intro to artificial intelligence in this post.
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In this volume of our biannual trend publication, we explore the theme of Evolution. Agencies, consultancies, brands and other industry thought leaders largely agree that 2016 is shaping up to be an evolve- or-die year. Or, to put a positive spin on it, we might say it’s a year to thrive through intelligent adaptation. While some agencies are going the way of the dinosaur, a forward-thinking cross-section of shops are reporting increased revenues and profits by partnering with clients in new and innovative ways, by bringing their own IP to market and more.
Other industry players need to evolve as major shifts in the way consumers use technology, consume media and engage with the world around them are forcing massive changes.
Throughout the 2016 editions of The SoDA Report, we’ll explore top trends and behaviors that leading practitioners in our industry won’t be able to ignore as the year unfolds, and we’ll cast a spotlight on brands, agencies and individuals who are flourishing in this environment. Within Modern Marketer, Industry Insider and via our Digital Outlook Study (conducted in partnership with Forrester Research for the first time), we’ll also explore how the landscape of creativity and the modus operandi for agency-client relationships are shifting in radical ways.
Spurred by rapidly changing consumer expectations and behaviors, agency-client partnerships are expanding in incredibly exciting ways beyond the marketing realm to include business strategy, R&D, product development and customer service. We are so proud of the growth and development of The SoDA Report over the past year.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
The annual SoDA Report looks at the digital marketing Outlook for 2016 and provides a 2017 forecast as well as a snapshot of client-agency relationships. recommended reading for digital agencies and marketers. 9/10
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Snapchat's daily user base grew by an estimated 36% since December 2015, at which time reports said it had 110 million DAU. Twitter does not officially break out its DAU numbers, but its monthly active user (MAU) numbers have been stagnating in the last year. In the first quarter of 2016, Twitter's user base grew just 3% YoY.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Taking a second look at Twitter vs Snapchat and why Twitter is still important for marketers.
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We suppose it is possible for the Department of State to screw up the handling of questions about whether they lied to reporters even worse — but it is hard to figure out how. The video below from CNN’s Jake Tapper today nicely lays out the series of offenses — but here is our quick summary: In February 2013 Fox News correspondent James Rosen asked then State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland if there had been direct talks between the U.S. and Iran. She essentially said “NO.” In December 2013, Rosen points out to Nuland’s successor Jen Psaki that the correct answer would have been “YES” and asked if State routinely lied to reporters when they found it convenient. Psaki with a smirk said there are times when diplomacy needs privacy to succeed. (Translation: yes, we lied)....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Lots of crisis management and media relations lessons here.
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It has been a tense spring in the realm of big-time newspaper consolidation. Back in April, Gannett, owner of more than 100 newspapers across the country, including the flagship USA Today, made a roughly $400 million takeover bid for the Tribune Publishing, owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and several other titles. The intervening weeks have seen a great deal of maneuvering by Tribune Chairman Michael Ferro to rebuff the bid, an effort that advanced Thursday with the news that Gannett may be backing off its bid in light of “expectations” that Tribune shareholders would back management in a critical vote. [VIDEO: Tribune rejects Gannett’s bid again] Amid all this business, the Tribune lost its mind, in a press release. First, it renamed and rebranded itself: On June 20, we'll be tronc. Yep. tronc. pic.twitter.com/PvK8jtrQbp— Michael Zajakowski (@zajakowski) June 2, 2016 “Tronc” stands for “Tribune online content,” or, as this tronc press release renders it in smaller case: “tribune online content.” So obsessed is the new, rebranded company with the Web’s lower-case vibe that its press release starts various sentences that way. ...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Buzzwords and lower-case letters abound. Hope for the survival of the entity formerly known as the Chicago Tribune? Not so much. And the news release? One of the worst examples of baffling, befuddling, techno-speak-filled, corporate jargon laden press release ever seen. And I've seen a lot of them.
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Discover everything you need to know to about Facebook marketing -- from how to create a business Page to how to use Facebook Insights. Via Daniel Watson
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Practical Facebook marketing tips.
donhornsby's curator insight,
June 3, 2016 9:42 AM
(From the article) : If you want your business' content to reach consumers, having a presence on Facebook is a given. But to make the most of your Facebook Page -- to attract and engage visitors, drive them to your website, and convert them into leads (and, eventually, customers) -- you need to optimize your Facebook presence.
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Juan Andres Muñoz was in his bedroom when he first tweeted news of Osama Bin Laden’s death to hundreds of thousands of followers of CNN’s Spanish language network, CNN en Español.“ I remember I was at home, and back at that time we didn’t have a lot of people working on social – I was doing a lot of the tweeting myself. I saw emails coming in, and everything indicated that it would be a big big story. As soon as it was confirmed by CNN, I tweeted immediately from the main CNN en Español account.“ I tweeted that from my room. It went all around the Spanish-speaking world, and ended up being one of the three biggest breaking news tweets on the event.” That experience confirmed to Juan just how effective social media could be in spreading news and information....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
News Whip talked to the Head of Social Media and Digital at CNN's Spanish language network about reaching readers effectively around the Spanish-speaking world. His advice to journalists is equally valuable for bloggers.
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Very creative photography.