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Svbtle, a new kind of magazine. Thoughts. Stories. Ideas.The new blogging tool is getting ready for launch. If you.re a blogger, storyteller or writer you'll want to to register and explore this beautifully designed and simple-functioning communication platform. ~ Jeff 
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Creating content is a manual job, but these 16 free tools can help you accelerate (and they're pretty fun to use, too).
Jeff Domansky's insight:
16 terrific tools from @Hubspot to help you be more effective in your conttent marketing and blogging.
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As a student the importance of planning a story before writing it was driven into my head. Then when I became a teacher, I drove that same message home to my students. Here are five free tools that students can use to plan and outline their stories.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Check out these five tools but pay attention to Amazon Studios/Storybuilder.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
December 20, 2013 1:41 PM
Richard Byrne shares great resources. Don't be afraid to explore these for marketing and PR too! OPf particular interest is Amazon Studios/Storybuilder. 
Ali Anani's curator insight,
December 21, 2013 12:36 AM
Since there is a "student" in each of us, I find this post even relevant to re-learners.
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If you sit down with any experienced graphic designer, they’ll happily talk to you for hours about the importance of typography. It’s everywhere you look, from huge billboard ads to the front of your favorite t-shirt. Type can reflect many emotions, but most of us rarely notice its profound impact. Notegraphy is an iOS and Web app that wants everyone, regardless of their experience in Adobe Illustrator, to have fun with typography and create vibrant, sophisticated examples that can then be shared with their friends online. Just as Instagram made photo-editing dead simple and accessible, Notegraphy wants to do the same with type....
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
December 19, 2013 9:39 AM
This is one of those very cool little apps creative people love.
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Social media monitoring is an increasingly important activity for any large organisation, but choosing a monitoring tool is a difficult decision. To help identify the key factors and questions to consider, Our Social Times recently hosted a fascinating webinar on what to look for in a social media monitoring tool. For those that couldn’t make it, you can listen to the recording here. Alternatively, read on for a summary of the discussions.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
December 16, 2013 11:42 PM
There are hundreds of social media monitoring tools on the market, so how do you know which one is right for you?
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A while back, I wrote a post on the Best Social Media Management Tools for Small Business Owners. I researched and reviewed a handful of the least expensive, most versatile options, but the comments included some lesser known alternatives that seemed worth investigating. I’ve taken some time to check them out, using the same parameters I used to gauge the initial set of tools. To restate, any tool considered must enable you to:
Here are some additional options for small business owners in need of a cost-effective social media management tool.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
December 16, 2013 11:33 PM
A review of some of the best social media management tools for companies looking for inexpensive yet effective options...
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These are the chattiest brands on Snapchat, demonstrating that time-sensitive images can actually be a strength in brand marketing.Mobile apps such as Twitter, Vine, Instagram and Snapchat are turning traditional media marketing upside down, challenging brands in increasingly new ways. Human interactions are key to brand loyalty and building a strong consumer base, and these mobile apps allow for two-way conversations. Snapchat, which launched in the iTunes App Store in September 2011, is popular with a much younger demographic than some marketing execs are used to, but it takes little or no cost to interact with customers by way of snaps. Compare that to other pricey forms of old-school advertising, and that’s a major plus...
malek's curator insight,
December 6, 2013 8:10 AM
Taco Bell in a great chat "Got That Fire". Going after younger generations. 
Allison Emma Schizkoske's curator insight,
December 6, 2013 1:51 PM
Snapchat is really big today, i myself use this app with my friends. This is a great way to get a message out among many people. The Snapchat app allows you to take a picture, write a short message and draw on it. You can then select how long this picture will be viewed for and send it to select friends. Snapchat has now added another feature called "Mys story" You can make a collage of pictures that will show on someones screen for up to 24 hours, after that the pictures are gone forever. This would be a great app to work with as a PR agent. 
Esteban Mejía Isch's curator insight,
December 6, 2013 2:01 PM
Pubñicado manualmente en mi scoop futbol
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We’ve heard about how Facebook is losing its street cred and its teenage audience as more and more baby boomers (their parents) join the platform. Where are all the teenagers going to, then? The answer is WeChat. Chinese messaging app WeChat is the fastest growing social app used by youths worldwide, according to a study by Global Web Index. The latest study was conducted based on the feedback from teenagers aged 16 to 19 globally, excluding China. WeChat saw a 1,021 percent increase in usage among youths between Q1 and Q3 2013. The second-fastest growing is Vine at a rate of 639 percent, followed by Flickr (254 percent)....
Ganapathi's curator insight,
November 27, 2013 11:40 PM
Parents in & Kids out....generation after generation its happens every where....now its seems to be happening for FB...check out "WeChat" is getting better.....this is a Chinese app, supported by Chinese population....but still seems FB is loosing its "cool"....wait & watch.....any thoughts?
Ali Anani's curator insight,
December 1, 2013 12:49 AM
Sometimes I wonder if Maslow pyramid of need should be revised to position social needs at a higher need level
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I’m interested to see if Sulia — a news recommendation platform that offers intelligent filtering by subject — can provide a suitable, more open alternative. But can diversity and precision really work well together? Concept and LayoutSulia is a strange kind of hybrid. It feels like a social network, albeit one that is based around news; it has users, a kind of following system, and every post is adorned with controls such as Like and Comment. But it is also, quite clearly, a full-blown news aggregator, equipped with Prismatic-style intelligence, that pulls in stories from unaffiliated Twitter feeds, blogs and media outlets...
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A primer on the photosharing service that Facebook reportedly offered to buy for $3 billion. .... How does Snapchat actually work? Once you've found your friends on Snapchat, you can simply start taking pictures and sending them out to as many friends as you want.The app has a couple of distinguishing features in terms of photo taking. One, users can draw on their photos. So that's funny sometimes. Two, you can caption any photo. Three, you get to set how long — from 1-10 seconds — the photograph will be visible to receivers. Crucially, too, the app tells you when your snaps are opened by the receiver. You know they saw it....
Social media test's curator insight,
December 9, 2013 6:33 PM
The new trend: small talk and short attention spans. 
Henry Lee's curator insight,
March 16, 2015 8:59 PM
Basically Snapchat enables people to send pictures or videos, which self-destruct, to people in their network. I believe this type of app is ideal for sharing sensitive information. For example, Kim and Vi have proposed a social media learning strategy for medical residents that may contain highly sensitive PII information. Snapchat may be the perfect tool to support this learning strategy aside from building an entirely new information sharing program.
Jamie Grooms's curator insight,
October 25, 2015 5:11 PM
Obviously SnapChat is a great app for long distance couples. Send funny pictures, or serious ones to your significant other. Share your day through photos. Article by Alexis C. Madrigal.
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Think of SlideShare's link juice as rocket fuel for your SEO program. All you need is a coordinated plan to start borrowing some of the professional network's search clout. SlideShare is incredibly search-friendly — in fact, the website’s engineers built the site with search optimization in mind. The platform attains SEO superstardom by automatically transcribing copy from uploaded presentations. The search value of this is incredible. Since a strong search presence is a huge boost for content marketing, SlideShare could be just what your brand needs for more successful content marketing. Think of SlideShare’s link juice as rocket fuel for the content you post on the platform. All you need to start borrowing some of the professional network’s clout is a coordinated plan...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
sSmart SlideShare tips for your content marketing arsenal.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
November 11, 2013 1:40 AM
Learn more about using SlideShare - an underutilized content marketing for business.
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In response to sea changes in how people find, consume and share information, traditional media outlets are retooling their newsrooms and evolving their coverage. Despite the still-challenging economic environment, many outlets are investing heavily on people and technology, in order to deliver a news product that satisfies audience appetites for rich visuals, tablet-friendly design and up-to-the minute reporting. This begs the question: is PR content keeping up?
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Chicago Sun-Times dumps pro photographers for reporters with iPhones. Bad move as visuals gain in importance. And say, asks Sarah Skerik, is PR keeping up with the new content visuals trend?
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
November 5, 2013 11:39 PM
Sarah Skerik wonders if PR is keeping up with the visuals trend like journalism is forced to do.
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Hashtags are extremely useful social media tools that can help you get more exposure, improve your social media reach and create successful social media campaigns.However, coming up with great hashtags and then tracking them is not always as easy as it seems. Here is a list of some of the best hashtag tools on the market...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Here's a superb resource and 21 esencial hashtag tools for Twitter.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
October 31, 2013 2:31 AM
Lilach Bullock shares her 21 favourite hashtag tools that can help you get better results and exposure on social media. Just a terrific resource for Twitter users. 9/10 |
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Jelly is a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks. It's also people helping each other—something that's both meaningful and fun. Humanity is connected like never before. In fact, recent white papers have concluded that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” is now down to four because of social networking and mobile phones. It’s not hard to imagine that the true promise of a connected society is people helping each other. Using Jelly is kinda like using a conventional search engine in that you ask it stuff and it returns answers. But, that’s where the similarities end. Albert Einstein famously said, “Information is not knowledge.” Knowledge is the practical application of information from real human experience. Jelly changes how we find answers because it uses pictures and people in our social networks. It turns out that getting answers from people is very different from retrieving information with algorithms. Also, it has the added benefit of being fun. Here are the three key features of Jelly....
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
January 12, 2014 9:50 AM
Jelly is an interesting you social search engine worth exploring. Take it for a test drive and see if searching within your own social networks works for you.
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Whether you’re an Internet Marketer or the owner of a business with an online presence, you probably know how tedious and time-consuming it is to manage all of your social media accounts as well as networks. That’s where social media management dashboards come in. With such a dashboard, one can manage all of their social media accounts simultaneously. Here are reviews of the five top social media management dashboards for 2014....
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
January 5, 2014 10:32 AM
5 great social media tools reviewed. Pick one to help you work more efficiently in 2014.
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Free stuff is great. Free stuff that helps your business is awesome. While there are many free business apps screaming for you to play with them, I’m going to focus on 8 of my favorites.Here are 8 free online services that a small business can use to make life a little less complicated
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LinkedIn can be a very valuable tool for your business but are you using the right management tools? I meet so many people that say they don’t get benefit from LinkedIn but when I ask them what time they are investing in LinkedIn, the answer is usually none! If you invest some time in LinkedIn it can be very beneficial to your business.In this article we outline 3 tools that will really help you grow your presence on LinkedIn...
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
December 19, 2013 2:40 AM
Ian Cleary reviews three essential tools for LinkedIn success. 
TheSocialPhysio's curator insight,
December 19, 2013 3:51 AM
#therapists...3 tools to grow your presence on #Linked In
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With the holiday season in full swing and 2013 winding to a close, it's a good time to reflect on the year in social media and look ahead to what might be the next big thing in 2014. While Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest reign supreme, there are some new unique and niched social networks poised to make a big splash. Here are six social networks I'll keep an eye on in 2014:
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
December 16, 2013 3:46 PM
An Instagram competitor and a Snapchat rival are working their way up the ranks, as well as a site for sports lovers. Keep an eye on them.
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Twice this week I've been asked for alternatives to iBooks Author that students can use to create multimedia books. This is probably a good time to share the three options that I usually recommend. These are listed in the order in which I typically recommend them...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Super tools for marketing in storytelling too.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
December 14, 2013 10:48 AM
Perfect for marketing and story telling too. Take a good look at SimpleBooklet, Widbooks and Glossi. Highly recommended. 9 / 10
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Eventbrite can be a powerful tool for small business owners looking to connect with customers.Eventbrite, an online ticketing platform that anyone can use, can be a powerful tool for small business owners looking to connect with customers. From grand openings, launch parties and intimate gatherings, business owners can rally up troops to drive brand recognition and retain future customers. Got a recurring happy hour? Post away on Eventbrite, just like Steingarten LA did (who doesn’t love beer and sausage?). From free networking events to two-day intensive Web site building workshops, Eventbrite acts as a medium where entrepreneurs can organize and galvanize a group interested in learning and experiencing new things while making a living, too. It’s an outlet where you can share your skills and services to a diverse audience looking to have fun, gain knowledge and find a community of like-minded people..
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B2B websites don’t use popunders as much as B2C, but email marketing is no less important. We like Rocketbolt’s conversational Quid pro quo popunder for B2B. B2B is about the quality of your conversation and the relevance of your content. If someone visits your “gamificaiton” content using Rocketbolt to popunder an offer for a free white paper feels more helpful than intrusive. AND talk about knowing something as a “new to file” customer comes into your list! If you are spending $30K or more on an inbound marketing tool and/or CRM adding Rocketbolt is a no brainer.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
November 27, 2013 9:52 AM
Marty Smith looks at a powerful, if intrusive, marketing tool.
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If you believe in the messaging revolution and that messaging is the killer app for mobile, then Kik has to be on your radar. If you believe in good design and a young userbase, then Kik should be near the top of your list of chat apps to pay attention to. Having said that messaging is the killer app on mobile, it may sound like contradiction to say that messaging is also a commodity, but that, too, is true. On my iPhone’s homescreen, I have a folder that contains six messaging apps, and the messages come to me by push notification. I don’t really care which app I use to respond, but I do care about the stuff around those messaging experiences – the tools, the timelines, the connected apps. If you agree, then, that a communications platform is more important that a pure-play mobile chat app, then Kik deserves the same attention you give to WeChat and Line, and more than you give to WhatsApp....
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Thanks to TinyLetter and the demise of Google Reader we're all emailing like it's 1999... ...TinyLetter is to MailChimp what Tumblr is to WordPress: It's newsletters for dummies. "I think my mom could use TinyLetter," claims Kiefer Lee. Unlike MailChimp, which caters to businesses and offers all sorts of testing and analytics features, TinyLetter provides just the basics. Writing a message is just like writing an email in Gmail, meaning the process takes only as long as crafting the body text. Getting people to subscribe to letters is just as easy. TinyLetter provides an embed code for those who want to put a box on their website. Or interested readers can head straight to a letter's TinyLetters landing page, which consists of a short description, a place to subscribe, and a link to previous messages, all against one big, bold, and beautiful image. Oh, and unlike MailChimp, it's free. The service does have a limit on subscribers to a given newsletter, but the company works with very popular mailers on that....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
A cool newsletter tool worth exploring.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
November 19, 2013 2:22 AM
Good look at a useful newsletter and email tool called TinyLetter. Worth exploring.
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A list of social media management tools is all well and good but which tools are the experts using? Find out here. ... Back in September of this year I published a post on social media management tools (you can find the post here) where I shared some of the most useful social media tools that I have used. This got me thinking – there is a crazy amount of social media tools out there that I haven’t tried, but what are other experts using? and why? And, not just social media experts or social media influencers, but successful marketers and business owners too. I then set out to contact some of the most influential people on the web and the result was simply amazing. I asked: What are your top 3 tools for managing social media campaigns and why?...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Just an excellent list of social media management tools from 46 experts.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
November 11, 2013 1:26 AM
This is an exceptional resource with social media management tools recommended by 46 experts. Recommended reading 9/10 
Sara Fiorentino's curator insight,
November 13, 2013 10:29 AM
46 esperti di social media ci danno una top 3 degli strumenti di gestione dei social. Tra i primi Hootsuite, Buffer e Tweet Deck
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Are you looking for ways to enhance your social media marketing? Do you want new tools to simplify your job? We asked a group of social media pros for the hottest social media tools they use today. Check them out to see if these social media tools are a good fit for you!
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Still a useful list and resource.
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