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3 useful WordPress plugins for the inbound marketing geek in all of us.With the continued growth of inbound marketing we get the fact there will be a regular amount of newbies out there. We also understand that many of you will be implementing your inbound marketing methodology on your existing WordPress site. So we figured we'd highlight a few useful plug-ins for you as you begin your inbound or content marketing journey...
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When Google announced it was making its popular Google Reader service redundant this summer, it left millions in need of a new way to read and subscribe to their favourite web content. Step forward Flipboard, a digital social magazine that has quickly become an App Store favourite. Now in its second iteration, Flipboard has been boosted by a new personalised magazine creation tool that enables users to create their own custom magazine based on whatever they fancy. Since its launch, the second version of Flipboard has amassed a further three million users to the service, and has already seen over 500,000 personalised magazines published....
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Read and share your favourite news stories in a glossy magazine-like interface with Flipboard 2.0 for iPhone, iPad and Android. Here we show you how to create your own web magazine in six simple steps.
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Fancy, a crowdsourced cross between Pinterest and a catalog, is capable of selling thousands of units of a product, but only if it grabs the attention of enough users... How Do You Fancy? Fancy presents products, split into 16 categories, in an image-driven format. The site's 8 million users see big pictures of each product, along with a few descriptive words. They can "fancy" a product (like pinning an image on Pinterest), look at a longer description, or purchase the product. There are also monthly subscriptions of products, some themed by celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher or Pink.Users follow others to see what they like, adding to the social nature of the site, and can add products they like to the system, with a link to the seller's site. The Fancy negotiates access to sell them or vendors can directly approach Fancy and offer their goods....
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From Dustin Curtis’ Svbtle to Ev Williams’ Medium, there is a feeling afoot that existing platforms for blogs and long-form content still need a lot of improvement. Five years ago, early platforms like Blogger gave way to micro-blogging and networks like Tumblr.Now we’re seeing the pendulum swing back with platforms for longer-form stories and media.SETT is a blogging platform that’s looking to emphasize community, so that new users can find a right audience immediately and long-time bloggers can interact with higher-quality commenters and contributors....
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Do you need better tools to help you manage yoursocial media marketing? Automating some of the more repetitive tasks related to social media can help you be more productive and efficient with the execution of your social media strategy. To save you time and improve your marketing efforts, I’ll show you three social media tools that will deliver your content efficiently.
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July 24, 2013 6:23 PM
Ian Cleary shares three social media tools to get you working efficiently: Post Planner for Facebook; Zapier to automate key apps/channels; Dlvr.it to auto-post to your social channels. All worth exploring and very well-explained by Cleary.
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Somewhere between a PowerPoint presentation and a full-fledged video is the audio slideshow. Creating audio slideshows can be a good way to add meaning to slides that otherwise might not mean much without a presenter. Here are some ways that anyone can create audio slideshows.....
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These tools are not just for students, they're excellent for bloggers, contact marketers and writers.
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Snapzu is a new social media and curation tool. It feels like a combination of Pinterest and Scoop.it. Basically, you set up a profile, choose a bunch of "tribes" to follow, search and discover content, and create and share posts from your curation as well as new posts you create. It's now in beta stage and is worth exploring though the number of topics and members is still small.
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Time will tell if there's room for another social media channel like Snapzu but its features and design are well done.
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If you're looking to up your mobile marketing strategy, check out these 5 vendors that can help.
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Tools reviewed include: MailChimp for email; Red Stamp for custom mobile letterhead, tools; mobile loyalty program Swipely; business texting tool TextUs.Biz; and Facebook's Pages Manager app.
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As more and more apps utilize the cloud's file-storing and -sharing capabilities, remote team collaboration becomes even easier. There are hundred of apps that claim to "increase productivity" and "optimize company workflow," but how many apps actually do? We've selected a list of 8 apps that actually make your workday easier, and team collaboration more enjoyable in the process....
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Great tools for teamwork and project collaboration and several may be new to you.
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New research offers insights on measuring the overall impact of brand marketing on “social voice”.Twitter has seen the analytics light. In a recent move of great importance, but zero fanfare, the bluebird folks have opened their analytics tools to everyone. Now you can see real time details on mentions, follows, unfollows, and the number of clicks each tweet produced. You can also see a load of collective detail about your followers, including their top interests, location, gender breakdown (gotta wonder though, what gender is, say, “IBM”?), and the top ten accounts your followers are following, among other items.How to find it: To reach your Twitter analytics dashboard, go to “Twitter Ads” under “Settings” (you might have to login again) and then click the “Analytics” tab at the top....
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Monitor the Web for interesting new content about your name, brand, competitors, events or any favourite topic with Talkwalker Alerts! Talkwalker Alerts are an easy and free alerting service that provides email updates of the latest relevant mentions on the Web directly to your email box or RSS feed reader.
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Works well for monitoring and alerts. I use it as one of several tools.
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Today, the website creation market is dominated by a handful of veteran players, as companies like Wix, Weebly and Squarespace now own the majority of mindshare and boast tens of millions of users between them. While many smaller players ended up in the deadpool during the market’s land grab, one veteran startup has managed to survive — and even bootstrap its way to profitability. Today, five-year-old website creator, SnapPages, is rolling out a major redesign and upgrade that aims to lure aspiring site builders away from name-brand competitors by offering a service that’s actually accessible to everyone — whether you’re a novice or a wily professional....
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Haiku Deck's Education Case Studies Pinterest board contains 76 examples of Haiku Deck being used by students and teachers. If you're not familiar with it or haven't tried Haiku Deck, here's what you need to know. It's a free iPad app for creating slideshow presentations. There are two features of Haiku Deck that stand out. First, Haiku Deck intentionally limits how much text that you can put on each of your slides. Second, Haiku Deck helps you find Creative Commons licensed images for your presentations. When you type a word or words on your slides you can have Haiku Deck search for images for you. The images that Haiku Deck serves up are large enough to completely fill your slide. You can also upload your own images from your iPad or import images from Instagram and Facebook....
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July 7, 2013 7:44 PM
Haiku Deck is an outstanding presentation tool. Unfortunately it's only available for the iPad. Click here and suggest your preferred platform. I can't wait for it to be available for Windows or Android. Meanwhile, check out their stunning 76 education presentations on Pinterest or Haiku Deck's Pinterest board of best presentations. Highly recommended! 
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Teachers need more access to technology in the classroom and more support developing technology-based lessons and integrating it into the classroom. 
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March 16, 2015 9:07 PM
This page links to Haiku Deck's pinterest board where there are over 300 examples of how Haiku Deck is being used in education. I love that Haiku Deck makes following best practices for presentations easy through word limits and styling and aggregating photos that meet Creative Commons guidelines. These examples provide a lot of ideas for use in K-12 and higher education. |
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By far, the most popular post we have ever published at the Content Marketing Institute is 10 Must-Have Templates for Content Marketers. Though this post is almost two years old, our readers still seem to clamor for this type of information and advice.
To that end, we wanted to provide a refresher on the most popular templates and checklists shared by the CMI team and our guest contributors. Some of these are “oldies but goodies” that we included in the first list, and others are new. All are intended to simplify some part of the content marketing process — and all can be customized to your particular needs....
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Adding an audio message to your classroom blog or website can be a good way to help deliver important messages to your students and their parents. Posting an audio message, even if it covers the same content as a written message, can increase the chances that a visitor to your blog will take notice of something important.
Adding an audio message to your blog or website is not difficult to do. Here are five free services that you can use to add an audio message to your blog or website....
Absolutely not just for teachers and students... ;-)
Here are five terrific technologies that are not just for teachers and students. Social marketers, bloggers and PR pros will find these audio recording/sharing tools valuable.
Learn about 5 different free technologies which allow you to deliver audio messages to the followers of your blog or website.
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SnapPages comes packed with design features like easy editing, modern template designs, simple blogging, cloud hosting, social integration, SEO and many others.Our drag-and-drop HTML5 page editor makes building and updating your website a snap (see what we did there?)! It's even optimized for touchscreens so you can use it on your tablet right in the browser....
SnapPages is a well-designed, simple-to-use website creation tool with free, $8/mo and pro plans.
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What is Fargo?
Fargo is a simple idea outliner, notepad, todo list, project organizer.
It's an HTML 5 application, written in JavaScript, runs in any compatible browser, including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Microsoft IE 10.
Files are stored in Dropbox, using the Dropbox API. They are accessible anywhere Dropbox is. You can share files with other users, or publicly.
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Where can I try it? http://fargo.io/
I'm looking forward to trying out Fargo. Created by tech evangelist Dave Winer, its simple functions look ideal for notetaking, projects, outlines, lists, presentations and much more. It's what's called an "outliner" and if it pans out, I may never use Evernote again.
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Vizify hit the ground running as a new social media platform that excels in social sharing. A smart, multi-channel approach is incorporated in their own marketing....Before this post, I had never heard of #Vizify. A tweet from a good friend mentioning me in her video caught my attention. Since there was a link, I was intrigued.
The video is brief–less than a minute–and it’s informative and entertaining at the same time. The fact I have a role doesn’t hurt either. After viewing her video, I am invited to create my own, or I should say, I am invited to let them create one for me. The user interface is clean, simple and entertaining, all at the same time. And the real power, you can edit if you don’t like the finished product they create....
Vizify looks like a video tool worth exploring.
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Do you like privacy? Do you shun surveillance and eschew spam? Do you like simplicity? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you'll love DuckDuckGo....
If this sounds like something you don't want to be a part of, start searching on DuckDuckGo. Since DuckDuckGo uses some 50 sources—including Bing, Yahoo! and Wolfram Alpha—for its search queries, you'll get results that look similar to what Google returns. DuckDuckGo even improves on traditional search engines in some ways; it combs through results, pulling out irrelevant links and spam and content farm fodder so that its returns are good and clean. Meanwhile, an anonymous search option uses Tor to route your query through a series of encrypted relays. You can even do voice search with a new-ish Google Chrome extension....
Personally, I find DuckDuckGo is a great additional search engine tool to use when Google results don't seem satisfying or accurate enough.
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As an entrepreneur, I look to others to tell me about the latest apps, time-savers, hacks, and tricks. However, no female founders were interviewed. So I decided to do one with all women. Below is just a small sampling of the great female entrepreneurs and some of the apps--business and otherwise--that they can't live without.I culled a list of some kick-butt women entrepreneurs whom I look up to and a few I'm lucky enough to know. Clearly, I have a lot of downloading to do....
This is a really excellent last with a lot new-to-me apps worth checking out...
This is really good list with some known and unknown apps that are very, very helpful. What would you add to the list? Any really good finds that they left off?
These are great tools to check out for businesses who wanted to stay on top of different things - from notes, to emails to vids, etc.
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Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that you can use to create video-based quizzes. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.
To create a quiz on Blubbr start by entering a topic for your quiz. After entering your topic enter a search for a video about that topic. Blubbr will generate a list of videos that you can select from to use in your quiz. When you find a video that works for you, trim the clip to a length that you like then write out your question and answer choices. Repeat the process for as many video clips as you like. Click here to try a short Blubbr quiz about the human heart....
Though highlighted for education, Blubbr could be useful for training and engagement.
