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James Easterling sur Twitter : "Instagram Removes Square Image Limitation: This ... #socialmedia. Twibble.io - A Better RSS feed to Twitter Service. Instagram Removes Square Image Limitation: This Week in Social Media Social Media Examiner. Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.

Instagram Removes Square Image Limitation: This Week in Social Media Social Media Examiner

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week Instagram Now Supports Portrait and Landscape Images: Instagram announces that “—in addition to square posts—you can now share photos and videos in both portrait and landscape orientation on Instagram.” “Now, when choosing a photo or video, you can tap the format icon to adjust the orientation to portrait or landscape instead of square.” LinkedIn Introduces Clipping on SlideShare: “You can now clip and save the best slides from presentations across LinkedIn SlideShare to view or share later.” You can organize clipped slides from presentations across LinkedIn SlideShare into clipboards based on topic or author. Facebook provides page admins with recommendations such as “keeping your messages short and to the point” and “personalize the communication.” 26_03_15_bbc_news_group_social_media_guidance.pdf?utm_content=bufferf3412&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.

Making the CIPRsm panel redundant: update on 'unsexy' phase one » The Conversation: powered by CIPR. There is a chill in the air this week which signals we are fast approaching autumn.

Making the CIPRsm panel redundant: update on 'unsexy' phase one » The Conversation: powered by CIPR

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Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your message or comments. Liz_m_price : #SocialMedia is changing the ... Google Cuts Authorship in Search Results by 20-40% At Pubcon Las Vegas in October, Google's Matt Cutts commented in his keynote that they would be tightening up authorship in order to combat spam.

Google Cuts Authorship in Search Results by 20-40%

Google found that if they removed about 15 percent of the lesser quality authors, it dramatically increased the presence of higher quality authors within their search results. In mid-December, Google rolled out new authorship algorithms designed to display authorship for what they consider relevant and interesting authors, Google has confirmed to Search Engine Watch: We made some minor updates. We had been showing author information whenever we could based on authorship markup, email verification, and other signals of authorship on the web. In mid-December, we rolled out new algorithms designed to show author photos when they're more likely to be relevant and interesting. Current Opportunities. Location McCann Campus, Prestbury Job Information McCann Manchester is looking for a Middleweight Creative Team.

Current Opportunities

Creatively award-winning, ideally at D&AD/Cannes Lion level, you will have a very good range of print work in your portfolio, and demonstrable experience of exploiting all areas of digital. Retail work in your portfolio would be of great interest and TV experience would be an advantage. You will have honed your craft and received peer group recognition for your copywriting and art direction skills.

Publications Execs Not Sure Where Social Media Goes in Org Chart 10/01. Sure, social media is important for business, but who should be responsible for it?

Publications Execs Not Sure Where Social Media Goes in Org Chart 10/01

That’s the question many advertising and marketing executives are asking themselves, and there’s no clear consensus on the answer, judging by the results of a new survey by The Creative Group. Overall 39% of advertising and marketing executives said they think social media belongs in the public relations/communications wheelhouse, compared to 35% who said it should be the responsibility of the marketing department. Meanwhile 15% said it should be delegated to customer service, and 5% said it should be the direct responsibility of the company’s CEO (6% said they don’t know). Silly survey respondents, it was a trick question! The correct answer, of course, is that social media responsibilities should be shared among all the above-mentioned constituents.

Facebook Begins Penalizing "Low Quality" Content on Pages. What’s the #1 priority of all Facebook page owners?

Facebook Begins Penalizing "Low Quality" Content on Pages

Creating posts that get engagement & make fans take action! Often times this means posting viral photos (including memes) & updates that are completely off topic, but engaging. The idea is to get tons of engagement on these posts, increase Edgerank, & ensure your other posts (for example, link posts that drive traffic to your website) get seen by more people. Social Media Executive/Community Manager.

Facebook Adding Hashtags #AboutTime. Mary Lisbeth D'Amico | March 19, 2013 | 5 Comments inShare61 Love them or hate them, hashtags are reportedly coming to Facebook - sometime - and most marketers couldn't be happier.

Facebook Adding Hashtags #AboutTime

Facebook Lookalike Audiences Helps Target Ads at Lower CPA. Matt Kapko | February 13, 2013 | 2 Comments inShare67 Facebook has expanded its custom audience targeting feature to now include what it calls "lookalike audiences.

Facebook Lookalike Audiences Helps Target Ads at Lower CPA

" Up to 15% of likes / reviews by 2014 will be fake. Mark Davidson (@markdavidson) sur Twitter. Introducing The Conversation Prism Version 3.0. InShare237 If a conversation takes place online and you’re not there to hear it, did it really happen?

Introducing The Conversation Prism Version 3.0

On August 5, 2008 JESS3 and I introduced version 1.0 of The Conversation Prism. Today, I’m proud to announce The Conversation Prism Version 3.0. With the introduction of 3.0, our view of the social media panorama is updated and also reflective of the real world that is embracing and organizing the social Web. One of the aspects that make social media so fascinating is the conversations that define the culture and value of each community. Facebook Credits, Places and Prizes  What might companies expect from the announcements about Facebook Credits and Places, and what could it mean for their marketing plans? Facebook Credits is a global virtual currency, designed to make it simpler for people to buy and sell products on the social network. Other networks have of course done the same thing, such as Second Life and Entropia Universe. However Facebook’s move to a virtual currency has some important differences.

The global user base of 500m users makes this an experiment in a different league. The importance of Pages. Before Facebook’s move to launching a virtual currency, there was already a huge participation of global brands, companies and organizations, hosting their corporate pages on the platform. The effect of Places. Give people an incentive.

Facebook Credits could in turn be used to reward the loyalty of customers making multiple check-ins at physical commerce locations. 7 Anti-Zombie "Social" Strategies. A zombie is typically a reanimated corpse or a mindless human being. People and organizations use of social media appears to be adopting the Zombie mentality, mindless. Sound harsh? Well it is meant to grab attention and make any leader reading this post think. The opposite of mindless is meaningful use of something. To create meaning requires one to think strategically beyond existing conditions.