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How to manage your social media addiction

Theses six apps can help you add hours back to your day.




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How social media can make you look smart

If Google is making users stupid, then social networks like Facebook may be making people seem smart without actually being so.




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How social media affects body image

We know photos in magazine ads and TV commercials are altered, but are you aware of the Photoshopping on your friends' selfies?



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8 special dogs saved by social media

Sometimes a Facebook post or a tweet can make all the difference for a shelter dog.




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Your social media activity can help and hurt animal rescues

When you share a rescue organization's posts or comment on them, it may not always be what's best for the shelter.




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Greener social media: Turning Likes into forests

A new website makes it super easy to help save the world, a little bit at a time.



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Snuggie: Social media's first viral success

Millions of YouTube hits helped Allstar Products top $500 million in Snuggie sales.



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News & social media hub launched to 'dewonkify' Doha climate talks

TckTckTck has a news and social media hub to help people who don't speak 'acronymese' understand what is going on at the Doha COP 18 climate talks.



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Chris Tackett: Green blogger, social media pro

Environmental blogger and media maven Chris Tackett talks about how he got his job, the future of the green media landscape, and the joys of composting.




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Danielle Brigida is leading the NWF into the world of social media

Danielle Brigida is one of the most respected people in the world of nonprofit social media. Read more about this 1-woman army who convinced the National Wildli



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David All and the dark side of social media

Introducing Karl Rove 2.0 and his new post-propaganda 'astroturfing' industry that funnels oil money into fake grassroots organizations. His goal? Stop climate




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Ecclesiastical launches Covid-19 social media guide

The document has been developed to help brokers navigate platforms such as Twitter and Linked In throughout the outbreak.




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Experts urge pet providers to turn to social media

A GlobalData report suggested that engaging with pet influencers on Instagram and Facebook could benefit insurers and brokers.





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The Benefits of Implementing Social Media Marketing, Content Creation, and Web Design

Great site Twitter Great references here. Check out this website for more. Keywords: Guaranteed seo services, Seo marketing companies, Increase revenue, B2b marketing agency, Inbound sales, Inbound leads.

The post The Benefits of Implementing Social Media Marketing, Content Creation, and Web Design appeared first on RSS News Feed.




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AirKast To Provide Real-time, Mobile Engagement Analysis Include Social Media and Podcast Metrics

Unique Functionality Will Help Sell Mobile Ad Campaigns, Drive Listener Engagement




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Shootings Keep Happening at Schools and the Answer is Under Our Nose, Says a Social Media Expert, Attorney, and Mom Dealing with Cyberbullying

The only behavior that the school is allowed to monitor are the "school-related" incidents. Therefore, even when they see disturbing social media content that is not school related but could represent a hostile school environment, they can't act.




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The New Men's Ford Mustang Officially Launches with Signature Design Authentic to the Iconic Car, with a New Social Media Account

The official Ford Licensee and one of the leading manufacturers and fragrance distributors on the global market - Palm Beach Beaute Inc. announces the launch of the new Men's Ford Mustang Fragrance.




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Chino Valley Ranchers Soy-Free Eggs Featured in Social Media Post by Food Blogger Jess Schnitzer

Chino Valley Ranchers organic soy-free eggs were recently featured in Food Blogger and Social Media Influencer Jess Schnitzen's breakfast sandwich.




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Chino Valley Ranchers Eggs Featured in Social Media Post by Travel Foodie Writer

Chino Valley Ranchers organic, cage-free eggs were recently featured in an Instagram post by Travel Foodie Writer Layla Nia on her profile @lafoodiegirl




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"Patsy Cline's Lost Christmas Song" Celebrates 10 Successful Years on Radio, Social Media and Video Sharing Platforms

Indie Country Star Luanne Hunt's popular holiday song, "Christmas Without You" (a.k.a. "Patsy Cline's Lost Christmas Song"), still going strong as it reaches 10th anniversary of its worldwide release.




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Social Media Username Availability Check API Launches

Checkmarks API allows programmers to integrate social media username availability status into apps and websites.




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TheGreenClaw.com Announces Launch of New Website and Social Media Handles

Headquartered in Tampa, TheGreenClaw.com will serve both a US and Global customer base.




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New Scientific Study Proves That Brands Which Use Emotion on Social Media Will See Better Results

Study Reaching 2.3 Million Users Proves That Using Emotional Content Drastically Improves Social Media Conversion For Brands




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The Authors Show® Announces New Social Media Program To Support Indie Authors During Coronavirus Pandemic

The Authors Show® is a publishing industry podcasting pioneer, producing author interviews since 2005




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The Rue Royale Games 2020 – The Middle East's First-Ever Social Media Influencers & Content Generators Battle

Have you ever wondered about the impact social media influencers and content generators have on restaurants in Dubai? The team behind Rue Royale Restaurant on The Pointe did and decided to put things to a test.




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This Is Social Media Week In Los Angeles!

It's Social Media Week here in Los Angeles.

This global platform for conversation, collaboration and learning connects hundreds of thousands of people in different cities around the world in hopes of raising consciousness about social media's role in society.

Participating cities this week include not only Los Angeles, but Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Milan.

According to the organizers, programming and content are "designed to cover every emerging trend, technology area and industry sector." Events are primarily free to attend or significantly subsidized. By being both collaborative and co-curated, the event reflects the local market rather than one vision distributed throughout participating cities.

The programming on deck in Los Angeles this week includes a Cleantech Social Media Panel sponsored by CleanTech Los Angeles at 2:00pm Tuesday afternoon, September 21. "Panelists range from established social media cleantech groups to new cleantech initiatives seeking to capitalize on social media techniques."

Other events deal with How Geolocation Technology Is Changing The World, Listening And Engaging With The Public: Political Process In Social Media and the convergence of Search Engine Optimization And Social Media.

Back in February, Social Media Week rolled into Berlin, London, New York, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Toronto. You can find more information on the Social Media Week website, as well as on Twitter, their Facebook page, and on YouTube.




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Research Roundup: Social Media For Public Transportation, Funding The Needs Of An Aging Population & An Overview Of U.S. Parking Management Strategies

Each and every day, social media tools change the way that organizations
interact with their users.

A recent report from the Center For Urban Transportation Research at University of South Florida titled Routes To New Networks: A Guide To Social Media For The Public Transportation Industry (66p. PDF) explains how these new platforms offer not only more personal one-on-one interaction than traditional media, but also represent the essence of niche marketing.

It is undeniable that social media is all the buzz. For some, utilizing new media tools may come as second nature. For others, however, entering the world of social media means taking a giant leap into the world of online communications.

One thing is certain – social media platforms are allowing a new opportunity for transportation providers to directly communicate with their target audiences. Communication is moving in this direction – with or without your organization.

The report analyzes the usefulness of and applications for social networks, written blogs, audio/video blogs, microblogs (e.g. Twitter), photo sharing, video sharing, user-generated content and mobile web content.

The report states that key points to consider when determining which tool(s) to use are:

1) Who is my target audience and what tools are they using?
2) What type of information do I want to communicate?
Content must always resonate with your audience. What can you provide that would be of value?

Earlier this year, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) published Funding The Public Transportation Needs Of An Aging Population (57p. PDF).

It explains how rapid growth in the number of older people in the United States during the coming decades will lead to greatly increased needs for expanded and enhanced public transportation services. This report:
a) identifies the range of actions that will be needed to expand mobility options for older people, including accessible public transportation services;
b) quantifies the demand for these public transportation services; and
c) estimates the funding that will be needed to provide them.
Needed actions have been identified by means of a review of the extensive literature on this
subject. The actions needed to expand mobility options for older people include:
  • Enhancements to fixed-route public transportation operations and planning such as additional bus operator training, incorporating travel needs of older people in route planning and stop placement, and coordination with other agencies and transportation providers
  • Enhancements to public transportation vehicles such as low-floor buses, kneeling buses, improved interior circulation, additional stanchions and grab bars, ergonomic seating designed for older riders, and accessibility features either required or encouraged by ADA like lifts and ramps, larger letters on head signs, and stop announcements
  • Actions to help older people take advantage of existing services, like presenting information in ways that are easy to read and as clear as possible, information and assistance programs to connect older people with appropriate services, and outreach and training programs
  • Expansion of supplementary services including flexible route and community transportation services, ADA complementary paratransit, non-ADA demand-responsive services, taxi subsidy programs, and volunteer driver programs
  • Application of universal design strategies at transit facilities, bus stops, and on streets and sidewalks in the immediate vicinity of transit facilities and stops
These are the actions of greatest concern to public transportation agencies, but they are not the
only actions needed.

Other important actions include assuring supportive services to caregivers
who provide transportation, encouraging further development of unsubsidized private
transportation services, increasing the availability of accessible taxicabs, coordinating with non-emergency medical transportation provided under Medicaid and Medicare, and supporting
modifications to automobiles and roadways to increase the safety of older drivers.

Finally, we wanted to take a closer look at U.S. Parking Policies: An Overview Of Management Strategies put out by the Institute For Transportation And Development Policy in New York.

This report highlights best practices in parking management in the United States.

In the last decade, some municipalities have reconsidered poorly conceived parking policies to address a host of negative impacts resulting from private automobile use such as traffic congestion and climate change. Unchecked, these policies have proven to be a major barrier to establishing a balanced urban transportation network.

Many aspects of current parking management in the United States do not work reliably or efficiently for anyone: Motorists find themselves circling for long periods in search of a place to park; retail employees take choice parking locations away from potential customers; developers are compelled to provide more parking than the market requires; and traffic managers encounter difficulty handling traffic generated by new parking as there is often no link between parking price, supply and the amount of available road space.

Finally, the old parking paradigm doesn’t work for the environment, as hidden subsidies encourage over reliance on private car use — a major, growing contributor to global warming and air pollution.

This report identifies core sustainable parking principles and illustrates how smarter parking management can benefit consumers and businesses in time and money savings, while also leading to more livable, attractive communities.




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Social Media for Goal Setting, Documenting Activities Progress and Video Resume. A Post Pandemic Branding Platform kickstarter Campaign

WorkParrrots brand people online persona as Goal Achievers by providing social tools to set goals, collaborate and track Schedule. Employers Swipe resume Video Pitch to hire




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Be a Social Media Provocateur

Josh Bernoff, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research and coauthor of "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies."




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Coping with Social Media

Alexandra Samuel, director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University.




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Social Media’s Untapped Power

Misiek Piskorski and Anthony J. Bradley, of Harvard Business School and Gartner Research, respectively.




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Boost Your Productivity With Social Media

Alexandra Samuel, vice president of social media at Vision Critical.




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“Social Media-Savvy CEO” Is No Oxymoron

Charlene Li, author of "The Engaged Leader," on why and how senior executives are diving into online networks.




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DMI Winter School 2020. Post-API Research? On the contemporary study of social media data

DensityDesign Research Lab took part in the Digital Methods Initiative... more




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How to Add More Social Media Icons to Divi

Divi lets you control and design every detail of your website, from header to footer and everything in between. Some of the most-clicked elements of any website are social media icons. An engaged audience wants to find you elsewhere and get to know you. Obviously you’ll want to make that as easy and frictionless as […]

The post How to Add More Social Media Icons to Divi appeared first on Elegant Themes Blog.




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KSAN (107.7 The Bone)/San Francisco's Lamont & Tonelli Hire Lori Lewis Media To Handle Social Media Presence

CUMULUS Classic Rock KSAN (107.7 THE BONE)/SAN FRANCISCO morning show LAMONT & TONELLI have hired LORI LEWIS MEDIA as social media consultant. LAMONT HOLLYWOOD said that LEWIS will guide … more




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With Iowa high school summer sports in limbo, #LetThemPlay social-media group gaining traction

CEDAR RAPIDS — Darren Lewis knows his voice is minimal. And he isn’t looking for a political debate. “I just wanted to spread some hope and some positivity,” he said....




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Social Media Content Trends for 2020

Social media is predicted to continue to be a big tool for businesses in 2020. Big surprise. The Social Media Content Trends for 2020 and Beyond infographic from MicroCreatives lays out their predictions for upcoming trends.

Before the inception of social media marketing, brands used traditional marketing channels to reach out to and engage with consumers. Online social networks have made communicating with consumers a breeze and marketing easier and highly targeted for brands.

By 2020, more than 5 billion people will use social media platforms—that’s roughly two-thirds of the world’s population. Now is the perfect time to get started with social media marketing if you haven’t been doing so already. If you’re already doing it, how is it going for you so far? Perhaps it’s time to evaluate and update your social media content strategy to stay relevant and get ahead of the competition.

Here are some content trends we anticipate to be popular across social media in 2020 and the coming years. See what could work for your brand and start planning ahead.

Sometimes an infographic is a great way to summarize a larger, in-depth article. This is a good example that keeps the text in the infographic short & sweet because the article contains the longer descriptions.

They definitely missed out on using data visualization for the statistics though! Big mistake! They are completely lost in the text, and have no visual impact on the audience.

Found on prdaily.com




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Identifying Compromised Accounts on Social Media Using Statistical Text Analysis. (arXiv:1804.07247v3 [cs.SI] UPDATED)

Compromised accounts on social networks are regular user accounts that have been taken over by an entity with malicious intent. Since the adversary exploits the already established trust of a compromised account, it is crucial to detect these accounts to limit the damage they can cause. We propose a novel general framework for discovering compromised accounts by semantic analysis of text messages coming out from an account. Our framework is built on the observation that normal users will use language that is measurably different from the language that an adversary would use when the account is compromised. We use our framework to develop specific algorithms that use the difference of language models of users and adversaries as features in a supervised learning setup. Evaluation results show that the proposed framework is effective for discovering compromised accounts on social networks and a KL-divergence-based language model feature works best.





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In lieu of in-person performances, musicians are using social media and live streams to connect with fans

Ask any working musician why they play live, why they lug their equipment to and from bars and restaurants and wine-tasting rooms week after week, and they'll point to the same nebulous thing: It's the connection with an audience.…




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Digital publisher launches social media agency

Updates Media move into social first media, content & publishing.




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With no counter sales or deliveries, bookstores turn to social media to engage customers

Readers have placed online orders and bookstores are keeping a track of each order and are hoping to cater to every such customer once the situation gets better.




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Perspective: The Vice And Virtue Of Social Media

With the onset of COVID-19, social media platforms show their virtues and vices once again. Millions are finding connection, entertainment, and solace, a lifeline of virtual community during a truly twisted time. Connection with friends is a blast, until someone begins posting conspiracy theories like big pharma, the World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control are a cabal secretly making the world sick for profits, or opining on highly technical epidemiological research, calling into question both findings and researchers’ assumed unethical motives. COVID-19 is a new phenomenon and it takes time for researchers -- experts -- to understand it, and how to effectively and safely deal with it. Public questioning is important, but when a supermajority of experts form an informed opinion you don’t like, developing conspiracies is not a healthy path. Now, I truly believe in free speech. After all, I’m on radio. I’m just leery of the effect of unfettered, ill-informed




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Social media freelance help (L.A.)

I'm looking for a couple of hours a week of someone's time indefinitely to help with social media. Current project is I'd like to highlight some local artists whose work is being "shown" at our airbnb guest house so was thinking that I'd start an instagram account? Ideal person would have some level of experience with linkedin, instagram, etc. If you have a basic level of experience managing websites that could be helpful too - not building but just updating. Virtual is fine.




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Social Media & Homeschooling in a Pandemic

In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke take audience questions about how much is too much when it comes to social media, and how to get anything done when trying to homeschool your children and work your normal job, during a live virtual Views and Brews.




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Who is Judy Mikovits in ‘Plandemic,’ the coronavirus conspiracy video just banned from social media?


The coronavirus-related theories which Judy Mikovits presents in her best-selling book and a now-banned video defy accepted science and wilt under scrutiny, according to dozens of experts who spoke up after "Plandemic" trended this week.




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Build your first social media dashboard in minutes with Node-RED and Db2 for i

This article explains how to use IBM Db2 for i within a Node-RED flow to rapidly build a solution or prototype on IBM i. In the example illustrated in this article, we build a social media dashboard using 5733OPS Node.js, a Db2 for i node with IBM Watson, dashboard, and Twitter nodes.




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Jan 18, 2020: Social Media News & Chair vs. Couch

Charlie Demers and Katie-Ellen Humphries Buzz-Feed off each other in their debate on social media as a source for news. Then, Don Kelly and Charles Haycock get comfortable when they compare chairs to couches.



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