Wednesday, 30 March 2016

How to Maximize Your Content Exposure on LinkedIn

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Are you taking advantage of all of LinkedIn's content marketing features? Do you know what types of content work best on LinkedIn? With a few tweaks to what you post on LinkedIn, you can build brand awareness, generate leads, and drive more revenue. In this article you'll discover how to maximize your LinkedIn content exposure. [...]


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How to Maximize Your Content Exposure on LinkedIn

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Are you taking advantage of all of LinkedIn's content marketing features? Do you know what types of content work best on LinkedIn? With a few tweaks to what you post on LinkedIn, you can build brand awareness, generate leads, and drive more revenue. In this article you'll discover how to maximize your LinkedIn content exposure. [...]


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Discount store to withdraw scales after being branded 'pro-anorexia'

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LONDON - British bargain shop B&M Bargains has said it will urge a supplier to remove a slogan after sets of "novelty" weighing scales were branded pro-anorexic on Facebook.



The scales - which contain the slogan "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" - were spotted by Rachel May Shevlin, who posted a photo of the offending product and called on people to complain.


Her post gained more than 5,000 likes and 2,000 shares, prompting B&M Bargains to respond to mounting pressure.


"How lovely to see the phrase I said to my teenage/young adult self that also led to me calling myself a 'fat, disgusting waste of oxygen' often before self-harming just because I had dinner, sold in their shops ON FRICKIN SCALES so other impressionable young minds can suffer the same self hatred," wrote Shevlin on Facebook.  Read more...


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Here's how March Madness has played out on Twitter so far

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It all led up to this: The Final Four is Saturday, the national championship is Monday night, and by Tuesday morning, another March Madness will be in the books.


But we before we look ahead, let's look backTwitter gave Mashable an early look at some of the most popular moments of the 2016 NCAA Tournament so far. From buzzer-beating shots to Final Four fans, they're a fun way to relive a pair of action-packed weekends. 



Twitter (the company) says these were the four most-viewed video tweets by the @marchmadness account on Twitter (the social network) during the tournament so far.  Read more...


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Discount store to withdraw scales after being branded 'pro-anorexia'

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LONDON - British bargain shop B&M Bargains has said it will urge a supplier to remove a slogan after sets of "novelty" weighing scales were branded pro-anorexic on Facebook.



The scales - which contain the slogan "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" - were spotted by Rachel May Shevlin, who posted a photo of the offending product and called on people to complain.


Her post gained more than 5,000 likes and 2,000 shares, prompting B&M Bargains to respond to mounting pressure.


"How lovely to see the phrase I said to my teenage/young adult self that also led to me calling myself a 'fat, disgusting waste of oxygen' often before self-harming just because I had dinner, sold in their shops ON FRICKIN SCALES so other impressionable young minds can suffer the same self hatred," wrote Shevlin on Facebook.  Read more...


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Here's how March Madness has played out on Twitter so far

Texas
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It all led up to this: The Final Four is Saturday, the national championship is Monday night, and by Tuesday morning, another March Madness will be in the books.


But we before we look ahead, let's look backTwitter gave Mashable an early look at some of the most popular moments of the 2016 NCAA Tournament so far. From buzzer-beating shots to Final Four fans, they're a fun way to relive a pair of action-packed weekends. 



Twitter (the company) says these were the four most-viewed video tweets by the @marchmadness account on Twitter (the social network) during the tournament so far.  Read more...


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Pinterest makes DIY easier with new How-to Pins

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Pinterest is making moves to keep more people and brands on the site. The company introduced on Tuesday a new feature called How-to Pins, allowing companies to create and share pins with DIY instructions.


The feature, which is a new take on its existing Rich Pins feature for brands, populates step-by-step instructions right within a pin across various categories, including food, fitness, home projects and beauty.


However, regular users can't make How-to Pins themselves and can only repost ones made by Pinterest's brand partners



To launch the How-to Pin effort, Pinterest worked with more than 25 brands and organizations to provide how-to content for the site, such as Home Depot, Cosmopolitan, Delish and more. Read more...


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