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Tag: visual content
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Stand Out on Social with These Visual Acrobatics
Social marketers who think their words alone will win fans and influence people — how to put this gently? Text is out. It had a good run, but it's pretty much over. Long form content still has its place. According to Social Media Examiner's 2016 Social Media Marketing Industry Report
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5 Ways to Make the Most of Visual Content: Speed Read
Way back in 2012, Skyword confirmed the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words ... or maybe it just proved the average person is far more interested in looking at an image than making his way through All Those Words. However you spin in, Boston-based Skyword,
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How to Map for Success - Literally
It's a bald-faced sales pitch, for sure. Here is this map publishing platform pitching the idea of the importance of bespoke maps on company websites. Not just saying that good maps are important.
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Social Media Briefs: SnapChat Snubs Facebook, Tweets with Images Engage More
This week, social media is like a Bravo TV show — one day a billionaire tycoon wants to own you; the next, you're caught up in a sex scandal. SnapChat: Scandals & Acquisitions This week, SnapChat's founders turned down Facebook's $3 billion offer to buy the photo messaging application.
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Social Media Briefs: Ads on Instagram, Filtered Views for Verified Twitter Users
Friday the 13th might be unlucky for some, but it doesn’t seem to be slowing down social media any. This week, speculation about advertisements on Instagram abounds, while studies show that women dominate visual formats on social media. For Verified Users Only Twitter is in the process of rolling out a new feature aimed at
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Can Mobile Apps Eliminate the Need for Blogging?
You may have noticed an interesting trend recently. As the popularity of visually engaging sites such as Pinterest and Instagram rise, and many mobile apps with user-generated content continue to launch, users are choosing to share on these sites rather than creating blogs.
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BOLT Makes Visual Content Collecting & Sharing Platform Public
Last April, we introduced you to BOLT, a new page-sharing service. For the last year, BOLT has been in private beta, where a select group of users have been experimenting, and refining the way we collect, share and save any webpage, image or file.
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Infographics vs. Data Visualization: Top 5 Tools for Creating Data Visualizations
Last week we explored tools for creating infographics. This week, it’s time to create data visualizations. When it comes to creating visual representation of hard data, things can get interesting.
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Infographics vs. Data Visualization: Top 5 Tools for Creating Infographics
You say infographic, I say data visualization.
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The Community Manager's Toolbox: Managing Visual Content
We all know that a picture has the ability to be worth a thousand words. With the rise of popular visual content platforms such as Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook Lists and Storify (to name a few), content is finally moving beyond words to help build connections.
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