• Why media monitoring is more important than ever

    If you’ve watched the news, checked your Twitter stream or read your
    newsfeed in the past few months, you’ve surely seen multiple mentions of
    the many cases of sexual harassment that have spurred the hashtag movements #MeToo and#TimesUp.While this article isn’t specifically about sexual assault and harassment,
    this is a great and recent example of how important monitoring
    conversations online is for any business.
    These two hashtags have created a social media storm that i
  • How social media monitoring guides McDonald’s communications

    Editor's note: This story is taken from Ragan Communications' distance-learning portal Ragan Training. The site contains hundreds of hours of case studies, video presentations and interactive courses.Why monitor social media? If you’re working for McDonald’s, it has to do—in part, anyway—with Szechuan sauce.
    In a Ragan Training piece, “Measure Social Media Success: Crack the code to ROI on any social platform,” McDonald’s director of global social media
  • 6 resources to inspire content

    Inspiration doesn’t come from staring at a blank page.
    Communicators and marketers are under immense pressure to come up with new
    and interesting content on a regular basis, often about old and dull
    topics. Where can a content creator to turn for inspiration?
    When a walk around the block doesn’t get the gears turning, here are a few
    online places where storytellers, content producers and communicators can
    find a creative spark:
    1.
    Mashable’s infographics Pinterest boardThis is
  • Sayonara, business cards: LinkedIn offers QR codes and translations

    New LinkedIn features make it even easier to instantly connect with those
    you meet—no matter what language they speak.
    The social media platform recently announced QR codes for profiles. Open
    the app on your smartphone or mobile device, and scan the person’s code to
    visit his or her profile, where you can send a connection request.
    Alex Xiong, senior product manager at LinkedIn,
    wrote in the company blog:Whether you’re at an industry conference, networking happy hour, sales
    me
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  • How to get high response rates from influencer outreach

    How would you like to achieve response rates of 50 percent (or higher) for your influencer outreach?
    It’s possible—if you put the work in before sending that email. Here’s a four-step process for achieving sky-high response rates:
    1. Invest time in choosing the right influencers.
    You are better off with a list of 10 relevant, niche influencers than with 100 mega-influencers who don’t care about your brand or your story.
    Make a shortlist of people who’d be a smart, s
  • Infographic: 20 tips to keep website visitors’ attention

    Content marketers have a prime objective: Get online users to stick around.
    Whether you seek to create more dynamic content or offer engrossing
    experiences that overwhelm your audience, you want to keep your audience
    coming back for more. Online publishers can take key steps to keep bored
    users from crashing out of your website.[RELATED:
    Distracted audiences? Mind-numbing topics? Cut through the clutterwith creative corporate writing.]This infographic
    from
    Quicksprout
    offers 20 tips on how web
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