Content Strategy Leader, Head of Content, Content Marketing
In spring 2019 Facebook rolled out top fans of pages on the network. For example, I was crowned a top fan of the Cedar Rapids Police Department. Of course, Facebook told me that I should keep liking, commenting and of course sharing to stay a […]
Technically no, but practically yes. Let me explain how to post a text-only message directly in the Instagram app but it’s ultimately still a picture. Here’s how to do it. Start by creating a new Story. Once in there, scroll over to the left, swipe […]
I’ve been auto scheduling posts to my Facebook profile via Hootsuite for a few weeks. It seemed to help with my communications and business goals. Positives: That spread posts out some. It kept my updates moving along. Then on Aug. 1, 2018, Facebook killed all […]
I was spending a good amount of time this weekend looking for deals for our 2019 family vacation. I have about 50,000 miles coming on American Airlines and I’m determined to use them in the most efficient way! I recently used 70,000 Delta miles to […]
Today, I posted this on some social networks: Have you ever written a blog post? No. Tweet? No. Facebook post? Not by myself. Do you know the difference between promotions and distribution strategies? I’ll have to dig deeper into that, but looked at that in […]
I like Instagram and Instagram Stories but notifications of tags in Stories leaves something to be desired. So what happens when somebody tags you in their Story? You as the tagged person or brand gets a direct message letting you know that somebody tagged you: […]
I respond pretty quickly to all kinds of messages that are coming my way. That includes emails, direct messages on Twitter and those Facebook Messenger messages that come from this website. As you may recall, a few days ago I added the Messenger widget to […]
I’m all for sharing stories through multiple mediums but there are things to consider before recording other people without their knowledge.
Approval hell is unfortunately something many content marketers still have to go through to get any kind of stories published. I’m not talking about multiple people editing a story here. Multiple sets of eyes are great and necessary. But approval hell is when all kinds […]
As we know social media is becoming more and more a pay-to-play kind of environment. You have to pay to get your content in front of more people. That’s how the social networks now make their money. Instagram is no different. The photo sharing network […]
October 30, 2016 update According to my own reviews, most people continue to use the LIKE button over others. Makes sense to me and I do the same myself. Facebook also updated the buttons to be Halloween-themed for Halloween 2016. Feb. 24, 2016 update: The […]
Instagram Stories was launched in August 2016, and personalization options for consumers continue to be minimal. You can’t prioritize people based on your interests. Instagram apparently does that for you with its fancy algorithm. That leads to me seeing many of the same people over […]
Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is a network organizations and people should pay attention to. Its user-base has been growing and personally I love how it encourages people to share photos – authentic ones, I hope. And you can’t even include links in […]