Instagram gets Dysentery

Amplify Podcast Episode 97

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$6,000 Selfie Stick Accident

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Facebook Tugboat, Response rate, Pauly Shore, sailing bloggers, Elizabeth Aristeguieta, Sail Away Girl, million dollar fashion bloggers, The Apple font problem, selfie sticks, Hillary Clinton’s digital strategy, and more. . .All the tech, social media and blog headlines that Bloggers love, need and use everyday.

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Lose Weight with Green Lips

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Hang With Periscope, Meerkat

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AOL Owns What

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Amplify Podcast AOL Owns What

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How to pin pages without pictures

Holy Moly! Did you know you could pin pages without pictures?  Did you know you could pin images on Facebook? Did you know that after you pin something you could change the location that users land when they click on the pin? While testing  out images based on my “how to make images go viral on Pinterest post”, I learned a few new things.

How to pin pages without pictures

So the basic idea of Pinterest is to categorize things that you like and find out in the world wide web onto your Pinterest wall. When you find something cool, you “pin” it. That means Pinterest goes to that webpage and finds an image it will use to represent that page on your board. In the end you have a wall full of images that are are really just links to webpages. BUT. . .

Pinterest gives you a little control over these pins. When you hover over the image, a pop up “Edit Pin” button becomes visible. When you click this button, you can edit the description, change the board it is categorized on AND you can edit the link. That means you can change the link. (more…)

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YouTube Strategy

 

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This week has been all about viral videos. We’re producing a video for a client with the goal of driving traffic through that viral “relevance” mechanism.

The video’s message is so inspiring and specific to our audience, we know that viewers in our audience will forward it to others in our audience – and pretty much no one else. Then through the messaging in the video we plan to drive that traffic back to our site.

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