Repurposing content simply means taking content from one place and adapting it for another. In part one we looked at reasons for repurposing content and places you can find suitable content. If you haven’t read part one, check it out. In part two we get practical. Here are eight ways you can repurpose content: 1. […]
How to repurpose content for social media: Part One
Long gone are the days when you could get away with using social media to tell people what kind of sandwich you ate today. Today social media runs on content, and not just any old content: content people want to consume. There’s plenty of competing content out there, so yours has to be the best […]
Facebook introduces ‘Rooms’, an anonymous community app
Rooms, the latest app from Facebook’s Creative Lab, harks back to the internet message boards of the 90s – virtual places where anonymous users come together and chat about a topic of common interest. The new app takes the idea of these nostalgic forums and enhances it, complete with customisable features and multimedia capabilities. With […]
What is Snapchat?
Snapchat is a neat iPhone and Android app that lets users have fun mobile conversations. Here’s how it works: Snap a photo or a video, add a caption, and send it to a friend who sees it for a few seconds before it disappears forever. This “self-destructing” feature is one of the most unique things […]
A Twitter beginner’s cheat sheet
Chances are you’ve heard of Twitter and know it’s a big deal, but you may be thinking: that’s great, but why would I use it? Well, because everyone else is. Twitter has about 240 million active users. Think of an author, comedian, an ASX listed company, your competitors, or sports star you’re interested in, and […]
Which social media networks use hashtags?
If you’re a social media user, you’ll no doubt have seen the growth of hashtags: the prefixing of a word or phrase with a hash or pound (#) symbol to create a clickable and searchable topic marker. The first hashtag was used on Twitter in 2007, but since then has grown to incorporate a wide […]
Write the Perfect Social Media Post
Most of us have at least one social media account, so by extension aren’t we all fabulous at posting? In the real world, that isn’t always the case. So what’s the secret formula for writing a perfect social media post? In truth, there isn’t one but we’ve trawled the web to bring you the top […]
Technology Is Ruining Your Love Life
5 Signs Technology Is Ruining Your Love Life Oh, how we love our technology… embracing it like a lover and clinging to it for dear life, often at the expense of our real relationships. If any of these five tell-tale signs strikes a chord with your own relationship behaviours, you could be letting technology ruin […]
How to use social media to market your unsexy industry
Do you feel as though your industry simply isn’t built to look sexy on the Internet? How do you make an engineering company look fascinating on Facebook? How do you maintain the authority required of a B2B business without boring your readers? Are you struggling to develop an understanding of what is social media and […]
How to get a custom URL for your Facebook
Your Facebook page is the first impression that you can’t take back and it is as unique as your are. Your Facebook URL should be easy to search, relate to your page and NOT be a long string of impossible to remember and arbitrary numbers. A Facebook Custom URL or Facebook vanity URL is important […]