In this week’s #MMSocialReport – tips to enhance your visual content, an insightful analysis of the New York Times‘ year in social media, the complex relationship between technology and stress, and some of the best blogs on the internet you should be watching.
1. 17 Stats You Should Know About Visual Content Marketing in 2015
by @JJMawhinney via @HubSpot
If you’re posting anything visual on Facebook, Twitter, etc., these stats will help enhance your current strategy – and if you’re not, they’ll give you good reason to get on it immediately! You’ll be advised on where and when to use images, and also how to get them retweeted more often. If you swing more towards infographics and white papers, you’ll find some stats on readers’ preferred content formats. All in all, this one will help boost your content’s views and shares.
2. Don’t Try Too Hard to Please Twitter
by via @niemanlab
In this piece, Michael Roston analyzes the last year of New York Times Twitter successes, sharing a few ideas to implement into your own strategy, including how phrasing can make or break a tweet and better ways to credit photos.
3. Social Media: ‘No Direct association’ With Stress
by @MNT_Hannah via @mnt
Does social media boost your stress levels? Or does it just make you more aware of stressful events? Isn’t that kinda the same thing? The latest findings in the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project “illustrate the complex interplay of digital technology and stress.”
4. Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2015
by @cindyking via @smexaminer
This isn’t here to make you vote (unless you want to), but rather to provide you with examples of awesome websites. If you’re a blogger, you’ll get the most out of this by finding out what people look for in and like about blogs; if they’re in the top 10, there has to be something special about ’em! Follow their lead.
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