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39 blogging tools to help you work faster, better and land more readers

Dec07
by on December 7, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. When you’re finding amazing content to share on social media—the kind of thing that grabs attention and gets people to click, share, and comment—one of the most valuable, most original places to turn is your own blog and the content you personally create. So the questions become: How to create amazing content, how to put together blogposts strategically and efficiently, and how to get your content out to the masses. Writing tips are a good place to start. And to supplement the words you use to build your blogposts, I’ve found a…

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10 reasons why the internet is not the answer

Dec07
by on December 7, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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This essay is part of a series written by speakers featuring at our upcoming TNW USA Conference on December 10 in New York. It is adapted from Andrew’s new book, The Internet is Not the Answer, which will be published in the US on January 6th 2015. With the Internet about to celebrate its fiftieth birthday, there’s no doubt that digital revolution and the disruptive businesses that it’s empowering, has transformed the world profoundly. But has the Internet – which is now disrupting industries as disparate as media, transportation, healthcare, finance, education and commerce – actually benefitted society? In my upcoming…

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How to utilize Facebook to win e-commerce marketing this Christmas

Dec07
by on December 7, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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Joey Kotkins is the CMO & Co-Founder of Inside Social. The 2014 holiday season will break every digital marketing record. Marketers are voting with their wallets, and their goals are clear: they want to drive sales. So the holiday shopping season will come and go – online retail numbers will be better than ever before, and, in January, digital marketers will be patting themselves on the back and calling it a success. But what they don’t realize is that 95 percent of brands will deserve a lump of coal in their stockings – because they left sales on the table…

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Why Coca-Cola is targeting experienced entrepreneurs without startups

Dec07
by on December 7, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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Although traditional corporations and hip and innovative startups may be seen as being on opposite sides of the barricades, they often make steps towards each other. Corporate accelerators, entrepreneurs-in-residence and other forms of collaboration between the two have become a normal thing for the community in Europe and the US in recent years. The Web Summit 2014, which took place in Dublin in early November, showed us another initiative in the field of putting startups and corporations together. The Coca-Cola Company, which has been partnering with mature startups for a while, went public with its year-old platform called Coca-Cola Founders,…

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Encouraging people to wear wearable technology

Dec07
by on December 7, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Howard Simms is the co-founder and director of Apadmi. Wearable technology is seen by many developers as an opportunity to bring smart functionality closer to the consumer than ever before. Arguably, the event that has focused minds more than any other is Apple’s long-awaited unveiling of its new smartwatch. The Apple Watch isn’t expected to be released until the spring of 2015, but the tantalizing preview that Apple gave us in September 2014 generated blanket media coverage and developers are already rushing to build third-party apps for the platform. Consumer demand is also growing rapidly with market research firm YouGov…

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