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6 Research-Based Insights About Viral Content

Cision

If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.

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Weekly Roundup of Awesome Links: Week of August 25, 2014

Melissa Agnes

Does Common Sense On Social Media Come With Age? Melissa Agnes to Conduct Crisis Management Workshop at the GCC Government Social Media Summit in Dubai. Social Media for Healthcare: What’s The Potential? Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’. From The Crisis Intelligence Blog. Listen here!

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Royal Family puts Martin Bashir interview aside to embrace BBC and social media, but told to be wary of TikTok

Mark My Words

Social media, a novelty for the royals when the Queen posted her first tweet in 2014, is now a central element in their communications strategy. The royals are in a battle to stay relevant so they have to use social media.” During the Queen’s reign, the royals stuck to the traditional media they knew.

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Social Media Rock Stars: Collegis Education’s Kendall Bird

Communications Conversations

Social media and communications professional. Just a few of the terms I’d use to describe this month’s Social Media Rock Star: Kendall Bird. I am the social media manager at Collegis Education , and report through the Public Relations/Communications department of the company. And movie buff.

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The importance of a social media strategy #engaging

Engage PR

And with social media spend within marketing budgets expected to increase 128% to 21.4% in the next five years (1* Chief Marketing Officers Survey, 2014 ) social activity is becoming more integral to brand perception and business performance. Cue social backlash across the internet.

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5 tips to get you through a crisis using social media

Presspage

Among the many communication tools that can be used during a crisis, social media is one of the most important ones because it offers the opportunity for an immediate, concise, and far-reaching response. But if misused, things on social media can take a turn for the worse. The thin line between positive and negative.

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The Ugly Side of Social Media Sharing

Waxing UnLyrical

I am a social media advocate. But I hate the ugly side of social media sharing; especially when kids are involved. The image went viral. Susan didn’t even know the image had gone viral until she saw another Facebook friend shared the meme on April 22. The Ugly Side of Social Media Sharing.