The Stalwart Blog

JANUARY 8, 2016

The world of social media changes quickly. Each year, the constant flow of new platforms, features and trends, leaves many social marketers scrambling to stay ahead of the game. If this history and a handful of recently emerging trends are any indication, 2016 will be the host of yet another boom of social innovation. .

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Deirdre Breakenridge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I have always been very passionate about social media, but when it comes to teaching social media, there is nothing more rewarding. I have been teaching my social media class for the last three years and it’s been one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had as a professor. Rubrics and feedback forms.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JULY 9, 2018

When I attended graduate school in 2016, I was also working at a Porter Novelli in Washington, D.C. If you are taking a social media class that talks about paid advertising, ask your teacher where you should go to learn more about advertising. A Guest Post by Sedale McCall, Digital Analyst, GPG.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Several organisations have been established since the EU Referendum in 2016 to debunk disinformation. Faking or impersonating an owner or social media account is plainly wrong. The Conservative Party switched the name and logo on its Twitter account to @FactCheckUK. FullFact is an independent fact checking charity.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 12, 2016

ET to kick off 2016 with a Twitter chat discussion on PR Strategy. Joining us will be a our special guest, Shonali Burke , ABC, who is a well-known social PR strategist, speaker and educator. On January 19th, Shonali and our community will share insights on how to move forward in 2016, with a solid PR strategy in place.

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Cision

MARCH 3, 2016

Last week, we released the State of the Media 2016 Report , which used a survey of over 300 journalists and Cision’s own media experts to provide insights into how to build better relationships with the media and earn more coverage. More than half of journalists use social to source stories.

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Ann primarily writes about social media and growth hack strategies, SEO and e-commerce. Soon 2015 will fade into history, so it’s time to forecast which content marketing strategies are most likely to follow through in 2016 and which of them will die a fast death. Want to deliver valuable content in 2016?

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Cision

JANUARY 12, 2016

We ’ re two weeks into 2016 so I can ’ t say “ Happy New Year, ” but it ’ s not too late to make resolutions. In 2016, make yourself the focus. And there are a couple spots still available if you ’ re ready to write a great business book in 2016. These are four things you can get accomplished in 2016.

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Last week in New York, we held the third annual PRTech Awards honoring individuals who work to bring together PR, marketing, technology, and media selected from 100+ nominations.

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 19, 2021

Obeying social norms like ones for age-appropriate behavior can be helpful for everyone, so why are some older people acting like social media influencers? From 2016 to 2020, revenue from influencer marketing leapt from $1.7 From 2016 to 2020, revenue from influencer marketing leapt from $1.7 billion to $9.7

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Prohibition

JULY 13, 2021

We’re back again with another monthly digest of the latest social media updates and trends – which as always, never fails to surprise! Over the last month we’ve seen ‘likes’ disappear (but only partially), radio stations launch and platforms giving users the autonomy to choose the way in which they consume content on social media.

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Cision

DECEMBER 1, 2015

How’s your social media strategy looking? You probably schedule your social updates without really looking at all of your updates as a whole. Maximize your efforts by implementing social listening! If you’ve been erratic on when you post content through social media, use this time to find a more regular cadence.

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Marketwired

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Just in the past month many predictions have been made about 2016 PR trends, and a lot of them have overlapping themes. We all know the importance of curating organic content for your online audience, but new levels of pressure to do so have made this truly vital for 2016. How to Evolve with the 2016 #PRTrends Click To Tweet.

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Marketwired

DECEMBER 15, 2015

31, you will be inundated with emails, blogs, and podcasts advising you how to get ready for 2016. Whether it is the next best monitoring platform, the social channel you MUST focus more on, or why you need to ditch the press release, the advice is enough to drive you to the eggnog bowl. Emerging social platforms.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Although businesses may intuit email as an afterthought, it easily outperforms each of the platforms mentioned about in open rate (to its social equivalent) and click-though. What I want to do in this post is make a five-point argument that email is one of the most important communications channels in 2016.

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Prohibition

APRIL 26, 2022

Influencer marketing has been on the rise since 2016 and the now popular marketing strategy is only getting bigger – with experts predicting the growth of influencer marketing continuing into 2022 and the sector valuing at over £12.57 Influencer marketing is a great way to further your brand awareness and social presence online.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

The year of 2016 brought a fairly significant evolution for this website. In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. Over the course of 2016, I published some 84 posts, on PR , marketing and social media.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Our top posts from the second quarter of 2016 focused on PR and marketing technology skills, Facebook branded content, and measuring influencer performance. In April of 2016, Facebook decided to change the game and reporting methods for the typical influencer. Want to see how to do this for your blog? Here’s how. Lisa Zanchi.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 26, 2022

I even had an interview with UST in (probably) 2016 or so. Then, just a few months later, he informed me he was retiring and that UST was looking for someone to fill the social media class he was teaching. I mean, I’m teaching a class in a niche (social media marketing) that literally changes EVERY DAY.

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ZudePR

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

There are certain business social media facts that – if your powers of persuasion are taking time out – won’t let you down. You’re a family business owner wondering how to make sense of social media, blogging, and PR. 4: 80% of B2B Social Media Leads Come From LinkedIn. Eureka facts.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

Last week, I shared my news that I’ll be teaching social media at the University of St. Now, she’s crushing it at Best Buy in social media marketing. So, I asked a few key local leaders for up-and-coming social media or communications superstars they admire. And, they have been for a while now.

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Mark My Words

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You could power much of the national grid on the hype that’s been fissioning on social media. It’s November 2016 and we’re watching the latest John Lewis Christmas ad. But it would be fair to concede that the 2016 contribution to the cannon was comfortingly familiar. It isn’t a new Star Wars or Bond.

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Karen Freberg

JANUARY 26, 2019

We have seen many communities arise of course over the past few decades on social media. However, can communities serve as the new “next move” for social media professionals? Some of these were based on my social media classes (ex. Light bulb went off in October 2016, and the rest was history!

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Karen Freberg

OCTOBER 13, 2019

One of the areas that is gaining of course a lot of focus in the social media space is the area of certifications and additional training. Incorporating social media certifications is a constant element in all social media classes – but the question always is – which one(s) do you assign?

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5W PR

AUGUST 16, 2019

In a research paper published in 2016, a group of Google engineers shared their plans for how videos could be filtered through YouTube’s recommendation engine for a better user experience. Much discussion about getting views on YouTube is focused on YouTube SEO, social media promotion, and garnering subscribers.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 10, 2020

Every week on For Immediate Release, join a conversation that analyzes digital and social media news for PR pros. Launched in 2016, Adweek Yeah, That’s Probably an Ad features co-hosts David Griner and Ko Im debating the highs and lows of creativity, advertising, marketing, media and technology. For Immediate Release.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

Thank you to everyone who sent me feedback on my essay on the future of PR via email or social media. There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. Social media activism is only possible because brands don’t listen.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 2, 2020

That post represented the start of my social media journey. I don’t recall why or when I started on Twitter (Frank Strong reminded me in 2016 that I started with the tweet below in 2007), but I do recall the transformative effect it had on me. That was my social media “ground zero” moment.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 27, 2017

increase in Q3 growth from Q3 of 2016. cta] The post State of Social Media, 3Q 2017: Twitter Restates appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Only 69 million of those users are in the United States. When we look at comparable quarters from years past, we see a 4.1%

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 7, 2017

With that in mind, let’s look at year-over-year growth, per quarter: Above, we see some indications that the worst might be over; Twitter’s year-over-year growth this year has been better than the same time periods in 2016. The litmus test will be Q3 growth; Twitter needs to show strong growth year-over-year then. Ad Revenue. Christopher S.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 20, 2016

That place is Social Media Marketing World. I can attest that everything there is to know about social media can be learned within the walls of the San Diego Convention Center, where the conference took place this week over the course of two days with 100+ sessions. The Year Of (Live) Video for Social Media Marketers.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Facebook showed a strong third quarter, powered by North American ad revenues: Quarter-over-quarter, Facebook showed a 10.67% Q3 improvement in revenue, a solid showing compared to the same quarter in 2016: This brings Facebook close to an almost-unheard of number in social media marketing: $5 average revenue per user.

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Norton's Notes

DECEMBER 21, 2016

This year (2016) has been an eventful year to say the least, and as it’s coming to a close I thought I’d take a closer look back at some of the best social campaigns of the year and list a few of my favourites. Here are ten of my favourite social media campaigns from 2016. The Salvation Army: #thedress.

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ISEBOX

JANUARY 5, 2017

You may recall our article from a couple months back, “ How the FDA is Keeping Up with the Kardashians ,” which reported how Canada-based pharma company Duchesnay USA earned an FDA Warning Letter after a social media blunder. But Duchesnay got it right this time with their 2016 promotions. A Better Way to Use Twitter. .

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Cision

APRIL 22, 2016

While social media monitoring would lead you to believe that fashion and celebrity sightings have become the focal point of Coachella, when you rely on the social media conversation alone, you miss the whole picture of the festival.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Social media monitoring and measurement not only offer insights into what people are saying on social media, but also how they’re using things like hashtags to say it. Because what is the addition of a hashtag to an otherwise identical piece of content but an A/B test?

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Communications Conversations

JULY 6, 2018

Instagram made the announcement a couple weeks ago , and since then it’s been a very hot topic of conversation among marketers, communicators and social media creators and influencers. However, the big question on marketer’s minds is this: How does IGTV fit into my already busy social media mix?

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