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Hi
Three items this week, including a new segment, Tool Time (yes, that's original, isn't it?):
- Advice for Sharing Infographics
- Better ways to invite LinkedIn connections
- Tool Time -
Scoop.it
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Actually, this blog post should have been titled "Social Media Best Practices for Sharing Infographics". It does not show you how to create an infographic.
But if you are using infographics to help share your stories on social media, you should
find this guide helpful.
It tackles a key issue in designing and sharing infographics, namely that one size does not fit all platforms.
Guidelines with illustrations are provided for how best to present infographics for, respectively,
Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and LinkedIn. And note the comment on the post, which updates the advice about sharing infographics via Twitter.
Get Connected, not Rejected, with Your LinkedIn Invitations
This post is critical of the use of pre-cooked, boilerplate LinkedIn invitations to connect. It shares my simple formula for making the process more natural, probably more productive, and possibly fun.
Yes, it's one of mine - and I realise some readers of Social Business Bites may have seen it
already. I'm including it here because:
- two sites, Social Media Today and Social Business One, that syndicate some of my work also published
it
- as a result it was heavily tweeted and re-tweeted
So that tells me that others, well-informed people in this field, believe it contains some interesting and hopefully useful content. If you don't read it now, do yourself a favor and bookmark it for when you next want to do some inviting of
new connections on LinkedIn.
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Tool Time: Scoop.it
If you find yourself strapped for time in producing content for blogs, or say for a newsletter/bulletin, you owe it to yourself to check out Scoop.it.
This is one online tool I use pretty much on a daily basis. Basically, it picks up a lot of articles and stories online, aimed at meeting my pre-set indicators for the categories I'm interested in: social media obviously, and a few others.
It then serves up, 100 at a time, excerpts which I scan through quickly to see if there is anything that interests me. I also have
a kind of newsletter or bulletin set up there, where I publish items that appeal to me and I think may interest others. Other users of Scoop.it follow that page and I follow others', and so on.
The official blurb is a bit jargony, but will give you an idea:
Scoop.it fills the need that a growing number of people and businesses have to publish content in an efficient and impacting way. By combining a big data semantic technology that helps them quickly find relevant content with an easy-to-use social publishing platform, we help them show their expertise, develop their online visibility, enrich their blogs or web sites, save time managing their social media channels and build their communities of
interests.
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Browse previous issues of Social Business Bites at this link
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Till next time
Be well, be social :)
Des
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