Social Business Bites #171 - Curated by Des Walsh
Hi
Three juicy bites this week for Social Business Bites.
First, the item about emojis got me thinking (slow to the party) about the positive and negative potential for emojis in B2B communications, not just for fun with friends. Next there is the article about building "a thriving brand presence" on
Instagram - very timely for me as this week I'm diving into Instagram with that in mind. The third item is about the Facebook pixel, why we should be using it, and how to install it on our websites - very easy process if you have a WordPress site.
There is a new feature - on Artificial Intelligence. Following up on the research I did for my keynote
in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in December, on "Coaching in the Cyber Physical World", I'm super keen to share what I'm learning about Artificial Intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and all that. Generally I feel very positive about these developments but there is a dark side, which this excellent article from MIT explains in scary detail. We need to know the downside risks, not just the benefits, of the technology we use (or which uses
us).
And as explained below, I've extended by almost an extra week my New Year special offer on Laser Coaching, to Wednesday Jan 31st. _______________________________________________________
Top 3 Stories This Week
Phillip Agnew
95% of internet users have sent an emoji at some point. Over 10 billion emojis are sent each day. But we still know very little about how the world uses emojis and what it all means. Dalit Saad and Adam Rosenberg
Having a strong and consistent Instagram presence builds brand awareness and creates lasting relationships, which result in long-term organic growth. It’s essential to have a presence, but not just any presence, your brand needs to stand out. Nathan
Mendenhall
When it comes to collecting and leveraging social media data to market a business, Facebook is the king. The Social Network is always learning more about users and what makes them react to marketing messages, and evolving its ad products in-step.
To provide further insight to marketers, Facebook created the Facebook Pixel which helps marketers measure the impact of their advertising and understand how Facebook users are interacting with websites.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Update
Will Knight
The workings of any machine-learning technology are inherently more opaque, even to computer scientists, than a hand-coded system. This is not to say that all future AI techniques will be equally unknowable. But by its nature, deep learning is a particularly dark black box.
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Till next time, be well, be
social :) Des
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