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Why it’s difficult to heart Twitter’s new update

  Twitter’s new ‘heart’ update has been received with a wide variety of feedback; some love it, others despise the change. With an icon shift to something so emotionally recognisable, there are certainly a number of undeniable psychological positives. However, criticism has labelled the update

Is Instagram Bad for Photography?

  Since it was launched in October 2010, Instagram has quickly caught on as one of the world’s primary photo sharing platforms. On it you can take a photo, make it look pretty and share it with the world in a matter of seconds. But

Could Social Media Change the World?

  Social media as a phenomenon has grown at an exponential rate, to the point in which it is ingrained in our culture. Social networks have become places where users are able to communicate, express themselves and remember the past at the click of a

Boomerang – Instagram’s new GIF creation app

  On the 22nd October this year Instagram released a new stand-alone app that allows users to create Gif style video loops. With its uncluttered and comfortably sleek interface Boomerang is a great example of a micro-video sharing app, and no matter how hard we try

Social Media Popularity Update: Autumn 2015

  Wondering what the most and least popular social networks have been throughout the last few months? In our Social Media Popularity Update we’ve rounded up some of the most interesting facts and figures we can find. As any Social Media Marketing Guru knows, digital

5 Places to get Spooky Vectors this Halloween

  If part of your job is making social media and blog posts more visually stimulating then you probably already appreciate the power of a good vector. They are aesthetically pleasing, versatile and easily editable. To get the best from your holiday graphics you want

This Year’s Most Disturbing Halloween Hashtag

  Halloween can be a scary time. Not because small people knock on your door covered in blood and threaten you for sweets – for some reason we’ve long come to accept that practice as commonplace. What we mean is that it can be a

Get Scarily Good at Social Media this Halloween

  If you are in charge of managing social media with your company, Halloween should be a real treat for you. Regardless of how you feel about cutting holes in an old bed sheet and scaring your thirteen year old nephew out of his skin,
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Getting Going with LinkedIn: 2. Building your Network

LinkedIn is the go-to Social Network for most professionals and job-seekers. It’s understandable that some of us have apprehensions about setting yourself up – and it can also be unclear about what steps to take after you have created a profile. In our previous article

Why Clickbait is Ruining it for Everybody

  “You won’t believe what happened to the guy that wrote this…” Sound familiar? Clickbait may seem harmless at first glance but it’s certainly not fun – and could very well prove damaging for writers of quality content. Even if the terminology is foreign to