#social media networks

[bossymarmalade]

The Free Our Feeds initiative aims to build off of Bluesky’s core technology, the Authenticated Transfer (AT) protocol, a new shared language that computer servers use to communicate with each other. Using this technology — which is still backed by Bluesky, a private company — the campaign hopes to create a decentralized social media network free of oligarchical oversight. That’s also something Bluesky’s Chief Executive Officer Jay Graber said she supports. 

“ [Free Our Feeds] is trying to take Bluesky’s essential infrastructure and make it so that it becomes a separate thing that is un-tamperable and un-ownable,” Kramer explained.

New_ Public is led by co-directors Deepti Doshi and Eli Pariser, who are also two of the nine technical advisors, also known as “custodians,” spearheading the Free Our Feeds campaign. Over the next three years, they seek to fundraise $30 million to develop this new social media network, which would be overseen by a public-interest foundation in an effort to ensure that the AT protocol would remain open. 

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[nando161mando]

Unbelievably dire.. how did we get here

[madhukumarc]

What are the essential components of an effective social media content calendar?

An effective social media content calendar typically includes the following components:

Content Goals and Objectives: Clearly defined goals and objectives for the content.

Content Calendar Template: A structured calendar format to plan and schedule posts.

Content Categories: Different types of content, such as promotional, educational, entertaining, empowering, etc.

Posting Schedule: Specific dates and times for publishing content on different platforms.

Content Ideas and Themes: A list of potential topics and themes for the content.

Visual Assets: Images, videos, and graphics to accompany the posts.

Engagement Plan: Strategies for engaging with the audience through comments, messages, etc.

Hashtags and Keywords: Research and inclusion of relevant hashtags and keywords.

Analytics and Tracking: Tools and methods to measure the performance of the content.

Collaboration and Approval Process: Workflow for content creation, review, and approval.

Adaptation to Platform: Tailoring content for each specific social media platform.

Do you know? -“Consistency is the easiest way to streamline your content calendar and ensure you hit users at each touchpoint in their journeys” – Search Engine Land

Image Source: Social Trends 2024 Report by Hootsuite

In conclusion, a well-structured social media content calendar, encompassing clear objectives, diverse content, strategic scheduling, and robust engagement plans, serves as a cornerstone for successful and impactful social media marketing campaigns.

Here's related information that you may also find helpful – Will social media continue to grow? [See the trends and insights].

[white-label-blog]

User-generated content is brand-specific content created by customers and published on social media and other channels. It has become a big deal in the fast-paced world of SaaS businesses and is one of the most powerful tools marketers can use to promote their brands. Sharing UGC on branded social channels or in marketing can make your audience feel seen and heard.

Let’s discuss some essential tips on incorporating user-generated content and how it can help businesses promote their brands - 

Always ask for your customer’s consent before using or republishing their content.

Make sure to give proper credit to the original creator when sharing UGC on social media networks.

Provide clear guidelines on the kind of UGC they want followers to create and share.

Make UGC entertaining for your followers.

UGC is a tool that can help SaaS businesses build trust and confidence with their target audience. If your business is looking for a way to connect with customers and create more engaging content, consider incorporating user-generated content into your marketing strategy.

[digitalafa]

How Does the Social Media Algorithm Updates Impact Small Businesses

Do you know what impact social media algorithm updates will have on small businesses

Most changes in social media marketing are very likely to have a grave impact on small businesses. Why is this important? It's important because small businesses rely on social media networks to help stretch their marketing budgets, drive more traffic to their websites and increase their brand awareness. What can small businesses do when algorithms change in the social media space? What are the options? What impact will it have on their marketing efforts?  Small businesses can ensure that they have a social media strategy that is malleable and can be adjusted to accommodate changes because change will happen. Review your social media strategy on a consistent basis, and make changes as warranted - be flexible. One important aspect to keep in mind is, do not to rely on a single source to drive traffic to your website, or to increase brand awareness. Your strategy should take into consideration multiple options - social media should be one, not the only option. Here is how Google defines quality content

What are some of the social media algorithm updates

One of the major changes included external links - those links that send social media users to your website for more information, or for deeper engagement with your brand

The algorithms are looking for brands that are using social media networks as a bridge to somewhere else

What can be done to be proactive about inevitable change

Create quality content

Provide content that is valuable to your users

Be creative and engaging 

You can also get some insights about why the algorithm changes were made and the impact it has on small businesses.  

[incognitopolls]

If you still use Twitter but ALSO are active on another of these sites (as a replacement/supplement to specifically Twitter), select the newer site that you're active on.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[ef-1]

In the vein of calling out our favs I'll tell you what Max did:

Max was racing in an iRacing event yesterday

Also racing in the same event is Jaden Munoz who is a Williams driver for their iRacing academy. Jaden is 19 years old iirc

Jaden was a Max fan and there are multiple tweets of him from 2021-2022 praising Max

Max and Jaden started close to eachother at the beginning of the race and were battling for the lead. Max was ahead. Max defended very aggressively, honestly too aggressively, and made two left-right manoeuvres to hold the lead. The contact would not have been so bad but Max was swerving and he dropped right to the back of the grid the moment their cars touched while Jaden kept his position

At this point Jaden says: "Look how dumb he is. He doesn't change, ever. He's so dumb" about Max. This is not a random insult, contrary to the way it was framed. Max had crashed Jaden out 2 weeks ago in the first lap of the 2024-25 GTP IMSA Global Esports Championship season finale. I think it's very important to point out that Jaden was leading the GTP IMSA championship and that was the last race of the season. He would have won it if Max hadn't crashed him out. Max was completely at fault and received a drive-through penalty for that collision

Back to our race from yesterday, Jaden drives a great race and keeps 2nd position

Towards the end of the race Jaden encounters Max again to lap him. The moment he sees that Max is the next car to lap he says "Oh no. Oh no, no, no." Implying that he thinks Max is about to crash him out as retaliation. And that's exactly what Max does: he purposefully crashes out Jaden.

Now we get to the only part of the story that anyone seems to care about which is Jaden's reaction when Max crashes him out which was: "Yeah, I knew it, I knew it. This is why you were gifted everything in your life, Max. You're a spoilt brat. You'd be nothing without your father. You'd be nothing. You'd be a nobody."

That's the totality of what happened. Since then Jaden has been getting a lot of hate on all his social media for saying Max is a spoilt brat who would be nothing without Jos. Honesty had it been anyone else besides a 19 year old Mexican-American kid I wouldn't have written this up. But as a Mexican-American experiencing Trump's Amerikkka I think the reaction towards Jaden is fucked up and unwarranted. He's a teenager with working class parents, gaming is literally his career. He was going to be champion two weeks ago and Max crashed him out, there was clearly residual resentment from that. The prize money for iRacing is probably what Max spends on a dessert in Monaco but again it's Jaden's career, it's his whole job, it's how he makes money. He anticipated Max would crash him out and then Max proved him right. I don't think it's the crime it's been made out to be for a hispanic 19 year old to bitterly point out that Jos was a millionaire who helped Max progress in his career. Again Max is a fav and maybe I'd feel a different way about this if the political climate was different but it just made me very sad and very bitter

thank you sm for writing all of this. Def call out your favs and you're definitely valid in how you feel

[icewindandboringhorror]

On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

[in4newz]

Don't forget, Trump was the one who tried to ban TikTok in his first term, and Republicans voted to pass the TikTok Ban Bill.

He didn't save it. He just flipflopped when he realised it made him look bad with young people.

And now TikTok are sucking up to Trump and effectively acting as an ad section for him.

Don't fall for it.

[conceived-angel]

heyyy @/fx networks... got anything you want to share with the class?

[nando161mando]

Disabling features to make money

[reasonsforhope]

"Is social media designed to reward people for acting badly?

The answer is clearly yes, given that the reward structure on social media platforms relies on popularity, as indicated by the number of responses – likes and comments – a post receives from other users. Black-box algorithms then further amplify the spread of posts that have attracted attention.

Sharing widely read content, by itself, isn’t a problem. But it becomes a problem when attention-getting, controversial content is prioritized by design. Given the design of social media sites, users form habits to automatically share the most engaging information regardless of its accuracy and potential harm. Offensive statements, attacks on out groups and false news are amplified, and misinformation often spreads further and faster than the truth.

We are two social psychologists and a marketing scholar. Our research, presented at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit, shows that social media actually has the ability to create user habits to share high-quality content. After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based...

Re-targeting rewards

To investigate the effect of a new reward structure, we gave financial rewards to some users for sharing accurate content and not sharing misinformation. These financial rewards simulated the positive social feedback, such as likes, that users typically receive when they share content on platforms. In essence, we created a new reward structure based on accuracy instead of attention.

As on popular social media platforms, participants in our research learned what got rewarded by sharing information and observing the outcome, without being explicitly informed of the rewards beforehand. This means that the intervention did not change the users’ goals, just their online experiences. After the change in reward structure, participants shared significantly more content that was accurate. More remarkably, users continued to share accurate content even after we removed rewards for accuracy in a subsequent round of testing. These results show that users can be given incentives to share accurate information as a matter of habit.

A different group of users received rewards for sharing misinformation and for not sharing accurate content. Surprisingly, their sharing most resembled that of users who shared news as they normally would, without any financial reward. The striking similarity between these groups reveals that social media platforms encourage users to share attention-getting content that engages others at the expense of accuracy and safety...

Doing right and doing well

Our approach, using the existing rewards on social media to create incentives for accuracy, tackles misinformation spread without significantly disrupting the sites’ business model. This has the additional advantage of altering rewards instead of introducing content restrictions, which are often controversial and costly in financial and human terms.

Implementing our proposed reward system for news sharing carries minimal costs and can be easily integrated into existing platforms. The key idea is to provide users with rewards in the form of social recognition when they share accurate news content. This can be achieved by introducing response buttons to indicate trust and accuracy. By incorporating social recognition for accurate content, algorithms that amplify popular content can leverage crowdsourcing to identify and amplify truthful information.

Both sides of the political aisle now agree that social media has challenges, and our data pinpoints the root of the problem: the design of social media platforms."

And here's the video of one of the scientsts presenting this research at the Nobel Prize Summit!

-Article via The Conversation, August 1, 2023. Video via the Nobel Prize's official Youtube channel, Nobel Prize, posted May 31, 2023.

[madhukumarc]

What are the most underrated social media platforms for marketing an online business?

Here are the most underrated social media platforms for marketing an online business:

Reddit [via Ads]

Pinterest

Quora [via ads]

“Reddit says 75% of its users are more likely to consider a new brand or product when they see it on Reddit. And with 70 million daily active users, across more than 100,000 communities, that’s a lot of potential opportunity to reach a broad audience who’ve come to the platform to get new insights” – SocialMediaToday

Plan to Spend More Time on Social Media Channels in 2024:

Image Source - Global State of Social Media 2024 Report by Meltwater

“Quora Ads has a unique question-and-answer content platform that enables you to capture user search intent. Typically, this platform has performed well with B2B brands, but more B2C brands are seeing success with Quora lately” – Search Engine Journal

Here's related information that you may also find helpful – Social Media Marketing Statistics [Social is the new powerful].

[omeletcat]

So i was talking to my friends about how sad it is that art and media is seen as content these days, and not as art. mostly just to consume adn then scroll past, and i was thinking hey wouldn't it be cool if people had their own little websites? people used to do this but now everything is done on big platforms. and i had this cool idea of a website that hosts little websites that you can customize and instead of having a feed, you'd share websites YOU like on your own website so people look around!!!!

and then my friend told me THIS ACTUALLY EXCISTS

ITS CALLED NEOCITIES

ITS A FREE WEBSITE, ITS OPEN SOURCE, NO ADS BECAUSE ITS 100% DONATION FUNDED AND ITS BEAUTIFULL

ITS ALL I EVER WANTED, its a perfect space to set up all you're creative endevours and art! to make galleries or to just have your own website!!!

but some people do INSANELY cool things on here!! like

They made a beautifull and unique website thats fun to explore! just messing around clicking on stuff brings you to unique and interesting places!!!!

it is perfection, look at how interesting it is!!!!! there is even more that i couldnt fit into 1 screenshot.

compare this to the boring websites you scroll on daily, wouldnt you much rather find and explore websites like these? i feel it would be much more rewarding to "explore" artists, then to scroll past them. you genuinely have to DO something to enjoy it and thats amazing.

the only thing that is holding Neocities back is the fact you have to know a bit of html and css to make a website BUT THATS SUPER EASY TO LEARN!!!!

SO GO NOW, MAKE YOUR OWN CUTE AND COOL AND INTERESTING WEBSITE PLEASE, LETS GO BACK TO A TIME WHERE WEBSITES LOOKED COOL AND INTERESTING

ALSO FOLLOW MY WEBSITE I ONLY JUST STARTED SO ITS SHIT BUT THATS THE BEAUTY OF IT

TO REPEAT ONE LAST TIME, A FREE, ADLESS, OPEN SOURCE, WEBSITE HOSTING PLATFORM, THAT LETS YOU MAKE AND HOST YOUR OWN WEBSITE FOR FREE, WITH A COOL AND UNIQUE COMMUNITY

[patetic-club]

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