5 Steps to Increased Visual Content Engagement | SEJ

5 Steps to Increased Visual Content Engagement | SEJ: "5 Steps to Increased Visual Content Engagement | #Infographic"- Jonathan Long : Sorurce HERE

Visual content performs better because the average consumer absorbs more of what they see than what they read. While we tend to only remember 20% of what we read, we remember 80% of what we see. Visual content creates more engagement, and the longer you can hold someone’s attention, the greater the chance of them converting – whether that is a list signup, a download, a phone call, or a sale.

In order to engage your audience you need to create very good visual content. So, what does “very good” mean? You need to make sure you have a topic of interest your target audience, then match it with great colors, an awesome design, and a well thought out plan for promotion.

The infographic below was created to help you create awesome visual content, and develop 
a plan that results in a positive ROI.

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The Often Forgotten Viral Content Marketing Tactic Written by Jeff Bullas

Written by Jeff Bullas 

It was a grey, cold and dreary day when I flew into London. It had been a long flight. I was tired and needed to shower because 20 hours of plane travel was pushing the boundaries for other humans within adjacent nostril range!

But I needed to check traffic and approve comments on my blog, as a blogger’s journey requires keeping up with the daily tasks, habits and rituals of online publishing. Being always on in a connected 24/7 world is often relentless.

It was a surprise to find when I checked my traffic that the blog post I had published 24 hours earlier had “gone”viral”. The article was titled, “30 Things You Should Not Share On Social Media“. It received over 122,000 views, was retweeted over 6,000 times and was shared on Facebook over 3,500 times.

A week later I posted it’s positive alternative, “20 Things you Should Share on Social Media“. The question in the back of my mind was…”would it receive the same viral traffic?”

The simple analysis after posting revealed that the positive version received only 16,000 views. Good but not great. And there lies a lesson that I have not forgotten.

Negative headlines work!

That was my first experience of viral content on my blog.

How are Lawyers Using Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Shea Bennett on Feb. 20, 2015 - 3:00 PM

Did you know that a recent survey found that 62 percent of law firms maintain a presence on social networks, up from 55 percent in 2012? 78 percent of lawyers themselves manage one or more social networks for professional purposes, with those in litigation, commercial law and employment/labor most prominent.Around 1.7 hours per week is spent using social networking sites, and slightly more than one third (35 percent) of lawyers have obtained clients from these channels.

Check the visual below for more insights, which comes courtesy of MyCase.

The INSTAGRAM Song (Put A Filter On Me)

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Social Insights with Adam Pisoni CTO and Co-founder - Yammer

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This week on Hootsuite's Social Update we look at Facebook's new mini social network for security analysts, Linkedin's growing influence in the workplace, Facebook testing craigslist style features and an Instagram case study from Foot Locker.

Google Acquires Odysee, An App For Private Photo/Video Backup And Sharing, Team Joins Google+ | TechCrunch

Google Acquires Odysee, An App For Private Photo/Video Backup And Sharing, Team Joins Google+ | TechCrunch: "Google may be soon adding more offline and private sharing features to its Google+ Photos service. It has acquired Odysee, an iOS and Android app that let users automatically back up photos and videos taken on their cameras or tablets to their home computers. It also let users set up private, automatic sharing with other people, and it had an API for integrating the service with other apps (read our longer article about it here). The app will be shut down effective February 23, with the team behind it joining Google+ to “continue to focus on building amazing products that people love.” 




The acquisition was announced via a note on Odysee’s home page, as well as through a notification being sent out to app users. In it, the startup thanks users and also notes the details of the shut-down process. Essentially, after Odysee ceases backup operations on February 23, all photos and videos already passed through the service will be available as a downloadable archive. We’re embedding the full note below.



Furthermore, we’ve found that Odysee the app is no longer available in Apple’s App Store and in Google Play; and it looks like the account for its maker, Nimbuz Inc., has also been pulled.

We have contacted Odysee, Nimbuz Inc. and Google to see if we can get any more details about the acquisition and the decision to sell rather than remain a standalone service. It’s unclear how many users Odysee had attracted in its lifetime, or whether it had managed to attracted more investors beyond the $760k it had raised in seed money. Previous investors included Ed Han, a repeat entrepreneur, including as founder of Tiny Prints (acquired by Shutterstock) and Alex Shubat, the CEO of food tech company Goji Food Solutions, among other things.

For now you can see where the acquisition makes a lot of sense for Google.

There have been rumors swirling that Google might launch the Photos as a standalone service, independent of Google+. Adding in options to save photos offline, and more features to better control how you share pictures, are logical additions that would give Google Photos service a more rounded offering, and help differentiate it more from other competing photo services. Others in the crowded space of online photo services include Facebook/Instagram, Yahoo’s Flickr, Dropbox and many more.

And even as a part of Google+, considering how wary some people are these days to giving over more data to Google’s cloud — or any other could-based service like Dropbox or iCloud, for that matter — it makes sense to enhance Photos with offline features for that reason, too.

Odysee, which let people log in with Facebook or by creating an account, was an app created by Nimbuz, co-founded by Raghavan Menon and Shiva Javalagi.



As Sarah wrote in a profile of the app last year, both founders have a background in networking, algorithms, caching and embedded software. Menon previously co-founded chip designer Ingot Systems, which was acquired by Virage Logic (and later acquired by Synopsys).

One of the interesting things about Odysee — “especially designed for people who take a lot of videos and would like the option of saving them at their full quality” — was that it shifted the storage option to your own computer rather than any public cloud. At the same time it had developed a caching feature that let users access those pictures even if the computer was offline or working on a slow Internet connection.

“Odysee keeps copies of recently accessed photos and videos online at high quality. Odysee keeps copies of photos and videos that are unlikely to be accessed (it predicts what is likely to be accessed) online at lower quality similar to that on Instagram or Facebook,” the company noted in its FAQ. “You always have a version of everything online.”

Another feature that set it apart from other photo services was the apps’s approach to sharing with others. It had its own “follower and following network” that was based around the idea of adding a small group of close family and friends who would also be on the app, with the option of sharing more pictures to “non-Odysee users” by way of URL links rather than embeds.

Like other many other apps, Odysee was built around a freemium model: free for the first year, and then $5/year thereafter. The founders had at one point estimated that they could keep the business sustainable if they reached 3 million users."



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