Mediaboss Marketing

I'm fed up of selfies. I'm fed up of belfies, humble brags and endless hashtags - and I hope you are too. As the year draws to an end, I find myself reflecting on social media fatigue, a year when nothing was too sublime, or indeed, ridiculous, enough to not warrant some form of digital outing.

Throughout 2014 we saw some admirable stabs at new networks. Ello, which gained enormous traction marketing itself as the anti-Facebook thanks to snarky rival Twitter, before sinking without a trace - free from adverts, and, it turns out, staying power.

The message is clear; we expect, and deserve, our networks to behave more responsibly with our personal information. Should inappropriate or private material be posted on them, we want faster response times, or more stringent checks to ensure such content never makes it onto people's timelines in the first place.

The ways in which we're using social media also changed. I've previously written about how Facebook was the single network to see a drop in active usage among its 16-24 year-olds users, while continuing to attract an average growth of around 90 million users each month. This is mainly because we're choosing to merely lurk on others' profiles, rather than actively engage by posting pictures and writing comments. A third of UK and US users even claimed to be bored by Facebook.

What this effectively boils down to is greater connectivity to each other = good, oversharing = bad. We prefer keeping in passive touch with each other, over aggressive engagement through baby pictures and endless LAD Bible shares.

Image-heavy sites Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram were the fastest-growing social networks, according to GlobalWebIndexs research, indicating another move away from text-based interaction and a sharper focus on stalking.

Businesses were also scrambling to try and harness the power of social media to spread their own messages, with varying degrees of success. Over the past year, brands have saturated platforms from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram, by way of covert 'sponsored' advertorial-style posts.

This cynical mix of business in pleasure domains is another of the year's presiding themes. Alan Sugar's selection of Australian Mark Wright as his latest Apprentice spoke volumes about the confidence enterprise is placing in digital marketing - or, essentially the slightly soulless task of climbing the slippery pole of Google's search results. Plough money into SEO, and you too can compete with the giants.

So in 2015, I wish for greater social responsibility from our networks, and also for the brands to give us back our networks and leave us in peace. But I have a feeling that's not going to happen. There's no need to break the internet, just stop using it to break irrelevant news.

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Social media in 2014: unsafe and boring?

SEO Marketing Demo Only

By: Ali Faizan

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(PRWEB) December 29, 2014

18Bricks is a newly started SEO agency offering search engine optimization and digital marketing to individuals and organizations who would like to increase the visibility of their websites in search engines like Google.

The team behind 18Bricks would like to take this opportunity to announce the commencement of the offering of their SEO services. They also recently held an event to publicize the launch of their newly established SEO agency and highlight some of the services they will be providing to their clients and customers.

The recent launch event took place at a local book emporium that is known as the hub of literature for the digital age in its immediate vicinity, stocking publications covering user interface design, web programming, and of course online marketing. The entire floor was taken over by the 18Bricks team and refreshments were laid on for those in attendance. The entire event comprised of an introductory talk from the founder of the agency, as well as some short presentations from the rest of the team. After that, the many guests were invited to take the opportunity to network with their peers and chat to the 18Bricks staff to get an idea of how their services could be of benefit to them.

When talking to those in attendance it was revealed that the team from this digital marketing agency made a good impression, both in terms of their presentation and the calibre of the attendees they had been able to successfully draw together.

We sent three members from our business down to the 18Bricks launch even to see what sort of SEO services they are planning on offering to their clients one local business owner explained. They each came back with positive feedback about the event, both in terms of what was being discussed and also the stellar networking opportunities that were on offer, thanks to the other interested parties that were also in attendance. As well as finding a new SEO company, we also made a few new contacts in our own industry that could result in more business and more revenue he continued to explain.

When the 18Bricks tem were quizzed on the launch, they too had good things to say about it. We were really pleased with the turnout for our launch event, especially considering it was a new venture that no one had heard of previously one of the founders of this SEO company explained. We made lots of new contacts throughout the event and even signed up a few new clients to help kick start our agency he continued to reveal.

With more and more companies and businesses turning to the web to find new clients and customers, SEO and digital marketing agencies like 188Bricks who can help improve the rank of a website and drive more traffic will continue to see a surge in new clients and interest in the years to come.

18Bricks are now open for new business and would like to take this opportunity to thank those in attendance at their recent SEO agency launch.

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New SEO Agency 18Bricks Recently Held a Launch Event to Announce their New Services

KWO Tries It: Censorship, Unnecesary Strikes, Trying To Shutdown DSPWO, the end of KWO/SOK is near
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No let-up in Jordan #39;s book censorship policy
In Jordan, one thing hasn #39;t changed over many decades and that #39;s government censorship of books. Authorities continue to ban the sale and import of some books they consider sensitive or challengin.

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