You Can Combat Social Media Fatigue

  • Fran Stephenson
  • February 18, 2019
  • 3 min read

It happens to every social media manager.  All of a sudden, your Facebook posts are boring. Or your Tweets go without a Retweet. Instagram photos have so few likes, you can read every name of those who DID give it a heart. What could possibly be wrong? It might be social media fatigue and it […]

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Is Your Facebook Group a Mob or Community?

  • Fran Stephenson
  • July 5, 2016
  • 5 min read

Spend any amount of time on Facebook these days, and you witness people traveling in gangs, rising up because serious harm has been done to someone or something. Virtual vigilantes. It could be inspired by the upcoming presidential election, or world events, but the general mood is shifting. In the early days of Facebook, the network was […]

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What Facebook Wants Small Business to Know about Advertising

  • Fran Stephenson
  • May 11, 2016
  • 3 min read

Last week, I attended a “Boost Your Business” workshop sponsored by Facebook. It’s the second time I’ve attended a Facebook-sponsored seminar since they moved their SMB division to Austin. For all the criticism about this social network and all the changes that cause upheaval for organizations trying to navigate Facebook’s changing landscape, you have to give them […]

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How to Report Live Events on Social Media Channels

  • Fran Stephenson
  • February 10, 2016
  • 4 min read

Add the word “live” to your event and there’s automatic excitement. Every host who opens the show on Saturday Night Live, says “LIVE from New York…” and we pay attention. Television stations use “live”and “breaking news” to make us sit up and see what’s going on. In the radio years, a sure sign of something different was the […]

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Compare the Top 8 Social Media Networks

  • Fran Stephenson
  • December 10, 2015
  • 3 min read

Don’t you wish it was easier to compare social media networks side-by-side? You know, a really cool chart to summarize what’s going on in the network, so you can answer client questions more easily or find that key statistic to drop into your presentation. Keeping up with the news of each network is tough, even […]

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Finding & Scheduling Social Media Content

  • Fran Stephenson
  • December 5, 2015
  • 5 min read

Part 4 in the Outside Channel Manager Series Guest post by Jennifer Hatton Time has flown by and we are already at Part 4 of our channel management series. Our topic today is one of my favorite things to talk about in social media – Scheduling and Finding Content. There are so many assets you […]

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Using a Critical Eye to Assess Social Media Channels

  • Fran Stephenson
  • November 13, 2015
  • 3 min read

Part 3 in the Outside Channel Manager Series You’ve just taken over managing social media channels for a client and they, of course, want you to immediately answer the question: “how are we doing?” Before you can answer that question, you should look over each social media network with a critical eye. Look at Channel […]

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Warm Handoff Is Key to Managing Channels

  • Fran Stephenson
  • November 4, 2015
  • 4 min read

Part 2 in the Outside Channel Managers Series Guest post by Jennifer Hatton It is rare these days to begin working with a new client who doesn’t have at least one live social media channel.  Many clients have two or more channels that are “live” and because of that we have a process to make […]

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Managing Social Media from the Outside

  • Fran Stephenson
  • October 29, 2015
  • 4 min read

Sometimes an organization needs help managing social media channels.  Someone to plan and post content to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other channels as well monitor conversations and lead the way when customers ask questions or need help. In these situations, organizations might turn to outside channel managers. They might lack that skillset in their internal […]

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Why You Should Wait to Post To Your Social Media Channels

  • Fran Stephenson
  • April 29, 2015
  • 3 min read

We get really excited when we have timely content for our social media channels.  So excited that we often shoot ourselves in the foot by trying to get it all out there at once.  As communicators, we are as trained to follow the news cycle as Pavlov’s dogs were trained to respond to the sound […]

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