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The Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 24 – Can You Make Something Go Viral?This is episode 24 of the social 360 podcast and this week I want to talk about a huge social media mistake made by a hotel, rant about manufacturing viral content and finish the show off by sharing a fantastic resource to help you create epic content.
Subscribe in iTunes | Stitcher | RSS2014-08-0818 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 23 – Your Social Media Questions AnsweredThis week on the Social 360 podcast I discuss the new Instagram messaging app Bolt, share a fun video from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and on thee topic of the week I answer 4 social media questions and my resource of the week will help you find more awesome content to share with your social network.
Subscribe in iTunes | Stitcher | RSS2014-08-0119 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 22 – Repurposing Old ContentThis week on the show I discuss Weird Al, Facebook Save the topic of the week deals with repurposing your content and the resource of the week is a handy guide from Jason Mathes of AvgJoeGeek.net on how to secure your Wordpress site from hackers.
Subscribe in iTunes | Stitcher | RSS2014-07-2518 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 21 – Summer Productivity TipsThis week on the Social 360 podcast I share with you a few ways to stay productive during the summer months, yet enjoy what summer has to offer plus my resource of the week is a site where you can source free stock photos for all your blog posts, social updates and even print media.
Subscribe in iTunes | Stitcher | RSS2014-07-1216 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 20 – Why Building A Community Is Important To Your SuccessThis week on the show I share my thoughts on Social Media Day, Google buying Songza, why building a strong community is vital to your success and finally I my resource of the week is Socialoomph.
Subscribe in iTunes | Stitcher | RSS2014-07-0524 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 19 – Creating A Successful Social Media StrategyThis week on the show the Facebook Slingshot app launches in more countries, a Gallup poll that says social media doesn't influence purchasing and the our main topic of the week is a discussion involving strategies vs tactics and how to create a social media strategy. Finally I take a look at SumAll an analytics solution that you may just fall in love with.
Subscribe in iTunes | Stitcher | RSS2014-06-2819 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 18 – Why Brands Need To Stop Chasing Shiny ThingsThis week on the show I will be talking about Twitter getting animated GIF support, Facebook launching Slingshot , why brands need to stop chasing shiny new things and I wrap up the show by sharing an Instagram tool you won't be able to live without.
Subscribe in iTunes | Stitcher | RSS2014-06-2121 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 17 - 3 Common Social Media Questions Answered
This week on episode 17 of The Social 360 Podcast I share my thoughts on the new Instagram update now that I have finally had the chance to test them out, Social Media Day on June 30th, the DDoS attack against Feedly, a WordPress plugin for tweets and I answer 3 common social media questions.
Instagram Updates
I finally received my Instagram 6.0 update and have been playing around with the new tools available in the app. I have to say I am really impressed with how easy and intuitive the tools are to use and just how good...2014-06-1423 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 16 - 6 Reasons Why You Still Need A Website
This week on the podcast I discuss the Instagram 6.0 update, why Facebook (or any other social network) can’t and shouldn’t take the place of your own website and my resource of the week will help you automate some of your more mundane tasks or just do something really cool for you.
Instagram 6.0 Rollout
If you are an Instagram user you may be very excited about this update as it adds 9 new features that allows you to now do more than just apply a filter. You can perform adjustments to crop and straighten, brighten or...2014-06-0718 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 15 - Generating New Ideas For Your Content
This week on the show I touch on the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter, some Twitter etiquette, the new book The Unofficial Guide To Hootsuite by Mike Allton. The main topic of discussion on this week’s show has to deal with generating ideas for your content creation and I share 8 ways to help you do just that.
Forgot To Mention
Last week on the show I shared with you my list of resources for helping you find more success in social media and I forgot to mention a couple of really great resources.
Jon Loomer
The...2014-05-3127 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode 14 - Resources To Improve Your Social Media Marketing Skills
This week on the podcast I am sharing with you my list of books, websites and podcasts to help you learn more about marketing and improve your own social media marketing skills.
Books
I love to read and I read a lot. While I enjoy free reading time and love to indulge in an afternoon filled with a good novel I also enjoy reading as a way to improve my skills. Here is my list of books that I feel anyone looking to improve their marketing skills would find of value. You’ll find my fu...2014-05-2426 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode #13 - Why Small Businesses Need To Take Social Media Marketing Seriously
This week on the show I talk about the Twitter mute button, the ROI of your Mom, why small business should be using social media and my tool of the week is a YouTube channel that can help you create better audio.
Twitter Mute Button
This week in a limited roll out Twitter released a mute button for iOS, Android and Twitter.com used as implied, for muting users. To mute a user you simply click on the more menu in their tweets on Twitter.com or on mobile by visiting their profile and clicking the gear i...2014-05-1723 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode #12 - Google+ Is Most Definitely Not Dead
This week on the show I talk about frameworks, discipline, the Pomodoro technique and a new app I discovered called Clockwork Tomato. Then it’s onto the main part of the show where I give my thoughts, feelings and opinions on why the death of Google+ is highly exaggerated and why I think this social network is here to stay.
Does this sound like something you would be interested in? Awesome! Show notes are boring and listening and subscribing to the podcast while you’re out and about or relaxing is far more fun than...2014-05-1016 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode #11 - Are You A Freak? If So, There’s A Book For That
If you’re a regular listener of the Social 360 podcast you may find things a little different this week. I want to share with you something that I am super excited about and that is the new book from Chris Brogan.
In this show I talk about the new look that rolled out for all Twitter users this week and then I get into the heart of the show with my full on review of the Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth. I really loved this book and if you want to hear all my thoughts...2014-04-2615 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode #10 - Facebook And The Great Reach DebateThis week on the show I’m talking about hosting issues I’ve had this week and how I am working on moving Social 360 over to the Genesis framework, then I get into the big Facebook debate about reach but I look at it from three different perspectives (a normal user, marketers and Facebook) and finally I share with you my tool of the week in Feedly.
You may notice that the show notes are a little different this week as I am working on trying a few different things to see what best serves the needs of y...2014-04-1921 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode #009 - Why You Should Be Using An Editorial Calendar On Your BlogThis week on the show I’m talking about the new look Twitter received, Canva adding Pinterest templates, some recent changes to Facebook Ads as well as changes to the Facebook mobile app. The big topic of the week is on why you should be using an editorial calendar and finally I share with you my tool of the week.
Twitter Gets A New Look
I always feel like I’m the last person to get these updates but I’m not horribly jealous (maybe a little), because I use Hootsuite to manage my Twitter feeds. In  lo...2014-04-1223 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode #008 - Is Social Media Automation And Scheduling Evil?This week on the show I talk an awful lot about Google+ including the new View Counts metric, Google+ earning more engagement than Twitter and then I get into the question of is social media automation and scheduling an evil thing? The tool of the week is the awesome graphic editing and creation tool Canva.
Google+ View Count
This week Google+ released a new metric called View Counts which now appear on the cover images or pages and profiles. This is a metric that shows others just how many times your content has been viewed by other...2014-04-0515 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode #007 - Is It Time You Consider Paying To Play On Facebook?This week on the show we’re going to talk about Facebook Pay for Play, Instagram hitting 200 million users and some changes to Twitter. This week’s tool of the week is something I’ve just recently discovered but have fallen in love with and that is CoSchedule.
Facebook Pay For Play
An interesting article came out this week on Social Media Explorer from site owner Jason Falls titled The Great Facebook Swindle And What To Do About It. This is an excellent and well balanced article that deals with lower engagement rates on Facebook, paying for exposure and...2014-03-2911 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode #006 - Social Media Scheduling ToolsThis week on the show, it’s all about scheduling tools and this idea came to me after listener/reader Jakency commented on Episode 5 and said thanks for informing him about Buffer.
This got me to thinking about scheduling and automation and how many social media users may be unaware of the different tools available to them for helping them schedule out their social media content. This week what I decided to do, was share with you a few of my favourite tools that I use to schedule my content for sharing.
My hope is...2014-03-2217 minThe Social 360 Podcast With Chad EgelandEpisode #005 - Google+ Gets Bigger ImagesSo, what are we talking about this week on the Social 360 Podcast? I talk a little bit about how unitasking and Pomodoro time are working for me (see show 4 for more on this), share my purchase of a Snowball Blue microphone and then we get into talking about social media. In social media this week I talk about Twitter problems, bigger Google+ images  and a new look for your Facebook news feed and my favourite scheduling tool Buffer.
Last week I talked with you about being more productive and my attempts at implementing Pomodoro time and focusing on...2014-03-1513 min