Content Strategy Calendar + Schedule Social Media Posts + UNLIMITED team members, for free

Content Strategy Calendar + Schedule Social Media Posts + UNLIMITED team members, for free

Scheduling Social Media posts is essential in any social strategy for brands – so many websites provide tools to do so, but its either has to be paid or it doesn’t allow enough team members to collaborate on the Content Strategy Calendar.

I’m not going to go through why do you need to plan ahead and schedule the year’s content strategy calendar, because if you haven’t figured out already how important it is, then you shouldn’t be in Social Strategy business and this article is not for you.



5 ways to use Twitter Analytics Top Tweet feature

5 ways to use Twitter Analytics Top Tweet feature

In September 2015, twitter enabled self-serve ads in over than 200 countries – enabling everyone to access the advertising and analytics dashboard.

Last month, a new revamped dashboard for analytics was introduced which had lots of useful information


Twitter Collections Timelines

Twitter Collections Timelines

Another hidden gem in Twitter is their Custom Timelines or Twitter Collections Timelines that allow a user to select number of tweets and put them in certain order that can be used as archive for later usage


Social Networks Logos Guide (New Google Logo 2015). Infographics, you’re doing it WRONG!

Social Networks Logos Guide (New Google Logo 2015). Infographics, you’re doing it WRONG!

If you’re in – or hoping to be- in Social Media Infographics business/blogging, then by all means you need to stay up-to-date with the latest updates made by those Social platforms, especially when they update their identity/design/logos. Using an outdated / wrong / low quality logos is your 1st step to failure. It is not acceptable by the brands that you violate their guidelines and certainly does not leave the best impression in your reader’s minds.

The reason I’m writing this article is seeing so many good data being placed on a bad design in an infographic.

Through this article will try to summarize guidelines / logo updates of the major Social Networks, what to use and whats not to use.


16 IFTTT Recipes for Social Media Strategy (on going)

16 IFTTT Recipes for Social Media Strategy (on going)

Previously in my Getting started on Social Media Presentation, I mentioned how IFTTT can help with automation Social Media Strategies.

I will list a list of IFTTT recipes for social media that I use to help me automate my social media profiles.

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Create Videos for Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & Vine using PowerPoint

Create Videos for Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & Vine using PowerPoint

Videos are becoming very popular recently on Social Media as I mentioned earlier in this article Competition on Social Media Videos. But what if you’re -like me- not a video editor, how can we join this massive engaging type of media.


How To Get Started on Social Media for Brands [Presentation]

How To Get Started on Social Media for Brands [Presentation]

Social Media for Brands

“Social media is not just an activity; it is an investment of valuable time and resources”

Sean Gardner

I decided to make this presentation because @AmiraIdlbi (my wife) recently started her own blog. That encouraged me to finally put together presentation to how to get started on social media for brands. A handful of 12 points + bonus that would ensure brands’ success – and even individuals.

The presentation also includes great social media quotes that you can find at the end of this post in the Transcript area.

12 key-points brands should follow to ensure their success on social media

  1. Select the Social Network that suites your business best
  2. Creating  Perfect Social Media Profile
  3. Writing Engaging Bio
  4. Create a Brand Persona
  5. Visual content & Media tools
  6. Understanding Hashtags and Joining the conversation
  7. How Often should a brand share content
  8. Choosing the right time
  9. Understanding the language
  10. Tracking everything
  11. Promoting of content
  12. Automation

Creating Ideal Twitter Image With PowerPoint

Creating Ideal Twitter Image With PowerPoint

Once again, another article about Social Media Images. I’ve talked previously about the importance of Creating Ideal Social Media Images and actually created a Free PSD template for all Social Media Image Sizes, this time I will focus only on Creating Ideal Twitter Image With PowerPoint

In previous articles I’ve mentioned that the guys from @Buffer recommended that the ideal Twitter image size is 1024×512 – which is 2:1 ratio

So I took my time trying to get PowerPoint correct inches size in Pixels! as you may know, PowerPoint only works with either Centimeters or Inches, so converting those to Pixels wasn’t fun 😀