LinkedIn has made seeking a reference easier than ever with the launch of the ‘Ask for a Referral’ button. Get the advantage Applicants looking for an edge are 4X more likely to be contacted by recruiters when including professional references, spurring LinkedIn to implement the process through a one tap button. Officially announced through their […]
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Long gone are the days when Messenger was merely the place to send texts and emojis. You can already order food, send money, and make video calls on Facebook's popular app. Now you can share 360-degree photos and HD videos too. Look at this 360-degree photos are now available globally on Messenger's iOS and Android
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Facebook is refocusing its news algorithm to prioritise local news, so users can see articles more relevant to their immediate community. Close to home For local publishers, this means more Facebook coverage over multiple cities, connecting users most likely to care about specific content. Facebook is expanding its definition of what they consider to be
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Google has rollied out a new feature that makes setting up Optimze even easier. Bring in the magnifying glass When setting up your project, Optimise will auto-alert and advise should any potential issues arise from your code when creating a test, all thanks to the new Installation Diagnostics feature. When creating a new page, Optimize
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Instagram is rolling out a handy little change in user profiles, allowing hyperlinks to generate whenever you mention another account or hashtag. Instant links Instagram is putting special focus on the biography section of user accounts, so promoting hashtags and users is done instantaneously rather than appearing as basic text. Got your own hashtag to promote? No
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Instagram is bringing its online shopping experience to Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Global village gets a little smaller Since Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram six years ago, the platform has become a significant competitor in advertising and is expanding its shopping experience to a global market. Instagram’s Shoppable
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LinkedIn users will find they can now use filters and text styles when creating videos for their own professional network. And it looks a bit like Snapchat. Snappy business LinkedIn believes that with video being shared more than 20X that of any other type of content, it was the right time to release new video
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Google has developed a digital tool to help users analyse all of their Analytics data with greater speed than ever. Go big or go home The new tool known as BigQuery is a creation of Google Developers that allows users to run super-fast queries of fully detailed data sheets. Sessions can be logged and exported
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A new mode of optimisation is now available to video advertisers, as Google AdWords launches ‘TrueView for reach’. New way to buy old ads ‘TrueView for reach’ is a new campaign optimisation option designed to get better results in relation to reach and awareness. Rather a standalone product, TrueView for reach is more of a
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As the latest platforms to launch its own version of Stories, Genius might seem an unlikely contender. But, YouTube has got its back. Smart song Genius is a giant database of pop song words that integrates relevant facts and composer comments too. These trivial sidebars give Genius some cred for establishing Songs Stories: a Snapchat/Instagram
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