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To take full advantage of Instagram marketing, you need to incorporate hashtags. Here is how to create an effective hashtag strategy for Instagram. Via janlgordon 
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This piece was written by Megan Garber for The Atlantic
A study based on 43,000 responses to Tweets found precisely what people like and loathe about microblog posts.
Here are some of the findings:
**Twitter, as a communications platform, has evolved beyond nascent Twitter's charmingly mundane updates ("cleaning my apartment"; "hungry") and into something more crowd-conscious and curatorial.
**Though Twitter won't necessarily replace traditional news, it increasingly functions as a real-time newswire, disseminating and amplifying information gathered from the world and the web.
**At the same time, though, being social, it functions as a source of entertainment. Which means that we have increasingly high -- and increasingly normalized -- expectations for Twitter as both a place and a platform.
**We want it to enlighten us, but we also want it to amuse us. In that context, tweets that are informative or funny -- or, ideally, informative and funny -- evoke the best responses.
**Tweets that contain stale information, repeat conventional wisdom, offer uselessly de-contextual news, or extoll the virtues of the awesome salad I had for lunch today don't, ultimately, do much to justify themselves.
So: Do be useful. Do be novel. Do be compelling. Do not, under any circumstances, be boring.
This is what caught my attention:
****Contribute to the story: To keep people interested, add an opinion, a pertinent fact or otherwise add to the conversation before hitting "send" on a retweet.
Takeaway:
"The Twitter ecosystem values learning about new content," the study notes -- so new info, it seems, is new info, regardless of who provides it.
**Sharing your own work conveys excitement about that work -- which means that self-promotion, rather than being a Twitter turn-off, can actually be an added value.
Curated by Jan Gordon covering " Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read full article here: [http://ht.ly/8OrS8] Via janlgordon
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I selected this article from Curatti written by Jenn Herman because I'm love Instagram and if you know what you're doing it can be very effective if it's appropiate for your particular business needs.
Hashtags here and on Twitter are a must to keep the conversation going, attract potential customers and/or a following, learn what your competitors are saying and doing........but if you don't use them properly it can work against you.
Here are a few things that caught my attention:
Hashtags
Instagram allows you to use up to 30 hashtags per post. But that doesn’t mean you should be using that many! Depending on your brand and your audience, you will likely find a sweet spot between 5 and 10 hashtags per post.
Using less than 5 hashtags limits the number of searches in which your post will appear. But using too many looks spammish and can annoy your followers.
Use Relevant Keyword Hashtags
Your hashtags should include relevant keywords that are associated with your post. If you sell jewelry, including tags like #gold, #jewelry, #fashion, and #gemstones would be considered relevant.
These should relate directly to the item or content in your post.
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Thanks. Would like to start optimising my use go #Insta an #Pin