Paid social 101: The basics of running effective ads
Getting started with paid social media feels like a big leap for most businesses.
That’s because we’ve become so used to social being totally free.
The reality, though?…
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Rich results for products with Schema.org structured data
You see them in search results a lot: product listings with added metadata, like price, availability, reviews, and specifications. However, not every site offering the same product has the same rich results or rich snippets.…
Read More 8 Instagram trends to pay attention to in 2021
With each new year, social marketers like to predict what’s going to happen in their industry for the next 365 days. But you can’t predict everything and 2020 is an excellent example of this.…
Read More Multichannel marketing: What is it and how to start using it effectively
As a marketer, you have so many routes to pursuing your goals of generating brand awareness and getting more and more customers in the pipeline. There are so many different strategies and platforms to test for your brand, and multichannel marketing is just one of the ways you can manage your presence across them.…
Read More How social drives transformation: Q&A with Twitter’s Zach Hofer-Shall
For years now we’ve heard about the impending digital transformation—the slow-rolling wave of businesses removing non-digital, manual processes in favor of technology that improves efficiency, data collection and analysis, team collaboration and, ultimately, return on investments.…
Read More Social Spotlight: Drift wins by keeping things personal
We’ve written a lot of Social Spotlights over the past year. And while our writers typically rely on outside observations and research to inform our content, we thought it only fitting to make this spotlight a bit more…personal.…
Read More How to build a B2B social strategy (that isn’t boring)
Reality check: B2B social media is here to stay.
In fact, recent statistics note that social advertising is practiced by a staggering 83% of B2B marketers and is second only to search engines in terms of success.…
Read More 25 YouTube stats and facts to power your 2021 marketing strategy
If you’re interested in ramping up your video marketing strategy in 2021, you’re probably doing some research into the best platforms to use. If you’re trying to figure out how YouTube fits into your approach, we have a list of 27 must-know YouTube statistics to help you understand how the platform is being used right now.…
Read More Hear me out… Social media gimmicks won’t save your social strategy
In recent years, it feels as if organic social reach is on the decline. While there’s some debate as to what’s directly causing this phenomenon (Algorithms!…
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What’s New in the Block Editor: Edit Your Images, Drag and Drop Blocks and Patterns, and More
From time-saving features to enhancements in your favorite blocks, these block editor improvements will help you build posts and pages on your site, no matter what you publish:
Crop and rotate your images with built-in editing tools
Drag and drop blocks and patterns for more control
Display a list of your pages with the new Page List block
Match your brand palette with an improved Social Icons block
Strategically place your CTAs with a better Buttons block
Manage your preferences in a refreshed panel
Let’s take a closer look.…
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Turn Your WordPress.com Blog into a Podcast with Anchor
Blogging on WordPress.com is all about sharing your unique voice, and starting today, you can extend that to another platform: Anchor. We previously shared some tips and tricks for getting started with a podcast on WordPress.com…
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Design and Web team summary – 08 December 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration.
Web squad
Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com,…
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When you need the numbers just right – benchmark and profiling applications in the Snap Store
The world of software is a vast and complex one, often too difficult to easily assess by human intuition alone. Which is why detailed and accurate measurements of software behavior are essential in helping us understand and gauge how well our applications perform.…
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9 Best URL Shorteners to Make Long URLs Shorter (Mostly Free)
Are you searching for the best URL shorteners to deal with long and complicated links? If it’s yes, you’re in the correct place. In this article, we’ll discuss all the best available link shorteners in brief, out of which most are free. …
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Design and Web team summary – 24th November 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration.
Meet the team
Hi, I am Carlos Wu.…
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Design and Web team summary – 10th November 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration.
Meet the team
Hi, my name is Long.…
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Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge
10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows businesses to control large pools of computer, storage and networking in a datacentre, has been selected by Telekom Networks Malawi Plc (TNM), to modernise and virtualise its entire telecommunications infrastructure.…
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Learn from the experts: Create a successful blog with our brand new course
WordPress.com is excited to announce our newest offering: a course just for beginning bloggers where you’ll learn everything you need to know about blogging from the most trusted experts in the industry.…
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14 Best WordPress Affiliate Plugins for 2020 (Many are FREE)
Are you looking for the best WordPress affiliate plugins?
If you’re a professional blogger and marketer, affiliate marketing plugins will help you sign up for the affiliate programs.…
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Industry Experts and Pro Bloggers Come Together to Inspire, Teach, and Help You (and Your Site) Succeed
At the Official WordPress.com Growth Summit, the two-day virtual conference running twice from August 11-13, you’ll have access to about 50 speakers and presenters across 90+ breakout sessions and keynote conversations.…
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