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Scott Monty - Strategic Communications & Leadership Advisor

Scott Monty - Strategic Communications & Leadership Advisor
 


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Forget llamas and blue/black vs. white/gold - it's Pebble Time, the world's most popular brands, the future of mobile search, major hires at Amazon and BuzzFeed, the intersection of porn and marketing, Facebook is concerned about suicides, Twitter hates trolls, YouTube loses money, Roadie and Roadster hit the collaborative street, a boost in podcast listening, using Google Analytics to know if your marketing is working, the number one city for tech and more, it's This Week in Digital.

A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry.

Each week, we compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, business, digital communications and marketing in order to keep leaders up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in your job. Please subscribe - either to our full feed just to this newsletter to keep up to date on developments.

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The Content Marketing Institute just announced that John Cleese will be keynoting at Content Marketing World 2015 in September. No mention of whether he'll do a silly walk or a silly talk, but you can register here.

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Industry



Platforms

  • Video star Casey Neistat talks about YouTube versus Snapchat. (GigaOm)
  • In an effort to boost use and improve the user experience, Ev Williams announced that some changes are afoot and that a Less Long, More Connected Medium is here. Long form and short form content are both welcome, and the goal is to make content easier to find, Improvements include things like inline editing, tagging and a better preview function in the stream. (Medium)

Collaborative Economy


Content

  • We're always interested in the writing process. Who better then, to learn from than the founder of Contently? (Copyblogger)

Audio



Metrics / Measurement / Data


Privacy / Security / Legal


When You Have the Time: Essential Reading / Listening / Watching


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