#Tool — Create A BuzzFeed Quiz with Qzzr

What type of emoji are you?, Which Disney princess are you? or How French are you?: chances are you’ve already taken at least one BuzzFeed quiz in your life!

And you probably also know how addictive and viral these little questionnaires are.

Well, good news: you can create a BuzzFeed quiz too, with Qzzr.

This nice platform allows you to:

Create different kinds of quizzes: graded, checklist, and outcome.

Add images to your quiz and customize it to fit with your website’s look.

Translate it into many languages.

Embed your quiz in any website or share it on social media with a simple link.

Here are some examples of quizzes created with Qzzr:

KSL.com — Can you pass the US citizenship test?

SideshowToy.com — Which Star Wars bounty hunter are you?

Kissmetrics.com — Which tech entrepreneur are you?

Depending on your needs, you can start using Qzzr for free or choose the Pro or Enterprise plans.

Enjoy!

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#Book — Learn The Basics Of Storytelling With The Writer’s Journey

The best way to market a brand is through storytelling.

And the best way to learn how to tell stories is to read The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Volger.

This book unveils the common pattern guiding powerful storytelling: the hero rising in the face of challenges.

Just like Hercules, Luke Skywalker and Francis Underwood.

Of course, this book finds applications in many fields outside of Hollywood — where it hold the title of unofficial Bible for movie executives, screenwriters, playwrights — including in politics and marketing.

After all, as a Social Media Manager, who is the hero of the stories you tell online, if not your brand?

The Writers Journey is available here on Amazon.

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#Data — What Innovation Leaders Talk About On Twitter

According to a very unique study by Leadtail & Altitude, here is what innovation leaders talk about — the hashtags they use the most — on Twitter:

To get into the mindset of innovation leaders, the teams at both companies have identified 118 influencers on Twitter and analyzed 28K+ tweets from them during the first six months of 2016.

Other key takeaways from this study are:

Innovation influencers tend to share more visual content, from YouTube & Instagram, than text content from other sources.

To stay ahead of the curve, innovation leaders read — and share — a lot of content from Forbes, the New York Times, Medium, TechCrunch and Harvard Business Review.

You can download the full study here.

Now you know 😉

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#Resource — Learn New Skills With LinkedIn Learning

About a year after acquiring Lynda.com for $1.5 billion, LinkedIn is launching a new online learning platform: LinkedIn Learning.

LinkedIn Learning offers online courses in three main categories:

Business: marketing, finance & accounting, project management.

Creative: graphic design, photography, video.

Technology: data science, software development, user experience.

During your first visit of LinkedIn Learning, you will be asked to choose the topics that you are interested in, in addition to all those automatically pulled from your LinkedIn profile.

You can try the platform one month for free: then, you can keep accessing the platform for $24.99 per month.

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#Tip — Leverage Twitter For Customer Service

Chances are, your customers / users / fans already get in touch with you on Twitter for customer service related matters.

If that’s the case, you can now improve their experience and make your job easier, with brand new customer service features, that allow you to:

Show that your Twitter account provides support.

Receive direct messages from anyone.

Display your support hours.

Activating these features is very straightforward: you just need to visit the customer service settings page from your Twitter Dashboard and check three boxes!

Once you activate these new features, your account will display a new “Responsive 24/7” or “Most Responsive” mention (depending on your settings) and a bigger “Message” button that will encourage users to express negative comments through DM.

These features are available for all accounts — you do not need a dedicated support account to activate them, you do so with your regular brand account 😉

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#Deal (10% OFF) — Keep An Eye On Your Fans With A Social Counter

The only thing more fulfilling than seeing your community grow on social media, is seeing your community grow in real-time, in the real world, on a social counter.

A social counter is a little “connected” box — #InternetOfThings — linked to your social accounts that displays how many fans or followers you have.

And the most beautiful social counter out there is made by a Parisian company called Smiirl.

Smiirl has already sold more than 3,000 of these little beauties in over 50 countries, and their clients range from 18 to 78 years old, from local butcher to multinational CEO.

Smiirl’s social counters are autonomous and can be set up in your store window to attract customers, in your office to motive your team, and almost anywhere else, with a simple internet connection and a power plug.

Smiirl offers standard 5-digit* social counters for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, from $340.

*A 7-digit version of their standard social counters will be available by the end of 2016.

You can also order a custom social counter, to track any online data that you want, by sending them a quick note at team@smiirl.com.

Cherry on the cake: buy a social counter by September 30, 2016 and get 10% with the coupon code CALENDYSMIIRL.

Enjoy 😉

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#Tip — Engage With Your Viewers Thanks To YouTube Community

YouTube — the third most visited website in the world after Google & Facebook — just launched its own social network: YouTube Community.

This new beta product introducing social features, that will allow:

Content creators to post text messages, images, GIFs and even live videos, in between regular uploads.

Subscribers to receive notifications each time something new happens on a channel they follow.

At the moment, the beta version is limited to a set of content creators who contributed to developing the product: John & Hank Green, to AsapSCIENCE, The Game Theorists, Karmin, The Key of Awesome, The Kloons, Lilly Singh, Peter Hollens, Rosianna Halse Rojas, Sam Tsui, Threadbanger, and VSauce3

It will be available to more and more channel owners in the next few months (no specific ETA).

YouTube Community is not a new standalone social network in and of itself: instead, it is a great way for content creators to engage with their viewers.

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#LongRead — Learn How Artificial Intelligence Is Shaping The Future Of Work

We have already taken a look at an experiment with artificial intelligence on social media: today, we go one step further and see how AI is shaping the future of work.

More than a “conventional” long read, today’s selection is actually an interactive documentary by The Economist: Artificial Intelligence — Anything you can do, AI can do better. So how will it change the workplace?

In particular, this great “story” will tell you about:

New career paths chosen by today’s graduates.

How the on-demand economy is raising questions for workers, companies and politicians alike.

Why MBAs remain popular.

The challenges of “temping”.

No matter what your current position or work status is, getting an idea of what is happening now and what is next is the best way to stay ahead and prepare for the future.

You can read the full story here.

Note: to read some of the articles in this story, you will need to share your email address.

Happy reading 😉

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#Data — Increase In Social Media Referral Traffic To Ecommerce Sites

Between 2014 and 2015, social media referral traffic to ecommerce sites increased by 198%, according to an infographic (see below) by Sumo Heavy.

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#Resource — Become A Certified Facebook Professional With Facebook Blueprint

Facebook Blueprint is an eLearning platform that helps master the tools of the social network, and get better results for your brand.