Keep An Eye On The Largest Global Resource With The Internet Health Report

#LongRead — Keep An Eye On Our Largest Global Resource With The Internet Health Report

The Internet Health Report is a new open source initiative by Mozilla, which aims at documenting and explaining what is helping and what is hurting the Internet. The Internet Health Report collects data from multiple sources and help us get a better understanding of five major topics — and answer five broad, related questions: Open Innovation — How open is the Internet?

Learn How Social Media And Education Can Benefit Each Other

#LongReads — Learn How Social Media And Education Can Benefit Each Other

What do social media and education have in common? Quite a lot actually: they are ubiquitous, present a significant potential for disruption and are shaping the world of tomorrow. This week in our Long Reads section, we are focusing on the link between social media and education, and most importantly, how they can benefit each other: On Slate, Chris Berdik

Experiment A World Where Personal Scoring Is Reigning

#LongRead — Experiment A World Where Personal Scoring Is Reigning

Imagine a world ruled by personal scoring, where you — as a human being — would be reviewed and graded just like any restaurant on Yelp or any product on Amazon. And everything in your life, from what you can buy to who you can meet with and where you can live, would be determined by this personal score. Well, this is

Get In The Shoes Of An Instagram Influencer

#LongRead — Get In The Shoes Of An Instagram Influencer

According to Linqia, 2016 is the year influencer marketing went mainstream, with 86% of marketers reporting they already worked with influencers. Social media being the playground of influencers, it is more crucial than ever for social media managers to understand how things work. Fortunately for us, Bloomberg writer Max Chafkin ventured in a very interesting experiment: The plan, which I worked

Get A Social Media Manager’s View On SEO

#LongRead — Get A Social Media Manager’s View On SEO

As Social Media Managers, we may spend a significant amount of time sharing our perspective — i.e. explaining how social media work — with other departments (marketing, finances, supply chain, etc.). This is exactly the reason why learning from other departments, too, is a great idea. Our long read of the week goes into this direction: getting a social media manager’s view

How Social Media Are Disrupting The Way We Work

#LongReads — How Social Media Are Disrupting The Way We Work

Of course, for us Social Media Managers, social media have changed the way we work: by actually creating our jobs. But there are quite many other industries and professions that are being challenged, disrupted and reinvented by social media. This is exactly what our long reads are about this week: The Time tells us how Snapchat is challenging Professional Photogaphy.

Learn How Artificial Intelligence Is Shaping The Future Of Work

#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

artificial intelligence in social media

#LongRead — Experimenting With Artificial Intelligence On Social Media

Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, bots: these are the current buzzwords and the least we can say is that social media are far from being excluded from this trend. Actually, most bots live on social media — Facebook Messenger, Twitter — or inside communication platforms such as Slack.