Of course, you can boost productivity with streamlined processes and performant collaborative tools… you can also get more focused and achieve more by setting the right atmosphere at work, for instance with great office music.

That’s the promise of Studiowave: a free vibe machine for offices, studios and all of us who need focus at work.

The interface is super simple and allows you to mix nice instrumental beats with inspirational speeches, by setting a volume level for each element, and come up with the perfect office music for you.

Two quick little tips:

• • Make sure you keep Shazam handy, as you will probably want to save many tracks from this 24/7 radio for later.
  • Don’t start playing with their interactive logo, it’s a bit too addictive…

What’s in it for Social Media Manager: a nice way to get in a killer mood and enter the “flow” to prepare your social media calendars (with Loomly).

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As a Social Media Manager, PR may or may not be part of your responsibilities: in any case, you will certainly enjoy these three resources that help hack PR like an expert:

• Upbeat helps you find journalists you should follow on social media.

• Presskit is easiest way to create a hosted press kit where journalists can find everything they need to write about you.

• Jona is a DIY kit to get press coverage (PR Guide + Strategy Help + Journalist Database + Templates + Access to Community), mainly for startups.

Of course, no resource can completely replace the experience & network of a PR expert, but that’s a good start to hack PR when you can’t afford one (yet): enjoy!

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It’s no secret that Facebook is giving significant priority to videos in News Feed: what’s a little more challenging to understand, are all existing Facebook video requirements to actually create and publish these pieces of media efficiently.

Indeed, between all Facebook & Instagram products, and all possibilities offered by smartphones (portrait & landscape orientation), it can get pretty confusing to come up with the right video at the right time.

Not a problem, Facebook just published a visual reference guide providing all criteria for Newsfeed, Instant Articles, Instagram, Stories, et Audience Network, including specs in terms of:

• Aspect ratio.

• Video length.

• Objectives.

• Caption support.

• Sound requirement.

What’s in it for Social Media Managers: a nice cheat sheet to optimize your Facebook videos efficiently.

Loomly is a visual social media calendar that allows you to publish videos to Facebook: start your 15-day free trial now.

Facebook IQ is Facebook’s research department and shares insights drawn from the platform’s two billion users’ activity & behavior: in order to make these insights even more accessible, Facebook just launched a new version of the portal yesterday.

In particular, the new Facebook IQ makes it easier to build more effective campaigns, with:

• People Insights, such as Hot Topics in Australia in July 2017.

• Advertising Insights, including Better Together: How High Value Gamers Find Community on Facebook.

• Vertical Insights, like Fashion on Facebook and Instagram From Top to Toe.

• Tools & Resources, for instance the Cross Border Insights Finder, which compares Facebook Insights across countries.

In particular, the new Insights To Go slide-based section offers amazing filtering features, letting you find the latest Facebook stats in just a few clicks:

Subscribe to the Facebook IQ newsletter to receive timely insights into your inbox.

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If you follow this blog, you know we love learning and we love perfect color combinations: Canva’s latest design wiki, which teaches everything about colors, is a dream come true!

Just pick a color and you will not only get color combination suggestions, but the meaning of this color, “how it’s made” and ideas of others colors to use match it with depending on the effect you are want to achieve.

For instance, if you pick Midnight Blue as a color, here is what you will learn:

Cherry on the cake, once you’ve found a color — and a color combination — you really like, Canva lets you browse templates and start creating a document right away.

What’s in it for Social Media Manager: an efficient way to reinforce your messages with visual communication, enhancing your visuals with meaningful color combinations.

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Working remotely comes with its perks and challenges and is a specific way of life: Remote Stash is an online directory of resources gathering everything remote workers and working nomads may need.

In particular, Remote Stash features resources in four main categories:

• Jobs: job boards, agencies & freelancing opportunities.

• Tools: productivity, personal branding & communication essentials.

• Travel: everything to deal with logistics when you are away (coworking spaces, flights, cars & rentals).

• Learning: programming, design, marketing & everything else.

If you don’t want to miss new resources, you can also subscribe to the non-spammy Remote Stash newsletter.

What’s in it for (remote) Social Media Manager: a gold mine to fast track your job, your career and your life.

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If you want to tell your brand story in a visual way, a great alternative to Venngage is Canva’s infographics templates, available through the platform’s marketplace.

These premium templates can save you tons of time, by allowing you to customize a base design instead of starting from scratch.

Just select one of Canva’s infographics templates — among different categories: business, charity, education, timeline — and start editing it in your Canva account, just like you would modify a Powerpoint presentation.

For instance, here is a Do’s & Don’ts template that you can customize and apply to pretty much any other topic:

No design skills or tools needed: just a (free) Canva account and a web browser.

What’s in it for Social Media Managers: a super fast option to create next-level visual marketing content.

Loomly is a visual social media calendar solution that lets you preview your posts before you hit publish: start your 15-day free trial now.

Finding a job is one thing, finding a job you love is another: that’s what Beta List Job Collections is about.

Launched by the eponym startup directory, Beta List Job Collections offers handpicked startup collections, organized in themes, making your job search much easier:

Whether you are passionate about blockchain technology, are willing to contribute to a better tomorrow, want to join a female-led startup or dream of being part of a project with a breakout trajectory, there is a job collection for that.

More than 30,000 jobs have already been posted on the platform.

Check Beta List Job Collections out here now.

What’s in it for Social Media Managers: tons of opportunities, just like this Social Media Manager opening at Slack!

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The beauty of the Internet is that you can learn anything thanks to the astronomical amount of resources on pretty much any topic.

That’s also, sometimes, a double-edge sword, as you may not even know where to begin when tackling something new.

Enters Knowledge Map, which breaks down large concepts into smaller, more digestible parts for you to actually start somewhere: a book, a website, a Wikipedia page, a video, or even another mind map!

For instance, let’s say you want to learn about design, just click on the Design node, and you will be taken to a page including links to:

• A Help node that will teach you “how not to suck as a designer”.

• A Basics node that will help you understand the fundamentals of design: typography, graphic design, human-computer interaction (UI & UX), etc. with additional resources for each item.

Knowledge Map is an open source project you can contribute to, here on GitHub.

This is basically serendipity with a compass, taking you down the rabbit hole in the exact direction you need to go… to learn anything.

What’s in it for Social Media Managers: a great opportunity to develop new skills or dive deeper in topics you already know.

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Color psychology is a fascinating topic that we can all learn from for marketing purposes.

The folks at Skilled.co have put together an infographic including 40 facts about how color psychology can boost your website conversions.

This infographic will essentially give you pointers about:

• How colors influence shoppers’ purchase decisions

• Which values brands convey through their colors

• What the impact of colors is on conversions

Credit: Skilled.co

What’s in it for Social Media Managers: the color psychology principles highlighted in this infographic by Skilled.co can be leveraged, not only for website conversions, but also for social media ad campaigns and organic posts.

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