53+ Free Image Sources For Your Blog and Social Media Posts

source: http://blog.bufferapp.com/free-image-sources-list

How to use Google+ communities to grow your business

Source: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/05/25/use-google-communities-grow-business/
Summary: How to build a G+ page and community for a brand

Social Media Tools

http://blog.bufferapp.com/best-social-media-tools-for-small-business?utm_campaign=weekly_digest

Death of Homepage and NYT Leak

What the Death of Homepages Means for the Future of News 

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/what-the-death-the-homepage-means-for-news/370997/

"This is the clearest illustration of the demise of homepages I've seen.  News used to be a destination, and you would go find it on your driveway and in your browser. Now you're the destination, and "information—status updates, photos of your friends, videos of Solange, and sometimes even news articles—come at you; they find you," Quartz's Zach Seward

If the clicks aren't coming from homepages, where are they coming from? Facebook, Twitter, social media, and the mix of email and chat services summed up as "dark social"

The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age

http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-of-this-media-age/

[O]ne of the world’s leading news organizations, giving itself a rigorous self-examination. I’ve spoken with multiple digital-savvy Times staffers in recent days who described the report with words like “transformative” and “incredibly important” and “a big big moment for the future of the Times.” One admitted crying while reading it because it surfaced so many issues about Times culture that digital types have been struggling to overcome for years.

How The New York Times lost the internet, and how it plans to win it back

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/16/5723096/times-digital-report

[a] 96-page Innovation Report that offers a scathing internal assessment of the paper's digital strategy. It is the most thorough look at the insides of the most important newspaper in the country that we have ever seen. What's more, in keeping with the high standards of the New York Times it's simply an excellent piece of reporting and analysis.

Source: http://socialtimes.com/social-media-best-practices-marketers-2014-infographic_b148047
Summary: Best practice for social media marketing (and everyone else) video, ultra short video and photos#image.

Facebook Announces New Video Metrics

Downloadable
http://fbrep.com/guides/Facebook_Video_Metrics_Product_Overview.pdf

More on Best and worst times to post on social media

Source: http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/best-worst-times-social-media_b56859

Summary: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/141722719498631322/