There have been many articles written on the horrors of being consumed with technology. But lets face it, we love the information at our finger tips, making friends jealous with our vacation photos, and seeing the latest autotuned videos. However, there is something to be said for minimizing the stress that comes with constantly being plugged into technology.

Detoxing from digital overload doesn’t have to be a painful process or one that stunts your social life, there are 5 easy ways that you can detox and start feeling better.

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Just about every marketer in the world has heard about Hootsuite by now. It is the premier social media management system for brand management online complete with a cheerful owl. It is organized into a dashboard and integrated into just about every social network you can think of. The great thing about Hootsuite is its one stop shop for practically anything we could ever need, including a lot of apps that can be found here. Don’t let the happy owl through you off, these apps can really make a big improvement in your marketing plans.

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Major media companies and publishers are starting to see the benefits of personalization for their marketing and services. They see how it attracts customers and keeps them. In a world of stiff competition, it is a necessity to survive. Retail companies like Amazon have been doing this for years, by looking at their customers’ history and suggesting new products to purchase. However, the media business is a bit different. They do sell services and products, but they also are sending media to consumers for free in order to boost engagement and create advertising revenue. The following reasons are why these businesses are investing more time and money into personalization and the impact it has on them.

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Influencers are constantly looking for interesting topics and articles to share with their social audience. Quality topics increase engagement with an audience and increase influence rankings through shares, comments, and likes. This creates a problem because there is so much information online, over 1 billion articles are shared each day. Everyone is suffering from media overload and finding the quality content among all of the trash is becoming a full-time job. This is why LikeHack was created. It has new technology which helps social influencers find great content, by sending it straight to them. This technology is incorporated into tools which can help you and any other social influencer online today.

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To begin this article, let’s assume that you spend a lot time to read the Facebook and\or Twitter feeds. And it’s actually true, isn’t it? Want you to feel like a boss when opens your news feed? But now you feel like binman when doing this.
When you open the news feed you see there a huge pile of rubbish: lolcats, photos of someone’s breakfast , foursquare сhekins, etc. Do you really have to see it all? We think - no.
So here we have collected a small set of tips for reading social network news feeds. Hope it will be helpful for you. Continue reading “How to read Facebook and Twitters feed like a boss” »

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Twitter is a great marketing tool for any company. However, working with it requires time and dedicated resources, which not everyone has to spare. Never fear: there are many great tools and applications out today that can make it easier for a business to tackle Twittering and reap its benefits.

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Continuing the talk about content curation tools we bring collection wordpress plugins for embedding additional information in your blog’s articles.What tools will help you make your blog more interesting with embedding to posts graphics, videos and expert’s quotes. As talk their creators, some of them even allow content auto-writing, but we don’t recommend automating content creation so overly. Even best bot can’t replace live writer. In best case it will be relevant to each other collections of articles, without comment and additional value. So even RSS-reader may be more valuable than your blog.

So that, all this tools you should use for saving time or fast finding relevant media-content.

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After the recent stir around closing Reader and Google Chrome RSS extension, all over again remember that RSS is not dead.

It’s Not Just Reader: Google Kills Chrome RSS Add-On Too - Wired #google #internet dld.bz/cre9e

— sMedia 2 sCommerce (@Media2Commerce) April 5, 2013

— sMedia 2 sCommerce (@Media2Commerce) April 5, 2013

All RSS-readers took heart and began releasing new features. So we collected best Chrome extensions for RSS-reading and present them to you in this article. Continue reading “5 cool chrome extensions for RSS-feeds and articles reading” »

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If you are a blogger, then sooner or later you will face the need to select the tools to integrate your blog with social networks. WordPress is an open platform, therefore it has a large number of plug-ins and widgets for all social networks: Twitter & Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and even such exotic ones, as Orcut and Vkontakte. In this review we have tried to cover most of the wordpress plug-ins for social networks and split them into categories. For some of the plug-ins we have also added comments and reviews, quoted from various popular publications. Continue reading “How do I integrate social media into my blog? Best free Twitter & Facebok wordpress plugins.” »

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Hi, Likehackers!

Now we will reveal a little secret - despite the fact that we have the ability to connect Twitter and Gmail, 85% of users log on through Facebook. Therefore, in the second review about the web tools we certainly will talk about Facebook.

We all spend a lot of time on Facebook, it is the second habit and everyday tool for many tasks. And there are many tasks that we are doing with Web-based tools but that could be done directly in Facebook, while we’re still there.

Hundreds of developers working every day to give us some extra features on Facebook. Tools for personal productivity, safety of your data, trade, etc. Let’s give them respect and start to use at least a few of them.

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