Dear Blogorama, "and here again..." comes the New year! For many years in a row we meet the favorite holiday of adults and children in a cozy virtual corner of the Internet universe-in the community Blogs Moms. At least once a year we hold an action that comes out in real life. An event that helps to meet new people, to keep a piece of warmth and vivid memories.
Let's remember that 5 years ago we already carried out a similar action! In November 2011, mom Blogs organized and held a wonderful event-a new Year's exchange of homemade cards, where 35 mothers with children congratulated each other on the New year, 2012.
And I Tie Yana, was then one of the leading what are pleasant memories. To my great joy, this year the community Blogs Moms decided to surprise their readers:
Action to exchange these homemade Christmas cards begins!
We announce the start of recording for a new exchange of cards in honor of the approaching 2017! We invite everyone to join the retinue of Santa Claus and let the kids become full-fledged creators of the new year's miracle! Agree, in this age of technological progress and rampant transition to online communication, so nice to get a postcard in the mail. A gift created by exactly the same children, and even from another city or country.
Condition of participation
To take part in the new year's exchange of cards can all interested mothers and children, ready to make their own gift cards in any technique, and send them by mail (perhaps to another country) to the one who will draw lots.
It will be very nice if you tell about your participation in blogs or social networks. This way more people will know about our holiday of cards, and postmen of all countries will put on their "thick bags on the belt" to bring joy to their homes.
In the comments to this article, until November 30 inclusive, write "Yes, I participate", specify the names of children, their age and city (country) of residence. And start preparing holiday cards! 🙂
At the end of the preparatory period, within 2-3 days, we will publish the list of participants and send all registered e-mail addresses of people who will send a homemade Christmas card.
Once you know the mailing address of your recipients, you send your cards by mail to the right address.
After receiving the postcard, please tell your readers about it and show her photo, indicating the link in the comments to the post with the list of participants. We are happy to see the results of the magical children's creativity.
And for those who want to document the process of creating a greeting card, we also offer to leave a link to your posts with Master classes to the article with the list of participants. As a result, we will make a post-review of your beautiful postcards!
Christmas exchange Homemade cards 2017!
I'm sure you've already started to generate ideas in my head cards, collect twigs on the street, fiddling with boxes with buttons and braid. To anticipate delight and joyful impatience while waiting for the coveted envelope with a surprise.
And to further set you on a creative way, we offer articles to help:
Beautiful Christmas cards with your own hands
Christmas train: the Station Otkrytie
Christmas and new year vintage cards
Album with Christmas cards from our members
44 vintage postcards in our Facebook album
2016 is slowly but surely coming to its end, and now is the time to talk about trends in SMM (Social Media Marketing), which are worth paying attention to next year. Which social networks will be popular, which have ceased to exist, where and why people will communicate in 2017, and where to promote their projects.
Social networks: trends of 2017
Social media trends in 2017
Video does not give up positions
YouTube remains one of the most visited sites in the world (1 billion users, 400 hours of videos uploaded to Youtube every minute, more than 5 billion videos viewed every day) and the second largest search engine after Google. So if you've been thinking about starting your own YouTube channel, now is a very good time.
In addition to Youtube, interesting, though not new, such a platform as Vimeo. And Vine a few weeks ago, unfortunately, announced the closure.
«General mobilization»
People are increasingly using mobile phones — to access the Internet, chat with friends, reading, shopping and so on. 51% of the world's population uses mobile phones, 27% comes with their help in social networks. In this regard, messengers (WhatsApp, Messenger from Facebook, Telegram, Kik) are gaining popularity. The audience of messengers exceeded the audience of traditional social networks in September 2016.
Read also: 15 surprising facts about social media in 2016 >>
Instant messaging applications have become very similar to social media: people not only send each other short messages, like SMS before, but we communicate in groups, share entertaining posts, videos, pictures, etc. Marketers learn to use the tool to promote products and services, and progress in them called Mobile Media Marketing (MMM replaced 😀SMM).
Among messengers I advise you to pay attention to Telegram, it is not just a messenger, but a new channel of interaction with friends and readers. And given the nature and past of his ideological inspirer, he still surprises us.
We plan to write about Telegram on our website, stay tuned.
Snapchat
At the junction of these two trends (mobile and video) confidently took its place Snapchat. A very interesting fast-growing network, which is still popular mainly among teenagers and students, but gradually opens up to the older generation. "Chip" Snapchat in is, that video and photo, which you send friends, disappear in for 24 hours. There is no concept of " news feed "as in other networks, there are no public"likes". All this, as well as the playful nature of the application, liberates users and involves them in communication and in the game.
Many major brands and organizations are already actively using Snapchat. At the moment, users of the application are viewing 10 billion! videos every day. Please note, this is already more than on YouTube!
Live broadcast
In a separate item I make a live broadcast. This is also a very hot trend. That is, not just a video, but a live video. Periscope has identified this trend, but now Facebook with its "live" is gradually weakening its position.
There are other interesting services, but they are extremely short — lived-Blab and Meerkat, having experienced a phase of rapid growth, have ceased to exist. Alternatively, pay attention to Ustream.
A few words about Facebook
Despite the extremely low organic reach, because of which the work with business pages has become much more difficult, it is still the leader in the global hit parade of social networks and is the 3rd most visited site in the world (after Google and Youtube). Facebook ranks 4th among Runet social networks (after Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki and Instagram), and depending on your target audience, many bloggers and company owners should be there.
In addition to the pages, there are groups on the FB, and they are now experiencing a new flowering, pay attention to this.
LinkedIn for professionals
LinkedIn's network of professional contacts also continues to grow. You should not discount it if you position yourself as an expert, provide services to companies or work in the B2B sector, Especially since it was recently acquired by Microsoft, and you should expect steps towards integration of LinkedIn with Office products.
Disclaimer: at the time of this writing, LinkedIn is blocked in Russia at the request of Roskomnadzor (it turned out that The company violates the law on the storage of personal data of users on Russian servers). Negotiations are underway, and we hope that the leadership of the social network will be able to negotiate with representatives of the Russian authorities, and LinkedIn will be unlocked.
Instagram continues to grow
Since its launch in 2010, Instagram has been growing. 🙂 At the moment it is used by more than 500 million people. Instagram Facebook and Twitter overtook The number of users in Russia, taking the 3rd place in popularity (after Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, see the post on statistics of social networks).
There are still many interesting things, but these are the main, in my opinion, trends that now determine what social networks we will use next year.