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6 Fabulous Social Platforms, 6 Fabulous Ways to Cross Pollinate Social and Email

If we all took to heart the number of digital deaths reported each year, we’d be so busy with funerals we wouldn’t get much else done: Facebook, email and even the web itself have been declared deceased.

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In reality, digital channels are healthier than ever before. Successful businesses are integrating a mix of tools in order to get the right messages to the right audiences. Indeed, digital channels appear to work synergistically, spurring shared growth rather than, as is often assumed, replacing one another for top spot. For example, Gallup recently did a survey looking at whether or not people become less involved with email as their engagement with social media increases. What they found was just the opposite: more social engagement was actually correlated with more email use. And users are definitely engaging with brands across the web: 36% of social media users post brand related content. So, integrating your email campaigns—the heart of any good web strategy—with your social media channels is essential.

Indeed, making the most of transmedia—using various platforms in conjunction to share a cohesive message—is a must in today’s fact-paced digital world. And once you have all that fabulous content, knowing which mediums to share it across is equally important (not doing you any good if it’s just living on your personal system!) To give you a single example, perhaps you have a behind-the-scenes video with celebs you’re featuring in a New Media Release. You might also share the video on YouTube, publish still shots from the video to Instagram, share quotes from featured celebs on Twitter, and publish illustrated JPEGs from the shot on Pinterest. Of course, you don’t need to use every platform but cross-pollinating your efforts is a great way to spur conversation, engagement and growth.

To that end, here are 6 sites we thinks are especially fabulous with a bit of info on the value of each site and a tip for cross-pollinating your email and social content.

Pinterest

TIDBIT:
Pinterest is the fastest growing standalone site ever with more referral traffic than LinkedIn, YouTube and Google+.

VALUE:
Pinterest is best for sharing visual content and driving traffic to brand websites.

TIP:
Enable viewers to pin the images featured in your next New Media Release directly from your image gallery to their Pinterest page.

Twitter

TIDBIT:
Twitter has over 140 million active users, 36% of whom tweet daily.

VALUE:
Twitter is best for sharing quick and frequent brand updates and monitoring chatter about your brand.

TIP:
Add a Twitter wiki to your next New Media Release or E-newsletter so viewers can follow a brand hashtag or Twitter ID.

Facebook

TIDBIT:
Facebook enjoys over 845 million users including 425 million mobile users.

VALUE:
Facebook is best for interacting on a personal level with contacts and sharing all multi-media content in a single place.

TIP:
Highlight your Facebook deals and offers in your email campaigns to simultaneously drive Facebook engagement and give real value to email subscribers.

YouTube

TIDBIT:
YouTube sees 4 billion video views globally every day and one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second.

VALUE:
YouTube is great for sharing videos, and even creating brand channels, with a broad audience and tracking their engagement.

TIP:
Embed YouTube videos in New Media Releases, E-newsletters, blogs and even your website.

Instagram

TIDBIT:
Instagram is the largest mobile social network with 5 million photos uploaded every day.

VALUE:
Instagram is best for sharing photos with a mobile audience in real time.

TIP:
Feature Instagram photos tagged with your brand or industry in E-newsletters and invite Instagram users to post photos with your hashtag.

Google+

TIDBIT:
Google+ is adding approximately 625,000 users a day, nearly 70% of them are men.

VALUE:
Google+ is great for starting conversations and targeting those conversations to key audiences.

TIP:
Host industry hangouts on Google+; promote them in E-newsletters and E-blasts to industry professionals.

SOURCES: Mashable, NeoCloudMarketing, Anson Alex, Social Media Examiner, The Social Skinny, WIRED Magazine