by Alan S. Morrison | Aug 22, 2025 | brand awarness, communications, marketing, PR, public relations, Social media
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about Social Media – the platforms love to sell you Reach as Views or Impressions because that’s something they can increase and decrease with their algorithms and make you pay cold hard cash for more of. This is why professional...
by Alan S. Morrison | Aug 1, 2025 | Accessible Communication, communications, Inclusivity, marketing, public relations, Social media
Six months ago I started posting vertical videos on LinkedIn because multiple sources, including Richard van der Blom and Social Media Today, said the algorithm had been changed to give most free organic reach to posts with vertical video. Also, I noticed some of my...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jul 22, 2025 | communications, marketing, public relations, Social media
One of the major things we use social media for is to generate traffic to our websites by sharing links in our posts. The problem is the social networks want you and your followers to stay on them and not be taken elsewhere by an outbound link. That’s why several...
by Alan S. Morrison | Nov 26, 2024 | Business news, communications, marketing, PR, public relations, Social media
If you don’t work in the always-on opportunity-seeking worlds of Public Relations, Social Media, Marketing, Media or Politics, you may have heard of BlueSky by now but not have properly looked at it yet. In brief, it’s one of the newest social media platforms, backed...
by Alan S. Morrison | Nov 16, 2024 | communications, Social media
If you’re a regular user of LinkedIn, for some time you’ll have seen many users posting links to external websites in the Comments of their post instead of the body. This started because people who study these things reckoned the LinkedIn algorithm is reach-penalising...
by Alan S. Morrison | Nov 5, 2024 | communications, PR, public relations, Social media
If you’re still using hashtags to flag #topics in Linkedin posts to the algorithm, you’ve been wasting your time for months. Hashtags have been used for several years on social platforms to allow users to tell others and the algorithm what topics are in the post – so...
