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29 of the Best Social Media Blogs
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29 of the Best Social Media Blogs

1. Social Media Explorer

Social Media Explorer, founded by Jason Falls, is constantly pumping out great posts on social media’s impact on marketing and public relations.

2. The Future Buzz

Adam Singer’s blog, The Future Buzz, takes a clear approach to social media marketing and SEO topics, and isn’t afraid to take a stance against ideas and tactics he thinks are bad for marketers.

3. Duct Tape Marketing

If you’re a small business owner, Duct Tape Marketing is a must-read for strategic and tactical advice about leveraging online marketing and social media to grow your business.

4. Social Media Today

Social Media Today offers a diverse mix of news on social networks’ latest developments and cutting-edge tips to perfect your use of each platform. The blog also hosts live Twitter chats from its Twitter hashtag, #SMTLive, on various social media topics twice a month.

5. Small Business Trends

The Social Media section of Small Business Trends, a large news property for entrepreneurs, is filled with expert social media advice and multimedia content for the small business.

6. Web Ink Now

Author and speaker, David Meerman Scott shares great theories and real-life examples of social media’s impact on marketing, as well as easy-to-understand content that is great for non-marketing executives.

7. Rebekah Radice

Rebekah Radice is an award-winning social media influencer, and her blog is evidence of her expertise in this industry. Her blog packages common social media topics into solution-based content that tells marketers what they need to know. She also hosts a podcast called Brand Authority, further expanding on the challenges she examines on her blog.

8. Mari Smith

Mari Smith has been called the “Queen of Facebook,” and her Facebook-specific blog is a testament to this generous title. Smith uses the latest Facebook trends to create up-to-date insights for the modern social media marketer — with ample video marketing advice to boot.

9. The Social Media Hat

From social media to email marketing, this simple-looking property is an all-in-one resource for content marketers. The Social Media Hat also includes a recommended list of marketing tools, giving you opportunities to apply what you learn from the blog to your marketing operations.

10. Jon Loomer

Jon Loomer is a blogger and podcaster whose website offers both articles and video tutorials on all things Facebook marketing.

11. TopRank Online Marketing Blog

The TopRank blog has a long history of delivering a great blend of search engine and social media marketing information in easily digestible lists and posts.

12. SocialMedia.biz

This comprehensive blog breaks down its social media content into News, Business, How-To, and Marketing topics — providing a reader experience that is sorted according to the unique social media challenges you might face in your career.

13. DreamGrow

DreamGrow is dedicated to social media in the context of content marketing. The blog caters to both content creators and marketing strategists, showing readers how to use social media to grow as businesses and as individuals.

14. MarketingProfs Daily Fix

While MarketingProfs reserves some of its content for paid members, its Daily Fix blog offers great daily marketing content for free.

15. Social Business

Eileen Brown’s blog, a property of ZDNet, is an expansive resource for emerging trends relating to social media’s impact on business.

16. Ask Aaron Lee

Aaron Lee is a social media manager from Malaysia, who uses his experience as an entrepreneur to educate half a million readers worldwide on using social media to grow a business.

17. Altitude Branding

For thoughtful and honest commentary and advice on social media and conducting business on the web, check out Amber Naslund’s blog.

18. Dave Fleet

Dave’s blog provides valuable information regarding how social media has an impact on brands and traditional communications functions like public relations and advertising.

19. Social Media Examiner

With tons of great guest authors and consistent how-to content, Social Media Examiner offers a ton of free advice for marketers across industries.

20. Convince & Convert

Jay Baer provides actionable information about the best ways to use social media to improve reach and convert new customers.

21. Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang

For an analyst’s perspective on high-level social media concepts and emerging trends like social CRM, take a minute to check out Jeremiah’s blog.

22. Search Engine Land

Long-time search engine marketing resource Search Engine Land provides expert advice on search marketing.

23. ProBlogger

For those who are interested in improving and expanding their blog across all their digital channels, ProBlogger discusses the strategies and tactics needed to become a successful blogger.

24. Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management tool whose Insights blog is always tuned to the latest best practices in social media marketing — from what content to post to using chatbots for better customer service.

25. Bad Pitch Blog

The Bad Pitch Blog points out mistakes other marketers have made so that you won’t make them, too. You’ll find some important perspective on media relations — across all digital channels — in these posts.

26. The Moz Blog

Moz is known for offering expert tools and advice on search engine optimization (SEO). What you might not know is that the famous Moz Blog also gives you social media advice from the unique perspective of SEO.

27. Peg Fitzpatrick

Peg Fitzpatrick is the author of the best-selling book, “The Art of Social Media,” and her blog is an equally creative take on social media marketing for today’s content producers.

28. RazorSocial

RazorSocial’s social media blog is one of nine content categories that shows you different ways of thinking about content strategy, as well as how to perfect your use of certain marketing tools.

29. Socially Sorted

This award-winning marketing blog comes from Donna Moritz, an Australian content strategist who writes about using social media to become a better storyteller.

Culture in Calgary
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Culture in Calgary

Calgary’s culture is as varied as its population, finding expression across the city through art, food, fashion, dance, film, festivals, cultural celebrations, literary programs, powwows, and more. There are over 120 languages spoken in Calgary. As our city and its culture continue to grow and evolve, we strive to define what makes Calgary special, and how we improve the quality of life for our rapidly growing and diverse population.

Cultural Diversity

We value diversity and believe that the expression of individuality through the arts, culture and recreation are vital to a vibrant lifestyle. We want to increase your participation in the many artistic and cultural events held in our city. 

  • Calgary Cultural Plan
  • Culture Shift
  • Cross Cultural Connections Directory

Festivals and Events

Festivals and Events enhance the quality of life in Calgary and are an essential element in creating complete communities. We recognize that these events are important to you and visitors to our city. They help develop Calgary into an active, creative, and viable city.

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Public Art

Great city, great art is the approach we take to the Public Art Program. Guided by the Public Art Master Plan, our investment in public art is intended to transform the way you see, think and experience our city. Our Public Art Policy guides how we increase the artistic character of our city’s public spaces. You can also learn more about public art in Calgary through our virtual Public Art map.

Arts Centres

North Mount Pleasant Arts Centre offers ceramics and visual arts programs and Wildflower Arts Centre offers visual and performing arts programs. Find a program and learn more.

Opportunities for Artists

We offer a variety of opportunities for local, national and international artists, from emerging to established professionals, as well as numerous ways to stay informed and in touch. Learn more.

Graphic Design
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Graphic Design

Grahpic Designs (VI, CI), Logo Design, Catalog, Poster, Package Design, Exhibition Design, Commercial Video

Media Design
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Media Design

Website design & development, video advertising, marketing video

Immigration Company
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Immigration Company

With MVM’s help, our company can grow dramatically. They help us design and develop the beautiful website, and then they advertised for our company via newspaper, networking, magazine and other social media. The number of our clients has been increaesing in each month.

Restaurant Owner
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Restaurant Owner

MVMMedia helps me design the website for my restaurant, it’s good looking and has very powerful features, which attract many people to order the food online.

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Sales Supervisor

I am Bing and my job is to supervisor to guide and motivate the sales team. I hope we can help everyone contribute their dreams come true.

Website
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Website

Websites: Build

We build good websites. Not just beautiful websites, but websites that work.

By that we mean one that works so it helps you sell your services and products. In order to achieve that every little bit, from UX and design to content to SEO to the sales funnel, has to be done properly. Our website designers are a wonderful bunch of creative magicians who take pride in getting it right, so your website promotes your brand and helps you make money, because that is what it is all about. After all, no one needs an ‘all fur coat and no knickers’ website that hangs about on the internet looking pretty but isn’t fit for purpose.

We will also make sure that the website is thoroughly optimised, from the front end content to the metadata, in order to further boost your position on Search Marketing, and we will also ensure that your beautiful and easy-to-use website is set up as a funnel for sales. By doing all that we know you will then be well on the way to gaining social traction and hitting Google’s sweet spot so you get more traffic and convert more in to potential and actual clients and customers.

We know it’s more effort than a regular website design studio goes to, but we know you’re in business to make money, and you can’t do that if your website doesn’t work properly.

So if you want a website that works, then check out our Website Packages or do feel free to get in touch.

Websites: Improve

A good website is essential to help your business sell services and products. However, they don’t always do what you expect them to do.

Websites go wrong for a variety of reasons but the bottom line is a bad website affects everything. That includes whether people can find the site, or are able to find what they are looking for once they arrive. Poorly set up ecommerce will prevent them buying, while if it is slow to load people will get bored and wander off. Finally a bad website experience will affect the opinion people have of your business, for good or ill.

Why websites need improving

Sometimes its because they haven’t been built or maintained very well, which can cause crawl issues. Other websites may be buckling under the weight of their photography, which directly impacts load time.

Another type of website is becoming much more common, but is far more difficult to spot. This is the ‘furcoat and no knickers’ website i.e it looks pretty but completely fails to help for your business. Style over substance websites don’t work because they lack landing pages, on page SEO or marketing funnels, so are merely calling cards hanging in hyperspace.

All of these issues and more can have an impact on your website’s performance and therefore your bottom line, which is why websites need regular maintenance to often need fixing and improving.

Clearly in some cases it would be better to start afresh with a new website, and that may be the only solution in some cases. For example, if it’s very slow to load, built on an out-of-date platform, badly coded, or in very poor repair it may cost more to fix than replace.

However sometimes it just needs improving, but working out whether it needs replacing or improving can be a whole other problem in itself. Like with cars, most people just need a website that works and don’t really know what to look for ‘under the bonnet’ so to speak. Consequently if you aren’t sure what’s wrong or even where to start looking, do check out our tailored Website Audit Package. We can analyse what’s wrong and then you can decide what to do. If you need further guidance then do get in touch. 

Websites: Maintain

Maintaining websites in good health is an essential part of any web designers’ remit. Once a website is built you can’t just ignore it because it immediately starts to deteriorate. This will give visitors a poor experience and reduce your sales conversions, as well as resulting in Google penalties.

Why maintaining websites is important

Websites are usually built on platforms, rather than hand coded, and these quickly get out of date. This the same for the plugins used for extra functionality, and if the platform or plugins aren’t kept up to date this can open the door to hackers and make spam attacks worse. Out of date software can also cause as crawl issues for Google’s spiders.

A website also needs it’s content refreshed regularly to maintain it’s Google ranking. In addition, the way people describe things and search online changes over time, so content and keywords will need updating to keep them current. Our SEO Strategy Package can help with that.

However, other problems include poor page load speed, which can cause high bounce, and bad or spammy links. Pages that get deleted or moved without a redirect put in place will also cause problems for visitors and Google alike.

Maintaining a website properly includes making sure it stays fresh, doesn’t have any fail pages or dead ends, loads quickly, and works smoothly. This is important to avoid getting Google penalties, which can result in your website being blocked, but maintaining your website properly mainly ensures that it continues to help you win clients and sell products.

Which is the point really, isn’t it?  So if your website needs some love, don’t suffer in silence, check out our Website Rescue Package and give your Website the TLC it deserves.