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Organize Your Social Media Strategy with Google

  Find out how to use Google Tools to manage social media content and campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an interactive online event starting June 6. Monica Morse (left), head of social & SMB solutions at Google, will familiarize you with a wide range of Google tools such as trends, Google+ and Hangouts. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here.

How to Make Your Recipe Go Viral on Pinterest [Infographic]

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Pinterest is where food lovers go to be with their own kind — no one will judge you for over-sharing on this network. But some recipes are more habit-forming than others. From this infographic, you’ll learn which courses, dishes, ingredients have the best odds of spreading, how big the images need to be to lure in unsuspecting pinners, and what time you should post to reach the most foodies.

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Friday Morning Laughs – Sprinkle-Faced Kid Comes Clean

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Happy Friday, ladies and gents! The weekend is just hours away and, as we always do, we’re celebrating with a roundup of some of the funniest videos of the week. This week’s Friday Morning Laughs includes an adorable sprinkle-faced kid, goats yelling like humans (gotta love that!), a Jeopardy surprise, a Valentine’s Day prank, the death of the Harlem Shake and more.

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Over 4,000 ‘Harlem Shake’ Videos Are Uploaded to YouTube Every Day

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, you’ve probably seen the term “Harlem Shake” floating around on Facebook and Twitter and you’ve most certainly been privy to the barrage of bizarre Harlem Shake videos on YouTube. The Harlem Shake is the biggest thing since Gangnam Style and, to give you a sense of just how massive this new meme is, YouTube Trends has released a chart that reveals just how viral it has become.

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TNT’s New ‘Dramatic Surprise’ Ad Is More Dramatic, But Is It As Effective?

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TNT took the web by storm with “A dramatic surprise on a quiet square,” the viral ad they launched back in April of 2012 that has racked up over 42 million views to date. The ad was the second most-popular branded ad of 2012, second only to KONY 2012 and yesterday TNT launched a sequel: “A dramatic surprise on an ice-cold day.” The new ad definitely ups the drama, but is it as effective as the first? You be the judge.

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Gangnam Style Hits 1 Billion Views, World Doesn’t End

Psy 1 Billion

Well folks, it’s finally happened! After 160 days on YouTube, Gangnam Style has become the first video to hit 1 billion YouTube views. And despite rumors that Psy’s viral hit crossing the billion view threshold would fulfill Nostradamus’ end of the world prophecy and trigger a cataclysmic event leading to the ultimate demise of the human race, it looks like we’re all still standing.

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