The state of content marketing

The state of content marketing

When we tell folks that Shift Key is a content marketing and PR agency, we still get a lot of questions about the “content marketing” part.  Loosely, content marketing is any marketing effort that shares media or publishes content — ideally “valuable, relevant and...
Shift Key’s Ultimate LinkedIn Cheat Sheet

Shift Key’s Ultimate LinkedIn Cheat Sheet

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, and last month, we shared the first round of tips to max out its potential for your business. To unlock our full list of things you may have not known about LinkedIn — the ultimate CliffsNotes cheat sheet —...
Optimize your LinkedIn for success

Optimize your LinkedIn for success

LinkedIn isn’t just for job hunters.   As the no. 2 social media destination where online adults are spending time*, LinkedIn is considered by many as the way to put social media to “work” — not only for your personal brand but to grow your company. Facebook is...
Stop the ‘Internet’ presses! We mean ‘internet’

Stop the ‘Internet’ presses! We mean ‘internet’

Over the weekend, the Associated Press announced some 250 additions to their 2016 AP Stylebook during the American Copy Editors Society’s national conference in Portland. Some updates are minor, and some are blowing up the Internet — well, at least in writer and...
IAITS (TIL about Internet acronyms)

IAITS (TIL about Internet acronyms)

If video killed the radio star, what have smart phones and texting done to the English language? Like the telephone at the turn of the century, email’s rise to popularity in the mid 1990s blurred the lines between business and personal communication. Written...