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Want your kids to play outside? Rip out the lawn!

Pam’s kids loved their lawnless front yard. Guest Rant by Pam Penick Originally published in 2013, Pam’s rant is more relevant than ever.  Lawns are for kids, right? After all, they need that big, green carpet to enjoy the outdoors. Would it be an exaggeration to say it borders on neglect not to keep a lawn for your children or grandchildren to play on? Some people think so. In a about drought-prone cities paying homeowners to rip out water-hogging lawns, one critic implied that families sho...
Tags: Gardening, Instagram, Los Angeles, South Carolina, Gardening on the Planet, Pam Penick, Guest Rants

A bad buying experience launched this RE/MAX agent’s career

Not having the best agent experience when he bought his first home "lit the fire underneath" Jared Housier and inspired him to make the process better for other buyers.
Tags: Facebook, Instagram, Thanksgiving, Interviews, Lifestyle, Social Media, Indiana, Valentine's Day, Radio, Teams, Agent, Louisville, Team Leader, Local Businesses, Movie Theater, Select

The Power of Tiktok Marketing

I have witnessed the powder of Tiktok marketing first hand and it’s a real thing. I remember a time in a not so distant past when limited edition collections would instantly sell out when an influencer featured a review of a collection or product. I remember how brands would use an interesting bait and switch technique with their limited edition products or collection as well where they’d do a small launch initially and later on pull a “SURPRISE we’re restocking!” This technique worked for a...
Tags: Instagram, Beauty, Musings of the Day, Oreal Infallible, Tiktok, Power of Tiktok Marketing

A Twitch streamer made $16,000 filming himself asleep and letting viewers disturb him with alarm clocks and fake dog barks

Asian Andy made $16,000 in just one night on his Twitch livestream. Asian Andy/YouTube Some influencers are making up to $16,000 on Twitch "sleep streams."  Asian Andy enabled text-to-speech recognition so viewers could play music and issue commands.  Other sleep influencers include Alex Shannon, who travels the world to sleep in luxurious locations. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. Making money in your sleep sounds too good to be true, given many of us find it hard ...
Tags: Instagram, Entertainment, Youtube, Life, International, Los Angeles, Trends, Starbucks, Livestream, Twitch, Alexa, Andy, Shannon, ASCEND, Influencer, BI International

A Twitch streamer made $16,000 filming himself asleep and letting viewers disturb him with loud noises

Asian Andy made $16,000 in just one night on his Twitch livestream. Asian Andy/YouTube Some influencers are making up to $16,000 on Twitch "sleep streams."  Asian Andy enabled text-to-speech recognition so viewers could play music and issue commands.  Other sleep influencers include Alex Shannon, who travels the world to sleep in luxurious locations. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. Making money in your sleep sounds too good to be true, given many of us find it hard ...
Tags: Instagram, Entertainment, Youtube, Life, International, Los Angeles, Trends, Starbucks, Livestream, Twitch, Alexa, Andy, Shannon, ASCEND, Influencer, BI International

'A great cover for their first album': Harry and Meghan's romantic rebellion against royal portraiture

The Sussexes’ baby announcement shared on Valentine’s Day is a confident image of defiance that seems to take us inside their love – granny must find it utterly bafflingThe Duke of Sussex’s left foot steals the show. His knobbly toes shove themselves into the foreground, bulging out to rhyme with his wife’s baby bump. Misan Harriman, the Nigerian-born photographer and friend of Meghan who took the picture remotely from his home in Woking, has created an unbuttoned romantic pastoral that doesn’t ...
Tags: Photography, California, Culture, Britain, Art and design, Monarchy, Prince Harry, Harry, Meghan, Harriman, Woking, Duke of Sussex, The Duchess of Sussex, Misan Harriman

TikTok hits the sweetest spots

But some countries – such as Egypt – have cracked down on the social media app, which grew apace with the pandemic The post TikTok hits the sweetest spots appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.
Tags: Twitter, Instagram, China, India, Censorship, Africa, Digital, Cybersecurity, Egypt, Pakistan, Access, Huawei, The Intercept, Openaccess, Cobus van Staden, Influencer

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #527

Shopify expands Shop Pay to Facebook and InstagramShopify’s payment option, Shop Pay, has landed on Facebook and Instagram. This represents a significant expansion for the e-commerce platform’s payments technology, with this partnership the first time Shop Pay will be made available outside of Shopify’s own platform. Shop Pay will first become available to all Shopify merchants using checkout on Instagram in the US, and will then be rolled out to Facebook in the weeks after. Prior to this launch...
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Valentine’s Day 2021

Vincent has been my one and only Valentine since we met in March of 1977. Yesterday we exchanged some cool gifts.  A few weeks ago, while browsing Instagram, I saw a post about a box of cookies, hand decorated for Valentine’s Day by a company named So Bang. I went to their website to discover that they create customized, shortbread cookies for all occasions and also for companies such as Cartier, Conde Nast, Dior, Gucci, and Vogue.  I ordered the box and they even hand wrote a note with...
Tags: Travel, Instagram, Holidays, Paris, Vogue, Eiffel Tower, Valentine, Vincent, Louis Vuitton, Richard Nahem, Palais de Chaillot, Arsene Lupin Facebook, Cartier Conde Nast Dior Gucci, Jean Loup Sieff, Loup Sieff, Ritz Hotel Jean Loup Sieff

Jalan Jalan (97): Footloose

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Tags: Photography, Walking, Anthropology, Photo Essay, Jalan Jalan

Kendall Jenner and boyfriend Devin Booker share first pictures together on Valentine's Day - and they're a must-see

Kendall Jenner was feeling the love on Sunday as she went Instagram official with her...
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