Meet Pablo, the easiest way to create engaging social media images. Here are 10 ways to get started using Pablo today!

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One of the keys to social media mastery is adding attractive images to your posts. But finding the right image and adding text to it can be difficult and time-consuming, especially if you don’t create and edit graphics for a living! The folks at Buffer want to help you succeed with an image-and-text generator called Pablo.

My first attempt went pretty well, and should be appearing on Twitter and LinkedIn shortly (as I had Buffer schedule the posts, of course).

Choose from one of the background images, then add text (or edit the default). You can move the text block around if what you wrote doesn’t fit on the image.

This post gives you more ideas for using Pablo.

I haven’t tried Canva, a similar app backed by Guy Kawasaki, but Pablo is very easy to use. What do you think?

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Six Ways for Authors to Engage on Medium – The Story – Medium

You’ve just spent a year, two years, five, writing your book. Now you’re releasing it out into the world, and you just w…

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Medium is becoming a very interesting space to post content, especially for professional writers. While it should not become your social home base (This should ALWAYS be a space you have control over), it is definitely worth hanging out in.

Since this set of good ideas for engaging with this platform, Medium has also made it easier to contribute more “blog-like” content.

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One thing I really love about the WordPress community is that its not always about commercial use cases. Just as often a plugin or theme is created because it serves to help WordPress users express themselves or share their thoughts easier–not just get more users/customers.
The topic of today’s…

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Nathan B. Weller at Elegant Themes reviews four WordPress plugins that will slurp up your posts on other social networks and post them on your WordPress site.

As he notes: “If you’re the type of user who does not necessarily like creating standard WordPress blog posts but are actively providing quality status updates on Facebook, tweets on twitter, videos on youtube, pins on pinterest, photos on instagram, and quick blog posts on tumblr–then putting all of that content in one place where you control it (and own it) may be very worthwhile.”

Of course, if you’re a writer, these plugins can help you integrate all your posts, giving both you and your readers more creative time, since you won’t have to copy everything to your site.

Now if only one of these plugins would pull from LinkedIn!

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