Ready for another social media platform to “go live” from? Instagram recently announced that it is rolling out a live streaming feature included in Version 10.2 as another way for users to share their experiences.
What was once seemingly a novelty, “going live” has become increasingly commonplace on platforms like Facebook. Moms share school concerts as they happen, annoying friends share their food updates, and you probably get to see a lot of babies.
Bizarre tree-throwing charity event to be held in Peter Kearns’ honor
***EDIT! Our rescheduled date is now 12/24 at 11 a.m. Please RSVP here***
The popular Bethlehem Christmas Toss for Charity will be held this year in memory of its late founder, Peter Kearns, on December 24 at 11 a.m. at More Miles Automotive, 1458 Stefko Blvd., Bethlehem, PA.
The original event was first held in 2002 when then Meineke Car Care owner Peter Kearns challenged Mike DeCrosta, currently of More Miles Automotive, to a contest. The resulting yearly tradition became something of a bizarre, but wildly popular, way to celebrate the holiday season. Peter Kearns passed away this summer, making this year’s event that much more important.
The event originally ended in 2013 after Kearns retired, but was revived in 2015 at the behest of fans and former participants.
If you’re a small business owner, it’s easy for your personality to come through on your professional social media accounts. Besides, who wants to have a professional account that is all hum drum and dry, right?
However, it’s also easy to cross the line of sharing too much, being offensive, or crossing a variety of other “lines” that you may or may not even know you’re crossing.
Here are a few easy ways to keep your personal and professional social media accounts separated.
Thank you to all ho attended Lehigh Valley with Love Media’s presentation of “Navigating the Social Media Maze” at the Greater Lehigh Valley Real Estate Academy on November 2, 2016.
The presentation focused on how real estate agents can better use their existing social media accounts to gain better engagement and social traction as well as whether or not they need to add any new social accounts.
If you’re not familiar with Vine, it might be too late. The social media platform that specializes in six second looped clips, and has spawned a gaggle of internet celebrities, has announced that it will be closing in the coming months.
Lehigh Valley with Love Media is proud to be presenting “Navigating the Social Media Maze” at the Greater Lehigh Valley Real Estate Academy on November 2, 2016.
We were asked by Philadelphia Row Home Magazine to describe what makes Bethlehem the quintessential Christmas City for their Fall 2016 Issue. More than honored, but also more than ready to share what we love about Bethlehem, we set to describing Chistkindlmarkt, Christmas City Village, city tours, and some of the best holiday shopping you can imagine.
Lehigh Valley with Love Media was honored to be asked to speak at Northampton Community College’s Mocktails Networking & Etiquitte Dinner on October 18 on their Bethlehem Campus.
By Angelo Fattore, LVWL Intern
On a rainy overcast afternoon ArtsQuest’s Oktoberfest kicked into full gear, lederhosens and all. As the Yuengling began to flow so did the real competition start, a competition that would separate the winners from the losers, the Raven One to One Media Oktoberfest Celebrity Skill Challenge (ROTOMOCSC for short)!
The seven team pool had representatives from Service Electric, iHeartMedia, Morning Call, Raven One to One, Two Rivers Roller Derby, and yours truly Lehigh Valley with Love.
Whether you use Twitter to share information about your businesses’ upcoming events, show off your latest products, or even to broadcast live, you’ll now be able to do more with 140 characters.
The 140 character limit has been the hallmark of Twitter’s appeal, but also sometimes a downfall when you’re trying to share images, links, or replying to a decent amount of other accounts. Thankfully, Twitter recognized some of the drawback to being a bit too stringent on the 140 limit and has made a few changes.
The following will now change:
Just last month, Instagram rolled out some Snapchat-like features in an effort to make it even more desirable for heavy users. More recently, Instagram added business features (that are easy to implement) that can help small business owners even if they are light users.
Inaugural Lehigh Valley with Love Comedy Fest Presented by Never Again Radio to Bring in the Laughs
Comedy Festival slated for August 11 at The Ice House in Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM, PA (August 6, 2016) – The Ice House on River Street in Bethlehem will transform into a laugh factory on August 11 during the Inaugural Lehigh Valley with Love Comedy Fest with shows at 7 and 9 p.m.
The Comedy Fest is presented by Never Again Radio and is the first of its kind in the Lehigh Valley, and will feature a showcase of comedic talent from New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and the Greater Lehigh Valley.
“We’re very excited to be bringing some laughs to the Valley this year,” said George Wacker, owner of Lehigh Valley with Love Media. “Giving the Lehigh Valley something a bit different and unique that week is going to be special. And hilarious!”
Instagram will begin rolling out an update that will add some very Snapchat-like features in coming weeks.
Of course, Instagram isn’t saying publicly that they are copying one of Snapchat’s best features, but they are. And, hey, there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Social media platforms have always borrowed ideas from each other in an effort to stay relevant.
Do you own a small business? Good.
Do you know everything about Pokemon Go? Nope? Well, thankfully, that doesn’t matter.
Facebook’s changes, whether they include algorithm updates or modifications to your news feed, always cause an initial bit of uproar until people forget about them.
Let’s face it, you’ll be a bit annoyed for awhile, but as long as you’re still able to easily share photos and moments and connect with your friends, most of these changes only result in Facebook page account administrators needing to work a bit harder to get their content noticed.
