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Portland Public Library Delivers Almost 50% Increase In User Engagement with New Web Redesign

Digital Silk, an award-winning agency focused on creating brand strategies, custom websites, and digital marketing campaigns, announces the launch of a redesigned website for Portland Public Library, a public institution serving the education, community services, and nonprofit sector. The project focuses on improving user experience, content discoverability, and engagement while introducing a scalable CMS to support ongoing updates. The new platform is now live at https://www.portlandlibrary.org

Stepherson Inc. Expands Loyalty and Digital Engagement Across Superlo Foods with RSA America

Independent grocery retailer rolls out integrated loyalty, digital coupons, and mobile engagement platform across all 11 locations ...

Stepherson Inc., Superlo Foods Expands Loyalty, Digital Engagement With RSA America

Stepherson Inc. has deployed RSA America's loyalty and digital engagement platform across all 11 Superlo Foods stores.

Wayne State University and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute researchers establish new digital engagement and cancer outcomes center with ACS grant

Wayne State University and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute researchers have secured a substantial grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS) to establish the Digital Engagement and Cancer ...

Houston’s KHCB Names New Community Engagement Director

KHCB Media named Ivette Zamora as Director of Community Engagement. She joins from Hope Media Group, where she served as Vida Unida Digital Content Manager.

The Right Way to Build an Online Community Around Your Brand

Public online communities are risky for your brand. Here's an alternative that gives you the benefits of online communication while avoiding some of its biggest pitfalls.

Show HN: FeralHq – The funniest AI driven content generation engine

So I really love building apps. If you dig through my post history, you’ll find a small graveyard of launches to prove it.Marketing(or marketers) and I, however, have never gotten along. I can build the product. Writing the "look at me, I made a thing" post has always felt stressful and a little nauseating.So I built FeralHq.Feral is an agentic system for generating social media content for brands, but with a very specific goal: make the output actually funny. I built it primarily to s

Study Finds Isolated Killer Whale Populations Depend on “Social Interaction” for Survival

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of well-studied orcas known as Southern Resident orcas are endangered and face multiple threats to survival. New research ...

Social isolation scares: 4 signs your city is triggering agoraphobic tendencies

Most people assume agoraphobia is simply a fear of open spaces. In reality, the condition is far more layered. Although often ...

Discursive Constructions of Identity and Experience on Social Media

Social media platforms have become important spaces where people narrate the self, negotiate belonging, and make sense of lived experience. In contemporary d...

I Quit Using Social Media — Here's What I Do Instead (It's Been Almost a Year!)

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Rob Culpepper / Getty Images For years, I’d spend several hours a day scrolling through social media on my phone — while ...

Problematic social media use predicts higher depressive symptoms in adolescents under 16

Problematic use of social media—characterized by loss of control and compulsive engagement—may significantly increase depressive symptoms in adolescents under the age of 16, according to a new study ...

Is Social Media Addiction Real?

Two years ago, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, called for warning labels on social media platforms, citing concerns about the potential mental health risks associated with heavy use, especially ...

What happens when men don't feel 'man enough'?

A research team led by Lea Lorenz of the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau and Sven Kachel of the University of Kassel ...

Ripple by The Washington Post

Girls and boys are equally social at birth. Want to contribute to Ripple? Share your idea with us here and we’ll provide guidance and feedback. Successful pieces may be featured on the site. Realizing ...

Your web habits can identify you: Just four websites can reveal who you are

A groundbreaking study shows that your everyday browsing routine, what sites you visit most, can uniquely identify you, proving that anonymity online may be more illusion than reality. Study: Browsing ...

Southeast Asia wants children off social media. Will it work?

Indonesia is leading a regional push to ban children from social media platforms. Enforcement is another matter, however.

Canada is mulling age restrictions on AI chatbots and social media

Canadian Culture Minister Marc Miller said the government is “seriously” considering a ban or moratorium on young people ...

Papa Johns box message telling customers to tip delivery drivers sparks fierce tipping culture debate online

Papa Johns customers were outraged over a box message about tipping delivery drivers as Americans increasingly say tipping ...

Neal Milner: Social Media, Tradwives And The Manosphere

Gender roles are a cultural issue, not just a political one. And Republicans, not Democrats are winning the culture.