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Marketers have a big job trying to keep up with the ever-changing, ever-growing landscape of trends, technologies, tools, and platforms. They are continually challenged to deliver more with less and faster so identifying which marketing strategies will have the biggest impact on their business in the coming year is a must in order to create digital marketing plans that deliver.

With that in mind, here are five trends (some you’ve definitely heard of before and some you’ll need to get familiar with quickly) you need to know about going into 2016:

In general terms, metadata is basic information that describes other types of data. Even though it’s significance in the search engine optimization space has changed over the years, metadata still proves to be useful as a way of learning more about a particular webpage, image, or other piece of content. When it comes to files, some of the common metadata categories are author, file size, date created, and date modified. Here, we’ll briefly describe the four main website meta tags and their impact on search engine rankings.

Generation Y and Z are seen as multi-tasking, Internet-savvy individuals, but it's hard to grab their attention. Growing up with advertisement bombardment and given an unfathomable amount of information at the edge of their fingertips, it is sometimes difficult to get past their filters. The Higher Education recruitment process is not much different than the advertising space, as a large number of schools compete to get the attention and future enrollment of high schoolers.

When people talk about web design, we often hear general keywords like user experience, functionality, and the user interface design experience. Designers and developers strive to enhance these aspects of their websites, but most of the time we don’t hear of specific ways of how to accomplish this. Today we’re going to change that by discussing what UI animation is, where it is implemented, and the effects it has on websites.

Are Pandora ads worth the investment? Should I test out Facebook ads? Twitter? LinkedIn?

Today, college and university marketing directors face a dizzying array of advertising channels and lead generation tactics to entice prospective students to engage. Before your head starts to spin thinking about all of your options, I’ll let you in on a little secret about online advertising.

For years, web designers had found a way to embed all different types of textures, shadowing, and gradients into their work to demonstrate their creative prowess. However, more recently this style of web design has begun to fade away in order to find room for a trend - and maybe even a revolution - that finds a better balance between aesthetics and usability. Welcome to the simply satisfying world of flat design.

Ever since social media took off in the early 2000s, people have been utilizing it for various business purposes including networking, promotion, and lead generation. However, on the other side of things, we have seen celebrities and major companies make some major gaffes on social networks. Here’s how we react to some of the common mistakes that often occur on social media.

In his weekly address to the nation on September 12, President Barack Obama unveiled his new College Scorecard, a long-promised consumer evaluation tool for colleges and universities.

While companies like Nike and Apple have an abundance of resources to handle their social media presence, managing all of the platforms can be a cumbersome task for small companies. Fortunately, there are plenty of applications and tools that have been created in order to make the handling of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. much more efficient. Here are some of the tools that we use, and we think everybody should be utilizing as well.