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The Joomla! World Conference returns for the third consecutive year, bringing together the worldwide Joomla! Community for three days of learning, connecting, and sharing.

Spend September 30 - October 2nd in New Orleans at the second annual AMA Annual Marketing Conference!

Last year over 400 attendees gathered in New Orleans to experience the convergence of best practices, emerging trends, the latest innovations, and insightful observations.

The American Marketing Association brings inspiration and innovation through fantastic speakers and excellent networking opportunities to the AMA's Annual Marketing Conference!

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Last week, Vine, the video-sharing social network, introduced private messaging.

Vine messages allow users to send private video and text messages to individuals or groups of Vine users.

LinkedIn recently introduced two new resources to assist businesses in their content marketing efforts: Content Marketing Score and Trending Content. One tool will help you measure your company's success and the other will give you insight into what successful content looks like, giving you much more context into being successful on LinkedIn than was previously available on the platform.

Only 1 in 10 professional marketers describe their lead generation efforts as "highly efficient and effective." For most business owners, that's simply not good enough.

Content Marketing World is the largest gathering of content marketing professionals in the world. The dates have been announced for 2014 and the event is scheduled for September 8 - 11, 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio.  In 2013, over 1,700 marketers from 46 countries joined the event and even more are expected to attend in 2014! 

Facebook recently announced the expansion of its advertising tool Lookalike Audiences. The new capabilities will allow advertisers to target new users based on people who visit their websites, use their mobile apps, or are connected to their Facebook Pages. Until now, advertisers could only create “lookalikes” based on existing information like email addresses, phone numbers, and user IDs.

Are you having trouble choosing a content management system such as Wordpress, Joomla or Hubspot?

Google recently introduced a new Video Campaigns report in Google Analytics. This enhancement will give advertisers more insights into the performance of their YouTube TrueView ads that are managed through AdWords for Video campaigns.

The new report rolled out in Analytics accounts last week and can be found in the AdWords section under the Acquisition menu.

WordPress frequently introduces new and improved features and they've recently announced their first major update of 2014. Their latest round of enhancements include: