Political Social Grab Bag – April 2022

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Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Digital Organizing Bootcamp – June 5-11 via zoom. Application deadline is April 15

Digital Organizing Bootcamp Canada– June 19-26 in Calgary. Application deadline is April 15

Labor Digital Organizing Bootcamp– July 31- August 6. Application deadline is May 1

Advanced Digital Organizing Bootcamp– August 29- September 2 via zoom. Application deadline is July 1

New training! Digital Strategy for New Organizations– May 2 & 3 via zoom. This training is being cofacilitated by Jay Carmona of Sematonic Strategies is meant to help new organizations set up their digital program from the start and will covering topics such as basic digital strategy, staffing for digital, in house vs outside staffing, choosing CRMs and other digital tools and more.

What am I reading?

Doomscrolling got you down? Take a break at a digital rest stop– Read this one

Brandon Stanton’s Empire of Empathy– Interesting read about the rise of Humans of New York

The White House is briefing TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine – I expect this to be a continuing trend going forward and I think this is something to be thinking about doing when we are thinking about influencers work and even our champions programs

 

New Tools of Interest

Accessible Social – This is a GREAT resource hub for making social media content more accessible

Platform Updates

Facebook

Algorithm alert: The algorithm will now deprioritize videos deemed to be “watchbait”

Facebook is taking it so seriously they’ve published a separate post with best practices to help you avoid posting watchbait

Important updates to video metricsnow that users have a choice on playback speed for videos

New Group Moderation tools including the ability to auto decline posts identified as containing misinfo by 3rd party fact checkers

Speaking of groups, looks like Facebook might start calling them Communities

Instagram

It’s bacccck (sort of), chronological feed that is

Speaking of feeds…I’ve mentioned this before but they’ve now expanded the test of a merged feed- that is all content in ONE feed (yes I actually love this idea)

At long last auto generated captions for videos (based on AI so you’ll still need to double check them!)

Say goodbye to Boomerang and Hyperlapse

Twitter

Twitter is making alt text on images easier to find

Audio Clips are coming – this is going to be a great way to turn your Twitter Spaces into evergreen content

Tweetdeck users beware: looks like it’s going to become a part of Twitter Blue, in other words no longer free

Other Platforms

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