Political Social Grab Bag - August 2022 - Becker Digital Strategies

Political Social Grab Bag

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Netroots Nation– I’ve got 3 sessions at this year’s convening in Pittsburgh Aug 18-20

Train the Trainer: The Short Version at 9am Thurs 8/18 in room 328

Advanced Facebook Strategies for Organizing at 9am Fri 8/19 in Room 329

What’s New in Social Media? at 11am Fri 8/19 in room 327

Social Strategy Summit– We are partnering with the Center for Digital Strategy on this 3 day all virtual convening talking about all things Social Media Strategy August 23-25

What am I reading?

The Metaverse in 2040– Interesting report from our friends at Pew Research, worth reading if you’re pondering the future of digital

Influencers are Out, Authenticity is in– Great article making the case for the use of User Generated Content

Don’t Look Now, But Congress Might Pass an Actually Good Privacy Bill- Just read this one

How some TikTokers are explaining the Jan. 6 hearings– Interesting look at how both folks on both sides of the aisle are using TikTok to spread their takes on the hearings

You don’t want the old Instagram- There’s been a lot written in the last week about the changes to both IG and FB but this one stood out for it’s simplicity and reality check

Platform Updates

Facebook

ICYMI: The big Feed Divide– recommendations via an AI discovery engine & a separate friends/family feed …we don’t know a lot yet but I will be talking about this more in both my NN sessions on Fri 8/19

When live streaming you can now assign a Community Manager to moderate comments during the live stream

Now being tested: Multiple profiles on an account

Instagram

Almost all videos are now reels: just read this one

Twitter

Now in testing: CoTweets

Podcasts on FB didn’t last long…who wants in on the pool for how long they’ll last on Twitter?

Spaces no longer self destruct after 30 days

A/B Testing about to roll out in Ads Manager

New: You can ask Twitter to remind you to add alt text to your images

Other Platforms

Coming soon to Twitch: Charity Fundraising