What am I thinking about?
I’m super excited today to start rolling out registrations and applications for our 2019 trainings! In addition to the trainings in the training section we will also be opening registration soon for Train in the Trainer in Philly right before Netroots Nation, a 2 day Public Narrative Training, our 4 day Social Media Deep Dive and an assortment of 2 day trainings in locations that include St. Louis, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Arkansas, Louisville and more! Stay tuned.
Trainings/Webinars
Digital Organizing Bootcamp April 8-14 (application deadline is midnight eastern March 15)
Electoral Digital Organizing Bootcamp June 17-23 (application deadline is midnight eastern April 15)
Advanced Digital Organizing Bootcamp Aug 11-16 (application deadline is midnight eastern May 15)
Webinar: Social Media for Executive Directors and Managers, Jan 24 3pm Eastern/Noon. Pacific
Introduction to Social Media for Organizing, March 9 & 10 in Asheville, NC
Introduction to Digital Organizing, March 30 & 31 in Huntsville, AL
Introduction to Digital Organizing hosted by Asian Americans Advancing Justice– LA, May 14 & 15 in Los Angeles, CA
What I’m Reading
When businesses engage in politics, alignment is key– I think about this a lot in terms of entertainers and sports personalities but the basic principles are the same and more and more companies and people are engaging in this kind of messaging so I find myself wondering how we as digital organizers can do a better job of identifying those “surrogates” that can help us and working with them to promote our vision of what a better world looks like
12 Ways the “Stories” Format Could Shape the Future of Content– Important read as stories become and more and more prevalent and popular on all of the platforms and how this affects our content strategies
Arkansas bill allows social media sites to be sued for removing certain posts – Keep an eye on this one, it’s all about conservatives continuing to misbelieve that the sites are “censoring” them because they don’t understand how the algorithms work
A new media landscape awaits 2020 hopefuls – Key thoughts: emphasis on immediacy and authenticity
Platform Updates
Facebook
Group Stories have now rolled out globally
It’s a bird…it’s a plane…no it’s just the return of Search Ads
Two big announcements that we missed in our last newsletter: News Ads will no longer be archived and for those of you in the UK, advertiser verification is now required to run political ads in the UK
Instagram
Big thumbs up for this: automatic image descriptions to assist people who are visually impaired
Twitter
It’s only a technical change butTwitter is changing how it handles PNGs that are uploaded to Twitter
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