Political Social Grab Bag - January 2020 - Becker Digital Strategies

Political Social Grab Bag

What am I thinking about?

Training…as always. Specifically, activist training. As y’all know we’ve spent the last 4 years focusing our efforts on conducting digital training- most of which was targeted to folks working in digital organizing or who wanted to work in digital organizing. Sprinkled through those trainings we’ve also done a few trainings that were 100% focused on training activists. Seeing this article about what the GOP is up to with activist social media training make us want to do even more activist focused training this year. We still have some availability left…let us know if you’d like to partner up to do some training in your city!

BTW we apologize that this is hitting your inbox on 1/3 instead of 1/1…we took our own advice and actually took the holidays off this year!

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Our first Digital Organizing Bootcamp is right around the corner…please sign up for our seedlist and provide feedback to the trainees on their email, social and websites!

What am I reading?

Inside the new social media lab monitoring South Carolina’s feelings about 20202 politics – Social listening is becoming more and more important …this is a good synopsis of some of the ways we should be using it in the work we do

Could Influencers Help Campaigns Sidestep Social Media Crackdown on Political Ads – Be ware when working w/influencers

Livestreams are the new telethons, and they’re raising millions for charities – If you do any kind of online fundraising you should just read this one

New Tools of Interest

Canva isn’t new but their video editing is!

Platform Updates

Facebook

New: automatic approvals for group membership (we don’t recommend taking advantage of this btw)

Instagram

New Layout mode for Stories

Twitter

2 small but interesting changes to Twitter lists

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