Political Social Grab Bag – July 2025

Political Social Grab Bag

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Netroots Nation will be in New Orleans Aug 7-9…these are the trainings I will be leading/co-leading:

Reaching People Where They Are: Tactics for Today’s Digital Space with Colin Delany at 1pm Thurs 8/7 in room 389

Epic Fail: The Annual Failies with Debra Cleaver and Laura Packard at 1pm Fri 8/8 in the Town Square

2025 Social Media News You Can Use Sat 8/9 at 10am in room 391

What am I reading?

Social Media and Protest Used to Go Together. Not Anymore. – Just read this one

Zohran Mamdani’s social media strategy was about more than viral videos – Good take on the strategy Mamdani’s campaign used

Future of TV Briefing: YouTube gives a peek at how its recommendation algorithms work – Good read if you do any YouTube work

15 social media trends shaping 2025 [mid-year update] – Good overview of what’s going on in social media strategy…read this one

The dream of the Fediverse is alive on Threads – Good insight on how Threads is trying to reinvigorate the Fediverse in general by adding features specifically for the Fediverse

New Tools of Interest

Bonfire – Build your own social media platform on the same federated protocol that Mastodon uses

Platform Updates

Meta Platforms

Facebook: Happening soon….all videos will be classified as Reels

Instagram: Shared Access is finally rolling out!

instagram: 3:4 aspect ratio photos (most phone camera photos are this size) is now supported

Instagram Edits: New features continue to roll out including Teleprompter

WhatsApp: Ads

Fediverse

Bluesky: There are now 2 ways to get verified on Bluesky

Other Platforms

LinkedIn: Better post analytics now rolling out

TikTok: New: Bulletin Boards for Broadcast messaging

TikTok: New: Link Stickers!

TwitterX: 2 big ad changes- no hashtags allowed in ads and cost of ads by size 

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