Political Social Grab Bag – June 2021

Political Social Grab Bag

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Applications for our August Advanced Digital Bootcamp are being accepted until June 15th so apply today.

Keep an eye out for some announcements of some new 2 day trainings coming soon!

Additionally we have some capacity for a few more trainings or one on one coaching for this summer and fall…hit reply and let’s chat!

What am I reading?

Study Finds No Link Between Time Teens’ Spend on Tech Devices and Mental Health Problems– This doesn’t mean it’s necessarily healthy for them either…just yet another conflicting lot of data in the ongoing is it or isn’t conversation about social media and its’ effects on our mental health

As Congress Dithers, States Step In to Set Rules for the Internet– More and more states are passing state level privacy laws

Digital Organizing as if Volunteers Really Mattered– Say it after “supporter centric paths of engagement”

New Tools of Interest

Not a new tool but good to note that Chrome now offers live captioning of audio and videot

Platform Updates

Facebook

Users can now hide like counts– prevent themselves from seeing them on others and prevent others from theirs

Testing of Neighborhoods (aka Nextdoor) continues in Canada and 4 US citiies

Instagram

Users can now hide like counts– prevent themselves from seeing them on others and prevent others from theirs

New insights available for Reels and Live

Hardly suprising that this is happening but now you can turn off video/umute video in IG

IG is testing a ReShare sticker

Testing is ongoing for the ability to upload directly from desktop (at long last) (don’t forget you can currently schedule IG posts from FB Creator Studio- story scheduling coming soon!)

Twitter

Here comes Twitter Blue

They did in fact relaunch verifications but have now paused again due to how many applications came in (like who didn’t see that coming??)

Twitter Spaces can now be listened to from desktop (hosting can only be done by mobile still for now) and is now available to anyone with 600+ followers

Speaking of Spaces keep an eye out for Ticketed Spaces coming soon- initially only available to folks who have already hosted 3 Spaces and have a minimum of 1000 followers

You also now schedule Spaces in advance and it will send reminders to attendees

In case you missed it,image sizes on mobile have increased significantly

Say hi to TipJar – another new feature rolling out now

Snapchat

Snapchat now has public profies specifically for businesses/orgs

Clubhouse

Clubhouse is finally available on Android

Don’t Try This At Home

Double…triple…quadruple proofread (also who thought this was good to send to begin with??)