Political Social Grab Bag – May 2019

Political Social Grab Bag

What am I thinking about?

This year we are debuting a brand new curriculum as our Advanced Digital Organizing Bootcamp (huge shout out to trainers and co-conspirators Jay Carmona, Malinda Frevert, Ali Savino, Sandi Fox, Lola Elfman and more to be announced soon!) This has me thinking about what other new curriculums we could be developing.  Some of the ones we are considering include:

1 Day Digital Rapid Response Workshop

2 Day Digital Analytics Deep Dive

1 Day Social Listening Workshop

Webinar series of “refresher” style sessions designed as updates for people who have been practicing the art of digital for a while but need an update on things like algorithm changes and new tools/tactics/strategies

What other curriculums would you like to see us develop? Shoot us an email at training@beckerdigitalstrategies.com and let’s get to work!

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

The dealine for applications for our August Advanced Digital Organizing Bootcamp is May 15!

July 8 & 9 in Philadelphia we will be doing our 2 day Train the Trainer– this is not a digital specific training rather it’s intended for anyone who wants to become a trainer or uplevel their training skills.

While not an actual training to sign up for we are proud to have been contributors to the new TechYourself guide for candidates that was publicly announced last week at the New Founders Conference in Chicago.

Stay tuned for announcements in the next 2 weeks about trainings in Atlanta, Arkansas and more.

What am I reading?

“The Left Can’t Meme”: How Right-Wing Groups Are Training the Next Generation of Social Media Warriors– 1. Not true. and 2. We’re still not doing enough training…if you’d like us to come do training in your city email us…we have a whole team of trainers we are partnering with that can teach you and your friends what you need to know to win the internet

Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter– Not much in here to disagree with other than to point out that perception is everything and regardless of what they claim to be doing behind the scenes it is not apparent to those of us on the outside

Privacy Scandals Haven’t Dented Social Media Use According to New Pew Report– We’ve been saying this for a while: A lot of the talk around a boycott of social media because of all the data privacy issues is a pretty inside baseball thing and the numbers don’t show that big of decline in usage so as organizations working to organize people we also need to keep using social media in order to reach people where they are

New Tools of Interest

Say hello to Byte– the new Vine

Creative Commons has launched a search engine for creative commons licensed images

Platform Updates

Facebook

Meet Click-Gap – a new signal for the algorithm in further attempts to limit the spread of #fakenews

It’s not very surprising to see that Facebook may start to migrate Messenger back into the main Facebook environment

New inventory filter available in ads manager to better allow us to control what kind of content our ads show up on

Keep an eye out for this hybrid carousel of newsfeed and stories– We wouldn’t be surprised to see it stick around

Now in official testing: fonts!

Instagram

Yes please

Twitter

You can now add .srt files to videos

Twitter now limits each user to only following 400 new people per day (we think that’s still an awfully high number btw)

Snapchat

New on Snapchat: location check-ins

Other Platforms

Looks like Vimeo is getting ready to make a bigger play for our online video viewing time

Don’t Try This At Home

Oh look…Chase being tone-deaf again

Winning the Internet

As always Oreo wins the month

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