Political Social Grab Bag – May 2022

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Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Facebook Ads Training May 15 & 16 via zoom

Storytelling Strategy to Defeat Disinformation May 31 & June 1 via zoom – Application deadline May 10

Labor Digital Organizing Bootcamp– July 31- August 6. Application deadline is May 1

Advanced Digital Organizing Bootcamp– August 29- September 2 via zoom. Application deadline is July 1

New date! Digital Strategy for New Organizations– July 25 & 26 via zoom. This training is being cofacilitated by Jay Carmona of Sematonic Strategies is meant to help new organizations set up their digital program from the start and will covering topics such as basic digital strategy, staffing for digital, in house vs outside staffing, choosing CRMs and other digital tools and more.

 

What am I reading?

The Enduring Legacy of Clubhouse’s Chatty Revolution– Some good food for thought about social audio

Social Media and Political Dysfunction: A Review- Many of you have probably already read Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid (if not read that first)- this is the companion list of research that’s very well organized and worth taking a closer look at…I’ve only read about 20% of them so far- my mission right now is one a day sooo 🙂

New Tools of Interest

BeReal– is quickly climbing the downloads charts…I find it to be a little like This.us(RIP) was…the idea is one can only post once a day based on a randomly timed notification and offers no editing tools.

Platform Updates

Instagram

Algorithm Alert: Increased signal ranking for original content

New on Instagram: Social Movement Hashtags

New: Fundraisers are now available in Reels

In development: Canvas (which feels an awful lot like Google Wave with an audio aspect)

Twitter

Sooooon

Professional accounts have now rolled out to everyone (Note: it’s not yet essential unless you are running Twitter Ads but they are currently testing a profile version similar to pages that may make it essential in the near future (but who knows if Musk buys Twitter!)

Now rolling out: Business Settings for Twitter Ads Management– think Business Manager for Twittr but hopefully less of a headache- only time will tell

Now in testing: the ability to untag yourself in unwanted mentions

Now in testing: button for turning on captions on video clips

Winning the Internet and/or Don’t Try This At Home

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