Political Social Grab Bag – November 2023

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What am I thinking about?

More and more people are leaving/deactivating on Twitter/X yet for the work we do in advocacy and political organizing there are still use cases for continuing to use the platform. Personally, I can’t remember the last time I opened Twitter for any reason other than client work. That being said, something I’ve been mulling over for the last few months is the platforms update section of this newsletter. This month I’m going to test out a new way of grouping the platforms: Meta, Fediverse and Other. Let me know what you think!

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

For those of you in the Canadian Labour world:

5 day Digital Strategy Training– Edmonton November 13-18

 

We are working on our 2024 training schedule…including a return to doing Digital Bootcamp in person. If there are trainings you’d like to see on the schedule or your organization is interested in cohosting a training in your city it’s never too soon to reach out and let’s figure it out!

What am I reading?

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible.– For anyone trying to convince their powers that be that it’s time to leave Twitter, NPR has very publicly shared some data about what happened when they did just that

Great news- social media is falling apart – Just read this one…I think it puts into words a lot of what many of us have been thinking in terms of the coming embrace of social media in niches instead of large generic communities

The hottest new social media is the messaging app on your phone – Following up on the above article, another good read on the topic

New Tools of Interest

Canva Magic Studio– not a new tool per se but a whole bunch of new AI tools within Canva

Lipdub – New free iOS app (no android app yet but hopefully it’s coming) to dub your video into another language with 28 language options

Platform Updates

Meta (Facebook/Instagram/Threads/WhatsApp/Messenger)

Fediverse (BlueSky/Mastodon)

Bluesky: Meet Graysky the first Bluesky 3rd party app

WordPress: WordPress blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms

Other

Pebble (formerly T2) is shutting down today

TwitterX: Link tweets no longer show anything other than an image

Artifact: You can now use AI to generate images for your posts

TikTok: From the it’s about time file, all videos will soon get default auto captions

TikTok: 15 minute videos? So much for short form video being the king of all things

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