Political Social Grab Bag – October 2019

Political Social Grab Bag

What am I thinking about?

So many things going on but I wanted to use this space this month to make sure you all saw the news and information about getting your Facebook page verified for political ads.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about FB announced this 2 weeks ago and the enforcement is expected to start mid October. You can read all of the information and how to in this blog post I wrote when they made the announcement.

Extra important note: this is separate from Political Advertiser authorization and you will need both in order to be able to run political ads on Facebook.

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Applications for the first of our 2020 Digital Organizing Bootcamps are now open and will be accepted until Dec. 1, 2019. The first bootcamp will take place at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, TN Jan 26-Feb 1, 2010. We will be announcing the dates for 2 more bootcamps to take place during the summer of 2020 and a Social Media Deep Dive in the next 2 weeks.

At the end of October I’m headed to Barcelona, Spain to parter with to lead 2 trainings- a 2 day Train the Trainer Oct 31 & Nov 1 and a Digital Organizing Bootcamp Nov 4-8.

In October and November we are again teaming up with the Digital Plan to offer a 4 session webinar course to help organizations build their End of Year Fundraising Digital Strategy. Register soon as seats are limited.

What am I reading?

JPMorgan Creates ‘Volfefe’ Index to Track Trump Tweet Impact– In case you were thinking they were just mindless drivel

U.S. online privacy rules unlikely this year, hurting big tech– Make note of a few things here 1. this article has the broad strokes of the CA law that goes into effect Jan. 1 and 2. the size of the organizations affected. We continue to monitor these laws as they work their way through the states while also keeping an eye on anything that comes to committee votes at the federal level

Platform Updates

Facebook

New placement/display for Stories from Pages

Say goodbye to Group Stories

Instagram

This is hardly surprising

In case you didn’t know that you can use FB Creator Studio to schedule Instagram posts

YouTube

YouTube is phasing out the reporting of exact subscriber counts

Snapchat

Click through to read about what Snapchat is working on for the 2020 elections

Don’t Try This At Home

It’s 2019 for love of shoes…don’t do this

Winning the Internet

September saw 2 big wins on social media

1. The Red Cross created a “choose your own adventure” on Twitter as a way to talk about the obstacles that can make it diffcult to get aid to locations in need

2. Greta #ftw