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July 31, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook is trying to lure some of the big influencers on TikTok over to their new version of the app, called Reels. Click here to read more.

✔️Facebook also just released their tenth new app, it’s a collage board tool called E.gg. Read more about this update here.

✔️Also in Facebook news...their 'Summer of Support' business education program continues this week, with a range of courses looking at how businesses can use Messenger, Facebook groups and more. Click here to read more about Summer of Support.

✔️The CEOs of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple all faced the House Judiciary Committee in the US last Wednesday, as part of a five-hour hearing which intended to establish whether the tech giants have been operating in an anti-competitive manner. Learn more about this news here.

✔️Twitter has updated its policies to now include links to hateful content within its parameters to unacceptable activity. Read more about this update here.

✔️US-based TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has issued his first public statement, in which he takes an aggressive stance in facing up to the challenges posed by regulators and competitors, whom, he says, are seeking to shut the app down. More about this news here.

✔️ Recap of this week’s news

✔️Hey Don’t miss the Front Row Friday show, I’m going to Livestream @9AM ET on Facebook with all of these updates from the week, along with any cool new tools I’ve discovered, book shares and maybe a few handy business and marketing tips. You can go to my facebook page, it’s @thejenlehner or join our community, The Front Row and that’s at frontrowclassroom.com

Holidays:

For the month of August

  • Admit You're Happy Month

  • Family Fun Month

  • National Catfish Month

  • National Eye Exam Month

  • National Golf Month

  • Peach Month

  • Romance Awareness Month

  • Water Quality Month

  • Inventor’s Month

And Saturday is

  • Planner Day

  • Respect for Parents Day

  • Yorkshire Day

  • World Wide Web Day

  • Disc Golf Day

  • Sandcastle Day

  • World Lung Cancer Day

  • Raspberry Cream Pie Day

And Sunday is

  • Sisters’ Day

  • Doll Day

  • Ice Cream Sandwich Day

  • Coloring Book Day

  • Psychic Day

 
 

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