August 6, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook has announced a new slate of free education sessions and awareness programs as part of National Black Business Month. The main focus of the new program is business education and support. Read more about Facebook's Black Business Month events here.

✔️Instagram Reels launched yesterday. Read more about this update here.

✔️Big YouTube accounts are being plagued by hackers promoting Bitcoin scams resembling the hack that compromised Twitter. Click here to read more.

✔️Microsoft has six weeks to close one of the strangest deals in tech industry history. They publicly announced they were in talks with President Trump to buy portions of TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance. Click here to read more about this news.

✔️Google is expanding the capabilities of their Assistant on smart displays and speakers to make it easier for families that are homeschooling their children during the pandemic. Read more about the new features here.

✔️Zoom added some  silly filters and more noise suppression options. Click here to read more about this update.

✔️NEW PODCAST: 11 Ways to Automate Your Business

Holidays:

• Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day

• International Beer Day

• Aged Care Employee Day

• Professional Speakers Day

• Lighthouse Day

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August 5, 2020

Updates:

✔️YouTube Music is adding a new feature that will let you play ‘recommended music’ via Google Assistant. So just say “Hey Google, play recommended music from YouTube Music”. Click here to learn more about this update.

✔️Facebook has launched a new update for its Messenger chat plug-in for websites, which lets you prompt direct message conversations with visitors to your site via a pop-up chat window. Click here to install the plug-in and for setup instructions.

Holidays:

• Fresh Breath Day

• Balloons to Heaven Day

• Farmworker Appreciation Day

• International Sailor Moon Day

• India Pale Ale Day

• Root Beer Float Day

• Wiggle Your Toes Day

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August 4, 2020

Updates:

✔️Twitter surveys users on possible options for tweet subscriptions. Click here to learn more about this update.

Holidays:

• Work Like a Dog Day

• Blogger Day

• Oyster Day

• Underwear Day

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August 3, 2020

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Updates:

✔️In Facebook news, if you are a fan of music videos… they are bringing official music videos to Facebook in the US

✔️The FBI announced on Friday that in regard to the recent hack on Twitter, a Florida teen, he’s 17, was arrested in his own apartment, and is now being held in custody, and facing over 30 felony counts.

✔️Tiktok responds to possible US ban. They were not planning on going anywhere.

✔️ Microsoft has confirmed reports that they were in talks with President Trump to acquire Tiktok.

Holidays:

• Coast Guard Day

• International Clouded Leopard Day

• Single Working Women’s Day

• Assistance Dog Day

• Night Out

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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

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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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July 30, 2020

Updates:

✔️An Awesome Marketing Book: ”InstaBrain: The New Rules for Marketing to Generation Z” by Sarah Weise

Holidays:

• Raspberry Cake Day

• Talk in an Elevator Day

• Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day

• System Administrator Appreciation Day

• World Ranger Day

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July 29, 2020

Updates:

✔️An Awesome Professional Development Book: ”Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert

Holidays:

• Chili Dog Day

• Cheese Cake Day

• Friendship Day

• Paperback Book Day

• International Day of Friendship

• Share a Hug Day

• Intern Day

• Father-in-law Day

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July 28, 2020

Updates:

✔️An Awesome Professional Development Book:“Book Yourself Solid” by Michael Port

✔️NEW PODCAST: Essentialism: An Interview with Greg McKeown

Holidays:

• International Tiger Day

• Rain Day

• Lipstick Day

• International Chicken Wing Day

• Lasagna Day

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