April 30, 2020

Updates:

✔️Instagram has published a new COVID-19 playbook for businesses.

✔️WhatsApp has now officially announced the launch of their new, 8-person, encrypted video chat option, which doubles the capacity of WhatsApp group video calls.

Holidays:

• Tuba Day

• Therapeutic Massage Awareness Day

• Global Love Day

• Space Day

• Purebred Dog Day

• International Workers’ Day

• School Bus Drivers Day

• Executive Coaching Day

• Mother Goose Day

• New Home Owners Day

• School Principal’s Day

• No Pants Day

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April 29, 2020

Updates:

✔️Loom is now available for iOS.

✔️Snapchat launched a new ad offering. Check it out here.

Holidays:

• Honesty Day

• Oatmeal Cookie Day

• Poem in Your Pocket Day

• International Jazz Day

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April 28, 2020

Updates:

✔️An Awesome Professional Development Book: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

✔️NEW PODCAST: How to Host an Accountability Challenge

Holidays:

• International Dance Day

• Stop Food Waste Day

• Guide Dogs Day

• World Wish Day

• Zipper Day

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April 27, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook has announced a range of new video tools across Facebook's family of apps.

✔️Over in Google news, they will now require that all advertisers provide official documentation confirming who they are and where they're based as part of a major expansion of their ad transparency requirements.

Holidays:

• Superhero Day

• Clean Comedy Day

• Pay it Forward Day

• Shrimp Scampi Day

• Biological Clock Day

• Cubicle Day

• Blueberry Pie Day Worker’s

• Memorial Day

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April 24, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook is adding new location markers on individual business profile posts, on both Facebook and Instagram, which will highlight where the managers of that page or account are primarily located, helping to provide additional context.

✔️Facebook has added yet another tool to Facebook Stories, this time in the form of a new 'Animate' option which lets you add basic motion, of varying types, to still images.

✔️Twitter is currently testing a new display format for retweets, which would incorporate both retweets and retweets with comments into a single, overall retweet count.

✔️Zoom has released a new, large-scale update that aims to address their various security and privacy concerns. Click here to download Zoom version 5.0.

✔️Recap of this weeks’ news.

Holidays:

Saturday, April 25th is

• Veterinary Day

• Hug A Plumber Day

• Financial Independence Awareness Day

• Go Birding Day

• Save The Frogs Day

• Sense Of Smell Day

• DNA Day

• Independent Bookstore Day

• World Penguin Day

Sunday, April 26th is

• Hug An Australian Day

• PinHole Photography Day

• International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day

• Get Organized Day

• Richter Scale Day

• Help A Horse Day

• Pretzel Day

• Alien Day

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April 23, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook has announced that they are expanding ‘Avatars’, Bitmoji-like characters, across Europe.

✔️Facebook is making ‘Facebook Kids’ available in more regions, while they are also providing some new tools to help kids find and connect with others in the app.

✔️Instagram is testing a new Stories sticker option which would let you share a business profile with your followers, including a header and a three-image preview that links through to a brand's on-platform presence.

✔️Google is making Google Shopping listings available for free.

Holidays:

• Teach Your Children To Save Day

• Hairball Awareness Day

• Pig In A Blanket Day

• Firefly Day

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April 22, 2020

Updates:

✔️The U.S. Army banned its soldiers from using the popular Chinese social media app, TikTok, which is now considered a security threat.

Holidays:

• Talk Like Shakespeare Day

• Thank you Thursday

• Love Your Thighs Day

• Lost Dog Awareness Day

• World Book Night

• English Language Day

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April 21, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook looks to be testing out a new option that would alter the background color of your profile within the mobile app based on the dominant color in your profile image.

✔️LinkedIn is developing its own poll option for posts, which would give you the capacity to query your LinkedIn followers on anything and everything.

✔️NEW PODCAST: How to Identify the Next Best Step in Your Business with Mike Michalowicz

Holidays:

• World Stationery Day

• Earth Day

• Jelly Bean Day

• Bookmobile Day

• Administrative Professionals Day

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