May 12, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook’s redesigned desktop site is now available globally. It will be now faster, easier to use and gives your eyes a break with dark mode.

✔️Facebook is rolling out a new 'Support Small Business' sticker for Instagram, which includes not only the new sticker itself, but also lets you share thumbnail images of the latest three Instagram posts from the business that you choose to highlight within your Story.
Read more about Facebook's latest SMB tools here.

✔️Pinterest has announced the launch of their updated Pinterest Business Community platform, which aims to facilitate discussion about Pinterest tactics, and other business tips, among Pinterest users. You can access the Pinterest Business Community platform here.

✔️NEW PODCAST: 14 Simple Ways to Make Money Online Right This Second

Holidays:

• Numeracy Day

• Top Gun Day

• Receptionists’ Day

• Apple Pie Day

• World Cocktail Day

• International Hummus Day

• Leprechaun Day

• Root Canal Appreciation Day

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May 11, 2020

Updates:

✔️Instagram is testing out some new ways to navigate through your Stories feed in the app, in order to help you find more Stories content that you’re interested in.

✔️Pinterest has announced that they have updated their Shopify app, adding a new option that will let you, as a Shopify merchant, quickly and easily feed your entire product catalog directly into shoppable Pins.

✔️Google has added some new tricks to their Lens visual identification tool, including an option for you to scan in hand-written text, then share it for use across various applications in one-tap.

Holidays:

• Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

• Poem on Your Pillow Day

• Odometer Day

• Nutty Fudge Day

• Limerick Day

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May 8, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook has published a new set of tips on how to create an effective social media content calendar, while they also provided a basic content calendar template to help you get started on mapping out your strategy.

✔️Pinterest has added a new set of planning tools within Pins and boards in order to help you keep track of ideas and inspiration as you search across the billions of Pins on their network.

✔️Pinterest also published a 14-page guide, titled ‘'How to Inspire Through Uncertainty”, to provide an overview of the key stages of recovery, and how marketers should consider focusing on each.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

Holidays:

Saturday, May 9th is 

• Windmill Day

• Train Day

• Fair Trade Day

• Bellydance Day

• Lost Sock Memorial Day

Sunday, May 10th is

• Mother’s Day

• Mother Ocean Day

• Stay Up All Night Night

• World Lupus Day

• One Day Without Shoes Day

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May 7, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook is updating its group settings to stop any Facebook Group, of any size, from changing its settings from 'private' to 'public', in order to protect group users from unintended exposure.

✔️Twitter has announced that you will now see their new threaded tweet replies layout, which includes a line linking replies to the original tweet, that is, if you are on iOs or on the web.

✔️Twitter has launched a new, limited test on iOS which will provide warnings on tweet replies that include potentially harmful language, and could cause unnecessary angst.

Holidays:

• No Socks Day

• World Donkey Day

• Ovarian Cancer Day

• Public Gardens Day

• Military Spouse Appreciation Day

• Free Trade Day

• Iris Day

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May 6, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook is going to be hosting a bunch of online sessions focused on helping you make the most out of your Facebook groups. Click here to view all the sessions from Facebook's first Community Connect event and all upcoming education sessions.

✔️Twitter has published their latest overview of the month ahead, including a listing of all the key dates of note. Click here to read more tips from Twitter, or download Twitter's full 2020 calendar for reference.

Holidays:

• Password Day

• Roast Leg of Lamb Day

• Love’s Baby Soft Day

• Cosmopolitan Day

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May 5, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook is working on a 'Hit Me Up' sticker for Facebook Stories, which would provide the same functionality with Instagram Stories’ new ‘DM Me’ sticker.

✔️LinkedIn is making their new Stories feature available to users in Brazil, as they prepare for a wider launch of the function.

✔️NEW PODCAST: Stress-Busting Strategies for the Busy Entrepreneur

Holidays:

• No Diet Day

• Golf Day

• Beverage Day

• No Homework Day

• School Nurse Day

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May 4, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook is working with Google to allow us to easily transfer all of our Facebook photo and video content to Google Photos. Click here to check out the process.

✔️Instagram is rolling out some new font options for Stories, including new background effects to make your text stand out.

✔️LinkedIn’s adding a new way to help employers and candidates connect via video. Click here to read more .

Holidays:

• Nail Day

• Teacher Appreciation Day

• International Midwives’ Day

• Hoagie Day

• Asthma Day

• Cartoonists’ Day

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May 1, 2020

Updates:

✔️Instagram is working on a new 'DM Me' sticker for Instagram Stories, which would prompt direct message engagement from your Stories content by tapping on the sticker image.

✔️Google has announced that Google Meet will be made available, for free, to everyone, for meetings of up to 100 people at a time, for up to 60 minutes in duration - and even longer until September 30th.

✔️Recap of this week’s news..

Holidays:

Saturday, May 2nd is 

• Naked Gardening Day

• Infidelity Hurts Awareness Day

• Join Hands Day

• Baby Day

• Free Comic Book Day

• International Astronomy Day

Sunday, May 3rd is

• World Laughter Day

• Garden Meditation Day

• Two Different Colored Shoes Day

• Paranormal Day

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