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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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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