May 15, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook's Fidji Simo today confirmed that the cartoonish likenesses will be available in the US from today. Read more about how to create your own Facebook Avatar here.

✔️Facebook announced that Messenger Rooms will also be available within groups and events, providing another engagement option within smaller audience subsets.

✔️Google has outlined their new option to group tabs in Chrome, with color-coding on each group to make them easier to keep.

✔️LinkedIn made their ‘Events’ option available for all company pages early last month. And now, they are looking to add more capacity for hosting professional events, by adding LinkedIn Live into the events stream, which will enable the full broadcast of your virtual functions direct on the platform. Read more about LinkedIn'' virtual events here.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

Holidays:

Saturday, May 16th is 

• World Whisky Day

• Drawing Day

• Sea Monkey Day

• World Fiddle Day

• Plant a Lemon Tree Day

• Waiters Day

• Learn to Swim Day

• World Fish Migration Day

• Biographers Day

• Horse Rescue Day

Sunday, May 17th is

• Work From Home Day

• International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

• Pinot Grigio Day

• World Baking Day

• World Telecommunications Day

• World Hypertension Day

• Pack Rat Day

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May 14, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook has announced a new set of brand safety controls, which will give you more control over your ad placements across Facebook's various ad streams.

✔️Twitter has now officially launched new retweets with comments listing.

✔️Instagram is rolling out a new bulk comment removal process. Read more about Instagram’s latest user control control updates.

✔️LinkedIn has now officially launched their new native polls option.

Holidays:

• Chocolate Chip Day

• Bike To Work Day

• Bring Flowers To Someone Day

• Shades Day

• Nylon Stockings Day

• Virtual Assistants Day

• Pizza Party Day

• Endangered Species Day

• Straw Hat Day

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May 13, 2020

Updates:

✔️Google has announced an expansion of their Grow with Google training and education courses, with a new series of online sessions designed specifically to meet increased need during the crisis. You can register for any of the available courses using your Google account here.

✔️Google has added a new 'curbside pickup' listing option for businesses, via both local inventory ads and Google My Business profiles. Read more about the new options here.

Holidays:

• Chicken Dance Day

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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.
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✔️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.

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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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