The US Presidential Election campaigns are gaining momentum, and the expectation is that it will be one of the most divisive and volatile political battles in the nation’s history. And already, there have been accusations of questionable tactics and concerns around the use of misinformation in order to gain an advantage. Questions have been raised…
GIF platform GIPHY, which, as you may recall, was purchased by Facebook back in May, is looking to expand on its offering, with a new, custom virtual meeting background creator tool which enables you to create animated meeting backdrops to spice up your video calls. I mean, those are pretty frenetic – but they don’t have to be…
Facebook has published the latest version of its Community Standards Enforcement Report, which outlines all of the policy and rule violations that Facebook has taken action on, across both Facebook and Instagram, over the preceding three months. The latest version of the report utilizes a new layout to present the data, which is essentially a large page of…
LinkedIn has sold off its presentation platform SlideShare, which it acquired in 2012, to eBook publishing platform Scribd. Terms of the deal were not made public. As explained by Scribd: “Today, Scribd’s premium subscription service offers over 1,000,000 professionally published ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, sheet music, and magazines, alongside over 100 million documents uploaded from our community. These documents include information and…
Last month, Facebook published its first Global State of Small Business Report, which provided a snapshot of how SMBs around the world are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, based on responses from more than 30,000 small business owners across 50 countries. And the results, as you might expect, were sobering – among the keynotes. A…
LinkedIn has announced some new additions to its Sales Navigator platform, as it works to provide more solutions to help business people increasingly working remotely, and unable to hold regular face-to-face meetings with clients. First off, LinkedIn’s adding two new, machine learning-enabled alerts, which will help to keep salespeople aware of relevant activity around their business….
Amid speculation over its future in the US, TikTok’s counteroffensive, thus far, has largely revolved around showcasing the value its platform provides for Americans – both in terms of general usage and in creating new opportunities in jobs, content revenue, exposure, etc. Which, in the middle of a pandemic, when unemployment figures are at record highs,…
As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, LinkedIn is also tracking its impacts on the US job market via its ‘Workforce Insights’ blog, including in-demand positions, employer and employee outlook, overall jobs’ growth, etc. But fair warning: A lot of the information is, as you would expect, fairly negative, and it may not be beneficial to keep tabs on…
Facebook is adding another new feature for groups, with a new post-level analytics option which will provide more context as to how people are engaging with group updates. As explained by Facebook: “With post-level metrics, admins can easily see the reach of a post with the unique number of people who’ve seen the post as well as engagement…
Instagram is making a new push to stamp out bot accounts via a new process that will require the owners of profiles found to be connected with suspicious behavior to provide identification information to confirm that they are, in fact, a real person. As per Instagram: “We want the content you see on Instagram to be authentic and…