Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! You probably noticed that about my tag stream. Step 1: Discuss Tagging Policy.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Lenovo has adopted the roomier 16:10 and 3:2 aspect ratios on a number of its premium ThinkPads, and HP should do the same with the Dragonfly. Coworkers on a Zoom call remarked that they could make out surprisingly minute details of my feed: strands of hair, my nose stud, etc. I do have a couple other complaints.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2021

Yes, I will feed hungry children, yes, I will cure a terrible disease, yes, I will save animals, the environment – yes, I will save the planet! It requires more “you” than “we/us” in the messaging (a good rule of thumb: you/us ratio in a message of 3/1). Ah, the new donor. A relationship rife with possibility.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

It also has access to other popular streaming services, like Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, and HBO Max. The tablet’s relatively small screen and widescreen aspect ratio also make things quite small to work with when you have two apps open. Google Meet. Feedly (the poorly rated third-party app I tried crashed on login).

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2021

The living room has been where I’ve set up a desktop for the past five years in my apartment, but while working from home the past year, I decided to separate my work into two spaces: the one in the living room for most Verge stuff during the week, and then the other for personal projects like my Etsy store, Twitch stream, personal blog, or podcast.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

A third said he didn’t think the gender ratio mattered. The Twitch stream crashed, and people began spamming the chat with “rug,” slang in cryptocurrency for a “rug pull,” or when a project’s owners run away with investor money. It also had the best ratio of men to women of all the parties; there was even a line at the women’s room.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Among other things, it has pushed Spotify to buy up the crown jewels of American podcasting , to reduce its head-to-head competition with Apple over music streaming.). It has definitely felt way more like a news app to me than ever before since Black Lives Matter protests took over the stories feed this month.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

And so I think every creator will have their own twist on this, and will have their own sort of ratio of how they want to mix their content. There are some nuances that are different about not having a video stream to accompany your enforcement techniques, but there’s a lot of shared attributes in moderation here.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

In its lunatic whipsawing between companies, issues, and conspiracy theories , Wednesday’s antitrust hearing resembled nothing so much as an endlessly scrolling social media feed. Three streamers who were recently banned or suspended from Twitch and Facebook following accusations of sexual harassment have shifted to streaming on YouTube.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Trending up : Facebook pinned a box with information about voter registration on the top of the News Feed for every US user who is of voting age. However, Instagram doesn’t have the same sort of two-tabbed, scrollable feed, like TikTok offers, just for watching Reels’ content. Host a charity stream. Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It bubbled to the top of the feeds, and inspired many anguished comments. Facebook’s streaming platform, Facebook Watch, has reached 1.25 Facebook Watch introduced a new feature called “Your Topics” that will allow you to further personalize your feed. I have no doubt it will make Facebook a better place to work. Which, come on.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Discussion of this story dominated my feeds on Sunday. One, the people in my feeds mostly like to see the president made to look foolish. Microsoft is shutting down its streaming platform Mixer on July 22nd. The post includes tips for personalizing the feed to avoid being served random videos you might not be interested in.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The president was prevented from streaming after airing an old rally in which he called Mexican immigrants criminals and “rapists.” After this woman was diagnosed with cancer, her Facebook feed came to be dominated by ads for phony “alternative” cures. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ??

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

We would all benefit, I think, from having greater insight into how social networks choose what to show us in our feeds. But Amazon’s monopoly ensures there’s an endless stream of people willing to try. Some writers thought a smart take about the hearing would sound something like: “who cares, this won’t change anything.” Governing. ?

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

But the conversations stalled because taking down QAnon-related groups, pages and accounts could feed into the movement’s conspiracy theory that social media companies are trying to silence them, the people said. Taiwan is planning to ban mainland Chinese streaming services iQiyi and Tencent Holdings from operating on the island.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Blending talking-head interviews with some well known Silicon Valley apostates and fictional, after-school special-style dramatizations of what happens when Johnny and Janey scroll through feeds all day, the film presents itself as an urgent warning about our modern condition. I’m more than a little sympathetic to these concerns.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Last week I wrote about how Facebook’s vast size and monarchic corporate structure had contributed to a steady stream of controversies all summer. My Twitter feed melted down over these comments on Sunday. Today let’s talk about Facebook’s Oversight Board, the “real” Oversight Board, and what it means for the 2020 election.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

But the TikTok challenge promises to be much harder — the company will have to somehow recreate ByteDance’s powerful algorithmic feed , design a steady stream of new features and experiences to keep influencers engaged, and fend off fierce competition from Facebook, Snapchat, and a host of TikTok clones along the way.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

One, even if temporary, here’s an Amazon-owned streaming service de-platforming the president of the United States. Third, the stream that led to this de-platforming was a video from 2015 that had aired on many mainstream television stations. Let’s count the ways in which this is a big deal. Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

And I think the other thing would be, we’re working on a lot of work streams now to give more people voice in the development of products. Instagram, however, doesn’t have the same sort of two-tabbed, scrollable feed, like TikTok offers today. Amazon added live streaming to its existing Amazon Influencer Program.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Platforms do not disclose, for example, the data they collect, the testing they do, how their algorithms order news feeds and recommendations, political ad information, or moderation rules and actions.” People are streaming chess games on Twitch. That’s a revealing comparison and one that should help guide reform efforts.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As on Twitter, the app opens to a central scrolling feed of updates from people and topics that you follow. The app, which like Clubhouse is available only in private beta and requires an invitation to use, resembles a hybrid of Twitter and Reddit. And as on Reddit, every post must be created within a group, which Telepath calls a “network.”.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

The video that captured the public imagination this week lacks a name as catchy as “Plandemic” — it was a live stream of a press conference organized by a group known as the Tea Party Patriots, who are funded by wealthy Republicans — but it was seen much more widely, in much less time. Indeed, on Monday we got the sequel.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Streaming channel London Real, which posted the video, reported that it was suspended by LinkedIn before its premiere. Contrast that with last month’s content moderation disaster, which was essentially a bunch of nonsense that was uttered during a live stream of a press conference. It was misinformation with a premiere date.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

TikTok is partnering with the music distribution company UnitedMasters to allow artists to share their songs directly from the app to streaming services like Apple Music , Spotify and YouTube. The “Short Videos” feature has a dedicated section within the news feed. Will Oremus / OneZero ). Industry. ? Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Sometimes I think I have bad mentions, but before I came on, I went and looked at your Twitter feed. I mean, again, what are you feeding people? This is not a website issue anymore, and most of what you’re talking about in terms of streaming and access is website- or app-driven. But Facebook is really. Your friends are there.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The rowdy feed of matches, jumble of explicit photos, and stimulating calls-to-action offering all types of sex makes it heaven for anyone looking for a good time with no filter — and hell for someone who wouldn't be caught dead clicking on a "There are hot singles in your area" ad. Is it worth $20-something per month?

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