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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Digital Trends. Lots of discussion threads that come out of Reddit such as “I can’t believe that someone who is a minister acted this way.” Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community. 3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Shares is a new stock trading app with a focus on social features

TechCrunch

Meet Shares , a new European startup that wants to add a social twist to financial investment — in this case, the company means “social” as in “social network” The startup has been developing its product under the radar for a few months already. It is also moving at a fast pace.

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Zebra raises $1.1M in a pre-seed round for messaging that pairs photos with voice chat

TechCrunch

With the pre-seed funding, led by Alexis Ohanian’s fresh early stage venture firm Seven Seven Six, which the Reddit co-founder announced in June. Gecaj sees voice-based social networking as a much richer alternative to text-dominant platforms. ” Swell launches its app for asynchronous voice conversations.

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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

TechCrunch

Reddit launched its own NFT avatar marketplace in July and earlier this month Estonian startup Ready Player Me raised $56 million led by a16z for a similar vision. “The reason why I think avatar ecosystems are going to be the mobile apps of web3 is because you see two massive consumer trends currently being perpetuated.

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Can “Viral” Videos Really Create Social Change?

Care2

People have been so moved by the video and story that they are sharing it across social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, by the minute. It quickly made the front page of Reddit, and people have been re-pinning “Kony 2012” images on Pintrest.

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. Anne was excited, but still wary about how much of her job she could actually commit to this social media stuff. Track Referrals and Traffic Trends.

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How real-world violence led Facebook to overturn its most controversial policy

The Verge

The biggest trend at platforms this month is changing your mind. I tell this story because I suspect that I am not the only American whose instinctive defenses of the First Amendment have been increasingly challenged by the rise of right-wing extremism — a good deal of which has been organized on, and amplified by, social networks.

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