Marketing + Design
Launched by Breathing Room, the design-focused Necessary Trouble Toolkit is an app and initiative that helps people to take a stance against police brutality.
This week users followed the US presidential results online and prepare for the upcoming digital holiday shopping season.
This week users followed the US presidential results online and prepare for the upcoming digital holiday shopping season.
This week users took to social media to speak about the dangerous state of the climate, offline and online.
This election cycle, the line between social media and politics has become blurred, if not completely obliterated. As each social platform tries to navigate the political landscape and keep up with consumer and government demands, entrepreneurs are often scrambling to keep up with social media best practices for growing their business.
As global citizens, it’s crucial to keep up on the good and bad of social media, and to think about how we and our businesses participate in both.
Most businesses don’t want to be involved with social media companies that cause the world to be a worse place, and the social media companies realize that. This week, I note moves they’re making to improve their operations and other social media developments of interest to beauty entrepreneurs.
This week in my wrap-up of social media news, I reflect on the effects of Stop Profit for Hate, the Facebook advertising boycott, TikTok’s uncertain future and the toll social media is taking on our mental health.
Viral social media challenges illustrate that important issues can be lost in wildfire movements spreading different messages and the origins of digital phenomenon are difficult to pinpoint. They also remind us that, in a rapid social media environment, it’s often helpful to take a beat to dive into back stories.