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As a way to celebrate black history, TikTok has announced a Black History Month program, which will highlight some of the top talent from the black community in the app. This program is part of TikTok’s larger initiative ‘Visionary Voices’ that has been running for three years now – where TikTok shares the best performing and most influential creators on its app.

 

TikTok’s 2024 #BlackTikTok Visionary Voices List shines a spotlight on black creators, business owners, as well as industry disruptors that have used their creativity to generate a positive influence across TikTok and other platforms.

 



TikTok Introduces a Bunch of Initiatives and Activities in Celebration of Black History

The 25 Largest Urban Parks in the World

Urban parks are incredibly valuable for the health and welfare of people of all ages. They enrich the community, protect the environment and its inhabitants, and even boost the economy. City parks offer plenty of recreational opportunities, bolster property values, help reduce crime, purify and cool the air, keep municipal waters clean, and much more.

The 25 Largest Urban Parks in the World #Infographic



Meta is bringing two new features to WhatsApp as part of its Community tab: one that provides better privacy to community group chats, and another that makes it easier to find groups that users have in common.

 


Community group chat is a relatively new element in WhatsApp that was launched last year. Its purpose is to house multiple sub-groups of larger groups like organizations and schools, and it can hold up to 5,000 users, support video calls for up to 32 participants, and enable group-wide admin announcements.

WhatsApp’s Latest Features for Community Chats Improve Group Privacy and the Ability to Search for Groups



In a limited alpha test, Meta is introducing the ability to form curated communities on its Horizon Worlds platform. These are known as ‘Members-Only’ Worlds that are limited to 150 members and 25 concurrent visitors.

 

Within these spaces, users of Horizon Worlds can create groups based on shared interests, such as book clubs, gaming groups, VIP creator supporters, or just hangout spots for friends. In other words, it’s like a Facebook Groups experience but in VR.

 

Creators of Members-Only worlds will have complete control over these Worlds, including who can access them and what goes on inside them. In Meta’s words, the goal is “to put design in the creators’ hands so that they can fully craft the experience they want to offer others.”

Meta Introduces ‘Members-Only Worlds’ in Horizon Worlds



Reddit has brought a new way to interact within communities to its platform by enabling image posting within comment threads.

 

Reddit’s chat threads are already engaging enough, thus being able to share your favourite images or memes will add more context and make conversations more interesting.

Reddit Enables Selected Users to Post Images in Comment Threads



To celebrate innovative and creative people on its platform, TikTok has released a ‘Discover List’ of 50 “game changing” content creators that have contributed to community work or other positive impacts in 2022. “They entertain, shine light on important topics, educate, and inspire,” says TikTok about these creators.

 

Each creator’s special contribution is determined by a category. There are five categories in total and each represents ten creators. The categories are: Changemakers, Foodies, Icons, Innovators, and Originators.

 

Creators highlighted in the Discover List will be displayed on brand channels on TikTok, while a special digital booklet is also dedicated to them, containing their description and overview of their work.

TikTok Reveals Meaningful Contribution of Creators on its App Via ‘Discover List 2022’



WhatsApp has released a new engagement feature for group chats called Communities, which is aimed to create organized conversations between multiple groups.  

 

WhatsApp users will be able to connect groups under one common and relevant topic, and switch between these groups in the Community. A description and list of subgroups will be displayed in the Community.

WhatsApp Introduces ‘Communities’ – Topic Based Discussions for Group Chats



From time to time, Meta introduces new features to assist creators on its platforms in maximizing their content reach. As a recent update, the company has announced some new elements dedicated to its creator community, including new endorsement notifications, Rising Creator titles, new templates for Stories, an exclusive post option for subscribers, and a composer selector option.

 

The Creator Endorsement feature is designed for those who manage a Creator Page, to allow them to recommend another creator’s Page to their followers via direct notification. This is a beneficial tool to bring people’s attention to fellow creators, so they can build their connections.

 


The Rising Creator feature also serves a similar purpose, as it gives creators a title that makes them stand out as someone with a strong audience engagement and quality content. The title is awarded for one week at a time, is re-evaluated weekly, and displayed on a creator’s Page.

Meta Announces New Creator-Focused Features; Including Creator Endorsement, New Templates and More

Is the Gaming Community too Toxic?

The toxicity that has developed throughout time in the gaming world was brought to light with ‘Gamergate’ in the year 2014. Several female gamers reported that they has been a target of bullying, sexual harassment and even received death threats from other online users. This dangerous world of anger, prejudice and misogyny became clear for the world to see.

Statistics from Statista’s Global Consumer Survey (GCS) shows that even several years later the toxic behavior in online gaming community hasn’t ended. Data shows that approximately one in five U.S. gamers report that sexism and toxic behavior are issues they have to face till date.  

Is the Gaming Community too Toxic? #Infographic

Infographic to the century of Chinese Communist Party

Decades ago on July 23rd, 1921, a group of Chinese revolutionaries formed a Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. The party was founded secretly after the inspiration from the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. At that time, China was wrecked and deprived of strength as a result of the Civil War. On July 1st, 2021, the country has marked the centenary of its Communist Party.

In 1949, the country faced the backing of the rural population mostly however, the CCP achieved success in routing the nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek. In the same year, on October 1st, the People’s Republic of China in Beijing was proclaimed by the Chairman of the Communist Party, Mao Zedong.

After gaining power and authority, Mao made his attempts to boost industrial development in the country. But, he had some disastrous policies such as the Great Leap Forward of 1958. It was basically an agricultural collectivization campaign that ultimately resulted in the starving death of nearly 30 million people.

Infographic to the century of Chinese Communist Party #infographic

Topmost values that have the power to move mountains

Whether it is a business or community, the importance of values always tops the list. Many cultures around the world have sworn their rules around certain values that must always be acted upon. These values are a rulebook for the people who want to live a simple, happy, and just life. Similarly, the following infographic focuses on the topmost values that are believed to influence a larger group of audience across the nations.

Topmost values that have the power to move mountains #infographic


Facebook has launched limited testing of a new option for Groups this week and it is called Neighborhoods. Apart from the rise in usage of Facebook Groups especially due to the pandemic, Groups has always been an effective tool for local communities to engage effectively. The new feature of Neighborhoods is aimed at maximizing social connection within users’ immediate vicinity.  


The tool is already available to a number of users, including those in Calgary, Canada. A preview of the Neighborhood tool shows a ‘get started’ prompt to connect with neighbors and discover more about local happenings within the app. 


Users would be taken to a step-by-step process to create their Neighborhoods profile. It starts with first confirming location to make sure that a user is in the relevant group. The profile will be separate from the user’s main Facebook profile and will provide the ability to connect with others in the local community. 

Facebook Introduces ‘Neighborhoods’ Tool in Groups

Gen Zer community comes together to support futuristic achievements

The fact that a considerable part of this world is marked by the people younger than 25 is enough to confer to the importance of the younger generation. When a community comes together to bring a change in the society, it lays emphasis on the power of man force, but when a community of younger generation comes together to bring change, the impact rate is massive and beyond anyone’s imagination because it lingers on in the minds of people and goes from generations to generations.

Gen Zer community comes together to support futuristic achievements #infographic


Facebook hosted its yearly event of Communities Summit, which was held online this year and revealed a range of new features that the company has introduced for Groups, and provided insights related to other important aspects of Groups such as usage and engagement.  


Regarding usage of Groups, Facebook has observed a noticeable rise in their usage during the coronavirus pandemic. More than 1.8 billion are estimated to have been spending time on Groups each month. Compared to the statistics of last year, a total number of 4 billion additional users are using Groups this year. Moreover, more than 70 billion users have been organizing and managing Groups as admins globally.  


Facebook’s original purpose behind Groups was to help bring people closer together, and that is certainly what the feature has been doing as more and more people have started to stay connected via Groups while staying at home.  


Facebook has launched a bunch of new tools for Group Admins to help them have better control over Groups and manage them more easily.  


One of the main tools is called Admin Assist, which has been designed to allow admins to set up automated rules for post moderation, so they can filter problematic posts more easily. This includes automatically declining posts containing certain keywords or links, or posts that have been made by inactive members of the Group. Basically, it allows admins control over what content is published on the Group and who posts it. Admins can save more time and effort with this feature. 

 


The feature will be available over the coming months according to Facebook, and could be used on desktop only, initially.  


The other interesting feature is that of Group Topics. This includes topics that can be ‘'pinned’' within groups along with hashtags. To add a topic, members or admins can simply use a hashtag before a keyword or phrase and admins can then pin topics at the top of the Group, where they can be easily seen. It looks like that with this tool, Facebook is trying to use hashtags as a way of sorting content. Earlier this week, it had also launched a hashtag challenge for Group admins to increase engagement within Groups. 



Furthermore, a new Community Management Certification course is also being offered by Facebook, which is aimed at helping admins improve their management skills and would also provide post insights and group activity analytics, so admins can get more context on how to build group engagement.  


Facebook’s existing tool of Brand Collabs Manager is also getting a new feature of Group Promotions. The Brand Collabs Manager was designed as a partnership tool by the company to help admins generate revenue from their efforts and allow brands to reach highly engaged audiences based on Group discussion. Now by adding the option of Group Promotions to this tool, brands are being provided new connection opportunities for sponsored content. 

Facebook Announces New Features for Groups to Maximize Community Engagement

Facebook brings ‘Watch Together’ feature for Messenger

Facebook has been seen to constantly work on rolling out new and better features for its users to help them connect to their friends and families much easier. Even after being miles apart, you can contact your close ones through Facebook Messenger in no time. Since we all know how fun sharing memes with each other is but sometimes, you need to see the real-time expressions and reactions of your friends on a particular video.

As per Facebook’s analysis, more than 200 million videos are sent on Messenger every day, whereas 150 million video calls are made. The Watch Together feature will help you share the videos with your friends while being on a video call and watch together to see the real-time expressions.

Distances can create a sense of loneliness among people; hence, Facebook came up with the idea of Watch Together in order to help its users with an amazing experience that makes them feel as if they are together with their loved ones. Any type of video including, sports highlights, news highlights, a movie, a meme, trending videos, etc. can be watched together with your friends.

Facebook brings ‘Watch Together’ feature for Messenger

Twitter has announced that it is introducing two new teams, the Accessibility Center of Excellence and the Experience Accessibility Team to make its platform more accessible. 


The social media company states that it realized after testing Voice Tweets earlier this summer, that it still needs to do more work in terms of making the platform more inclusive for the disabled community. To fulfill the purpose, it has created the two new teams. Both the teams will specifically focus on the features and products on Twitter. 


According to Twitter, its Accessibility Center for Excellence team will be responsible to set goals, drive progress, and consult and partner with groups across Twitter's core business functions to help make aspects of the company more accessible, including Twitter's office space, marketing and communication strategies, legal and policy standards, and other areas. 


The Experience Accessibility Team, on the other hand will work on both Twitter's new and existing products and features to promote greater accessibility on the service. Moreover, this team will work with the Accessibility Center for Excellence to ensure accountability in identifying and filling accessibility gaps throughout the product development lifecycle. 

Twitter Creates New Teams to Promote Greater Accessibility Across its Platform


TikTok announced that it has been working on improving its policies towards hateful content and behavior, with the aim to make the platform hate-free. The company is doing so to ensure safety for the diverse range of users that engage on TikTok, so they can express themselves freely and have a positive experience on the app. 


According to TikTok, it is working in five ways to counter hateful content on its platform.


First, the company is evolving its hate speech policy. In its community guidelines, TikTok defines hate speech as ''content that intends to or does attack, threaten, incite violence against, or dehumanize an individual or group of individuals on the basis of protected attributes like race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, and more." The company has expanded its policies to counter hate by accounting for scenarios that make users feel excluded and marginalized. 


The company is working hard towards removing hateful content and banning accounts that promote it. It is also taking action against race-based harassment and denial of violent tragedies by removing content related to these things. According to TikTok, it has removed over 380,000 videos and 64,000 comments in the U.S. since the beginning of this year that promoted hateful content. It has also banned more than 1,300 accounts that violated the platform's hate speech policy. 


TikTok is also working on a strategy to make it harder for people to search for hateful content and accounts, so a more positive and joyful environment can be created on the app. If someone searches for a hateful ideology or group, the company will refrain from showing results or redirect the search to its community guidelines to educate people about its policies against hateful content and behavior. 

TikTok Improves its Policies Towards Hateful Content

App-Based Giving For Religious Communities
The purpose of a religious community is to serve the community, and right now it’s very difficult to make that happen. The problem is that religious communities usually meet in person and offerings are given in person, as well. Because religious services aren’t happening in person at the moment because of the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities are struggling to keep their programs afloat as funds dwindle. Fortunately, there’s a better way to handle religious offerings during social distancing.

App-Based Giving For Religious Communities #Infographic

20 Years of Salesforce

Salesforce completed 20 years recently. The celebrations were grand with thousands of employees and trailblazers and Ohana family joining in. The world’s no. 1 CRM has come a long way since its inception, which you can witness through this infographic!

20 Years of Salesforce #infographics

A Map of Disney’s Worldwide Assets

Who owns ESPN? Who owns ABC? Does Disney own Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar? The answer is yes, and more — a lot more. We’ve made a map of the companies owned by Disney along with the wide swath of departments and Walt Disney Company subsidiaries. Massive corporations may be too big to grasp sometimes, but this huge list of assets of the Walt Disney Corporation can help media consumers untangle the great network of the mouse.

A Map of Disney’s Worldwide Assets #infographic

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