Best Practices
Google Earth Timelapse
Earth Day is coming up this week and Google’s Timelapse lets you watch time unfold and witness 40 years of planetary change.
Steak-Umm Strikes Again
The meat company picked a fight with celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
log off bro https://t.co/sf4zLm33Jm
— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) April 13, 2021
Broadway Is Coming Back
Creativity is our heart and soul. This is the first live performance in a year. “For us to be whole, it has to come back.”
Broadway is coming back, baby!
— City of New York (@nycgov) April 14, 2021
Thank you @Lin_Manuel for helping us start spreading the news that our Times Square vaccination site will serve the theater, film, and TV industries. We're bringing our arts and culture back strong in NYC. pic.twitter.com/V6ftoqOKxU
LinkedIn Creator Mode
A new video Cover Story gives members a lively way to introduce themselves.
Reddit Coming After Clubhouse?
Reddit is quietly exploring a moderator led voice chats, similar to Clubhouse.
HUGE. The newest competitor to JoinClubhouse? Reddit.
— Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) April 9, 2021
Added to the list, # 37.
I forecast 100 (one hundred) social audio companies by Dec 31st, 2021. https://t.co/vBjZ12m3ej
Baby Boomer Influencers
Audiences are seeking out content that lifts up diverse voices and makes them feel good.
NFT for Kidney Transplant
Trevor DeHaas is auctioning his 2017 tweet of the “dinner” he received at Fyre Fest as an NFT, hoping to raise $80K for his kidney transplant.
How To Use Google Posts
While Google Posts aren’t a ranking factor, they can still be an incredibly effective resource for increasing local business conversions — when used correctly.
All About Non-Fungible Tokens
Here is the motherlode of information about NFTs.
Worst Practices
Self-Cleaning Underwear
Who decided this was a good idea to actually develop?
Your Privacy Reading List
iOS 14.5 includes privacy changes that will require apps to ask for user permission before tracking data and activity.
- Pivoting to privacy-first: Why this is an adapt-or-die moment
- It’s nothing personal: preparing for a privacy-first world
- Say Goodbye to Cookies
- How e-commerce might function on a cookie-less web
- How the Google's Upcoming Privacy Settings Will Affect Digital Marketing
- Google starts trialing its FLoC cookie alternative in Chrome
- Joining the FLoC? Be Ready for the Future of Cookie-less Identity
- 4 Tips for Building Your First-Party Data Sets With PPC
- As privacy changes loom, Amazon stands to reap the greatest reward
- Reinventing Analytics for the Data Privacy Era
Smiles
B.L.'s Finds
Officer Clarence the Capitol Comfort Dog
Fun facts about Officer Clarence, the Capitol comfort dog, via his handler:
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) April 14, 2021
- The nation’s first police comfort dog
- He’s been on the Jim Gaffigan show and played a Ford F-150 in a commercial
- He responded to Sandy Hook, Boston Bombing & Las Vegas
- Biden kissed his shoulder pic.twitter.com/HzKE5eic3w
Shiny New Stuff
B.L.'s Finds
Politics
The Great Dictator Speech
One of the greatest movie speeches of all time - about why we must not give up our hearts to hate.
132 years ago today, CHARLIE CHAPLIN was born in London. One of the biggest icons in all of cinema, his speech in THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) is one of the greatest on film. pic.twitter.com/OhdKUjZFNh
— All The Right Movies (@right_movies) April 16, 2021
Pro Tips
The Basics Of Preparing For Core Web Vitals
Google has stated that page experience ranking signals, based on Core Web Vitals, will be applied globally on all browsers on mobile devices.
Weekly Numbers
Zero-Click Search Results
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