Best Practices
Twitter Food Bank
In the last 24 hours, you and me raised $43,277 on Twitter to feed over 1,150 people and 430 families
— Bill Pulte (@pulte) April 18, 2020
Steak Umm's Data Masterclass
The frozen food brand warned customers on Twitter of the dangers of COVID-19 misinformation and gave a master class in the differences between data, anectdotes, and facts.
friendly reminder in times of uncertainty and misinformation: anecdotes are not data. (good) data is carefully measured and collected information based on a range of subject-dependent factors, including, but not limited to, controlled variables, meta-analysis, and randomization
— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) April 7, 2020
Pandemic Care Packages
Sending a friend - or yourself - boxed care packages from top NYC restaurants helps support local businesses.
Virtual Reality Fitness
ICAROS = Fitness + Flight Simulation VR.
Want: https://t.co/vKS1VCHF55
— David Erickson (@derickson) March 14, 2020
Need A Haircut?
This site pairs you with a “world class” barber or stylist to video coach you or a friend through an at-home haircut.
LEGO Wedding
Everything is awesome for this wedding photographer.
Gerbil Art
A bored quarantined couple meticulously created a tiny museum of their pet gerbils.
Voice Data For Musicians
Amazon gives artists voice data, which is increasingly a driving factor for music discovery.
Whirlpool Kids’ Chore Club
Whirlpool’s Chore Club for kids helps parents teach kids everyday chores while they’re at home.
Transcribe This
Across Reddit, often buried inside the comments section, you’ll find elaborate descriptions of image posts and videos, social media screenshots and memes.
Quarantine Resources
Ways to stay sane - some great resources to help you through quarantine time.
Google Meet In Gmail
Google Meet is now available to all GSuite customers in Gmail, which means you can start and join meetings right from your inbox.
Noise Cancelling AI
The Discord platform has added an AI noise cancelling feature to its conferencing platform.
Worst Practices
BringMeTheCorrection!
A template malfunction leads to an embarassing correction.
Shiny New Stuff
GitHub Gets Better
GitHub, the Microsoft-owned software hosting site, said on Tuesday it will reduce prices on its “Teams” subscription.
Free Guitar Lessons
Fender is giving away three months free access to its Fender Play app.
Politics
With A Little Help From The Feds
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo (#PresidentCuomo) facing off with trump to the tune of “A Little Help From My Friends”
Fun Stuff
With A Little Help From The Feds
Pro Tips
Video Conferencing Guide
David has written a video conferencing guide that includes eight pro tips to help you shine online.
Weekly Numbers
Media Consumption Changes
From March 25-30, 2020, the GlobalWebIndex surveyed internet users ages 16-64 in the United States (2,218 respondents) and the United Kingdom (1,726 respondents) to determine how their media consumption had changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
