This week on the Digital Coffee
⚡️New Instagram Story Features
🐦Easy Gifs for iPhone Twitter users
🎬Canva video is coming
Instagram layout mode for stories
- Layout is a collage tool for Insta, now testing for stories
- Great way to show off a selection of products, a process, staff or make something creative
Instagram shoutouts feature
- Tag people with Birthday’s anniversary’s or something else
- Creates a story element with the person you tag and you in it
- Choose an element
https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1204476936937971713
New Facebook Portal features
- WhatsApp login
- Make video calls without a Facebook account
- Augmented reality effects to help tell stories like Little Red Riding Hood to kids
- Connect with work colleagues using Workplace and Portal
https://about.fb.com/news/2019/12/portal-adds-new-content-and-features/
Snapchat Cameo inserts your image into Gifs
- Add your face to videos and gifs
- Testing at the moment and will roll on December the 18th
- Creativity keeps Snapchat alive
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/08/snapchat-cameo-edits-your-face-into-videos/
Facebook suggested moderator for groups
- Making it easier to find moderators for your group with suggestions
- Will select people who frequently engage and contribute
https://www.facebook.com/community/education/blog/suggested-moderator-feature/
Canva introduces video editing
- They say it will be simple for everyone to use
- Templates to start with
- How will this be different to Wave, Ripl, Adobe Spark?
- Other features coming in 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/06/canva-introduces-video-editing-has-big-plans-for-2020/
iPhone Users – Turn your Live Photos into Gifs on Twitter
- Compose a tweet
- Add your Live Photo
- Click gif
https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1204827212731625473
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