Pinterest Shopping Is Hot For Small Business – Digital Coffee 10th April 2020

WhatsApp Cracks Down On Message Forwarding

• Messages that have even forwarded many times can only be forwarded to one contact at a time
• A Double arrow indicates a message has been forwarded more than 5 times
• Corona forwarding has been a problem
• But some forwarding of entertaining content is good.

https://blog.whatsapp.com/Keeping-WhatsApp-Personal-and-Private

LinkedIn Events Available To All Pages

• Catching up with Facebook for scheduling virtual events
• Create an event for an online networking event, summit or meet-up
• Have discussions with attendees in the event feed

https://business.linkedin.com/marketing-solutions/blog/linkedin-news/2020/staying-connected-and-productive-with-virtual-events

Gift Cards on Facebook

• Users prompted to ‘Support Local Business’
• Sent to gift card registry
• People are saying they want to support local business, this makes it easy
• Rolling out to selected users in the US

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-adds-gift-card-discovery-tool-service-impact-listings-to-help-bus/575426/

New Shopping Tools From Pinterest

• In the last two weeks, searches for “help small businesses” on Pinterest are up 3x compared to the prior two weeks
• Searches for “home office setup” are up by 70%
• 4x increase in searches for “employee gifts”
• 97% of top searches on Pinterest are unbranded
• Shop from a board: See shop tab on your own board with related shopping pins
• Shop from search: Shop tab on search
• Shop from Pins: Click ‘shop similar’ from a single pin

https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/new-ways-to-shop-on-pinterest-discover-retailers-of-all-sizes

Zoom Security

• Removed integration with Facebook and LinkedIn
• Meeting passwords are enabled on by default for those not clicking link to join
• Virtual waiting room – have to approve people joining the room
• Make sure you switch screen sharing to admin only
• Advise setting password for all on big meetings
• Advise not using your meeting room but a separate meeting ID

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/video-meeting-app-zoom-vows-to-focus-on-improving-security-amid-massive-use/575406/

Instagram Delivery Sticker

• Similar to support sticker which will prompt buying gift cards
• This one to support restaurants and other delivery business

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1246260320189829122

LinkedIn Away Messages

• For paid users
• So you don’t have to reply straight away
• Another sign that LinkedIn is considering bots?

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1247337714170527744