Tools and Resources
- On Facebook You Can Now Add Music To Stories, Pin Songs To Profiles, And Display Karaoke Lyrics (Buzzfeed News)
- 10 Royalty-Free Music Sites Every Online Video Creator Should Know (Adweek)
- Twitter's Experimenting with a Range of New Features Aimed at Improving Engagement: Writes SocialMediaToday, "Keen to prompt new conversations, Twitter's testing a new 'ice breakers' option, which would enable users to pose a specific question to their audience in order to prompt further engagement."
- Coverr produces free videos organizations can use on their homepage. Seven are released every Monday.
- Grammar Girl's 'In Regard To' Versus 'In Regards To' explainer is share-worthy.
At work
- Keep to yourself! Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked is an incredibly useful explainer for people at all levels of an organization. The takeaway: "In some ways, Johnson said that his research suggests workers mind their own business and not go looking for problems to solve. Ultimately, he said, help is good – but just wait to be asked for it." (Michigan State University)
- Your guide to creating a social media policy (Sprout Social)
- Are Informational Interview Questions Even Useful? (The Cut)
Learn something
- November 1-15 faves from 34 Free Nonprofit Webinars for November 2018: Addressees and Salutations in a Nonbinary World (November 1); The Countdown Is On: A Procrastinator’s Guide to #GivingTuesday (November 6); and Disaster Readiness: How Houston Food Bank® Thrived Through Tragedy (November 13).
- Coursera has work-related courses which may be of interest: Influencing People, Creative Problem Solving, and Effective Problem-Solving and Decision-Making stand out.
Good reads
- CIRCLE Poll: So Much for Slacktivism, As Youth Translate Online Engagement to Offline Political Action (CIRCLE, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University)
- Dreams Deferred: A Survey on the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Survivors' Education, Careers, and Economic Security (Institute for Women's Policy Research) as mentioned in Pacific Standard's The Economic Implications of Domestic Abuse.
- It's Okay to Be Good and Not Great. (Outside)
- 'Winners Take All': Can Elites Really Change the World for the Better? (Knowledge@Wharton)
- A Truly Great Boss is hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. (Brigette Hyacinth on LinkedIn)
- 18 in '18: How First-Time Voters Could Affect the Midterms (Time)
- The Next Phase of Be Fearless: The Book (The Case Foundation)
