Welcome to Connected Church News - Episode 238

The Weekly Digital, Social Media, AI & Web3 News episode for Leaders and Media Teams of Churches, Ministries and Nonprofits.

This week, we have news about: Pinterest, Snapchat, AI, Threads, Google, YouTube

Week 1, Jul 2024:

🗞️ News 1: YouTube Makes Longer Videos Editable; Improves Bulk Comment Moderation

🗞️ News 2: Threads will be the First Meta app to be Compatible with 'Fediverse'

🗞️ News 3: Google Launches New Gemini AI Tools in Google Workspace for Education

🗞️ News 4: Pinterest Brings Improvements to 'Social Media Board Sharing' Feature

🗞️ News 5: Snapchat Adds an In-App Warning for Unsafe New Connection Requests

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Welcome to Connected Church News - Episode 237

The Weekly Digital, Social Media, AI & Web3 News episode for Leaders and Media Teams of Churches, Ministries and Nonprofits.

This week, we have news about: Anthropic, Claude AI, TikTok, WhatsApp, Meta, Google

Week 4, Jun 2024:

🗞️ News 1: Anthropic Launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet; Outperforms GPT-4o & Gemini

🗞️ News 2: TikTok Releases 'Symphony' Suite of Ad Tools Powered by Generative AI

🗞️ News 3: YouTube Now Allows People to Add 'Notes' to Videos, As An Experiment

🗞️ News 4: WhatsApp Adds New Audio & Video Call Features Including Screen Sharing

🗞️ News 5: Meta's Cannes Lions 2024 Announcements: AI Chatbots, Messaging & More

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Welcome to Connected Church News - Episode 236

The Weekly Digital, Social Media, AI & Web3 News episode for Leaders and Media Teams of Churches, Ministries and Nonprofits.

This week, we have news about: Apple, AI, WhatsApp, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google

Week 3, Jun 2024:

🗞️ News 1: New 'Apple Intelligence' AI: Top 3 Useful Takeaways for Media Ministry

🗞️ News 2: YouTube Tests New Features: Thumbnail Testing, QR Codes, @ Mentions

🗞️ News 3: Google Launches 'Google TV Network' for Targeted Advertising on CTV

🗞️ News 4: LinkedIn Introduces 'The Wire' Program, In-Stream Video Ad Placement

🗞️ News 5: WhatsApp Releases AI, Meta Verified & In-Chat Calling for Businesses

For detailed notes, source links, resources mentioned in the show and the transcripts visit: https://natchi.net/news

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Welcome to Connected Church News - Episode 235

The Weekly Digital, Social Media & Web3 News episode for Leaders and Media Teams of Churches, Ministries and Nonprofits.

This week, we have news about: ChatGPT, Google, Snapchat,. X, Threads

Week 4, May 2024:

🗞️ News 1: Google adds AI into Search, Android, Workspace & releases AI Agents

🗞️ News 2: X Announces New 'Community' Features, Updates and Admin Tools

🗞️ News 3: ChatGPT Gets Improved 'Data Analysis' Capabilities & Integrations

🗞️ News 4: Threads Starts Testing a New 'Column' Layout UI Similar to Tweetdeck

🗞️ News 5: Snapchat Releases A new Measurement Methodology to Track Ad Campaigns

For detailed notes, source links, resources mentioned in the show and the transcripts visit: https://natchi.net/news

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Welcome to Connected Church News - Episode 234

The Weekly Digital, Social Media & Web3 News episode for Leaders and Media Teams of Churches, Ministries and Nonprofits.

This week, we have news about: OpenAI, Google, YouTube, X, Meta, VR

Week 3, May 2024:

🗞️ News 1: OpenAI Releases macOS Desktop App & GPT-4o, Multimodal Language Model

🗞️ News 2: YouTube CEO says Creators should be considered for TV Awards like Emmys

🗞️ News 3: Meta Adds 'Travel Mode' Entertainment Feature to Quest VR Headsets

🗞️ News 4: Google Partners with HP & moves 'Starline' Project out of the Labs

🗞️ News 5: X Introduces 'AI Audiences' To Help Advertisers Define Target Audience

For detailed notes, source links, resources mentioned in the show and the transcripts visit: https://natchi.net/news

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Welcome to Connected Church News - Episode 233

The Weekly Digital, Social Media & Web3 News episode for Leaders and Media Teams of Churches, Ministries and Nonprofits.

This week, we have news about: Claude AI, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Pinterest

Week 2, May 2024:

🗞️ News 1: Anthropic AI Announces Release of an iOS App for Claude & New Team Plan

🗞️ News 2: WhatsApp's Communities Feature Gets New Tools including Group 'Events'

🗞️ News 3: Snapchat Releases New Gen-AI Tools & DM Edit Feature in the App

🗞️ News 4: LinkedIn Launches New In-stream 'Thinking-Oriented' Social Games

🗞️ News 5: Pinterest says Gen-Z are Behind Increased Engagement in 'Collage-Pins'

For detailed notes, source links, resources mentioned in the show and the transcripts visit: https://natchi.net/news

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Welcome to Connected Church News - Episode 232

The Weekly Digital, Social Media & Web3 News episode for Leaders and Media Teams of Churches, Ministries and Nonprofits.

This week, we have news about: European AI Law, Meta, ChatGPT, X, Google

Week 3, Mar 2024:

🗞️ News 1: The European Parliament Approves the World's 1st Comprehensive AI Act

🗞️ News 2: Meta Releases New AI-Powered eCommerce Ads & Optimization Tools

🗞️ News 3: Inflection AI Launches 2.5 Model with More Capability & Less Computing

🗞️ News 4: Google Business Listings will Now Display Your Social Media Posts

🗞️ News 5: X Launches 'Articles', the Long-Form Blog Content Option for Premium+

For detailed notes, source links, resources mentioned in the show and the transcripts visit: https://natchi.net/news

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Welcome to Connected Church News - Episode 231

The Weekly Digital, Social Media & Web3 News episode for Leaders and Media Teams of Churches, Ministries and Nonprofits.

This week, we have news about: Claude AI, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Meta

Week 2, Mar 2024:

🗞️ News 1: Anthropic Launches Claude-3; Beats ChatGPT-4, Gemini Benchmarks

🗞️ News 2: Instagram Announces Multiple DM Features Including an Edit Option

🗞️ News 3: TikTok Expands ‘Subscription', Moves 'Creator Rewards' out of Beta

🗞️ News 4: Threads Starts Testing its ‘API' for Posting via Third Party Tools

🗞️ News 5: Meta Quest Team Predicts the Top 3 Technology Shifts of the Future

For detailed notes, source links, resources mentioned in the show and the transcripts visit: https://natchi.net/news

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