Eat. Drink. Social.
When you move to a new city, you need a good dining recommendation or two. Enter @DenverFoodScene. Started by Yesenia, this account has grown to nearly 100,000 followers and expanded to TikTok. We talk with the @DenverFoodScene team to get their tips on growing a community and how foodies can leverage TikTok. While they won’t show their faces--much like a traditional restaurant reviewer, they don’t want to be known--you can hear about all their tasty tips on the latest episode of Eat. Drink. Social.
Featured Event: Businesses Giving Back
GE Appliances’ start-up Chibo successfully raised $20,000 for the Louisville nonprofit Apron. We helped to share good news about their classes and their efforts in the local market. People rally around good news and there’s a way to tell your story without it coming off as self-promotional. Put the focus on the cause and make your involvement secondary.
New Features
Instagram rolled out a new suggested content listing that users can see once they reach the end of their main feed.
Facebook users are now able to control the alerts they see from each page they choose to follow.
After a few months of testing, Twitter launched its new tweet reply control options to all users.
TikTok users can now add custom text to their video thumbnails.
Facebook announced some new measures to help support black-owned businesses.
To Try in September: Up Your Instagram Story Game
Instagram Stories continue to drive views and engagement. The popular feature also got a recent makeover with new fonts and features. In this month’s blog post, we take a look at three ways you can take your Instagram Story to the next level.