Podcasts about bitmoji

Today, Equalman sits down with 2015's youngest billionaire in the world, Evan Spiegel. Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc, a technology company that developes and maintains products and services, namely Snapchat and Bitmoji. They discuss communicating responsibly, the essence of Snapchat, fear in technology, and corporate team structure.   5x #1 Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached over 50 million people this past decade. He was voted the 2nd Most Likable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling.   Have Erik speak at your conference: eq@equalman.com   Motivational Speaker | Erik Qualman has inspired audiences at FedEx, Chase, ADP, Huawei, Starbucks, Godiva, FBI, Google, and many more on Focus and Digital Leadership.   Learn more at https://equalman.com

This week Kim and Kate hit you with answers to three, yes, THREE questions. First, Kim and Kate help a listener deal with the bizarre emoticon culture dominating her company's communication style. Then, a husband needs advice on how to encourage his wife to quit a job she hates. And last but not least, a photographer gets stiffed at the altar and Kim and Kate save the day and get her paid. Everyone's lives are changed forever and the workplace is improved for all involved. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elevate your podcasting game with Riverside.fm's studio-quality recordings, lightning-fast editing, and enhanced streaming capabilities—try it today! Get 15% off with discount code Podtastic  Riverside.Fm  In this episode of Podtastic Audio, I dive into the challenges of creating compelling podcast titles and show notes. I'm joined by Michael Katz, CEO of Flowsend AI, who shares some unique insights into how their AI-powered tool revolutionizes post-production for podcasters. Michael explains how Flowsend AI not only transcribes audio but also generates a full suite of content, including titles, descriptions, show notes, timestamps, and promotional assets. He emphasizes the platform's ability to maintain brand voice and adapt to different styles, making it highly customizable for various types of content creators. Michael also shares an interesting analogy, comparing a podcast to a Thanksgiving turkey, where the leftovers (repurposed content) can be just as valuable as the main dish. We discuss how Flowsend AI can identify key insights from episodes, making it easier to highlight guest contributions and create engaging social media posts. Michael also touches on the platform's ability to handle large files and its potential applications beyond podcasting, such as in business meetings and academic lectures. This episode is packed with valuable information on how AI tools can save time and enhance your podcast marketing efforts. 00:00 Introduction 00:26 Episode Title and SEO Show Notes 00:47 Welcome and Introduction to Podtastic Audio 01:17 Riverside FM Sponsorship 02:19 Promo Code for Riverside FM 02:49 Early Podcasting Journey 03:20 Episode One: Beef and Bitmojis 04:21 Evolution of Episode Titles and Descriptions 04:51 AI Tools for Podcasting 05:22 Introduction of Flowsend AI 05:39 Michael Katz Introduction 06:53 Flowsend AI Overview 07:14 Use Cases for Flowsend AI 07:57 Transcription and Content Generation 09:10 Diarization in Transcription 09:36 AI Context and Customization 11:15 Highlighting Guest Insights 12:47 Popular Features of Flowsend AI 14:00 User Experience and Customization 15:12 Ease of Use and Clean Interface 16:17 Importance of Episode Titles 17:49 Customizing Titles and Descriptions 18:00 Learning User Preferences 19:00 Managing Multiple Projects 20:17 Chatting with Outputs 22:06 Additional Outputs and User Community 24:21 Customizing Outputs 25:24 Summary of Flowsend AI Features  26:17 Using AI for Titles and Descriptions 27:36 Comparing Flowsend AI to Chat GPT 28:38 AI in Repurposing Content 30:28 Use Cases Beyond Podcasting 32:23 Business Meetings and Other Applications 34:13 Pricing and File Size Limitations 35:21 Uploading Large Files 36:29 Tips for Video Content Creators 37:30 Comparing Transcriptions 38:57 Importance of Accurate Transcriptions 39:55 Advice for Podcasters 42:42 Marketing and Repurposing Content 45:02 SEO and Hashtags 46:51 Importance of Content Quality 49:15 Using Flowsend for Content Creation 50:41 Final Thoughts and Contact Information 51:42 Closing Remarks and Personal Coaching Offer 53:24 End of Episode One on One Coaching  Thanks so much for listening, I really appreciate it so much. Sign up for my newsletter so you never miss a moment. Podtastic Audio Newsletter The Kris and Kristine Show Podtastic Audio Twitter Instagram LInkedIn    

This week Kim and Kate hit you with answers to three, yes, THREE questions. First, Kim and Kate help a listener deal with the bizarre emoticon culture dominating her company's communication style. Then, a husband needs advice on how to encourage his wife to quit a job she hates. And last but not least, a photographer gets stiffed at the altar and Kim and Kate save the day and get her paid. Everyone's lives are changed forever and the workplace is improved for all involved. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

【本期嘉宾】王国晖王国晖（前抖音特效团队研发负责人）主播：潘乱（「乱翻书」主理人）【时间线】 一、Snapchat（色拉布）01:21 滤镜和特效是一回事吗？04:09 特效软件的大概发展脉络：Snapchat、Looksery、bitmoji、Faceu…12:07 Bitmoji算特效吗？Snap收购它的意义是什么？17:11 一个爆款特效，比如变小孩，对Snapchat有多大帮助？25:02 抖音跟Snapchat的特效有什么不同？32:25 特效算是运营团队吗？中美巨头对于运营分别是什么态度？37:47 YouTube shorts跟Tik Tok的投稿率差别非常大的，为什么？40:57 朋友圈不让有滤镜，手机厂商其实都把滤镜给做了？49:14 剪映之前，跟拍和挑战赛 二、剪映前世今生52:10 剪映是怎么立项的，又怎么超过快影的？57:27 快影团队的复盘58:35 剪映（CapCut）用户快速增长的原因有哪些？59:13 站在巨人肩膀上60:18 抖音（TikTok）引流61:09 剪同款63:50 剪映产品团队是个什么风格？73:29 剪映的特效热点挖掘机制是怎样的？又怎么做效果创新的？76:49 剪映跟抖音、CapCut跟TikTok他们的国内外的使用情况是否是一致的？82:44 剪映跟抖音相机，某个层面上是不是算是竞品？84:21 剪映这类产品的核心指标看什么？86:29 剪映广受好评，但它是合格的独立产品吗？88:45 剪映跟CapCut，是跟抖音和TikTok的类似关系吗？90:47 CapCut的出海有多成功？为什么会成功？ 三、特效开放平台100:45 全球市场有哪几家重量级的特效开放平台？他们主要竞争的点在哪里？105:37 国内外民间做特效的都些是什么人？107:41 特效开放平台如何拉新、激励，如何帮特效创作者产生获益？ 四、字节特效和智能创作108:28 爆款特效是怎么产生的？113:09 研发、产品、运营是如何做好配合促使爆款不断产生？119:30 字节的APP矩阵，如何从技术中台收益？125:29 智能创作特效对于抖音到底起到什么作用？127:56 抖音为什么这么大投入在UGC？ 五、AI可能性和影响133:48 AI图像和视频生成技术的发展，对这个行业来说意味着怎样的挑战和机遇？139:00 字节的特效发展，大概可以怎么划分，有哪几个阶段？146:16 如果要去做创新，在每一个不同的阶段，团队应该去做什么样的事情？【开场&结尾音乐】开场音乐：宝石Gem - 野狼disco结尾音乐：Mount Dreams - Wolfs【相关名词介绍】生成对抗网络（英语：Generative Adversarial Network，简称GAN）是非监督式学习的一种方法，通过两个神经网络相互博弈的方式进行学习。该方法由伊恩·古德费洛等人于2014年提出。生成对抗网络由一个生成网络与一个判别网络组成，分别称为Generator和Discriminator，Discriminator通过对Generator的批判来提升鉴别能力，Generator通过对Discriminator的欺骗来提升生成能力。其中，基于GAN的人脸特效是近年来学术研究和短视频特效领域的热点课题之一。【部分特效/滤镜示例】【图】呕吐彩虹（Puking Rainbow）【图】Snapchat的变小孩（Rejuvenation）特效【图】小狗脸特效【图】猫耳朵特效【图】蓝线特效【图】抖音的控雨特效【图】抖音仔仔【关于「乱翻书」】「乱翻书」是一档关注商业、科技和互联网的圆桌对话节目。关心How和Why，以及少有人注意到的What。内容主要方向是科技考古、行业观察和前沿思考，研究公司的兴衰循环，希望能够为你带来信息增量。「乱翻书」主理人是潘乱，代表作品有《腾讯没有梦想》、字节跳动/快手早期关键节点的系列特写。【关于主播】即刻/视频号/B站/抖音：潘乱公众号/播客：乱翻书【图】潘乱（左）采访王国晖（右）微信公众号：乱翻书视频号：潘乱商业合作：联系微信 tongxing717本期编辑：怀杭

Eli, Drea, and Ian attempt a conversation on youth mental health with Season 1 Brain Juice host Ava. Through stories and experiences, the four discuss how being together and engaging in friendship is a protective factor for a person's mental well-being.

We asked you to send us the craziest DMs you've ever received...and BOY did y'all deliver. Wyatt and Luke go through the top 20 wildest DMs they were sent. Can't miss this one.

Welcome to our first episode of Lesbians Anonymous. Today we are introducing ourselves and chatting about sports, relationship drama, and middle school gym class??? Not sure how we got there, but maybe the mile was actually the friends we made along the way.Send us your Gay of the Week -- What are you doing this week to be gayer? Email us at lesbiansanonymouspodcast@gmail.com!Follow us on Instagram and TikTok!

This week musical guest Shaun Jacobs, the award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer from South Africa takes us through his songwriter's journey.  Shaun has received recognition for his versatile sound and critical acclaim for his chart-topping hits, including a SAMA® (South African Music Award) for Best Adult Contemporary Album for Love Can,  which you'll be able to enjoy in this episode, as well as nominations for Best Producer and Best Engineer. Since his move to the United States Shaun has worked with top songwriters in both LA and Nashville, like "Youngr” that was co-written with Brazilian DJ Bruno Martini and produced by Timbaland with more than 16M streams on Spotify.Love Can held the #1 spot on the local iTunes chart for 12 weeks consecutively and came in as the 14th most played song in all of Africa against all international music on Simfy for 2013. And that's not all, Shaun's music has been featured in campaigns for BMW, Ralph Lauren and Bitmoji, including his single, “Look At Me Now”.In this interview we talked about the role in society that musicians have of expressing with songs people's feelings that they don't necessarily know how to get out. He also shared useful advice for new artists out there, the importance of expressing without fear their pure own sounds and not being influenced by trying to fit somewhere. We also talked in depth about how to constructively deal with rejection, competition and self-demand in the entertainment industry, among many other things!You can find him on social media as @imshaunjacobs.  Watch his music video “Say You Will Remember Me” https://youtu.be/kwanNreW78I?si=_DTGF-4YPOYprnpW which we mention in the interview, and also this concert at the Coca Cola Dome in South Africa https://youtu.be/F8FTbeMGTiE?si=tUpWDM95TAd9s7L3Here is another one of his music hits “Hurt” https://youtu.be/V_JkQWWqi08?si=eDbIkpFu3UcP1w8B**Visit www.nickymondellini.com/podcast and download the ebook “Learn to handle the NOs of the industry” for free, and subscribe to receive La Pizarra's monthly newsletter with news about new episodes and various resources for the best development of your artistic career*Squadcast is the best platform to record your podcast or virtual meetings with up to nine guests with professional sound quality. They have now teamed up with Descript for video and audio editing.You can download your audio files already mastered with Dolby sound.Choose your membership level after trying it free for seven days at: https://squadcast.fm/?ref=lapizarra  *Subscribe to La Pizarra and get access to all the episodes, download them and share them on social networks, your comments are well received too!** Visit https://www.nickymondellini.com to learn about the work of actress, host and voiceover artist Nicky Mondellini.Nicky Mondellini is an internationally known multilingual artist with more than thirty years of artistic career, her voice is heard in commercials on television, radio and digital platforms worldwide. She is the host and producer of La Pizarra since 2020.Her work as an actress includes more than a dozen telenovelas,  and drama shows, classical and contemporary Spanish plays, short and feature films, and the hosting of morning shows in Mexico and the United States, as well as on camera commercials, and advertising and corporate videos.Follow Nicky on:Instagram @nickymondelliniX @nicky3ch_nickyFacebook https://www.facebook.com/nickymondellinivoiceover     LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/nickymondellinivoiceover   

Google's new photo editing tools, Android devices with unkillable backdoors, Snapchat's Bitmoji update, 23andMe data leaked on dark web, advancements in computer vision, Amazon Luna's partnership with Ubisoft, and challenges faced by music website Discogs.

In this episode, we are exploring ways to set up your Learning Management System (LMS) effectively and efficiently to optimize course organization and learning for your students. We'll go over tips, strategies, and ideas for setting up your LMS, whether it is Brightspace, Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, or something else.If you like what you hear, we would love it if you could share this episode with a colleague or friend. And make sure you subscribe so that you don't miss out on any new content! And consider supporting the show by buying us a coffee or two!We would love to hear from you – leave a comment on our website OR check out our FLIPGRID!Featured Content**For detailed show notes, please visit our website at https://edugals.com/56**Use your LMS, even if you are fully face-to-faceLayout and Homepage:This is your doorway into your virtual classroomEasy navigation - minimize the links to the essentialsLink all of your other tools within the content areaInclude contact info on homepageAnnouncements Brightspace Part 1 and Brightspace Part 2 episodesOrganization:Embed third party tools (EdPuzzle, Google Slides, YouTube videos, etc) into your content areaLink in Google Docs when it makes senseUse consistent naming & numbering systems (reduces cognitive load)Folders - units, weeks, whatever works best for youUse your announcements to lay out weekly expectationsInclude student voice in planning and organizationInclude visuals and make it look pretty - design is important (consistent fonts, icons, emojis, etc to reduce cognitive load and increase engagement)It's okay to set up your LMS to meet your needs, just make sure you create an intro video to help your students navigate it - Screencastify is great!Canva is a great tool for design - Canvas Banner, Canvas Button, Google Classroom Header (also a Style Your LMS category available)Inclusion Ideas:Include important cultural celebrations Add your personality - Bitmoji or GIPHY is great and integrated into CanvaHave students design your classroom banners - include languages represented in your classroom tooDesign With Canva YouTube channelA Scary Suggestion:A little bit of basic coding (HTML and CSS) goes a long way!Code Academy (look under Web Development)This helps with interactive elements in your LMS - buttons, flipcards, etc.Final Advice:Use student-friendly language to increase accessibilitySupport the showConnect with EduGals: Twitter @EduGals Rachel @dr_r_johnson Katie @KatieAttwell EduGals Website Support the show

Ever wondered how to be a hit in the classroom, especially as a substitute teacher? Look no further. This episode guarantees to turn your teaching experience around as I share my secret weapons - Bitmojis and Google Slides. I confess, I was skeptical at first, but trust me, these tools are game-changers. Not only will I guide you through creating your own Bitmoji (hint: start with a snapshot of yourself), but I'll also reveal how to maximize Google Slides to create engaging, personalized presentations for every grade level.Before we get into the how-tos, I'll share my personal journey with elementary school teaching and why I chose a different path. As we navigate the last three weeks of summer, I'm here to arm you with the knowledge and tools you need to stand out in your teaching journey. We'll explore how these digital tools can keep you organized, make your teaching more engaging, and best of all, be a unique reflection of you. So, sit back, tune in, and let's get tech-savvy to kick off the new school year with a bang!Join our Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/substituteteachersloungeEmail your questions to mailto: gregcollinssubstitute@gmail.comBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE

Lords: * Maxx * Erica Topics: * Zines and Jam Games; stuff that's understood to be breakable * https://itch.io/c/689872/indiepocalypse * Birding in the pandemic * Itinerant Filmmakers * http://www.meltonbarker.org/ * Meditation on Capitalism * I found the tweet that the image came from, but still don't know the author of the poem: https://twitter.com/Sierra_OffLine/status/1100852286585221122 Microtopics: * The Bugzooka * Booms and busts of little insect invasions. * A little vacuum chamber that you squish closed. * Sucking a fly through a tube. * Cry havoc and let slip the bugs of war. * Egads, Bugzooks! * The Bug-A-Salt Passion Assassin 3.0. * A middle aged dad of the type that would buy a salt gun * A bugzooka in active use. * A balding man who looks like Jeffery Epstein crawling on the floor in his underwear to promote the Bug-A-Salt. * Professor Fly Presents: Fly Facts. * Judging the anatomical correctness of Professor Fly. * Hammacher-Schlemmer ads for bug-catching devices. * Whether women make better snipers. * Aiming at the fly on the wall with your laser sight. * Mr. Pinch. * A fly in a lab coat who lives in Seattle. * A photocopied leaflet about your band or political cause. * The best, most well-produced musicians in the world. * Ways to frame game jams. * A good brain hack for if you feel the urge to be a product. * Indiepocalypse. * Electric Zine Maker. * Whether the pandemic is over. * One of the birdiest places in the United States. * Talk Irby to Me. * Becoming texting buddies with a famous bird systematist from Cornell. * A Big Year. * Yelling bird coordinates at someone you just met. * Winston's favorite bird and why he likes it so much. * Knowing something about ravens. (Not what they eat.) * The Northwestern Crow. * A crow catching live shrimp and stashing them in the moss. * Collecting black walnut husks to dye wool. * Feeding crows who bring you lipstick from the 1940s. * What to do with a 10 pound bag of unsalted peanuts. * A movie where every kid in town foils an attempted kidnapping and then holds a talent show. * Ark Music Factory. * Hiring a record label guy to write and record a song with your daughter so she can star in a terrible music video and become a survivor of internet celebrity. * Social media survivors. * Stardom: it's not good for you. * Whether kids today still want to be movie stars. * Bitmojis and other things that put you in a little cartoon. * A customized birthday greeting from a Weird Al. * Paying Rudy Giuliani a pittance to wish your mom a happy birthday. * One of the Breaking Bad hitman twins undercutting the other by $300 on Cameo. * Preserving your Too Short custom rap tape on Youtube. * A poem written in BASIC that is spoilers for Mad Men. * The light in your Ikea bookshelf recognizing the light in you. * Doing line number archaeology when reading a BASIC program. * Seeing text from the other side of the page through the page. * Do It. * Instructional Art. * Finding 25 identical objects and naming them all Jimmy. * Flying Maxx to the Permian Basin to teach your students how to repair microscopes.

Snapchat has introduced an AI chatbot that users can ask any question and receive an answer in extreme detail. Users can customise the chatbot's name, design a Bitmoji avatar for it and it sits alongside conversations with real friends. Snapchat's chatbot may feel less transactional but AI ethics expert Julian Koplin says the new technology can be misleading.   Headlines: Search for bodies resumes at NZ hostel Biden could visit Australia next week 30 to 34-year-olds under worst cost of living pressure Support for Voice slips Gillard says she 'got it wrong' on same-sex marriage   Follow The Briefing:Instagram: @thebriefingpodcast Facebook: TheBriefingNewsAUTwitter: @TheBriefingAU  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I am delighted to welcome Tony on to the podcast, who you first met in Alexi's episode. But today we deep dive into Tony's own journey and story, with Alexi along for the ride! Yay! TL;DR? Cool hair, cool swords, cool person. Identity for Tony means they don't care too much about labels, they say “I am me”, and that works best for them. Sword fighting, which paralleled their gender and sexuality journey, was a declaration of “This is me!” and they both were happening as Tony started to care less about what other people think and felt more and more like themself.  Being Latino, Tony says that in their culture, it can feel a lot more judgemental, even when joking, so realizing most of the time people don't actually care, they were able to live life more authentically. This is something Tony hopes for everybody. Producer Alexi's appearance is iconic, of course, and we hear how they gave Tony gentle encouragement to explore themselves more which led to where they are today. Tony doesn't see their coming out as revealing things that they once hid, as it wasn't actually the case. Tony sees their journey rather as ever-growing, ever-evolving, and ever-expanding into themselves and feels very lucky they have had the space and support to do so. P.S. After the ep, I journalled A LOT on “having room for more love”. In this episode: -Tony learned so much about themself by hitting other people with swords for fun! -People think they mean well by implying bisexuality is a stepping stone to gay when they say “It's okay to come out as gay to me!”. Please stop! -This is a coming-out story that involves a Bitmoji hug! -What's harder for parents to get on board with? Queerness or vegetarianism? -Fan Fiction thrives on this podcast! -We love when Hollywood doesn't create gay characters but rather features characters that just happen to be gay! -You can find pride events in your everyday community! -Trolls on the gram say “That looks a bit gay there!” Tony says “Thanks for noticing!” Resources: -Follow Tony on IG! @_tonypacheco  Connect with MDSML: -Subscribe to our fun mailing list for FREE updates: mdsml.substack.com -Connect with Lauren! laurendeborah.substack.com  -Email the pod: mydadstolemylimelight@gmail.com -Podcast production and editing made possible by: Alexi Johnson and Alistair Ogden -Logo Art: @raphe.ca -Music: Shawn Kangro -Follow the podcast network: @604podnetwork

When you waste your energy on what‘s unnecessary, you don‘t have time for purpose! “great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:” ‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭32‬:‭19‬ ‭KJV‬‬ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/submitted-2-serve/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/submitted-2-serve/support

¿Qué tal si creas tu propio emoji personalizado? Hoy te recomiendo Bitmoji. Con esta herramienta gratuita (para navegador y también disponible como app para Android e iOS) vas a poder seleccionar entre un sinfín de imágenes divertidas con tu personaje. Apúntate a mis cursos online. Te agradezco que valores con 5 estrellas este podcast y lo compartas con más docentes. Nos escuchamos pronto de nuevo. Hasta entonces... ¡que la innovación te acompañe! Tienes todos los episodios y más en TribudeProfes.com. Episodio presentado y publicado por José David Pérez (@serendipium).

Have a spooktacular Halloween! Nextdoor joins us to share some new and returning featuresUsed by millions in Snapchat, Bitmoji turns 15 years old. Here what's newGet the deets on LG's 48-inch UltraGear OLED gaming monitorGet rid of dead zones in your home. We chat with Linksys for tipsScore hot deals with Slickdeals.net – it's a website, app, and browser extension, powered by millions of usersThank you to VISA for your support on Tech It Out, and all the great work you to protect customers and businesses from fraudThis show is powered by ASUS, for those in search of incredible.

¿Quién corta cables de Internet en Europa? / Mark Hamill dona 500 drones a Ucrania / Netflix cambia su estrategia de claves / Nuevos iPad / Liberan el código de Pocket Casts Todo salió fantástico en la operación. Muy rápido y sin dolor. Muchas gracias a todos por vuestros ánimos, y a todos los que os pasasteis a saludar durante las JPOD.

Noticias digitalesEpisodio especial con todas las noticias y novedades del mundo de las Redes Sociales, el Marketing Digital y la tecnología1. Google presenta My Ads Center, una función que permite al usuario decidir qué anuncios quiere verSe trata de una iniciativa que tiene el objetivo de ayudar a los usuarios de todo el mundo a controlar el tipo de anuncios que ven en productos como YouTube y Discover, así como en el buscador. También permitirá bloquear anuncios sensibles y saber más sobre la información que se utiliza para personalizar tu experiencia con la publicidad online.Una vez que el usuario inicie sesión en Google, podrá acceder a My Ads Center directamente desde los anuncios del buscador, YouTube y Discover, y decidir las marcas y los temas sobre los que quiere ver más o menos publicidad.2. YouTube Premium sube sus precios en seis paísesHa incrementado el precio de la suscripción a su modalidad de pago por el pack familiar, que permite usar sus servicios hasta un máximo de seis cuentas, en algunos países. En Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, se produce un salto desde los 17,99 dólares mensuales hasta los 22,99 dólares mensuales, una cantidad que aún puede ser más elevada si la suscripción se gestiona a través de la App Store de Apple, donde cuesta 29,99 dólares mensuales.También ha sbdido precios en Argentina, Canadá, Japón, Reino Unido y Turquía. Se desconoce si llegará a otros países próximamente.3. Twitter permitirá elegir quién puede mencionarteDe esta forma los usuarios podrán configurar si el resto de tuiteros pueden mencionarles en sus tuits, estableciendo tres niveles de permisos.A. Cualquiera puede mencionar al usuario (el modo de funcionamiento por defecto de Twitter).B. Limitar las menciones únicamente a quienes ya siguen al usuario.C. Desactivar por completo la posibilidad de que otros tuiteros puedan mencionar al usuario.4. Los Círculos de Twitter ya están disponibles para todo el mundoSe trata de una nueva forma de difundir la publicación de tuits que quedan limitados a determinados círculos selectos de amigos establecidos por el propio usuario.En este sentido el funcionamiento es muy similar a la opción de amigos cercanos disponible en Instagram que permite compartir las publicaciones en lugar de con todos los seguidores con solo un grupo restringido de estos.En el caso de Twitter cada círculo puede albergar a un máximo de 150 participantes. Curiosamente no es necesario que los miembros del Círculo sean seguidores de la cuenta de Twitter que los publica.La forma de publicar Tweets exclusivamente en los Círculos es muy sencilla, puesto que a la hora de redactar un tuit la propia plataforma ofrece la posibilidad de seleccionar si va aparecer para toda la audiencia, es decir para todos los seguidores y de forma abierta en el perfil del usuario, o si por el contrario se prefiere que ese tuit aparezca publicado dentro de un Círculo previamente establecido.5. Pinterest permite ahora añadir música a los vídeosPinterest ha decidido plantarle cara a TikTok con una nueva función que permite añadir opciones musicales, una posibilidad para la que ha llegado a acuerdos con distintos sellos discográficos.El resultado es que los usuarios de Pinterest podrán añadir pistas musicales populares a los vídeos que publiquen a través de la modalidad Idea Pins, los contenidos de Pinterest que se asemejan a las Stories de Instagram o a los vídeos de TikTok.6. TikTok añade contenidos sólo para adultosTikTok deja de ser una plataforma dirigida mayoritariamente a adolescentes y comienza ahora a ofrecer la posibilidad de albergar contenidos para adultos, razón por la que se introducirán controles de verificación de edad a fin de que los menores queden fuera del alcance de este tipo de contenidos.Se trata de una estrategia de la plataforma propiedad de la empresa china ByteDance que trata de crecer al mismo tiempo que lo hace la edad de sus usuarios, muchos de los cuales llegaron a la plataforma cuando aún eran menores de edad.7. Snapchat Plus ya está disponible en EspañaLa versión premium de Snapchat cuesta 4,49€/mes y ha gozado de gran éxito allí donde ha iniciado su funcionamiento, hasta el punto de ser incluso más rentable que Twitter Blue, la plataforma de pago de Twitter. Algunas de las características de esta modalidad de pago que ya está disponible en España son:-Expiración personalizada de historias.-Personalización de los sonidos de notificación.-Personalización del color de borde de la cámara.-Nuevos fondos Bitmoji.-Una insignia especial destaca en el perfil del usuario que se trata de alguien con cuenta de Snapchat Plus.-Las respuestas serán más visibles para las Snap Star.-Firma con emoji.-Iconos personalizados.Además, a partir de diciembre, Snapchat permitirá a los usuarios españoles que puedan regalar una suscripción premium también a sus amigos, al mismo precio.8. Instagram permite añadir Stories destacadas sin publicar antes la historia ni esperar 24h con este truco:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzTyTpu2Jv09. Discord lanza un nuevo plan de pago e integración con YouTubeLa plataforma de mensajería instantánea, que junto a la modalidad gratuita (Nitro Classic) ya cuenta con un plan de suscripción denominado Nitro, ha añadido una nueva modalidad de suscripción bajo el nombre Nitro Basic por un precio de 2,99 dólares (no se ha anunciado aún el precio oficial en España).La versión gratuita Nitro Classic incluye la posibilidad de que los usuarios empleen avatares, GIF animados o emojis. Con la modalidad Nitro (con precios en España de 9,99 euros al mes o de 99,99 euros anuales) añade mejoras en la calidad de vídeo, sos boost de servidor, mayor capacidad en cuanto a caracteres por mensaje o la capacidad de compartir archivos con hasta 1.000 Mb de tamaño.10. Meta, obligado a vender GiphyEl regulador anticompetencia del Reino Unido le obligó a vender la compañía Giphy, el mayor buscador y librería de archivos GIF del mundo.Giphy fue adquirido por Facebook en mayo de 202011. Truth Social, la red de Donald Trump, ya disponible en Google Play StoreTruth Social, la red social creada por Donald Trump, ofrece al usuario una experiencia de uso y un funcionamiento muy similar al de Twitter.Ahora Google sí ha permitido su inclusión en Play Store «siempre que cumplan con las líneas maestras que deben respetar los desarrolladores, lo que incluye una moderación activa de los contenidos generados por los usuarios, al tiempo que se eliminen los contenidos que promuevan la violencia«.12. YouTube lanza los nombres de usuarioLa compañía ha anunciado que permitirá emplear los «@nombresdeusuario» en la plataforma. Así, se podrán emplear los nombres de usuarios para identificar tanto los canales del usuario como todos los contenidos, desde los vídeos a los Shorts.Además, gracias a los @nombresdeusuario, a partir de ahora se podrá mencionar a otros usuarios en los comentarios, descripciones de los vídeos, títulos y mucho más… lo que permitirá a los creadores de contenido en YouTube aumentar considerablemente las interacciones y su visibilidad en la plataforma.A pesar del lanzamiento de los @nombresdeusuario, los usuarios podrán seguir manteniendo el nombre de su canal de YouTube, que podrán cambiar cuando deseen, mientras que el @nombredeusuario será único.La compañía se está poniendo en contacto con los usuarios que ya tienen activada la funcionalidad para que elijan su nombre de usuario.Si un usuario ya tiene personalizada la URL de su canal de YouTube, ese será su nombre de usuario y nadie se lo podrá quitar.13. Llegan problemas de privacidad a BeReal, la red social de modaAmparándose en la búsqueda de la espontaneidad y la lucha contra el postureo, BeReal se ha convertido en el último boom social, con un importante crecimiento en muy poco tiempo, acumulando más de 50 millones de descargas de la app en todo el mundo durante 2022.Su funcionamiento es bien sencillo: cada día y en un momento aleatorio, el usuario recibe una notificación tras el cual dispondrá de dos minutos para hacerse un selfie que, además, irá acompañado de la captura que realiza la cámara trasera. Por tanto se busca compartir un momento improvisado, sin filtros, sin postureos y con apenas dos minutos para «preparar» la puesta en escena.El caso es que comienzan a surgir avisos de especialistas en relación con la vulnerabilidad de los usuarios más jóvenes y, especialmente, los riesgos para la privacidad, llamando la atención sobre los siguientes aspectos:Revelar datos contra la voluntad del usuario, Cesión de imágenes a largo plazo, Ausencia de control de contenido, Geolocalización activa: A diferencia de lo que sucede con otras redes sociales, la geolocalización automática de las imágenes no se desconecta en BeReal, por lo que los usuarios deberán activarla o desactivarla manualmente al compartir imágenes.14. Instagram empieza a mostrar publicidad en el perfil de los usuariosInstagram refuerza sus opciones de monetización del servicio añadiendo publicidad en espacios donde, hasta ahora, estaba ausente. Se trata del perfil de usuario y la página principal de la pestaña Explorar, que comenzarán a incorporar anuncios.15. Netflix lanza un nuevo plan de suscripciónEl 10 de noviembre llegará a España el nuevo «Plan Básico con anuncios» de Netflix. Se trata de la cuarta modalidad de contratación de esta plataforma de streaming que por precio y características queda por debajo de sus actuales planes básico, estándar y premium.Su característica esencial es que a cambio de 5,49 euros al mes (el Plan Básico actual, sin anuncios, cuesta 7,99 euros mensuales) ofrecerá publicidad durante cinco minutos por cada hora de contenido. En España las pausas publicitarias se compondrán de anuncios de 20 segundos de duración que se incluirán al inicio, final y en medio de la reproducción.Pero esta rebaja en el precio va acompañada de otras limitaciones. Una de

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Je ne sais pas si vous avez fait attention mais de plus en plus, on voit apparaître tout un tas d'images dans nos conversations online. Combien d'entre vous s'est vu répondre un message texte pourtant soigneusement rédigé par un pouce levé lapidaire ou encore un petit coeur tout mignon… ? Plus une discussion sans que n'y soit attaché un emoji, un bitmoji, un GIF et tout un tas d'autres symboles amusants.Notre relation au langage est-elle en train de changer ? Est-ce que ce changement s'observe partout ? Est-ce qu'Internet est encore le grand coupable ou sommes nous face à une évolution logique de nos mode de communication ? Voilà toutes les questions que je me pose cette semaine, de quoi faire un bel épisode de Silicon Carne.---Nos invités: Laurent Stock, co-founder and CEO de Natif et Carole Lailler, Dr en Sciences du Langage, consultante en IA et formatrice

Interviewer I'm Ellen Bernstein-Ellis, Program Specialist and Clinical Supervisor for the Aphasia Treatment Program at Cal State East Bay and a member of the Aphasia Access Podcast Working Group. AA's strives to provide members with information, inspiration, and ideas that support their aphasia care through a variety of educational materials and resources.  Today, I have the honor of speaking with Dr. Jamie Lee who was selected as a 2022 Tavistock Distinguished Scholar. We'll discuss her research interests and do a deeper dive into her work involving the study of texting behaviors of individuals with aphasia and her efforts to develop an outcome measure that looks at success at the transactional level of message exchange.  As we frame our podcast episodes in terms of the Gap Areas identified in the 2017 Aphasia Access State of Aphasia  Report by Nina Simmons-Mackie, today's episode best addresses Gap areas:  Insufficient attention to life participation across the continuum of care;  Insufficient training and protocols or guidelines to aid implementation of participation-oriented intervention across the continuum of care;  Insufficient or absent communication access for people with aphasia or other communication barriers  For more information about the Gap areas, you can listen to episode #62 with Dr. Liz Hoover or go to the Aphasia Access website.   Guest bio Jaime Lee is an Associate Professor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at James Madison University. Jaime's clinical experience goes back nearly 20 years when she worked as an inpatient rehab SLP at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (now Shirley Ryan Ability Lab). She later worked for several years as a Research SLP in Leora Cherney's Center for Aphasia Research and Treatment. Jaime earned her PhD at the University of Oregon, where she studied with McKay Sohlberg. Her research interests have included evaluating computer-delivered treatments to improve language skills in aphasia, including script training and ORLA, examining facilitation of aphasia groups, and most recently, exploring text messaging to improve participation, social connection and quality of life in IWA.   Listener Take-aways In today's episode you will: Learn about why texting might be a beneficial communication mode for IwA Explore the reasons it's important to consider the communication partner in the texting dyad Find out more about measures examining texting behaviors, like the Texting Transactional Success (TTS) tool. Consider how Conversational Analysis may be helpful in understanding texting interactions Edited show notes Ellen Bernstein-Ellis Jamie, welcome to the podcast today. I'm so excited that we finally get to talk to you. And I want to offer a shout out because you mentioned two mentors and colleagues who I just value so much, McKay Solberg and Leora Cherney, and I'm so excited that you've also had them as mentors.   Jaime Lee  02:44 Thanks, Ellen. It's really great to talk with you today. And speaking of shout outs, I feel like I have to give you a shout out because I was so excited to meet you earlier this summer at IARC. We met at a breakfast. And it was exciting because I got to tell you that I assigned to my students your efficacy of aphasia group paper, so it was really fun to finally meet you in person.   Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  03:11 Thank you, that is the paper that Roberta Elman was first author on. I was really proud to be part of that.   I was excited to get to come over and congratulate you at the breakfast on your Tavistock award. I think it's very, very deserving. And I'm excited today that we can explore your work and get to know each other better. And I'm just going to start with this question about the Tavistock. Can you share with our listeners what you think the benefits of the Tavistock Distinguished Scholar Award will be to your work? Jaime Lee  03:43 Sure, I think first off being selected as a Tavistock Distinguished Scholar has been really validating of my work in terms of research and scholarship. It's made me feel like I'm on the right track. And at least maybe I'm asking the right kinds of questions. And it's also really meaningful to receive an award that recognizes my teaching and impact on students. And I was thinking about this and a conversation that I had with my PhD mentor McKay Solberg. And it was early into my PhD when we were talking about the impact of teaching and how important it was, where she had said that when we work as a clinician, we're working directly with clients and patients were hopefully able to have a really positive meaningful impact. But when we teach, and we train the next generation of clinicians, you know, we have this even greater impact on all of the people that our students will eventually work with throughout their career. And so that's just huge.  Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  04:51 It really is huge. And I have to say I went to grad school with McKay and that sounds like something she would say, absolutely, her value of teaching.  I just want to do a quick shout out to Aphasia Access, because I think they also recognize and value the importance of teaching. They have shown that commitment by their LPAA curricular modules that they developed and make accessible to Aphasia Access members, so people can bring content right into their coursework, which is helpful because it takes so much time to prepare these materials. So, if you haven't heard of these curricular modules yet, please go to the website and check them out.  So yes, I'm so glad that you feel your work is validated. It's really important to validate our young researchers.  I think there's an opportunity to expand who you meet during this year. Is that true? Jaime Lee  05:40 That is already true. This honor has already led to growing connections with other aphasia scholars and getting more involved with Aphasia Access. I'm excited to share that I'll be chairing next year's 2023 Aphasia Access Leadership Summit together with colleagues Esther Kim and Gretchen Szabo. We're really enthusiastic about putting together a meaningful and inspiring program. I am just really grateful for the opportunity to have a leadership role in the conference. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  06:17 Wow, that's a fantastic team. And I, again, will encourage our listeners, if you've never been to a Aphasia Access  Leadership Summit, it is worth going to and everybody is welcomed. We've had several podcast guests who have said that it has been a game changer for them-- their first attendance at the Leadership Summit. So, we'll be hearing more about that.  Well, I want to start our interview today by laying some foundation for your work with texting and developing some outcome measures for treatment that captures transactional exchange in individuals with aphasia. And let me just ask what piqued your interest in this area? Jaime Lee  06:57 Yeah, thanks. Well, before I got interested specifically, in texting, I had this amazing opportunity to work as a research SLP with Leora Cherney and her Center for Aphasia Research and Treatment. And we all know Leora well for the contributions she's made to our field. At that time, she had developed ORLA, oral reading for language and aphasia, and a computerized version, and also a computerized version of aphasia scripts for script training. And these were treatments that not only improve language abilities in people with aphasia, but I really had this front row seat to seeing how her interventions really made a difference in the lives of people with aphasia, and help them reengage in the activities that they wanted to pursue-- reading for pleasure and being able to converse about topics that they want to do with their script training. So at the same time, I was gaining these really valuable research skills and understanding more about how to evaluate treatment. I was also able to start learning how to facilitate aphasia groups because Leora has this amazing aphasia community that she developed at what was then RIC. I'm just really grateful for the opportunity I had to have Leora as a mentor, and now as a collaborator. And her work really helped orient me to research questions that address the needs of people with aphasia, and to this importance of building aphasia community. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  08:37 Wow, that sounds like a really amazing opportunity. And I think it's wonderful that you've got to have Leora as a mentor and to develop those interests. Then look at where you're taking it now. So that's really exciting to talk about with you today. Jaime Lee  08:54 As for the texting interest that really started after I earned my PhD and was back at the Rehab Institute, now Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Leora was awarded a NIDILRR field initiated grant and I served as a co-investigator on this grant. It was a randomized, controlled trial, evaluating ORLA, combined with sentence level writing.  The two arms of the trial were looking at ORLA plus writing using a handwriting modality, versus ORLA combined with electronic writing or we kind of thought about this as texting. So we call that arm T-write. And ORLA was originally designed to improve reading comprehension, but we know from some of Leora's work that there were also these nice cross-modal language improvements, including improvements in written expression. This was a study where we really were comparing two different arms, two different writing modalities, with some secondary interest in seeing if the participants who were randomized to practice electronic writing, would those improvements potentially carry over into actual texting, and perhaps even changes in social connectedness? Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  10:15 Those are great questions to look at. Interest in exploring texting's role in communication has just been growing and growing since you initiated this very early study. Jamie, would you like to explain how you actually gathered data on participants texting behaviors? How did that work? Jaime Lee  10:32 Yes. So we were very fortunate that the participants in this trial, in the T-write study, consented to have us extract and take a look at their real texting data from their mobile phones prior to starting the treatment. So, for those who consented, and everyone, I think we had 60 participants in the trial, and every single participant was open to letting us look at their texts and record them.    We recorded a week's worth of text messages between the participant and their contacts at baseline, and then again at a follow up point after the treatment that they were assigned to. And that was so that maybe we could look for some potential changes related to participating in the treatment. So maybe we would see if they were texting more, or if they had more contacts, or maybe they might even be using some of the same sentences that were trained in the ORLA treatment. We haven't quite looked at that, the trial just finished so we haven't looked at those pre/ post data. But when my colleagues at Shirley Ryan and I started collecting these texting data, we realized there were some really interesting things to be learned from these texts.  And there have been a couple of studies, we know Pagie Beeson's work, she did a T-CART study on texting, right? And later with her colleague, Mira Fein. So we had some texting studies, but nothing that really reported on how people with aphasia were texting in their everyday lives.  Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  12:08 Well, Jamie, do you want to share what you learned about how individuals with aphasia texts are different from individuals without aphasia? Jaime Lee  12:15 We saw that first, people with aphasia do text, there were messages to be recorded. I think only a couple of participants in the trial didn't have any text messages. But we took a look at the first 20 people to enroll in the trial. We actually have a paper out-- my collaborator, Laura Kinsey is the first author. This is a descriptive paper where we describe the sample, 20 people, both fluent aphasia and nonfluent aphasia, a range of ages from mid 30s up to 72. And one striking finding, but maybe not too surprising for listeners, is that the participants with aphasia in our sample texted much less frequently than neurologically healthy adults, where we compared our findings to Pew Research data on texting. And our sample, if we took an average of our 20 participants and look at their texts sent and received over a week, over the seven days, they exchanged an average of about 40 texts over the week. Adults without aphasia, send and receive 41.5 texts a day. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  13:36 Wow, that's quite a difference. Right?  Jaime Lee  13:39 Yes, even knowing that younger people tend to text more frequently than older adults. Even if we look at our youngest participants in that sample who were in their mid 30s, they were sending and receiving text much less frequently than the age matched Pew data. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  13:56 Okay, now, I want to let our listeners know that we're going to have the citation for the Kinsey et al. article that you just mentioned in our show notes. How can we situate addressing texting as a clinical goal within the life participation approach to aphasia?  Jaime Lee  14:14 I love this question. And it was kind of surprising from the descriptive paper, that texting activity, so how many texts participants were sending and receiving, was not correlated with overall severity of aphasia or severity of writing impairment?  Ellen Bernstein-Ellis I'm surprised by that. Were you?    Jaime Lee Yes, we thought that there would be a relationship. But in other words, having severe aphasia was not associated with texting less. And we recognize, it's dangerous to draw too many conclusions from a such a small sample. But a major takeaway, at least an aha moment for us, was that we can't make assumptions about texting behaviors based on participants' language impairments, also based on their age, their gender. You know, in fact, our oldest participant in the sample, who was 72, was actually most active texter. He sent and received 170 texts over the week period. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  15:22 Wow, that does blow assumptions out of the water there, Jamie. So that's a really good reminder that this to be individualized with that person at the center? Because you don't know.  Jaime Lee  15:32 You don't know. Yeah. And I think it comes down to getting to know our clients and our patients, finding out if texting is important to them. And if it's something they'd like to be doing more of, or doing more effectively, and going from there.    Ellen Bernstein-Ellis Wow, that makes a lot of sense.    Jaime Lee   Yeah, of course, some people didn't text, before their stroke and don't want to text. But given how popular texting has become as a form of communication, I think there are many, many people with aphasia, who would be interested in pursuing texting as a rehab goal.   Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  16:08 Right? You really have to ask, right?    Jaime Lee  16:11 Yes, actually, there's a story that comes to mind about a participant who was in the T-write study, who had stopped using her phone after her stroke. Her family had turned off service; she wasn't going to be making calls or texting.   Ellen Bernstein-Ellis Well, I've seen that happen too many times.  Jaime Lee   And when she enrolled in the study, and she was a participant at Shirley Ryan, because we ran participants here at JMU and they ran participants in Chicago. And she was so excited. I heard from my colleagues that she went out and got a new phone so that she could use her phone to participate in the study. And then her follow up data. When we look at her real texts gathered after the study at the last assessment point, her text consists of her reaching out to all of her contacts with this new number, and saying hello, and getting in touch and in some cases, even explaining that she'd had a stroke and has aphasia.  Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  17:13 Oh, well, that really reminds me of the value and importance of patient reported outcomes, because that may not be captured by a standardized test, per se, but man, is that impactful. Great story. Thank you for sharing that. So well, you've done a really nice job in your 2021 paper with Cherney that's cited in our show notes of addressing texting's  role in popular culture and the role it's taking in terms of a communication mode. Would you explain some of the ways that conversation and texting are similar and ways that they're different? Jaime Lee  17:45 That is a great question, Ellen and a question I have spent a lot of time reading about and thinking about. And there is a great review of research that used conversation analysis (CA) to study online interactions. This is a review paper by Joanne Meredith from 2019. And what the review tells us is that there are many of the same organizing features of face to face conversation that are also present in our online communications. So we see things like turn taking, and we see conversation and texting or apps unfold in a sequence. So what CA refers to as sequential organization.  We also see, just like in face to face conversation, there are some communication breakdowns or trouble sources in online communication. And sometimes we see the need for repair to resolve that breakdown. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  18:45 Yeah, Absolutely. I'm just thinking about auto corrects there for a moment. Jaime Lee  18:51 And they can cause problems too. When the predictive text or the AutoCorrect is not what we meant to say that can cause a problem.Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  18:59 Absolutely. Those are good similarities, I get that.   Jaime Lee  19:03 I think another big similarity is just about how conversation is co-constructed. It takes place between a person and a conversation partner and in texting, we have that too. We have a texting partner, or in the case of a group text, we have multiple partners. There's definitely similarities. And another big one is that purpose, I think we use conversation ultimately, and just like we're using texting to build connection, and that's really important Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  19:32 Yeah, I can really see all of those parallels. And there are some differences, I'm going to assume. Jaime Lee  19:39 Okay, yes, there are some definite interesting differences in terms of the social aspects of conversation. We do a lot in person, like demonstrating agreement, or giving a compliment, or an apology, or all of these nonverbal things we do like gesture and facial expression and laughter. Those nonverbal things help convey our stance, or affiliation, or connection. But in texting, we can't see each other. Right? So we have some different tools to show our stance, to show affiliation. What we're seeing is people using emojis and Bitmojis, and GIFs, even punctuation, and things like all capitals. We've all seen the all caps and felt like someone is yelling at us over text, that definitely conveys a specific tone, right? Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  20:34 I was just going to say emojis can be a real tool for people with aphasia, right? If the spelling is a barrier, at least they can convey something through an image. That's a real difference.   Jaime Lee  20:45 Absolutely, I think some of the problematic things that can happen and the differences with texting have to do with sequencing and timing. Because people can send multiple texts, they can take multiple turns at once. And so you can respond to multiple texts at once, or that can lead to some confusion, I think we're seeing, but texting can also be asynchronous, so it's not necessarily expected that you would have to respond right away Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  21:16 So maybe giving a person a little more time to collect their thoughts before they feel like they have to respond versus in a person-to-person exchange where the pressure is on?    Jaime Lee   Absolutely, absolutely.  Ellen Bernstein-Ellis Well, why might texting be a beneficial communication mode for individuals with aphasia, Jamie, because you have spelling challenges and all those other things.   Jaime Lee  21:37 Yeah, I think it comes back to what you just said, Ellen, about having more time to read a message, having more time to be able to generate a response. I know that texting and other forms of electronic communication like email, can give users with memory or language problems a way to track and reread their messages. And in some cases, people might choose to bank responses that they can use later. We know this from actually some of Bonnie Todis and McKay Sohlberg's work looking at making email more accessible for users with cognitive impairment. So I think there are some really great tools available to people with aphasia to feel successful using texting. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  22:30 That's great. I think banking messages is a really important strategy that we've used before, too.  Jaime Lee  22:37 So there's all these other built-in features, that I'm still learning about that are in some mobile phones, that individuals with aphasia can potentially take advantage of. I think some features might be difficult, but there are things like we've just talked about, like the predictive text or the autocorrect. And then again, all these nonlexical tools, like the emojis and the GIFS and being able to link to a website or attach a photograph. I think this is a real advantage to communicating through text. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  23:10 It lets you tell more of the story, sometimes. One of my members talks about when his spelling becomes a barrier, he just says the word and then that speech-to-text is really helpful. It's just one more support, I guess.   Jaime Lee  23:24 Yes. And we're needing to find out a little bit more about the features that people are already using, and maybe features that people don't know about, but that they would like to use like that speech-to-text. That's a great point.    Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  23:37 Well, how did you end up wanting to study texting for more than an amount of use or accuracy? In other words, what led you to studying transaction? Maybe we can start with a definition of transaction for our listeners?  Jaime Lee  23:51 Sure. Transaction in the context of communication is the exchange of information. So it involves understanding and expression of meaningful messages and content. And this is a definition that actually comes from Brown and Yule's concepts of transaction and interaction and communication. So Brown, and Yule tell us that transaction again, is this exchange of content, whereas interaction pertains to the more social aspects of communication. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  24:26 Okay, thank you. I think that's really good place to start. Jaime Lee  24:29 Part of the interest in transaction, first came out of that descriptive paper where we were trying to come up with systems to capture what was going on. So we were counting words that the participants texted and coding whether they were initiated or are they texts that are simple responses. We counted things they were doing, like did they use emojis or other multimedia? But we were missing this idea of how meaningful their text were and kind of what was happening in their texting exchanges. So this kind of combined with another measure we had, it was another measure in T-write really inspired by Pagie Beeson and Mira Fein's paper where they were using some texting scripts in their study.  We also love scripting. We wanted to just have a simple measure, a simple brief texting script that we could go back and look at. We had as part of our protocol a three turn script. And I remember we sat around and said, what would be a really common thing to text about? And we decided to make a script about making dinner plans. And so we're collecting these simple scripts. And as I'm looking at these data coming in, I'm asking myself, what's happening here? How are we going to analyze what's happening? What was important didn't seem to be spelling or grammar. What seemed most important in this texting script was how meaningful the response was. And ultimately, would the person be able to make dinner plans and go plan a dinner date with a friend. So it seemed like we needed a measure of successful transaction within texting. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  26:23 Jamie, I'm just going say that that reminded me of one of my very favorite papers, whereas you started out counting a lot of things that we can count, and it did give you information, like how much less people with aphasia are texting compared to people without aphasia, and I think that data is really essential. But there's a paper by Aura Kagan and colleagues about counting what counts, right, not just what we can count. And we'll put that citation and all the citations in the show notes-- you're  bringing up some wonderful literature. So I think you decided to make sure that you're counting what counts, right? In addition to what we can count.    Jaime Lee  26:59 Yes. And I do love counting. I was trained at the University of Oregon in single case experimental design. So really, behavioral observation and counting. So I am a person who likes to count but that sounds, like counting what counts. I love that. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  27:13 Yeah, absolutely. In that 2021 paper, you look at the way some researchers have approached conversational analysis measures and you acknowledge Ramsberger and Rende's 2002 work that uses sitcom retells in the partner context. And you look at the scale that Leaman and Edmonds developed to measure conversation. And again, I can refer listeners to Marion Leaman's podcast as a 2021 Tavistock distinguished scholar that discusses her work on capturing conversation treatment outcomes, but you particularly referred to Aura Kagan and colleagues' Measurement of Participation in Conversation, the MPC. We'll put the citation in the show notes with all the others, but could you describe how it influenced your work?   Jaime Lee  27:58 Yeah, sure. That's funny that you just brought up a paper by Aura Kagan, because I think I'll just first say how much Aura's work on Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia, SCA, how influential it's been throughout my career. First as a clinician and actually interacting with people with aphasia, and then later in facilitating conversation groups and helping to train other staff on the rehab team, the nursing staff. And now, it's actually a part of my coursework that I have students take the Aphasia Institute's free eLearning module, the introduction to SCA, as part of my graduate course, and aphasia, and all of the new students coming into my lab, do that module. So they're exposed really early on to SCA. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  28:50 I'm just gonna say me too. We also use that as a training tool at the Aphasia Treatment Program, It's really been a cornerstone of how we help students start to learn how to be a skilled communication partner. So I'm glad you brought that up. Jaime Lee  29:03 Absolutely. So yes, Kagan's Measurement of Participation in Conversation (MPC), was really influential in developing our texting transactional success rating scale. And this is a measure that they created to evaluate participation and conversation. And they were looking actually both at transaction and interaction, I needed to start simply and just look at transaction first. They considered various factors. They have a person with aphasia and a partner engage in a five minute conversation. And they looked at factors like how accurately the person with aphasia was responding, whether or not they could indicate yes/no reliably, and could they repair misunderstandings or miscommunications. And then the raters made judgments on how transactional was that conversation? So, we looked at that measure and modeled our anchors for texting transactional success after their anchors. We had a different Likert scale, but we basically took this range from no successful transaction, partial transaction, to fully successful. And that was really modeled after their MPC.   Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  30:17 Wow. Thank you for describing all of that. Jaime Lee  30:20 Yeah. Another big takeaway I'll add is that, and this really resonated with what we were hoping to capture, the scores on the MPC weren't necessarily related to traditional levels of severity. So Kagan and colleagues write that someone even with very severe aphasia, could score at the top of the range on the MPC. And I think similarly, what we feel about texting is even someone with severe writing impairments could be very successful, communicating via text message, really, depending on the tools they used, and perhaps, depending on the support they received from their texting partner.   Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  31:02 You and your colleagues develop this Texting Transaction Success tool, the TTS, right? What is the goal of this measure?    Jaime Lee  31:13 The goal of the TTS is to measure communicative success via texting. We wanted this functional measure of texting, not limited to accuracy, not looking specifically at spelling, or syntax, or morphology, but something that reflected the person with aphasia-- his ability to exchange meaningful information. I think the measure is really grounded in the idea that people with aphasia are competent and able to understand and convey meaningful information even despite any errors or incorrect output. So this is really relevant to texting because lots of us are using texting without correct spelling or without any punctuation or grammar. Yet lots and lots of people are texting and conveying information and feeling that benefit of connecting and exchanging information. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  32:08 It sounds like a really helpful tool that you're developing. Could you please explain how it's used and how it's scored? Jaime Lee  32:16 Sure. So the TTS is a three-point rating scale that ranges from zero, which would be no successful transaction, no meaningful information exchanged, one, which is partial transaction, to two, which is successful transaction. And we apply the rating scale to responses from an individual with aphasia on the short texting script that I was talking about earlier. So this is a three-turn script that is delivered to a person with aphasia where the first line there, we ask them to use their mobile phone or give them a device, and the prompt is: “What are you doing this weekend?” We tell the person to respond any way they want, without any further cues. And then the script goes on, we deliver another prompt, “What about dinner?” And then another prompt, “Great, when should we go?” Each of those responses, we score on the TTS rating scale. We give either a zero, a one or a two. We have lots of examples in the paper of scores that should elicit a zero, a one or a two.We feel like it should be pretty easy for readers to use.   Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  33:33 Wow, that's going to be really important. I always appreciate when I can see examples of how to do things. Jaime Lee  33:40 We did some really initial interrater reliability on it. The tools are pretty easy to score. We're able to recognize when something is fully transactional, even if it has a spelling error or lexical error, we can understand what they're saying. And a zero is pretty easy to score, if there are graphemes letters that don't convey any meaning, there's no transaction. Where things are a little more interesting, are the partial transaction. I think about an example to “What about dinner” and the participant responded, “Subway, Mexico.” So that's a one because the conversation, the texting partner, would really need to come back and clarify like, “Do you want to get a Subway sandwich?”  Or “Do you want to go eat Mexican?” It could still be really transactional, and they could resolve that breakdown, but the partner would have a little bit more of a role in clarifying the information. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  34:36 When you were actually trying to validate the TTS and establish its interrater reliability in your 2021 article with Cherney you mentioned using the Technology Confidence Survey from the 2021 Kinsey et al. article. Having tools that allow us to understand our clients' technology user profile is really informative in terms of understanding what modes of communication might be important to them. We talked earlier about not assuming, right, not assuming what people want to do or have done. Can you describe the survey? And is it available? Jaime Lee  35:13 Sure, yes. This is a survey we developed for the T-write study, the ORLA Plus Electronic Writing study. It's a simple aphasia friendly survey with yes/no questions and pictures that you can ask participants or clients about their technology usage. from “Are you using a computer? Yes or No” or  “Are using a tablet?”, “Are you using a smartphone?”  We ask what kinds of technology they're using and then what are they using it for? Are they doing email? Are they texting? Are they looking up information? Are they taking photos?  It also has some prompts to ask specifically about some of the technology features like “You're texting? Are you using voice to text?” or “Are you using text to speech to help you with reading comprehension of your text?”  At the very end, we added some confidence questions. We modeled this after Leora Cherney and Ed Babbitt's Communication Confidence Rating scale. So we added some questions like, “I am confident in my ability to use my smartphone” or “I am confident in my ability to text” and participants can read that on a rating scale. We use this in the context of the research study to have some background information on our participants. I think it could be a really great tool for starting a conversation about technology usage and goals, with people who are interested in using more technology, or are using it in different ways. This (survey) is in the Kinsey et al. article. It's a supplement that you can download. It's just a really good conversation starter, that when I was giving the technology survey to participants, many times they would take out their phone or take out their iPad and say, “No, I do it. I use it just like this”. It was really hands on and we got to learn about how they're using technology. And I definitely learned some new things that are available. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  37:20 I think many of us use kind of informal technology surveys.  I'm really excited to see the very thoughtful process you went through to develop and frame that (technology use). That's wonderful to share. Jamie, can you speak to the role of the TTS in terms of developing and implementing intervention approaches for texting? You just mentioned goals a moment ago? Jaime Lee  37:42 Sure. I think we have some more work to do in terms of validating the TTS and that's a goal moving forward. But it's a great starting place. If you have a client who wants to work on texting, it only takes a few minutes to give the script and then score their responses and gives us a snapshot of how effectively they're able to communicate through text. But in terms of developing intervention, to support texting, that's really where we're headed with this. I mean, the big drive is to not just study how people are texting, but really to help support them and texting more effectively and using texting to connect socially and improve their quality of life. But with any kind of intervention, we need a really good outcome measure to capture potential changes. Another reason I'm motivated to continue to work on the TTS, if people with aphasia are going to benefit from a treatment, we need rigorous tools to capture that change and document that potential change. 38:50 Ellen Bernstein-Ellis Absolutely. Absolutely. Jaime Lee  38:53 At the same time, I'd say the TTS isn't the only method we are focused on, we're really interested in understanding what unfolds during texting interactions. What's happening in these interactions. So, most recently, I've been working with my amazing collaborator, Jamie Azios, who is an expert in Conversation Analysis. I've been working with Jamie to say, “Hey, what's happening here? Can we use CA to explore what's going on?”  Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  39:25 Well, Jamie, you probably heard this before, but Conversation Analysis can sometimes feel daunting for clinicians to use within their daily treatment settings. In fact, we've had several podcasts that have addressed this and have asked this question. What are you finding? Jaime Lee  39:40 I can definitely relate because I am still very new to CA and learning all the terminology. But Jamie and Laura and I are actually working on paper right now, a CAC special issue, because we presented some data at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference and then will have this paper. We'll be submitting to a JSHL on how we're applying CA to texting interactions. That goal is really based around understanding how people with aphasia and their partners are communicating via texting and looking at these naturalistic conversations to see what barriers they're coming across, and what strategies they are using to communicate in this modality. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  40:27 That makes a lot of sense. And it really circles back again to communication partner training. That does not surprise me. Jaime Lee  40:33 We're seeing some really interesting, creative, and strategic behaviors used both by people with aphasia and their partners. We're seeing people link to a website, or instead of writing out the name of a restaurant, you know, “meet me here” with a link, or using an emoji to help convey their stance when they can't meet up with a friend. They might have more of an agrammatic production. But that emoji helps show the emotion and we're seeing a lot of people with more severe aphasia using photographs really strategically. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  41:09 So those are the strategies are helping and I'm sure that CA also looks at some of the barriers or breakdowns, right?  Jaime Lee  41:15 Yes, we're seeing some breakdowns, trouble sources in the CA lingo. In some instances, we see the partner clarify, send a question mark, like, “I don't know what you're saying”. And that allows the person with aphasia, a chance to self-repair, like, “Oops, here, this is what I meant.” And that's really useful. We also have seen some examples of breakdowns that may not get repaired. And we don't know exactly what was happening. In those instances, I suspect there were some cases where maybe the partner picked up the phone and called the person with aphasia, or they had a conversation to work out the breakdown. But we really don't know because we're using these data that were previously collected. So a lot of this does seem to be pointing towards training the partners to provide supports, and also helping people with aphasia be more aware of some of the nonlinguistic tools, and some of the shortcuts that are available, but there's still a lot to learn. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  42:22 Well, Jamie, as you continue to explore this work, I know you're involved in a special project that you do with your senior undergrads at your university program at James Madison. Do you want to describe the student text buddy program? It sounds really engaging. Jaime Lee  42:38 Sure. This is a program I started here at JMU. JMU has a really big focus on engaging undergrads and research experiences. And we have students who are always asking for opportunities to engage with people with aphasia. Particularly during COVID, there weren't these opportunities. It just wasn't safe. But I know some of the participants from the T-write study and some people with aphasia in our community here in Harrisonburg, were looking for ways to be involved and continue to maybe practice their texting in a non-threatening situation. So this was a project and I was actually inspired by one of the students in my lab, Lindsay LeTellier. She's getting her master's degree now at the University of New Hampshire. But Lindsay had listened to an interview with one of our participants where she said she wanted a pen pal. And Lindsay said, “Oh, this participant says she wants a pen pal, I'd love to volunteer, I'll be her pen pal.” And I said, “Lindsay, that's great. I love the idea of a pen, pal. But if we're going to do it, let's make it a research project. And let's open it up and go bigger with this.” So Lindsey helped spearhead this program where we paired students with people with aphasia to have a texting pen pal relationship for four weeks. And in order to be able to kind of watch their texts unfold, we gave them a Google Voice number, so that we can watch the texts.  We've really seen some really interesting things. We've only run about 10 pairs, but all of the feedback has been really positive from the people with aphasia, they felt like it was a good experience. And the students said it was a tremendous learning experience.  We're seeing some interesting things. Using CA, Jamie and I presented this at IARC, sharing what the students/person with aphasia pairs are doing that's resulting in some really natural topic developments and really natural relationship development. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  44:39 Nice! What a great experience, and we'll look forward to hearing more about that. Jamie, I can't believe how this episode has flown by. But I'm going to ask you a last question. What are you excited about in terms of your next steps for studying texting? Jaime Lee  44:57 I think we definitely want to continue the Text Buddy project because it's such a great learning experience for students, so we'll be continuing to do that. Jamie and I have applied for funding to continue to study texting interactions and use mixed methods, which is a pairing of both of our areas of expertise. I think there's just more to learn, and we're excited to eventually be able to identify some texting supports to help people with aphasia use texting to connect and be more effective in their communication.   Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  45:35 Well, Jamie, this work is going to be really impactful on the daily lives and the daily ability for people with aphasia to have another mode of support for communicating. So thank you for this exciting work. And congratulations again on your Tavistock award, and I just am grateful that you are our guest for this podcast today. Thank you. Jaime Lee  45:58 Thank you so much, Ellen. This has been great, thanks. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis  46:01 It's been it's been a pleasure and an honor.  So for our listeners, for more information on Aphasia Access and to access our growing body of materials, go to www.aphasiaaccess.org. And if you have an idea for a future podcast series topic, just email us at info@aphasia access.org. And thanks again for your ongoing support of aphasia access. References and Resources  Babbitt, E. M., Heinemann, A. W., Semik, P., & Cherney, L. R. (2011). Psychometric properties of the communication confidence rating scale for aphasia (CCRSA): Phase 2. Aphasiology, 25(6-7), 727-735. Babbitt, E. M., & Cherney, L. R. (2010). Communication confidence in persons with aphasia. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 17(3), 214-223. Bernstein-Ellis, E. (Host). (2021, July 29). Promoting Conversation and Positive Communication Culture: In conversation with Marion Leaman (No. 73) [Audio podcast episode] In Aphasia Access Aphasia Conversations. 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Episode 36 On this episode of The Mortgage Loan Officer, your host Frank Garay, interviews Loan Officer Whitney Schmidt, who has a very cool way of breaking up her Realtor calls.   Whitney uses a very simple gadget that's absolutely free of charge and so easy to use.  It's a free app in your app-store called Bitmoji that you can utilize for a fun spin in your mortgage business.  Tune in today to see how she's using it, you'll be glad you did. For more information on how Mortgage Marketing Animals can help you learn new ways to grow your business, click here to set up a one-on-one FREE coaching call.

Jeff asks Doug about his first date with Bitmoji Bill and his upcoming walking tour with his mother. Jeff's new house is infested with rats, Cheri has new windows, and Megan has decided what she wants from Jeff for her birthday!

In this blast from the past, Katie and I explore the ways to set up your Learning Management System (LMS) effectively and efficiently to optimize course organization and learning for your students. We reviewed tips, strategies, and ideas for setting up your LMS, whether it is Brightspace, Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, or something else.If you like what you hear, we would love it if you could share this episode with a colleague or friend. And make sure you subscribe so that you don't miss out on any new content! And consider supporting the show by buying us a coffee or two!We would love to hear from you – leave a comment on our website OR check out our FLIPGRID!Featured Content**For detailed show notes, please visit our website at https://edugals.com/56**Use your LMS, even if you are fully face-to-faceLayout and Homepage:This is your doorway into your virtual classroomEasy navigation - minimize the links to the essentialsLink all of your other tools within the content areaInclude contact info on homepageAnnouncements Brightspace Part 1 and Brightspace Part 2 episodesOrganization:Embed third party tools (EdPuzzle, Google Slides, YouTube videos, etc) into your content areaLink in Google Docs when it makes senseUse consistent naming & numbering systems (reduces cognitive load)Folders - units, weeks, whatever works best for youUse your announcements to lay out weekly expectationsInclude student voice in planning and organizationInclude visuals and make it look pretty - design is important (consistent fonts, icons, emojis, etc to reduce cognitive load and increase engagement)It's okay to set up your LMS to meet your needs, just make sure you create an intro video to help your students navigate it - Screencastify is great!Canva is a great tool for design - Canvas Banner, Canvas Button, Google Classroom Header (also a Style Your LMS category available)Inclusion Ideas:Include important cultural celebrations Add your personality - Bitmoji or GIPHY is great and integrated into CanvaHave students design your classroom banners - include languages represented in your classroom tooDesign With Canva YouTube channelA Scary Suggestion:A little bit of basic coding (HTML and CSS) goes a long way!Code Academy (look under Web Development)This helps with interactive elements in your LMS - buttons, flipcards, etc.Final Advice:Use student-friendly language to increase accessibilitySupport the show

TikTok now has avatars, to keep up with Bitmoji and Memoji. The SEC seems to be seriously probing Binance. The death of the lighting port really might be nigh. Bits and pieces that fell through the cracks from WWDC. And potentially a huge breakthrough in keeping your data encrypted and secure, but still usable and searchable.Sponsors:KeeperSecurity.com/techmemeLinks:TikTok's new Bitmoji-like Avatars feature lets you record videos as an animated version of yourself (TechCrunch)US Probes Binance Over Token That Is Now World's Fifth Largest (Bloomberg)USB-C will be mandatory for phones sold in the EU ‘by autumn 2024' (The Verge)Security Fixes Won't Require Full iOS Update in iOS 16, Will Be Installed Automatically (MacRumors)Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated For 2022 (AnandTech)A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived (Wired)Classified:collaborate@axoncollective.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nancy and Sarah launch by talking about a slavering press desperate for sensational stories — but we're not discussing today's climate, we're talking about the 1920s, when Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle became the doomed villain in a crime he never committed. We contemplate boobs (again), the greatness of Mariska Hargitay, the cruel online backlash against Amber Heard, and why we don't like gender tribalism (or tribalism of any kind).  We heap admiration on Joan Didion, along with the journalist who recently wrote about her, Caitlyn Flanagan. One of the best-loved journalists of her generation, Flanagan also became a feminist bugaboo thanks to provocative stories on abortion, working moms, Woody Allen, topics she tackles with humor, moral precision, and tremendous style. Nancy and Sarah find themselves divided on the virtues of sentimentality, but they're both big on the drug that is falling in love.You asked (Ed: did they?), we deliver: First true-crime book under discussion will be The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe. Date TBD, conversation likely on Zoom, likely sometime second week of June — NREpisode notes:Make your Bitmoji!Hollywood Babylon, Jayne Mansfield cover, and Hollywood Babylon II, Elizabeth Taylor“Fatty Arbuckle and the Birth of Celebrity Scandal,” by Michael Schulman (New Yorker)Birth of Hollywood, episode 1 (BBC):The Hays Code (Wikipedia)Mariska Hargitay (Instagram)Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush, Roll Dance“The Narcissism At The Heart Of The Johnny Depp And Amber Heard Trial,” by Dani Di Placido (Forbes)“How to Become a Dangerous Person,” Nancy Rommelmann/Prager U (YouTube)“#MeToo is over if we don't listen to ‘imperfect victims' like Amber Heard,” by Martha Gill (Guardian)“Why We Love to Watch a Woman Brought Low,” by Jessica Bennett (NYT)“Why the Internet Hates Amber Heard,” by Kaitlyn Tiffany (Atlantic)“Amber Heard's 'sexual violence' evidence against Johnny Depp will be kept secret in his libel claim against The Sun despite him arguing claims should be made public” (Daily Mail)Correction: Sarah called Depp's attorney Alan Waldman, but his name is ADAM Waldman. Management regrets the error.Saturday Night Live's cold open on Depp-Heard:“Joan Didion's Magic Trick,” by Caitlin Flanagan (Atlantic)Selected Caitlin Flanagan stories. Full Atlantic archive here."The Autumn of Joan Didion”“The Humiliation of Aziz Ansari”“Caroline Calloway Isn't a Scammer”“The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate”“Losing the Rare in Safe, Legal, and Rare.'”“What Mia Farrow Knew”“I'll Tell You the Secret of Cancer”“Tell Children the Truth”“McCarthy on Didion: Pro and Con,” letter to the editor (NYT)“Imagining Enemies: Nora Ephron's theory of Mary McCarthy vs. Lillian Hellman,” by Katie Roiphe (Slate). Ed. note: The play about Hellman-McCarthy is Nora Ephron's Imaginary FriendsThe Last Thing He Wanted, by Joan DidionSlouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion“Joan Didion, 1934-2021,” by Nancy Rommelmann“Things Fall Apart: Thoughts on Joan Didion,” by Sarah Hepola“The Fifth Column” podcast live event, with Michael Rapaport and Colin Quinn“The Lawyers Who Ate California, Part 1,” Matt Taibbi SubstackAfter Hours official trailerThe Center Will Not Hold official trailerOutro song: Billy Bragg & Wilco, “California Stars” But one last thing … This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit smokeempodcast.substack.com/subscribe

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Matt McGowan is the General Manager of Canada at Snap Inc, the parent company for well-known brands like Snapchat, Spectacles, Bitmoji, and Zenly. In this episode, we discuss how Snap is opening up new doors to marketers through innovative technology like AR and unrivaled engagement amongst individuals aged 13-34. Matt helps position the performance opportunity for advertisers on Snapchat, and he also explains their approach to areas like original content/show, content authenticity, and data privacy.    Snapchat continues to grow fast, so why the heck is it still such a big unknown for so many marketers?For more content, episodes, and show notes make sure to check out RightMetric.co.

Welcome back to two dads raising kids, then talking about it. This week, the dads started talking about an app Colfax is all about, Bitmoji. Which then turned into a discussion about mobile games and then games in general. We even started thinking it'd be great to get everyone out for a game night somewhere! We will be sure to share before we go. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adventures-in-dadland/support

This week we have a great interview with Page DeLozier from TalkingPoints, an excellent edtech service that offers free communication and translation services for teachers and parents.  We also have some Wordle news and the usual helping of Tech Nuggets! Here are some links for what we talked about... News & follow-up: Originality reports are now available for Google Slides files Seesaw Templates in Canva (new to us) Canva Partners with Book Creator…and Giphy, Bitmoji, and Google Drive  Adobe Creative Cloud Express Monthly Challenge; January  Introducing WeVideo Classroom for educational multimedia creation How to Use the YouTube Picture-in-Picture Mode Main Course: Talking Points https://talkingpts.org/  Talking Points iOS App Talking Points Android App Tech Nuggets Rasterbator Open Middle Slide Decks (openmiddle.com) Make Your Own Wordle  …and seven more Wordle type games from Tony Vincent SandboxAR on the App Store You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

CW: This episode includes discussion of eating disorders, and body and image issues. Pamela and I only knew each other for about a year before she moved to California, but she was still one of the first people I thought of when I began making a list of potential guests for CIBY. In this episode we talk about her two-person sketch group, 1.5 Korean; how she can kick ass but doesn't; and her adorable cockatoo friend Chilly. Join Can I Bother You's Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/canibotheryou Drink water! DEVICO 32oz Water Bottle with Time Marker - https://amzn.to/3LixG6I See Chilly being cute! https://www.facebook.com/365daysshow/videos/1128324677333591 Pamela's requests for us all: Take the opportunity daily, if not multiple times a day, to check in with how you're showing up in the world, and if that's really how you want to be seen and heard, and how you want to impact others. Also, promote each other. Support each other. Also, also, do Bitmoji! https://www.bitmoji.com/ Pair Eyewear: Customizable Glasses https://paireyewear.com/ Bother Can I Bother You: @canibotheryou Instagram Twitter Facebook Bother AJ: @ajreyesf13 YouTube Instagram Twitter Facebook Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/canibotheryou/message

1. Open Enrollment For The Microsoft Advertising Partner Program Has Begun! - Open enrollment for the Select and Elite tiers of the Microsoft Advertising Partner Program will run from January through March. The opportunity to enroll at the Partner tier and begin unlocking benefits will remain available year-round. If you're ready to enroll but aren't sure what tier you qualify for, reach out to Microsoft Advertising support or your Microsoft Advertising representative.Elite and Select partners are eligible to enroll only during the annual open enrollment cycle (January 1st to March 31st). Partner tier partners may enroll throughout the year. Eligibility and participation are based on meeting a set of criteria, including being an existing Microsoft Advertising customer for at least six months and maintaining a minimum combined total Microsoft Search Network spend for the geographies that you serve.The Microsoft Advertising Partner Program tiers are determined by the level of investment in Microsoft Advertising, in addition to other requirements. Your Partner Program tier will remain for a calendar year and will be evaluated every December to take effect January 1.2. Google Ads Allows Sports Gambling Ads In New York Now - As of Jan 8, 2022, Google Ads, is allowing certified and state-licensed entities in New York to run ads for sports betting. This was previously disallowed but now that the state Gaming Commission in New York changed the rule, it is now allowed in New York State.3. 4 New Messaging Features From Snapchat - Snapchat introduced four new messaging (Chat Replies, Bitmoji Reactions, Polls, and a revamped audio and video calling interface) features, which will roll out to Snapchatters “in the coming days” on Android and iOS. First off, Snap's added Poll Stickers, which enable you to create emoji-focused polls that you can share in Snaps and Stories. Per Snapchat, “Our visual Polls work across iOS and Android, so all your friends can weigh in and show their thoughts. Plus, our Polls were designed with transparency in mind - you can see how your friends voted to help ensure responses stay thoughtful and kind.”Snapchat also adds a new option to reply to individual messages within an ongoing group chat, enabling you to specifically address any comment with a separate chat thread. The functionality will be familiar to those who engage in group chats on Messenger, given Meta added the same functionality back in 2019. The option will make it easier to ensure your messages are understood, while additionally providing more context to all group chat members.Snap's also rolling out Bitmoji Reactions, which are similar to the reaction options in other social apps but utilize your Bitmoji character for a more personal touch. As you can see here, within a chat thread, you'll now be able to choose one of seven Bitmoji reactions, providing a quick way to respond to messages, while also incorporating Bitmoji use.And finally, Snapchat's updated its video and audio calling interface in order to “make live conversations more fun”. The new process makes it easier to add Lenses in video calls, a key engagement element for Snap's video calling option, while you'll also now be able to preview who's on a group call before you join.4. Google: Nofollow Is Not A Substitute For Noindex - Google's Search Advocate John Mueller advises that the nofollow link attribute isn't a substitute for the noindex directive. Googlebot is capable of can finding and indexing nofollowed links. So it should not be used in hopes of keeping a page out of Google's search index.Mueller addresses a submitted question asking if rel=”nofollow” can be used as noindex. The person who submitted the question notes they've been nofollowing internal links to pages that they don't want to be indexed in search results.When asked if rel=”nofollow” can be used to keep a page out of Google's search index, Mueller says:“No. Essentially, nofollow tells us not to pass any PageRank to those pages, but it doesn't mean that we will never index that page. So if you really want a page to be blocked from indexing, make sure it has a noindex on it.Don't rely on us not accidentally running across a random link to that page. So I would not assume that those two are the same.”Mueller goes on to reference an article from Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes, which explains the difference between nofollow and other types of link attributes.In the article, Illyes explains how nofollow is treated as a hint and not a directive.That means it can't always be relied upon to do what it's designed for.Nofollow tells Google that a site doesn't want to pass PageRank from one URL to another, but Google may decide to do so anyway.With that being the case, it's sometimes used by Google as a signal for link discovery.5. Google Has Two Types Of Crawling – Discovery & Refresh - Google utilizes two types of crawling methods when it goes through web pages — one to discover new content and one to refresh existing content.You can find out how often Googlebot crawls your site via a report in Search Console, and there may be periods when your site is crawled more than others. When questioned about the report, Mueller confirms the fluctuations are normal and discusses the two types of crawling:“That can happen. It's not so much that we crawl a website, but we crawl individual pages of a website. And when it comes to crawling, we have two types of crawling roughly.One is a discovery crawl where we try to discover new pages on your website. And the other is a refresh crawl where we update existing pages that we know about.”Not only can crawl frequency vary for the whole site, but it can also vary by individual web pages. If your homepage is updated more regularly than other pages, for example, then you'll see more Googlebot activity on that page.6. YouTube Launches Understanding Performance Trends by Highlighting Similar Videos - Inside the advanced analytics element in YouTube Studio – you can now view a scatter plot of all your videos and their comparative performance on variable timelines. This new element enables you to select ‘Show videos with similar topics' from the plot display, which will then switch the graph to a specific listing of uploads on the same subject.That means that you're getting a better comparison of video performance, as you're comparing more like-for-like clips, as opposed to measuring each video against every other.It could be a good way to better contextualize video engagement, while also helping to highlight the specific topics that are resonating over time.Fun fact: You can display up to 100 videos at once in the chart and sort the listing by ‘First 24 hours', ‘First 7 days' or ‘First 28 days'. You can also compare various metrics, including views, impressions, and average view duration.It is an amazing addition for your YouTube analytics and planning – to access your video performance chart, go to: Channel analytics > Advanced mode > Compare to' > ‘First 24 hours video performance'7. IndexNow Enables Data Sharing Between Bing And Yandex - The Microsoft Bing team said that the IndexNow protocol is now at a place where those participating are co-sharing URLs submitted, meaning if you use IndexNow to submit URLs to Microsoft Bing, Microsoft will immediately share those URLs with Yandex, the company announced.The promise of IndexNow was to submit a URL to one search engine via this protocol and not only will that search engine immediately discover that URL, but it will also be discovered on all the other participating search engines. Right now, that is just Microsoft Bing and Yandex, but Google is exploring using this protocol. Microsoft said...“The IndexNow protocol ensures that all URLs submitted by webmasters to any IndexNow-enabled search engine immediately get submitted to all other similar search engines. As a result of co-sharing URLs submitted to IndexNow-enabled search engines, webmasters just need to notify one API endpoint. Not only does this save effort and time for webmasters, but it also helps search engines in discovery, thus making the internet more efficient.”Also, you no longer need to submit the URLs to https://www.bing.com/IndexNow?url=url-changed&key=your-key or https://yandex.com/indexnow?url=url-changed&key=your-key. IndexNow.org is also directly accepting these submissions at https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow?url=url-changed&key=your-key

This episode dives into Virtual Fitting Rooms. What they are, how they work, Virtual Realty (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) use cases, benefits for both retailers and consumers, our first jobs as teenagers, body scanning, AI powered clothing suggestions, data of different age ranges and how they shop for clothing (online vs in-store), Bitmojis and Rent the Runway starting at (38:50). But first,IKEA highlights from Nafis' first time there (3:08)A refresher on a glizzies (5:22)Returning Amazon items, like Halloween costumes, when you are done with them (7:16)Nafis (aka The Dark Mode Nazi) is back with stats about how popular the dark mode is (10:50)Amazon is now allowing users to pay with Venmo (15:52)Facebook planning to open physical stores to sell their Metaverse relates devices (18:15)Anonymous Listener #3 flexes her Oculus VR Headset (18:50)Reminiscing the good old days at  Brookstone stores, we find out if they are still operating in 2021, the Frog-O-Sphere controversy and the moving ferret aka weasel balls (20:35)Charlie goes off on Ferrets as pets with his hot take, while Nafis hates birds as pets and Anonymous Listener #3's family had an indoor domesticated iguana as a pet (25:05)Elon Musk polling on Twitter if he should sell 10% of his Tesla Stock (worth $21 Billion) and abiding by the results (33:35)More importantly, Nafis shares that Grimes and Elon Musk have broke up (36:28)Support The Podcast:Instagram - Follow UsTwitter - Follow UsApple Podcasts - Listen,  Subscribe and RateSpotify - Listen & Follow

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TikTok made Cody buy it, Bitmojis are not us, and we finally have ads! (Just kidding, they're not real at all).

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I think I did badly!

Have you ever been Cat Fished by a Bitmoji? Don't Trip We Got You. We also dive into some live call ins from people who want to talk about their relationship problems. Also we give you some ways to slide in to the dm's on instagram.  Full Videos and more: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=53967062 Show some love to the Social Media and DM the instagram with questions you have that may be featured on an episode Instagram: David - @david_egbo https://instagram.com/david_egbo?utm_... Justice - @summerset_08 https://instagram.com/summerset_08?ut... Don't Trip - https://instagram.com/donttripwegotu?igshid=1mo9pwxo1y6ey Twitter: @david_egbo https://twitter.com/david_egbo @iHeart_Justice8 https://twitter.com/iHeart_Justice8 Snapchat: @davidegbo1 @summerset8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today's episode, I share 5 Chrome extensions with you that are game-changers for efficient work and study time! Podcastle AI Google Keep Awesome Screenshot Remote for Slides BlockSite Bonus: Marinara Just for fun - Bitmoji and Custom Cursor for Chrome Today's Hermione Granger cocktail is brought to you by Half Baked Harvest --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mandy45/message