More Than Hashtags Ep. 21: Social Media's Role During Tragedy, How To Cope And Heal

On Episode 21, We talk about how social media's role during times of tragedy, specifically the tragedy in Las Vegas. Social media plays an important role to help document, communicate. Social Media also plays a valuable roll of helping up cope and understand tragedy on such a grand scale by connecting us to human stories and also allowing us to raise money for those in need.

During the second half of the show we dig into some social media news and updates.

Show links:

• https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/02/search-and-social-media-was-filled-with-clickbait-and-propaganda-in-the-wake-of-vegas-shooting/
• Facebook’s Russia-Linked Ads https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/technology/facebook-russia-ads-.html
• FB ads targeted Michigan, Wisconsin: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.html
• Pinterest officially recognizes hashtags: http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/what-pinterests-hashtag-announcement-really-tells-us
• FB adding 1000 jobs for ad reviewers: http://mashable.com/2017/10/02/facebook-changes-advertising-politics-congress-russia/?utm_cid=hp-hh-sec#PIJ7NUcyZSq0

Many thanks to Nino Lucarelli of Vocal Kitchen for creating our original #MoreThanHashtags score. Connect with him on Instagram @ninolucarelli to hear more or inquire.

More Than Hashtags is hosted by:

Adam Leidhecker

5x Serial Entrepreneur, Social Media Practitioner

Director of Social Strategy of Otto Radio

Twitter.com/AdamLeidhecker

Vincent Orleck 

President Social Media Club Phoenix

CMO Brandish Social

Twitter.com/VincentOrleck

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#MoreThanHashtags is a practical social media podcast that provides real application, what’s working, what’s trending and what’s next

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