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Twitter recently announced the demise of its Fleets feature less than a year after it was first introduced last November. The feature will be phased out on 3 August. Nonetheless, Twitter will still make full use of the space at the top of its timeline, given it is "a good spot to highlight what is happening now", Ilya Brown, head of product, brand and video ads said. The space will be replaced with its live audio chat rooms Spaces. Fleets was launched with the aim of sharing momentary thoughts ...

Netflix fires three senior staffers for criticizing bosses on Slack Christopher Eberhart For Dailymail.Com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Netflix fired three senior marketing officers for criticizing their bosses - including chief marketing officer Bozoma Saint John - on Slack, according to reports.  The senior staffers havent been identified and what was said havent been revealed, but someone found months worth of messages on Slack, which is an internal chat simil...

June 27, 2021 The Singapore Womens Weekly Whether you are looking for conversations about entrepreneurship and careers, marketing and business strategies, or even pushing through failure, there is something for everyone in these inspirational podcasts. 1. Great Women of Our Time by The Singapore Womens Weekly Yes, we’re plugging our new podcast, where we bring on board inspiring female guests and their journey through motherhood and their career. Hosted by editor Elizabeth Lee, it also touch...

Feel like youre stuck in a rut?  If the answer is yes, youre right in the middle of a trend of the post-pandemic "blahs" that many people are feeling, which has a technical term called languishing. The New York Timescalled languishing the "middle child" of mental health since its neither depression nor anxiety, but something in between where you feel stuck and unexcited by your daily routine. The main reason you may be feeling stuck is that during the early months of last year we were in a h...

Buzzy audio platform Clubhouse has hired Kelly Stoetzel, the 17-year TED executive responsible for curating the company’s famed TED Talks series, as its head of thought leadership programming. Stoetzel joined TED in 2004 and most recently served as head of conferences and speaker curation. Variety reports that she first initiated discussions about a partnership between TED and Clubhouse before joining the company in-house. In her newly-created role, Stoetzel will lead efforts to recruit auth...

Where Event Description Colorado Matters invites you to read with us. Join us for our next Turn The Page with Colorado Matters on June 30, at 6 p.m. Paula Stone Williams has experienced American life as both a man and a woman. She shares what she’s learned about power, sex, and the patriarchy in her new book “As a Woman.” Williams, a pastor and counselor in Boulder County, transitioned from male to female at age 60 and was rejected in evangelical circles. Her Ted Talks have garnered milli...

Clubhouse is now available on Android in Canada You still need an invite to actually use the app After announcing last week that Clubhouse was finally coming to Android, the drop-in group voice chat app is now releasing in the Canadian Google Play Store. That said, you still need to be invited by someone that’s already using Clubhouse to access the platform. Since its launch last year, Clubhouse has been iOS exclusive, so this new Android Android version of the platform has been...

There will be 12 new Assembly Members in City Hall for the upcoming term. Credit: PA There will be 12 new members of the London Assembly this term following the conclusion of the GLA elections this weekend. Although none of the 14 constituency seats changed hands between parties, seven of the Assembly members in these seats stood down or retired before the election, with new candidates taking their place. There were also five new Assembly members elected to the London-wide seats who will ...

The first full school year conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic is coming to a close.  The sudden inability to deliver educational instruction in person due to the pandemic gave rise, by necessity, to the expanded use of third-party content (think YouTube and Ted Talks) and the technology to deliver it (think FlipGrid, Quizlet, and Zoom).   While these tools are not new, it is the enhanced role of professors in harnessing the resources together to create a “package” of instructional con...

Friday, April 30, 2021 The first full school year conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic is coming to a close.  The sudden inability to deliver educational instruction in person due to the pandemic gave rise, by necessity, to the expanded use of third-party content (think YouTube and Ted Talks) and the technology to deliver it (think FlipGrid, Quizlet, and Zoom). While these tools are not new, it is the enhanced role of professors in harnessing the resources together to create a “p...