Welcome to the Connected Church News by Natchi Lazarus.
This news item is part of the top 5 news (Week 3, Mar 2024) specially curated for leaders of Nonprofits, Churches, and Faith-based Social Ventures.
X launched a new feature called ‘Articles’ which is basically long-form content like blog posts. This feature is currently available only to Premium+ subscribers or verified organizations. The announcement says “you can create your articles by just clicking on the ‘Article’ option, and start writing your content ,and formatting it with bold, italics, strike-through and all of it. You can also add videos and images”. Once you finish ‘creation’, the announcement says that you can ‘publish’ it and the article will appear on your profile in a new ‘Articles’ tab, and in your followers timeline, just like regular X posts. So X will promote it to your followers. Could be helpful if your audience are on X platform because any long form content with the video and an image option means that you can convey longer messages and deeper messages. Today with AI and ChatGPT, creating written content or long form content is not a big problem.
Here is the full list of the news items from Week 3, Mar 2024 with source links from European AI Law, Meta, ChatGPT, X, Google.
🗞️ News 1: The European Parliament Approves the World’s 1st Comprehensive AI Act
Source: BBC
🗞️ News 2: Meta Releases New AI-Powered eCommerce Ads & Optimization Tools
Source: Meta
🗞️ News 3: Inflection AI Launches 2.5 Model with More Capability & Less Computing
Source: Inflection
🗞️ News 4: Google Business Listings will Now Display Your Social Media Posts
Source: Google
🗞️ News 5: X Launches ‘Articles’, the Long-Form Blog Content Option for Premium+
Source: X
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Author of The Connected Church. Social Media and Digital Marketing Consultant for Nonprofits, Faith-based Organisations, Churches, and Ministries.
