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Friday Faves is our weekly blog series highlighting a few select pieces from the REG team’s reading lists. You can catch up on past Friday Faves on the archive. 

This TikTok perfectly nails the start of every online meeting

We are all in this video http://pic.twitter.com/ZebenP2Aid

— Washington Post TikTok Guy 🥉 (@davejorgenson) September 2, 2021

Jakkii says: We have all been in this meeting – in fact, we have probably all hosted this meeting.

It’s been one of those weeks (I hope you see what I did there) here at Ripple Effect Group, so we’ve got a relatable giggle & groan by way of this video along with our usual roundup of links for you this week. There’s plenty of interesting stories below – we’d love to hear if any story in particular really piques your interest!

At home

 

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Jakkii says: another week goes by, and the pandemic marches on. As a small way to help you get through the next week, here’s a few more things you can do and watch from home during lockdown, restrictions and just plain staying home. As always, if you spot something we should share, send it my way in the comments or on social media!

• Watch the OG grave cleaning lady on TikTok recover the beauty of headstones from under years of dust and grime

• Force yourself to stop and take a break with this website that challenges you to be still and do absolutely nothing for just 2 minutes

• Think of a real or fictional character and the Akinator will try to guess who it is

• 9 websites to bring the nostalgia for the web of old

• Get started with these at-home workplace workouts to combat stiff and sore bodies

• Watch music be played on pineapples (yes, really)

• Get the brain juices flowing with Isolation Trivia, livestreaming tonight 6.30pm and again on Tuesday 7th at 6.30pm

Friday Fives

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Hybrid workplace and the future of work

• The 8-hour workday is a counterproductive lie

• How to thoughtfully use technology in the hybrid future

• Facebook’s VP of people growth: Three principles for the future of work

• Trip.com takes ‘scientific’ approach to hybrid working

• How to keep it together when your employees all want different work arrangements

Remote work and the digital workplace

• How to foster powerful relationships in a virtual world

• Anywhere, everywhere: integrating your virtual workplace

• Who should own the digital workplace?

• Millennial women want remote work, but many fear they’ll miss opportunities if not in office

• Creating culture in a WFH world: how 3 small businesses did it

Communication, collaboration, engagement, and culture

• Can we train for trust?

• For Gen Z, low-coding is about tooling and workplace culture

• The fascinating brain chemistry behind team collaboration and unbridled creativity

• Communicating change: overcoming resistance through empathy

• 5 tips to steer clear of the 2021 sharply rising burnout epidemic

Community management, moderation and misinformation

• ‘Prebunking’ health misinformation tropes can stop their spread

• Facebook quietly makes a big admission

• ‘YouTube magic dust’: How America’s second-largest social platform ducks controversies

• The silent partner cleaning up Facebook for $US500 million a year

• What vaccine misinformation really tells us

Bonus: Social media influencer suing Facebook and Twitter… and Biden

Privacy and data

• Craig Kelly texts show need for spam, privacy reform: experts

• Accenture gets $50m for digital identity work

• How to avoid spam—using disposable contact information

• People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones

• How data literate is your company?

Big Tech, tech and regulation

• There’s no escape from Facebook, even if you don’t use it

• Metropolis now: Japan’s high-tech, high-hopes ‘city of the future’

• Snapchat’s new AR features can identify the world around you

• Killer robots? Get real. It’ll be easier for AI to just erase our minds and steal our bodies

• Google faces showdown with government over ads

Social media

• It’s on digital platforms to make the internet a better place

• As Black users complain of censorship, LinkedIn faces a perception problem

• Twitter’s design stokes hostility and controversy. Here’s why, and how it might change

• Social media’s 70-up ‘grandfluencers’ debunking aging myths

• Meet the online community for women going through menopause

Extras

Enormously fun thread about statue touching. It started out so pure… https://t.co/AyZH5z0kZQ

— Knighty Knight 💾 (@jemimah_knight) August 24, 2021

This is interesting: I went to Iceland to learn what’s up with their elves

Things that make you go hmmm: I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget

Space: The next big challenge for lunar astronauts? Moon dust

Podcast: Can the metaverse thrive if it’s fully owned by Facebook?

Friday playlist: Take a little time to practice self-care with music, with this Love Yourself playlist