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This news item is part of the weekly top 5 news bulletin (from Week 2, Feb 2023) specially packaged for leaders of Nonprofits, Churches, and Faith-based Social Ventures.

LinkedIn has announced that they are releasing new tools to help you increase the subscriber base of your LinkedIn newsletter. If you have been using LinkedIn newsletter, you know what a good tool this is to establish your thought leadership or to convey your message to your audience on LinkedIn. This is also a tool that has got a lot of engagement and views and is one of the fastest growing type of posting content on LinkedIn. The tools they have released now are one is one click URL. So basically you can take a URL, share it on your newsletter or your social media post, people can click on it and subscribe to your newsletter. They’ve also released an embeddable button that you can put on your ministry website and people can click on it and join your LinkedIn newsletter. And they also say that they have increased the discoverability of this newsletter and connected it with your profile. So if somebody searches for your profile on LinkedIn now, they will be able to see the newsletter also as part of the featured section. So very interesting. Check this out.
Here is the full list of the Top 5 News Items from Week 2, February 2023 with source links from Netflix, TikTok, Meta, LinkedIn, Samsung, Google.
🗞️ News 1: Netflix ‘Kids Mystery Box’ now on Android; Paramount-Amazon ads deal
🗞️ News 2: Meta starts testing VR-Communities with members-only Horizon Worlds
Source: Meta
🗞️ News 3: LinkedIn gives a boost to its Newsletters with new tools & features
Source: LinkedIn
🗞️ News 4: TikTok adds a new Video Insights tool within Ads Manager reporting
Source: TikTok
🗞️ News 5: [Web3] Samsung, Google, Qualcomm partner for a mixed-reality platform
Source: Samsung
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Author of The Connected Church. Social Media and Digital Marketing Consultant for Nonprofits, Faith-based Organisations, Churches, and Ministries.