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Taking a Closer Look at the FTC Lawsuit Against Amazon A new filing in the government's antitrust lawsuit sheds more light on how the e-commerce giant operates.

"Amazon projects that by 2024, Prime enrollment will be more common than paid television and almost as widespread as home internet access." www.publishersweekly...

I did not have "The Wall Street Journal is dropping its bestseller lists" on my 2023 bingo card.

So much has changed over the years. I really miss the days when vendors sent Christmas gifts to our company and they were shared amongst the staff. There were some good Harry & David or exotic chocolate gifts back in the day.

How Weird is The Religious Composition of Harvard's Student Body? 47% atheists and agnostics. 6% Protestants. Is that normal?

The average American is seven times more likely to be a Protestant than a Harvard freshman. www.graphsaboutrelig...

Who is Abandoning the Evangelical Label? A deep dive into factors like age, race, and political partisanship

-Older Dems are walking away from the evangelical label.
-Being male, white, having higher household income, and higher education are predictive of being less apt to identify as an evangelical.
www.graphsaboutrelig...

Interesting read on the evangelical label. Some highlights:
-Among those born in the late '80s, those who identify as evangelical have actually risen very slightly since '08.
-African-Americans are most likely to identify as evangelical/born-again.

Meta Business Suite's post planner is being buggy tonight.

Please pray for me. There's a lot tugging at my heart today.

If you’re an Asana user, what did you wish you knew starting out on the platform? What feature do you find yourself loving?

Normalize limiting email subject lines to well less than 280 characters. Just because you can tweet it doesn’t mean you should reuse it in the subject line.

Screenshot of a post where the shared image is left aligned to the page headline and description.

LinkedIn seems to be testing or has changed how they show link previews.

I just saw someone else add -opt at the end of a file. It made me smile that I'm not the only one going around and optimizing file sizes before posting them places.

Screenshot of a comment that reads, "I read that as “how do you discipline your VBS volunteers” and I was absolutely following this thread cause them are the worst behaved one at VBS! 🤣🤣🤣"

I love building the RBP VBS community at rbpVBScommunity.org! They truly are my people. I posted the question, "How do you disciple your VBS volunteers?" and received this comment.

I'm two shots in...of espresso.

REMINDER: No customer truly cares about your Instagram grid design. Prioritize helpful content over pretty patterns.

Find yourself someone who believes in you no matter what you do! PF knows how many times I have checked into my gym this quarter, and yet they still think I'd love to upgrade to PF Black.

Churches Rejoice over VBS 2023 Churches rejoice over God's blessings at Stompers & Chompers: Building Dino-Sized Faith in God's Big Plan, VBS 2023 from Regular Baptist Press.

I'm thrilled to read accounts from churches using RBP VBS. It's clear Stompers & Chompers helped churches make “ground-shaking strides,” sharing the Good News with students and helping Christian kids build their faith in God’s big plan! regularbaptistpress....

What is up with Adobe Acrobat completely rearranging the graphics of a PDF when I hit edit to adjust ONE LINE OF TEXT? It's infuriating.

Instagram Will Now Let You Highlight Post Replies in Stories A new way to highlight top replies to your IG posts.

Would you use this feature? www.socialmediatoday...

Please pray for the men listed at www.garbc.org/about/... and the Regular Baptist Ministries today and tomorrow as our Council of 18 has its annual November meetings.

I used many of the same tweets over multiple platforms in the last 30 days. Here are my stats:
Threads - 68 posts, 36 likes, 11 votes
Twitter - 45 posts, 11 likes
LinkedIn - 20 posts, 8 likes
BlueSky - 39 posts, 1 like

Kraft Real Mayo seeks to make ‘moist’ Word of the Year via search hacking A Twitch “Search-A-Thon” livestream is part of the brand’s efforts to convince Merriam-Webster that the maligned term is the word of the moment.

I don't know. The people I know who hate the word moist will be repulsed by the word on the front of the label alone. www.marketingdive.co...

I watched The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar for the stupendous sets alone! The acting style of the movie was engaging too.

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Why is Kroger out here hurting us? 😭 This is such a great Christmas ad!

Chart via Ryan Burge. He says regarding the four states with increases, "It’s probably nothing more than a weird sample in the 2008 version of the CES than any real gain in religious attendance." www.graphsaboutrelig...

“There’s a difference between putting the time in and making the time work.” — Gordon Ramsay

Goodreads Asks Users to Help Combat ‘Review Bombing’ In an October 30 message, Goodreads officials urged users to report activity designed to “harass readers or authors, or attempt to artificially deflate or inflate the overall rating” of books.

It makes sense that one of Goodreads' first lines of defense is their users, but I'm glad also to read that they "continue to invest in improvements to quickly detect and moderate content and accounts that violate our reviews or community guidelines."
www.publishersweekly...

Kindle Direct Publishing Will Beta Test Virtual Voice–Narrated Audiobooks Amazon's self-publishing arm has begun a beta test on technology allowing KDP authors to produce audiobook versions of their e-books using virtual voice narration. The audiobooks will be available wherever Audible titles are sold.

Amazon's KDP has begun a beta test on technology that allows KDP authors to produce audiobook versions of their e-books using virtual voice narration. Prices can be set between $3.99 and $14.99 and authors will receive a 40% royalty. www.publishersweekly...

472 days ago for Instagram*

We should have known that Intuit's Mint was going away. Apparently, they fired or repositioned their social media marketing people in July 2022. Here are the last times these accounts were posted to:
Instagram - 472 weeks
Facebook - 467 days ago
Twitter - 467 days ago