Geekout with Matt Navarra

Katie Carroll heads up LinkedIn News for North America and the UK. In a world where social media is rife with misinformation and trashy stories that waste your time, LinkedIn curates and packages news to help the platform's professional audience get the information they need to help them do their jobs better. Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant spoke to Katie about LinkedIn's approach to news, the challenges it faces, and how users can get more out of the platform. Follow Matt and Martin on Twitter: @MattNavarra and @MartinSFP Join the Social Media Geekout Facebook Group and subscribe to Geekout's newsletters: Geekout - social media news and analysis Tech Revolution - what today's tech news means for the future Diary of a Social Media Manager - industry news and gossip for social media managers

Stan Chudnovsky heads up Messenger at Facebook. As Messenger turns 10 years old, we ask him about its future as it transitions into being more of a layer across all of Facebook's properties, rather than just a standalone app. How does Instagram messaging and WhatsApp fit into this world? What about the metaverse? And can everything you do on Messenger be encrypted without unleashing other problems? This edition of the podcast is supported by GoodHelp.co. If you want to learn how social advertising campaigns really work, check out the new course from Goodhelp.co which demystifies the complicated world of digital marketing strategy. GoodHelp.co will teach you the key strategic elements you need to know to build a profitable ad campaign — and they'll do it in less than five hours.  Follow Matt and Martin on Twitter: @MattNavarra and @MartinSFP Join the Social Media Geekout Facebook Group and subscribe to Geekout's newsletters:  Geekout - social media news and analysis  Tech Revolution - what today's tech news means for the future  Diary of a Social Media Manager - industry news and gossip for social media managers

Carole Cadwalladr and Professor David Carroll are both well known voices against what they see as Facebook’s wrongdoing. They were two founding members of a group called The Real Facebook Oversight Board, launched just three weeks before Facebook’s official Oversight Board started work last year. Since then they’ve used the media to get their message out about everything from Facebook’s handling of the US election to the problem of vaccine misinformation on the company’s platforms. Outside the Real Facebook Oversight Board, Carole is a well-known journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and David Carroll was seen in the Netflix documentary The Great Hack trying to get his data back from Cambridge Analytica. Follow Matt and Martin on Twitter: @MattNavarra and @MartinSFP Join the Social Media Geekout Facebook Group and subscribe to Geekout's newsletters: Geekout - social media news and analysis Tech Revolution - what today's tech news means for the future Diary of a Social Media Manager - industry news and gossip for social media managers

What happens when you cross a professional news report on a ship stuck in the Suez Canal with a sea shanty? The answer is one of BBC visual journalist Sophia Smith Galer’s biggest hits on TikTok. Sophia joins us to talk about a new generation of journalists who emphasise their own personality and identity, and she gives us insights into her social media toolkit, what it's like to cover sensitive topics like religion on social platforms, and why we should all try to be less negative and pessimistic online. This season, our interviews are recorded live on Twitter Spaces, look out for details of future live shows on our Twitter accounts, below: Follow Matt and Martin on Twitter: @MattNavarra and @MartinSFP Join the Social Media Geekout Facebook Group and subscribe to Geekout's newsletters: Geekout - social media news and analysis Tech Revolution - what today's tech news means for the future Diary of a Social Media Manager - industry news and gossip for social media managers

This week we chat with Shimona Mehta, Shopify's managing director for the EMEA region. We discuss how social platforms are increasingly adopting shopping features, how platforms like Shopify power them, and what this all means for the future of how we all buy things. This season, our interviews are recorded live on Twitter Spaces, look out for details of future live shows on Twitter accounts, below: Follow Matt and Martin on Twitter: @MattNavarra and @MartinSFP Join the Social Media Geekout Facebook Group and subscribe to Geekout's newsletters: Geekout - social media news and analysis Tech Revolution - what today's tech news means for the future Diary of a Social Media Manager - industry news and gossip for social media managers