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Be in the Know

• Facebook tries to make ad targeting explanations more useful.
• Amazon to spend $700m to retrain a third of its US workforce by 2025.
• Sam’s Club launches same-day pickup across the United States. 
• Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University built the ultimate AI poker playing machine (called Pluribus) proving that AI can achieve superhuman performance.
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Facebook Friday

If you’re not in our Facebook group yet, get there.

Here’s what went down this week:

• Talk about amazing customer service. Check out Caitlin’s post on what Chewy did.
• Yay or nay on explicit words in your company name?
• Krissy wants to know if anyone else is seeing a decent drop in organic engagement on social media within the last 6 weeks or so?
• Chelsea wants to talk about Google Business pages. If you’re posting on location pages, what are you sharing?
• Jessie received a ‘weird’ message on LinkedIn. Over 60 people weighed in on the tactic used.

Posts of the Week

• All of the Emojis. (via EmojiM)
• Easy Link Building Tactics for PR. (via Moz)
• How to Use the New IG Chat Sticker. (via Later)
• How to Promote Your Business on LinkedIn. (via Adespresso)
• Watch Netflix at Work and Get Away With it. (via NFH)

Drink of the Week

We love a good sunset, so we’re serving up Sunset Punch for our crew today.

This bourbon-based party punch will please any thirsty crowd.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• 8 ounces bourbon
• 8 ounces white vermouth
• 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice, plus lemon slices for garnish
• 1/4 cup simple syrup
• 12 ounces chilled ginger beer

Recipe from Food and Wine.