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GSCW chat recap: Building a niche influence on social media

This GSCW fireside chat is about building a niche influence.

This fireside chat recap is from Day 8 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week. Day 8 focuses on global maritime.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How to build niche influence: Positioning yourself on social media to build a following

DETAILS: Steve Ferreira, CEO at Ocean Audit, chats with Tom Augenthaler about using social media to build a niche influence in business. They discuss consistency, understanding goals and where the magic happens in niche marketing.

SPEAKER: Augenthaler, founder of 551 Media LLC

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gscw-chat-recap:-building-a-niche-influence-on-social-media

Tesla invests in Bitcoin and may sell vehicles for cryptocurrency

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) disclosed Monday it has invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin cryptocurrency. It plans to begin accepting it in payment for its electric vehicles.

The move was included in the business risks section of Tesla’s annual 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been tweeting cryptic but supportive messages to feed the craze over the meme-based Dogecoin cryptocurrency.

In its SEC filing, Tesla wrote that it updated its investment policy in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tesla-invests-in-bitcoin-and-may-sell-vehicles-for-cryptocurrency

The changing landscape of venture capital (with video)

A lot has happened over the past year since Kunal Mehta, a principal with Hearst Ventures, published “Finding Genius,” a book that documents the financing and startup stories behind companies such as Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Uber (NYSE: UBER), Airbnb, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), and Space-X.

“Before the book was published [in October 2019], I think many of the VCs were saying that there’s a reckoning coming, there’s too much money out there, and there’s too many people starting...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-changing-landscape-of-venture-capital-with-video

Survey: Truckers largely plan to vote in person on Nov. 3

FreightWaves surveys truckers about 2020 election on social media

With the elections just six days away, most truck drivers who participated in a FreightWaves election survey on social media say they plan to vote in person this year.

In late October, FreightWaves sent out via Twitter and LinkedIn a survey on truckers’ voting plans and which candidate they planned to vote for.

Of the 60 Twitter respondents to a survey question on how they planned to vote, 70% stated they planned to vote — and in person — in this year’s presidential election. An additional 8.3%...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/survey-truckers-largely-plan-to-vote-in-person-on-nov-3

Hyliion CEO draws distinctions with besieged Nikola

Hyliion Holdings Corp. (NYSE: HYLN) founder and CEO Thomas Healy considered lessons from the Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) debacle as his startup began public trading Friday — and he became the nation’s youngest paper billionaire.

“From our end, there’s a lot of differences,” the 28-year-old Healy told FreightWaves in an interview. “One is actually having delivered products to fleets.”

Hyliion proprietary technology winds through and around electric driveline systems from Dana Corp. (NYSE: DAN), a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hyliion-ceo-draws-distinctions-with-besieged-nikola

Milton remains a billionaire but surrenders a lot in Nikola exit

Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) founder Trevor Milton is still a billionaire. But he is giving up a lot in his exit as executive chairman. That includes hundreds of thousands of future stock grants and a two-year, $10 million annual consulting gig that paid more than when he was CEO.

Monday’s announcement by Nikola followed FreightWaves’ report of Milton’s departure. The press release described it as a selfless act for the good of the company. The release did not mention a scathing report by short...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/milton-remains-a-billionaire-but-surrenders-a-lot-in-nikola-exit

Minting millionaires and building buzz at Nikola

Nikola Corp. Executive Chairman Trevor Milton believes buzz-building creates long-term value for the electric truck startup. So, even if publicity was not a goal of his recent gift of 6 million of his shares to several dozen early employees, he’s fine with the attention.

“I think it’s important for every company in the world to stay in front of their followers, and their investors, and their clients, and their customers,” Milton told FreightWaves. “Investors in this generation want to be kept up...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/minting-millionaires-and-building-buzz-at-nikola

Millipede Found on Twitter Named as Twitteri!

  • A new species has just been discovered on Twitter.
  • It’s a type of parasitic fungus, which researchers have described in the journal MycoKeys. Its name: Troglomyces twitteri.
  • Troglomyces twitteri belongs to an order called Laboulbeniales — tiny fungal parasites that attack insects and millipedes.
  • Laboulbeniales were first discovered in the middle of the 19th century.

Kabir Firaque writes for The Indian Express about the newly found species on Twitter.  The article also gives a picture of how...

https://mfame.guru/millipede-found-on-twitter-named-as-twitteri/

Karine Langlois, Communications Officer for @IMOHQ the UN agency for Maritime Affairs

In this the 3/4 episodes with people employed by the International Maritime Organisation, IMO, you meet Karine Langlois,  Communications Officer for @IMOHQ the UN agency for Maritime Affairs, who speaks about target groups, message to the public about the maritime industry and raising the profile of our industry.

Karine is from Canada but is working for IMO in London, she is the producer and the video photographer for the videos coming out from the IMO. Please have a look at Turning the tide –...

https://shippingpodcast.com/karine-langlois-communications-officer-for-imohq-the-un-agency-for-maritime-affairs/

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