This week we’re featuring Staff Picks from the fiercest allies for LGBTQ+ rights in the digital age: the GLAAD team. Whether fighting uninformed media narratives or with its digital task force to address bias online, GLAAD is making the Internet safer and better for all.
From the best trivia sites to disinformation trackers, GLAAD knows what makes great and diverse Internet. See their picks below.
Earwolf Podcast Network
Brendan Davis (@notbrendan) Associate Director of Digital, Social Media Favorite App/Service:Earwolf “Earwolf Podcast Network features programming specifically for LGBTQ folks with podcasts like Homophilia, Queery, and Throwing Shade. These shows are all about LGBTQ people coming together and having conversations about representation, love, sex, and all of the other things LGBTQ people care about. I highly recommend that you like, comment, and subscribe!”
Chris Brown (@BrownCTopher) GLAAD Digital Director Favorite App/Service:CrowdTangle “CrowdTangle allows us to see what content is under and over performing on social media. The easy-to-use dashboards help us better understand how our social content stacks up against other brands, and gives us valuable insight to help guide our social strategy.”
Jim Halloran (@jimhalloran) Chief Digital Officer Favorite Service:Hamilton 68 Dashboard “The Hamilton 68 dashboard tracks Russian social media disinformation campaigns. Named after Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Paper 68 (on the importance of "protecting America’s electoral process from foreign meddling"), the dashboard initially tracked election-related tweets but has since expanded to additional topics, such as the Parkland school shooting. The dashboard is a critical tool in tracking the size and intensity of the attack on our digital lifeline.”
Matt Goodman (@MattLeeG) Associate Director of Communications, Favorite App/Service:Sporcle “Sporcle is a massive online quiz website with quizzes on literally everything—world capitals, X-Men, sports teams, LGBTQ characters in films, and more. It’s an amazing way to learn, get really good at being a pub trivia MVP, and I find that playing a quiz or two in between work projects really helps clear my head so I can jump into the next task 100%.”
Sue Yacka-Bible (@SueYacka) GLAAD Communications Director Favorite App/Service:Feedly “Since the demise of Google Reader, my go-to news feed app has been Feedly. As a Communications professional, Feedly lets me monitor all my news sources in real time, from mainstream coverage of anti-LGBTQ attacks by the Trump administration, to the quality LGBTQ news from HuffPost Queer Voices and TransGriot, to the tech and digital stories in Recode and the Verge that impact LGBTQ people as we navigate online spaces daily."
