Facebook to teach the unemployed social media skills

While some may see this as nothing more than Facebook’s effort to polish it’s image after the Russia/2016 election fiasco, it’s still a good thing to do, whatever the impetus.

The training is currently slated for 30 cities, and users can request Community Boost come to their city by filling out this form.

 – Al


From Tech Crunch:

“Whether it’s to ‘bring the world closer together’ or improve its public image, Facebook today announced Community Boost. It will teach digital job skills to the unemployed, internet literacy to those just getting online, startup methodology to entrepreneurs and customer growth to small business owners.

“Unsurprisingly, though, all these skills revolve around Facebook, which Facebook clearly thinks is the key to a better life.”

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