by Chris Snider | Jun 26, 2014 | Digital information
I spent the past four days at Lindenwood University teaching a web class at MediaNowSTL, a high-school journalism camp. I co-taught the class with Jason Wallestad of School Newspapers Online. All of our students either had a WordPress site for their school or created...
by Chris Snider | Apr 17, 2014 | Digital information
I just sent my latest newsletter on what’s new in digital/social media. Highlights of this weeks’ letter: Improve your website with eyetrack research Little-known YouTube features Proof of teens love of Instagram (more than Facebook) Subscribe to the...
by Chris Snider | Apr 2, 2014 | Digital information
Google is well-known for it’s April Fool’s Day pranks, and this year its social network Google+ got into the act in a fun way. If you use the photo auto-upload feature on the Google+ app, Google automatically added a photobomb of actor David Hasselhoff to...
by Chris Snider | Mar 11, 2014 | Digital information
I’ve taught a Social Media Strategies class four times at Drake University, the first one in spring 2014. And I’m offering it up three more times: Summer 2014 online Fall 2014 on campus January Term 2015 on campus And that’s likely it. With...
by Chris Snider | Feb 24, 2014 | Digital information
Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery told his players to stop using Twitter after fans got nasty with one of the team’s players via the social network. One player even deleted his account with more than 8,000 followers (or hopefully just changed the username)....