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How to keep up with the latest social media news

by Chris Snider | Jan 24, 2017 | Digital information

I teach social media and digital media strategy at Drake University. I also write a weekly email newsletter on what’s new in digital and social media. Obviously, I need to keep up with all of the latest news in this area. So how do I do this without spending...

How to create a live video poll on Facebook – Livetools

by Chris Snider | Jan 15, 2017 | Digital tools

Facebook live video polls are a great way to get some engagement on your Facebook pages. And live video is the hottest thing going in social media right now. So this is the ideal time to jump on the live video poll bandwagon and start adding these polls to your...

Add depth of field to your iPhone photos with Patch

by Chris Snider | Jan 9, 2017 | Digital tools

The iPhone 7 Plus camera has a new feature called Portrait mode that uses both lenses to add depth of field to your photographs and simulates the kind of depth of field you would see from a DSLR camera. It’s a pretty cool feature, if you have an iPhone 7 Plus. I...

5 group video chat apps to bring your family together

by Chris Snider | Dec 20, 2016 | Digital tools

Group video chat apps are all the rage this holiday season as we try to be close to our friends and family – even when we can’t actually be close to them. Facebook Messenger recently launched group video chat capabilities as the company enter into this...

What the class of 2020 thinks about social media

by Chris Snider | Oct 20, 2016 | Digital information

It’s a Youtube-Instagram-Snapchat world. Still. That’s the key takeaway from my annual social media survey of first-year students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Drake University. The survey asks students to rate social networks on a...
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