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...
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...
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...
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...
by Chris Snider | Sep 23, 2016 | Digital information
I’ll be hosting a day-long Smartphone Video Workshop at Drake University in Des Moines on Oct. 18, 2016. When: Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 – 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Where: Drake University, Meredith Hall room 125 (No. 48 on this map) Cost: $100 if you sign up before Oct....