by Chris Snider | Feb 26, 2016 | Digital information
Snapchat launched its new on-demand geofilters on Monday. The tool lets you pay for a Snapchat geofilter for a limited amount of time and for a limited area of space. I purchased one for a New Digital Tools Workshop that I’m teaching March 5 at Drake University....
by Chris Snider | Feb 1, 2016 | Digital information
The Iowa Caucuses are tonight. I’m teaching about how Facebook works and social media best practices tomorrow. So I decided to take a look at how the top presidential candidates (the six with double-digit numbers in the latest Iowa Poll) are using Facebook to...
by Chris Snider | Jan 26, 2016 | Digital information
One of my favorite things to discuss in my social media strategies class is how much Facebook and Twitter know about us – or at least think they know about us – based on what we do and say on their social networks. With that in mind, I decided to see if I...
by Chris Snider | Nov 23, 2015 | Digital information
I recently purchased a Ricoh Theta S 360 video camera, which lets you dive into the world of 360 video for less than $350. Compare this to the thousands of dollars that you could spend to put together a 360 video rig using GoPro cameras (which I hope to do one day)....
by Chris Snider | Nov 3, 2015 | Digital information
There are a handful of ways to control what you see in your Facebook news feed. One of the simplest is to choose a page or a person whose content you want to see first. This video shows you how to take control of your Facebook news feed and decide what page’s...
by Chris Snider | Nov 2, 2015 | Digital information
I spoke at the Iowa High School Press Association fall conference Thursday (Oct. 29, 2015) in Iowa City about how their publications could use Snapchat. Which means two things: 1. I had Vine wings. 2. I did a survey of the high school students who attended my breakout...
