by Chris Snider | Oct 8, 2013 | Digital information, Digital tools
I love Instagram. I love Twitter. Unfortunately the two social media giants no longer play nicely together. You can still post Instagram photos as a link on Twitter, but you no longer can see the actual photos on Twitter. When you currently share an Instagram photo to...
by Chris Snider | Aug 28, 2013 | Digital tools
I gave this presentation Aug. 28, 2013, to Online Media Campus… a partnership of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, the Iowa Newspaper Foundation and press associations throughout the United States and Canada.
by Chris Snider | Aug 5, 2013 | Digital tools
WordPress has released version 3.6 (codename: Oscar), and it’s a beautiful thing from where I stand. There’s a new responsive, blog-friendly theme called 2013 and the ability to lock posts so others can’t edit at the same time. But what I’m...
by Chris Snider | Feb 27, 2013 | Digital tools, Things I love
I’m cheap frugal. I don’t like to pay for social media tools if I can find one for free. But there is one social media tool I’ve decided to shell out $8/month to use: Crowdbooster. Crowdbooster tells me – at a glance – which of my Tweets...
by Chris Snider | Jan 4, 2013 | Digital tools
A photojournalist tired of seeing people steal his work has created a watermark app for the iPhone. The app, called Marksta, can be downloaded from the App Store (currently for free). As our social media habits become more and more mobile, the app is a great way to...
by Chris Snider | Dec 12, 2012 | Digital tools
Mashable has declared 2013 the year of responsive web design. If you are redesigning your publication’s website using WordPress, I highly recommend you look for a responsive WordPress theme. Here are some great ones for magazine and newspapers. Need web hosting?...