The advent of “instant stories” is a relatively new one. It all started with Snapchat. This instant messaging service was especially popular with teens and those in their early ’20’s–you could take photos or short videos of yourself, and send […]
Instagram Stories launched on August 2. It’s funny, because I had to look that up, and it feels like it’s been around a lot longer than that… I feel like I’ve been using it forever. But nope, turns out that […]
About a month ago, Instagram introduced something called Instagram Stories. Now, if you are a Snapchatter like I am, you’ll notice that Instagram Stories are basically exactly like Snapchat. They work almost exactly the same. Here are a couple of […]
If there was ever any doubt, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that 2016 is the year of the live-stream. Facebook, who, let’s face it, was late to the live-streaming party, is now making it up. They’ve just announced that you […]
I’ve been active on Snapchat for about 3 months now. It really started, for me, because I wanted to be smarterer and more well-informed when I talked to my students about the app. Most of them, it seemed, knew more […]
So, in my last post, I talked about how I’ve been immersing myself in Snapchat over the last month, and tried to learn as much as I can about it, and how we can use it for marketing. I gave […]
Snapchat. Currently at 200 Million active monthly users worldwide, it’s one of the most popular and quickly-growing networks out there. It’s also one of the most confounding. I’ve been on Snapchat for ages–a couple of years at least. Launched in […]