Hey Grand Nation! Chris Ake here and, yes, I'm still writing content from time to time on this blog. I wanted to share a little hidden gem with you and a more advanced networking strategy I've implemented since I've started out at Grand Apps. "Meet as many people as...
Facebook’s built-in livestream feature has become a key function to their platform, and now, as TechCrunch reports, Facebook will be restructuring their timeline algorithm to accommodate it. In an attempt to catch up with Twitter’s use of Periscope, Facebook will now...
Twitter is launching a single-day marketing campaign today known as the #GIFparty. Twitter is encouraging all of their users to post their favorite GIFS, resulting in an enourmous hodgepodge of GIFs flooding Twitter streams. If you’re someone who curates their Twitter...
Yesterday, we talked about the surging popularity of Snapchat, and how to take advantage of it’s picture and video sharing features. Today, I’d like to talk to you about another awesome feature from Snapchat: geofilters. If you’ve ever taken a selfie in a big city or...
In the last decade, we’ve seen social networks come and go. Myspace dominated the social scene in the early 2000’s, but almost as quickly as it came, it was surpassed by Facebook. In 2011, Google+ was slated to be the social network of choice, but it’s initial...
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is making big changes. Taylor Loren of Latergramme is reporting that Instagram will now allow multiple account switching on iOS. While this doesn’t seem like much, this may be due to the rise in popularity of...
We’ve long established that business owners should leave their social media management to the experts. You can hire someone with marketing experience to help manage it in-house, or you could even hire a whole company to do it. But in either scenario, you need to make...
There’s been a lot of turmoil surrounding Twitter in the last few months. Late last night, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that executives Alex Roetter, Skip Schipper, Katie Stanton, and Kevin Weil are leaving the company. All of these executives had worked for...
When Facebook purchased Livestream back in August, people (including myself) began trumpeting the occasion as Facebook regaining its foothold in popular culture and crushing Periscope and potentially Twitter. Of course, we were wrong. Dead wrong. Twitter, while still...
The world’s most popular video hosting website is making headlines once again. YouTube is shaking up their website by introducing YouTube Red, a premium service promising to provide users with ad-free content, the ability to save videos for offline use, background...
We all know the importance of social media. It connects users all over the world, some old friends, some new. It promotes new ideas, cycles out news, and even directs revolutions. But for every good idea, there is a dark side. Social media is also a haven for...