Twitter: A Powerful Tool

You can say a lot of things — positive and negative about Twitter. For example: Positive: It’s the go-to source, oftentimes, for information about breaking, developing, or in-progress news. Negative: Whereas once it seemed the “cool” thing opposite Facebook, now...

7 Ways to Avoid Ruining Your Reputation by Reposting Fake Content

In the past few months – and especially the past few days – there has been a surplus of fake photos, articles and quotes flying around social media. The reason they have moved so quickly is largely because well-intentioned people with no desire to spread...

Post and Ghost

What’s better than sitting around a campfire trying to scare the daylights out of your friends? Have you mastered the art of leaving people wondering what just happened? Good for you – unless you’re doing it to your followers on social media. Post and Ghost While...

Behind the Best New Social Media Platforms

Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the obvious staples of the social media market today, each pulling upwards of 1.1 billion, 300 million, 140 million, and daily active users respectively, according to Statista. Some would argue that YouTube should be classified as...

What We Can Learn from Pokémon GO

I would say you’ve been living under a rock the past couple months if you hadn’t heard of the Pokémon GO craze. But I can’t—practically every rock in America has been turned over in search of rare Pokémon! Although that may seem hyperbolic, it certainly isn’t to say...

Brand Engagement Via YouTube

There are dozens of different video platforms online these days, with YouTube and Vimeo probably being the two that most people are familiar with. UPenn’s Adam Grant has argued that the “first-mover advantage” is probably a myth, but in YouTube’s case, it’s hard to...