Rob Riches is the Social Media Journalist Intern for Bad Rhino, as well as a senior at Cabrini College. At Cabrini, Rob serves as the Operations Manager for the school's radio station, 89.1 WYBF-FM (where he hosts a weekly show), and also as a Resident Assistant. In his spare time, Rob enjoys watching the Philadelphia sports teams and hanging out with friends and family.
While Facebook doesn’t yet have a “Dislike” button, it took a step in that direction by unveiling a thumbs down sticker for use in its Messenger app, according to Mashable. In addition to the thumbs down icon, a sore thumb, peace sign and poke are available to download and use. The stickers can be downloaded […]
Twitter unveiled a new update Tuesday, overhauling direct messaging and mobile timelines to streamline their mobile app for users. According to a post on Twitter’s blog, users will now have the opportunity to share and view photos via DM. Direct messages also have their own tab in the notification bar to make them easier to […]
LinkedIn unveiled a new way to connect users with companies this week with the launch of LinkedIn Showcase Pages – a way for users to connect with particular brands. For example, users who follow the Microsoft company page were limited to just the company. But now, Microsoft has the chance to create a Showcase page […]
YouTube has now upgraded their comments section, integrating it with a user’s Google+ account. Previously, comments were a long and unorganized list, with the most recent comments appearing first. Keeping track of conversations was nearly impossible until they allowed users to respond to each other. Top comments were ranked based on the most “thumbs up” […]
Twitter expanded its ability to connect with users by unveiling new settings for direct messaging (DMing) – a user now has the ability to DM any one of Twitter’s 218 million plus users. Previously, DMs were only able to be sent to anyone who follows a particular user. Now, as long as a user enables […]
In an effort to avoid confusion, Facebook has announced it will remove the option to hide your name in search results, chief privacy officer Michael Richter said in a blog post. The setting was geared for the social media giant’s older search model, but with the advent of Graph Search, hiding a user’s name essentially […]
Scott Murray is the Social Learning Evangelist for TrainUp.com, the web’s largest career marketplace. He is also a contributor to the Training Insights Blog, a series of blogs dedicated to career and professional development. . . Podcasting is what finally forced me to create a Twitter account for the first time. When I produced my first […]
Darren Slaughter is a member of the Construction Marketing Association and spent 15 years developing marketing and advertising strategies for home improvement contractors before building darrenslaughter.com into a full-service web design and social media agency in 2005. You can read more about Darren by clicking here. Mark it down: within the next three years social […]
Companies can run contests directly from their timelines, with the option to utilize third-party apps if they’d like
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