Snapchat Location Sharing Update
Snapchat recently added the ability to share your location within the app with your friends/followers. Here’s a quick tutorial video showing how it works and how to enable it:
Outsourcing Your Online Presence to Facebook
Look, I get that I’m the nut who doesn’t want to use Facebook. I’m not even saying don’t post your stuff to Facebook. But if Facebook is the only place you are posting something, know that you are shutting out people like me for no good reason. Go ahead and post to Facebook, but post it somewhere else, too. Especially if you’re running a business. It’s 2017. There are a million ways to get a web site set up inexpensively that you can easily update yourself. Setting up a Facebook page and letting your web site rot, or worse, not even having a web site of your own, is outsourcing your entire online presence. That’s truly insane. It’s a massive risk to your business, and frankly, stupid.
I couldn’t agree more. And despite my obvious bias as someone who builds websites in exchange for money I think it’s ridiculous for a business to rely solely on Facebook or Instagram as their method of communicating.
At the very least, set up a Twitter account for your business so that it can show up in search results and cross-post everything there that you post on Facebook.
One step up would be to register a free Tumblr site that can also cross-post to Facebook for you.
And of course, if you want some help getting a website set up and marketing advice on how to use Facebook, Twitter, and all the other services that come along – do get in touch with me.
Ecamm Live Mac App for Facebook Live Streaming
Ecamm, makers of other awesome apps like Call Recorder, have announced a new app that allows you to stream video from your Mac to Facebook called Ecamm Live:
Facebook integration means there’s no need to worry about stream keys or complicated set-up steps. The app takes care of it all.
At $29.95USD it’s among the least expensive options to stream out to Facebook Live from your Mac. And knowing Ecamm’s quality software, I’m sure it works as advertised. They’ve got a free trial on their website so you can give it a try before buying.
Google Data Studio Now Free for Everyone
Google announced that they’ve removed the 5 report limit on Google Data Studio:
To enable more businesses to get full value from Data Studio we are making an important change — we are removing the 5 report limit in Data Studio. You now create and share as many reports as you need — all for free.
Google Data Studio is used to pull data from your Google Analytics and Adwords campaigns and create reports that will look good in a presentation given online or in Powerpoint.
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Instagram Updates Your Feed Options
Instagram updated their app today to allow sharing of multiple photos + one video per post:
With this update, you no longer have to choose the single best photo or video from an experience you want to remember. Now, you can combine up to 10 photos and videos in one post and swipe through to see them all.
In feed, you’ll see blue dots at the bottom of these posts to let you know you can swipe to see more. You can like and comment on them just like a regular post.
If you’re curious why they’re messing with their “one picture” policy, it might have to do with training users to use the ad units Instagram is trying to sell:
Instagram attacks Snap Stories again + tries to normalize swiping through carousel ad posts by opening them to users https://t.co/mumswwIWgk
— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) February 22, 2017