My current obsession is content curation versus content creation. When you’re creating new content for your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, what are the rules? We all know that cute animals and inspirational quotes win the internet. But are they appropriate for […]
I feel like I have been writing about Instagram too much lately. I can’t help it! It’s my current first love… When it comes to Instagram Analytics, there are no real built-in options. You can, of course, measure your top […]
For a bunch of reasons, I decided a month or so ago, that I really wanted to up my Instagram game. I was teetering on the edge of 900 followers, and I wanted to get it to 1,000 as soon […]
I originally wrote this post for Vancity Buzz. Since I wrote it, Instagram issued an update–a really good one. In the past, I’d often use a separate app for editing my photos before uploading them to Instagram. Now, with Instagram’s […]
Images. They draw our eye, and pull us in. Social media is being increasingly dominated by images; we would much rather look at a pretty picture than read descriptive text. Video takes it one step further: images that move? Awesome. […]
For this week’s Wednesday Infographic, I’m focussing on Instagram. Over the past year, Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest have gained, between them, 10 Million fans. There’s a reason for that–we’re obsessed with images. Images are just easier: no tricky reading, plus […]
Images rule the internets! Here’s four reasons why: 1. We are visual. You can say we’re lazy. You can say our brains are more turned on by pretty pictures than they are by reading a pile of words. But whatever […]
Vine, that six-second, endlessly-looping video service owned by Twitter, has just launched vanity URLs for your account. You can now grab your user name. Your new Vine URL will be vine.co/yourusername. This means, of course, that web profiles are in […]
It’s no secret that I love Instagram. I primarily love it because it’s really, really beautiful. I follow some amazing photographers, and their work always blows me away. I also love the community on Instagram. It feels less self-serving than […]
Back a few months ago, I did an interview with Alyson B. Stanfield for her Arts Biz Blog. Alyson is someone who’s been on my radar for years–I’ve been following her blog and following her on Twitter pretty much since […]