Vine and Instagram continue to fascinate me and this is the third rant in a row that I’ve focused on it. In the last couple of weeks I’ve actually become a pretty big fan of Vine and I’ve enjoyed discovering some really creative and funny Vines as well as making a few of our own. Here are a few ways we’ve used Vine so far – a little humor, focusing on our community, and a fun hello to our second photographer Angela:
@reflect_o is a thief https://t.co/OHN6LdcZQ1
— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) July 5, 2013
Our six second tour of the @OrchardMall! 🙂 https://t.co/KFpL4iN41w
— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) July 9, 2013
Angela is here! Second Photographer Extraordinaire #LoveHer https://t.co/7vd4Wots8A
— Frameable Faces (@FrameableFaces) June 26, 2013
As for Instagram I must say I barely see any videos there… and I prefer Instagram without videos (apparently I’m not the only one). Being a fan of Vine and not of videos on Instagram is an outcome I did not anticipate, but that’s where I’m at now.
Can you Reddit? Can you Digg it?
I recently read an article on Smart Savvy Social that discussed 10 ways to promote your blog posts and the major takeaway for me was #8 about bookmarking your blog on various social bookmarking sites. I had toyed with Stumble a while back but I had never really spent any time on Reddit, Digg, or Technorati, so I went ahead and registered this blog on Technorati, created a profile on Reddit and checked out the others. I find Reddit to be the most interesting so far because of the community aspect and the points you accumulate for good “karma” in how positive your interactions are. While I am not seeing a whole lot of discussion about the photography business there, I can at least report that so far Reddit is the one that has generated some traffic back to our blog. Collectively they seem to be pretty good resources for web surfing and finding good content.
Quick Hits
- Ally is working on a guest blog about using reflectors for lighting purposes on MCP Actions – be on the lookout for that for you aspiring photographers! It may be a little while before it posts but we’ll announce it on facebook and twitter for sure… I also have a couple of articles being published there soon as well.
- Here’s a case of “don’t just take my word for it” as the ever reliable Rosh Sillars blogs about the 17 things photographers should not do. I counted and I’ve specifically discussed 8 of them in blog posts and guest blog posts of my own. Admission – we don’t bother with our tripod very often… we probably should a little more. 😉
- By the way I’m a big fan of Snapchat as well which you may have noticed is the app interface on my photo at the top of this rant. This is another visual and social mobile app but one that I’m not sure lends itself to use as a brand profile so I use it to have fun with my family and friends just as me. A social media platform I don’t create Frameable Faces content for.