Instagram, Infographics and Vine
Getting Started
Beginner’s Guide to Instagram• Photo sharing app on mobiles ‐must download to your iPhone or Android
• Adds photo filter• Posts to your web page on instagram.com
Instagram – Set up• Download the app• Register account• Public by default• Can create private account
• Change your profile picture and edit info.
Follow people• Import contacts from email or from Facebook
• Once you follow people, see their photos and share photos with them
• Comment & like through the heart icon
Notifications• Set up your notifications
– If someone likes or comments on your photo
– When someone @mentions you in a comment
– When your photo is posted onto a popular page
– When you are tagged in a photo
Sharing Photos• Connect to social• Go to options button and to Share Settings
• If you choose to not share on social networks, photo appears only on Instagram
Photo tab• Add a photo• Click blue camera button in nav panel
• Can use photos from your camera roll
Instagram• Filters/Borders
– 20 filters – Give special effects– Some add borders– Can also remove borders with the square ‘frame’
– Tilt/shift
Explore Tab• Find people to follow• Search for users• Explore hashtags ‐#hospital, #privatehospitals
Home tab• Shows feed of photos by you and your friends
• Can like or comment on photos in feed
Video on Instagram• Can record and share directly from your phone
• Can add filters• Videos can be 3‐15 seconds long
Dos and Don’ts• Keep it fresh• Write a good bio• Use hashtags• Use text to describe• Be creative• Don’t post every photo• Don’t overdo the editing• Don’t post photos that are not yours
Instagram – Live Heart Surgery
Live Heart Surgery – Step by Step
Instagram – Live Heart SurgeryThrough Facebook posts that were promoted on their Facebook page they had: –985,519 Unique views of content/posts –2,773,364 Impressions of content on FB –55,294 Users Engaged with content on Facebook
(This is more than just looking at a post. They shared the posts with friends or commented on photos)
Instagram – Live Heart Surgery• Parents LOVED the photo updates in surgery• Future standard?• Parents want to know what their child will experience
• Inspiration???
Vine – What is it?• Video sharing • 6 seconds of video
• Used with Twitter
Vine – Getting started• Install app on your phone• Sign in with Twitter
Make a video• To film, press the big button
• Holding down and stopping creates cuts in the video
• Can create 2 or more videos to cut together
• Use http://vine.blog.cofor tips
#Hashtagging• Add hashtags so that people can find you
• Use the ‘explore’ tab to search
Share your vine• Upload to twitter• Upload to Facebook
• Follow friends
So what?• Magee Rehabilitation –Brain Safety Fair
• To wear or not wear a bike helmet?
Infographics• Visualisation of data• Over half are visual learners
• Transferable, coherent, interesting
• Unusual is good
Infographics• Create
– Do research– Visual Plan– Professional Design
Infographics• Distribute
– News release
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Questions?