Personal Learning Project: COM 509

2. About Instagram
“It’s a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with
friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo
with your iPhone, choose a filter to transform the
look and feel, send to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr –
it’s all as easy as pie. It’s photo sharing, reinvented.”
-Instagr.am
Its really simple. First you set up your
Instagramaccount, then you link to various social
sites and find your friends.

3. Instagram Statistics
Only nine months after the application was
launched, Instagram already had 150 million
photos uploaded. For comparison’s sake, it took
Flickr nearly two years to hit 100 million total
photos on their service.
On Nov. 1, 2011, Instagram reported reaching 12
million users globally.

4. Instagram’s Role on Public Relations
News organizations are taking advantage of Instagram,
and several are leading the way in communicating
the latest news through photos to the public.
Example:
NBC NewsGet offers a peek inside 30 Rock. @nbcnews
shares great photos of the NBC news rooms, the guests
that drop by NBC Studios, and off-site photos such as
this one of Brian Williams, the host of NBC Nightly
News, on the scene in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where a
tornado had just passed through.
Found Via: http://blog.instagram.com/post/8757852684/getting-your-news-on-

5. Instagram’s Role in Public Relations
Nonprofit organizations are using Instagram to connect
with their supporters and share their missions
through photos.
Example:
OceanaToday is World Oceans Day, and Oceana
(@oceana) is encouraging Instagrammers to share their
photos of the ocean. Tag them #ocean to include them
among the more than 12,000 ocean photos already on
Instagram. Check out @oceana to see beautiful ocean
photos and learn more about this fantastic organization
that describes itself as: “Hating on offshore drilling,
destructive fishing, and pollution. Loving up turtles,
sharks, and clean energy.”
Found Via: http://blog.instagram.com/post/8758032746/nonprofits-on-instagram

6. Instagram’s Role in Public Relations
Bands are also starting to share photos from backstage, on the tour-
bus and more to give fans an inside look at their lives. It gives fans
yet another way to connect with artists.
According to Josh Riedel, head of business development at Instagram,
more and more bands are getting hip to the site. The most popular
is undoubtedly The National (@ntnl).
Found via: http://mashable.com/2011/06/12/instagram-bands/

7. How to Create an Account
1. Go to the app store and 2. Enter the Instagram app 3. Enter your personal
download the free and click . information and press
Instagram app. .

8. How to Create an Account
4. Choose friends to connect 5. Pick from Facebook and 6. If interested,
with by clicking on the Twitter friends and press choose from
options listed. . suggested/popular
profiles to follow too.

9. You can also Follow Celebrities
6. Use the option to find celebrities to follow.

10. How to Navigate through Instagram
Use the tab to view images Use the tab to view the
posted by those you follow. most liked and commented on
images on Instagram.

11. How to Navigate through Instagram
Use the tab to find Use the tab to edit To make your profile
out what the people you your account settings. private, switch on the
follow are doing. tab.

12. How to Share an Image on Instagram
Blur edges
Rotate
Choose
a Filter
Press the tab to Use the editing options Edit the caption and choose
open up your camera. to adjust the picture to which other social
Push the camera image your liking. Then push the network(s), if any, you want
to take a photo. green check. to share the image on, then
push .

13. How to Share an Image on Instagram
You will then see the finished product, and your image will be
uploaded to your feed, your followers’ feeds and the social
network(s) you selected.

14. For More Information
Check out Twitter: @Instagram or @InstagramHelp
• @Instagram typically posts users’ images or
images of current events. Every post includes at
least one image from the app.
• @InstagramHelp is an account that users can
tweet questions to and receive feedback on how
to solve the problem. This Twitter account is
extremely helpful for users!

15. For More Information
Check out the Blog: http://blog.instagram.com/
• On the Instagramblog, the main focus is
placed on images posted using the app.
• The posts include topics such as, a featured
weekly instagrammer, holidays, current events
and more.

16. For More Information:
Check out these videos to learn even more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YNTO82Mi
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8vVmsTisZ
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17. Personal Learning Network
• http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/instagram-150-
million/
• http://www.socialmedianews.com.au/instagram-
reaches-12-million-users/
• http://mashable.com/2011/06/12/instagram-bands/
• http://blog.instagram.com/
• https://twitter.com/#!/instagram
• http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/33296c/moconews.
net/article/419-photo-sharing-app-instagram-snaps-
up-7-million/
• http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Sm5kB/www.macli
fe.com/article/reviews/app_showdown_photo_editors