Of all the Web 2.0 tools, Flicker
and Instagram have the most immediate appeal to me. Who doesn’t like looking at photographs
especially when some of the photographs are as interesting and professional as
anything you might see in a coffee table art book?
Flickr has an awesome catalogue of
pictures and is doing something really important by hosting so many
images. It will be an amazing record of our
planet and how our lives are lived.
For a long time, I had Instagram
pegged as the go to app of the terminally vain and vacuous or for young kids,
mainly girls, who were experimenting with their image but I have seen the light.
So yes while, Beyonce and Kim
Kardashian might be fighting it out to have the most Instagram followers by
virtue of how much skin they are willing to expose, there are lots of really
interesting Instagram feeds out there to balance the scale.
I like the layout of Instagram a
lot. It is really clean and uncluttered
looking. It lets the pictures speak for
themselves. And the comments in the
side are fairly contained and not too distracting.
Instagram is a great way to
document a library event. The visual
always appeals to people and it’s a great way of communicating and showcasing
what the library has to offer.
As long as the photographs are
good and visually interesting, it looks great.
Instagram also allows you to use lots of text with the post if that was something
that was needed. People are even
writing short stories around their Instagram pictures.
My library does not have an
Instagram account yet but definitely something to think about for the future as
it seems to be one of the social media tools whose influence is growing.
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