What an amazing and heartwarming response to last week’s prompt! Within minutes of the email landing I was being tagged in creations on Instagram. No two are the same, all crammed full of narrative and real life and our beautiful humanness. As Lindsay said in her comment on the last challenge, “so many are looking
In stressful times I have a few default coping mechanisms: shopping, creativity and community. Given the first one is not especially available in the current climate, I wanted to offer us all a small way to create and connect in the coming weeks of social isolation, and document our days from a shared perspective. This
“The best camera is always the one that’s with you.” An adage for an Instagram generation, where we photograph everything and anything and make our daily lives the subject in our work. It’s a style that was born directly out of smartphone photography – the shots people took when they left the heavy weight of
Ok, let’s be clear – obviously there are way more than 10 things that are more important than a follower count. Things like being a good human, cutting down on single-use plastics and naps being amongst the most significant IMO – but still, to many of us, our follower counts can feel like a Really
It feels brilliantly surreal, but today is the day that my book, Hashtag Authentic, wings its way out into the world! If you haven’t got your copy yet, here’s a little taster of what you can expect… (Huge thank you to my friends at MeliaMelia who helped me make this little video!) If
There was a time when losing Instagram followers was a pretty unusual occurrence. Everyone was on this nice gradual upward trajectory, and growth was simply a matter of how quickly, and how relevent those followers were to our eventual goals. Then everything changed. These days I receive dozens of messages a day from people asking
What’s in a like? Do you hit ‘like’ on every post you see, or does a like = LOVE to you, to be saved for the really special posts on your feed? Or are you more of a passive Instagrammer, preferring to browse and read unseen?There’s no right or wrong way to do it –
Finally, an Instagram update we can get really excited about! The new ‘questions’ sticker for Instagram Stories is a clever little bit of functionality that is simple, easy to use and garners quick and useful engagement. It feels like a tentative foray into a more Twitter-like sphere for Instagram, encouraging conversation and sharing of other
It’s been six months since I first wrote about wrote Instagram shadowban function. For the uninitiated, that’s the term colloquially applied to a setting Instagram can apply to your account that makes you invisible to new followers, massively reducing engagement and growth. Understandably it’s caused a stir in the instagram-addiction circles, and there’s been a