Telling a social story

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How to use photography in social media

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Telling a social story

Rich Dyson

+A picture paints a thousand words

Your audience will engage twice as much with a photo

Posts on Facebook attract 104% more comments than text

Facebook likes increase by 53% with a photo

Instagram has 58 times more engagement per follower than Facebook

Adding a photo on Twitter leads to 35% increase in Retweets

People spend more time on Pinterest or Tumblr than Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and Google+ combined

+Or to put it another way

+There’s no such thing as a bad camera

+Match the photo to the camera

+What makes an interesting photo?

+Rule of Thirds

+Leading Lines

+Framing

+Hidden Details

+Foreground Interest

+Focus on eyes

+A picture paints a thousand words

Tell a story. beginning, middle and end

It can be in one photo or a series

One hour to use the techniques

+Publishing to Social Media

Use Multiple Images

Add some text

Hashtag

Tag People

Add locations

+Publishing to Social Media

Use Multiple Images

Add some text

Hashtag

Tag People

Add locations

+Publishing to Social Media

Twitter – incorporate with #hashtag

Location links

Cross posting to blogs

Short Links

+Publishing to Social Media

Twitter – incorporate with #hashtag

Location links

Cross posting to blogs

Short Links

+Publishing to Social Media

Mix use of filters and non-filters

Hashtags (again)

Tagging

Location

Crosspost

+Publishing to Social Media

Mix use of filters and non-filters

Hashtags (again)

Tagging

Location

Crosspost

+A picture paints a thousand words

As a group decide which images to tell our story

Paint a thousand words (or more)

+Info

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