It lets you post pictures, often with some sort of caption, and see what other people are posting. Unlike Facebook, it doesn’t play fast and loose with what you see, but gives you a stream composed of everyone you’re following.
Instagram features a number of filters as well as some basic editing tools that can be applied to uploaded photos. You can add extra filters with the 100 Cameras in 1 app or if you would like to edit the image extensively, try Pixlr-o-matic (http://pixlr.com/).
What do I post overall? Here’s a breakdown of the last 100 Instagram photos on my stream. Only five categories (event, books, and writing process photos) might be considered promotional; you’ll note those pictures occur roughly one in five times; even there, none of them directly sell a book, just mention it, and many are focused on other people and/or their work.
- things that amused or delighted me: 17
- food I’ve cooked: 12
- the cats: 10
- miscellaneous travel photos: 7
- miscellaneous household photos: 7
- miscellaneous event photos: 6
- books: 5
- my writing process: 5
- birds: 4
- flowers: 3
- photos from the cat calendar Aunt Nona gave us for Christmas with sundry amusing handwritten additions: 3
- refrigerator poems: 3
- restaurant food: 3
- sunsets: 3
- clouds: 2
- dioramas constructed of household objects: 2
- my shoes: 2
- rainbows: 2
- the foam on top of my latte, hashtagged #seattle: 2
- photos of friends/family: 2
- other people at events: 1
- selfies with people at events: 1
- selfies: 1
- things that creeped me out: 1
- holiday collage: 1
If you’re holiday shopping this year, you may have noticed there are problems getting stuff due to a combination of supply chain issues and here in the US, our beleaguered postal system. 
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when is the lass on instagram? please
This weekend, Saturday morning, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST, via Google Hangouts.
This weekend, Saturday morning, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST, via Google Hangouts. http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/?p=8208#comment-38121
saarrrrggghhhhhhl… I am working nights into sat… I don’t get out of the hospital until 1 pm…. Oh, woe is me, WHEN shall I receive the gentle wisdom of the cat.
I will teach it again! And I’m working on the on-demand version. 🙂
Cat Rambo
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I do still have room in that class.
You too can learn the power of a good cat video: https://www.instagram.com/p/9BsJovi4XU/?taken-by=specfic
Do you feel that you use other social media in more directly promotional way? Just wondering, since you note that much of your Instagram feed is not really about that.
I use other social media to promote my classes more, I think. Certainly Twitter. And I post links to new stuff, which Instagram isn’t really suited to.
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