Sunday, 30 September 2012

INSTAGRAM; THE NEW TREND

Instagram is said that it will be the next digital strategy. The presents of Instagram during the late 2010 is now growing rapidly. The free application functions as a mobile network include the visual content sharing between the users.
Instagram is where you snap a picture, choose a filter to alter the look and feel and post it into your Instagram’s account. Photo sharing nowadays as easy as pie since it can be share to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr too.  According to social media specialist Jeff Peters, Instagram is a social network where sharing photos and commenting or liking other friends’ photo takes place. Peter added that Instagram have the interesting aspect where it is not in the site but purely mobilize.

This kind of approach have been using by the organization that is basically in fashion line such as TopShop and Hijabista Magazine.  Explanation from Peters concludes that any fashion organization can make their own way in appealing the brands and industries in visually-oriented where the visual connection between the brand and a consumer or potential customer is there (Graze Lavigne, 2012).

PR professionals should seriously consider approaching the complement client announcement and press releases using the social network as well instead of only using Twitter and Facebook (Jennifer DeAngelis, PR account executive with InkHouse).

Through this new trend in social media, PR practitioners can attract and attached with the community in a more interactive way. The wisdom ‘Picture speaks a thousand words’ literally projected the effectiveness in visual imagery to the people.

By Fatin Nur Sofia binti Zainol Alam
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References
1. Grace Lavigne (September 14, 2012), 5 Instagram Tips for PR Pros. Retrieved on 27 September from http://blog.prnewswire.com/tag/instagram/
2.    Sahil Patel (April 10, 2010) Four Things You May Not Know About Instagram. Retrieved on 28 September 2012 from http://www.prnewsonline.com/watercooler/Four-Things-You-May-Not-Know-About-Instagram_16292.html


1 comment:

  1. As said, "picture speaks a thousand words". For me, Instagram have become a breakthrough that overcome Flickr sensation. Like Facebook beat MySpace.People will find ways to make use Instagram in way that we didn't realize.

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