We have been live streaming on Periscope (and now Facebook Live too) for almost two years and the best thing about it has been meeting all the great people we’ve met from around the world. We continue to broadcast live 5-6 days per week and we continue to meet new people like Rachel Moore whom we met just within the last few months. Rachel has a social media marketing company called Really Social in Colorado and she hosts a Twitter […]
Yes it’s been a while since I’ve posted a rant! Let’s do this…. Twitter Stickers You may have seen Twitter’s recent announcement about the new “stickers” feature which allows you to add emojis and other things to your photos. Fortune points out the obvious play on Twitter’s part to keep up with Snapchat with a headline that gives the new feature a positive spin. Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal is completely and inexplicably oblivious to the chasing of snapchat with a slightly-less-than-flattering headline […]
For those of you who saw our previous Periscope “survival guide” blog posts and corresponding broadcasts, if you have been on Periscope since you probably know that there are way more than 13 or 14 types of chatters and scopers… We here in the Frameable Faces research department have identified NINE more types of chatters and we broadcasted our findings live to a bloodthirsty (and nervous) Periscope audience. We now bring you the YouTube replay of that broadcast along with […]
You may have read our post about the 13 types of Periscope chatters and you may have seen the ensuing broadcast about it on Periscope which was an epic laughfest for all involved. For that one I wrote the article first and then we did the broadcast. Ally and Doug probably being one of the 13… Well the reception to that broadcast was so fantastic it inevitably required a sequel, and this time we did it in reverse. I made a few […]
So Periscope comes along and it’s super cool. We all have visions of reaching an audience in an exciting new way and connecting with new friends, being entertained and seeing the world like we’ve never seen it before. We download the app, we start to follow some scopers, we tell our friends and we start scoping……..and then they show up. The scope chatters who tune in and, well…. make it interesting. Just to clarify for the purposes of this survival […]
Yes it’s that time again… time to RANT. I have 4 basic topics to cover so let’s get to it. Rosh Sillars tweeted the link to an article about Instagram this morning written by Andrew Hutchinson for Social Media Today which I thought was good. You should read it. Now while I do NOT disagree completely with the idea that image quality is everything for certain strategies on Instagram, I do disagree with this as an overall statement. So those of you who know […]
For those of you who don’t follow social media news closely there has been a lot going on in the last couple weeks after what I thought was a relatively quiet period. Periscope was officially launched for the iPhone and it is going to change the world again in my opinion, much like Facebook, twitter and some of the others have. As usual things are moving fast and it’s exciting, so here is what you need to know (so far) about […]
Why is social media so quiet lately? It just doesn’t seem to me that there has been a lot going on. Let me explain. For a few solid years there it seemed like it was the “golden age” of major platforms – such as: Facebook Pages switched over to “likes” from fans in April 2010 a month after we set up the Frameable Faces page. Instagram launched on October 6th, 2010 and we joined it in May of 2012. Pinterest launched in April […]
It’s been a while since I “ranted”. We have had a very busy summer photographing seniors and planning and celebrating our son’s bar mitzvah so all I have been really able to think about for blogging is keeping up with sharing our wonderful seniors of the class of 2015. There are plenty of seniors to come as we are just getting started with a whole new round of “fall color” seniors, and we will also be sharing some bar mitzvah […]
It seems that you should care about Google Plus and now the new “Google My Business” after all, especially if you are a small business owner. Google’s social media network (they prefer to call it a “layer”) has been around since June of 2011. Google Plus is not as popular as Facebook but it’s still Google and it’s not going anywhere. Does this mean you have to participate and get immersed in yet another social media platform? Not quite. However, […]