{"id":2745,"date":"2016-08-11T08:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T12:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felicitypr.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2018-05-15T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:15:45","slug":"beyond-celebrities-kids-selfies-harnessing-power-instagram-pr-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felicitypr.com\/beyond-celebrities-kids-selfies-harnessing-power-instagram-pr-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Celebrities, Kids & Selfies: Harnessing the Power of Instagram for PR Success"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I started using Instagram recently and I can\u2019t get enough. My thumb pushes that rainbow app icon at least five times a day. My heart delights at every new food photo, #OOTD (outfit of the day), milestone, or random bit of awesome shared by my favourite chefs, celebrities, brands, and friends.<\/p>\n
Very quickly, following others wasn\u2019t enough. My fingers itched to get in on the action and I started posting photos too. Want to see what adorable thing my kids did today? Snap, make cool collage, insert comment about my kids\u2019 genius, share. Curious to know my thoughts on chokers being back in style? Snap, add filter to disguise wrinkles, insert quirky comment about wearing trends twice in my lifetime, share. I love creating a curated visual story of my life.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s Get Strategic <\/b><\/p>\n
Following my personal foray into Instagram, I started thinking about Instagram from the perspective of a PR professional. While it was fun posting my own pictures and seeing other people\u2019s stories unfold in photos, how would you use Instagram as part of strategic communications strategy?<\/p>\n
My head was jumbled with queries about hashtags and tagging, and the place for proper spelling and grammar in a world of emojis and acronyms. I even got caught up thinking about Marshall McLuhan\u2019s \u201cthe medium is the message\u201d concept and how this might impact a communications strategy that included Instagram. Add to this the idea that Instagram may already be old news, and Snapchat or some other up-and-coming storytelling app I haven’t heard of yet will transform communications, and you get a picture of my exhaustion and confusion.<\/p>\n
Top 3 Instagram Learnings <\/b><\/p>\n
After sifting through a warren of websites (mostly helpful) and conducting an informal interview (luckily I have an obliging friend who\u2019s a millennial and works in marketing), here\u2019s what I learned:<\/p>\n
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Number three was the shocker, I will admit. \u00a0It was easy to get caught up in the excitement of a new app and then the possibilities of how it integrated with everything I knew about PR, that I had to remind myself to keep my eye on communications best practices. Whether you\u2019re writing a press release or developing a social media plan for your client, knowing your audience and developing engaging key messages still need to be at the fore.<\/p>\n
When I started in this business, carefully chosen words were my most powerful storytelling tool. Now the story includes pictures, or video, and the ability to reach a community instantly. \u00a0The medium may be evolving, but a good story is still a good story\u2014we just have more ways to share the message.#PRPros #writer4life<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started using Instagram recently and I can\u2019t get enough. My thumb pushes that rainbow app icon at least five times a day. My heart delights at every new food photo, #OOTD (outfit of the day), milestone, or random bit of awesome shared by my favourite chefs, celebrities, brands, and friends. Very quickly, following others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[196,277],"tags":[255],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n