@Twitter -VS- @Instagram… And How To Succeed With Photo Social Sharing No Matter What
December 12th, 2012 by Christen
Now that the latest move in the social media gauntlet has been revealed – Instagram has disabled Twitter’s ability to properly display your images in Twitter’s feed, WHAT’S NEXT NOW? It’s very clear that the battle between social media giants, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook isn’t going anywhere soon and you can more than likely expect more “integration errors” in the coming months. This could easily become a social media nightmare for those who rely on using these outlets on a daily (sometimes even hourly) basis. But, you don’t have to let the social media squabbling affect your ability to be great! Discover these tips, that’ll keep your Twitter-gram game tight no matter what!
Q: With all these new sharing changes, how in the world do I keep up with easy social sharing?
A: Master the use of each social media platform (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram) SEPARATELY!
The New Twitter: Twitter has unveiled their very own photo filters that users can access after updating the app on their mobiles. Thanks to their photo filter partner Aviary, there are 8 available filters along with cropping tools and auto-enhancing features for Twitter users. Learn how quickly you can enhance your photos without leaving your Twitter app below…
The Face of Facebook: Use Facebook to share your fantastically-filtered photos. To do this, you can manually upload Instagrams to your Timeline or automatically sync up your Instagram account to your Facebook so all your Instagram activity will show up on your Timeline and News Feed.
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Instagram is IN: As one of the newest and fastest growing photo-sharing platforms to date, the buzz and excitement is still growing strong with Instagram. Use it to your advantage by promoting your online Instagram page and growing your photo followers manually. If pictures are worth a thousand words, there’s no way that Facebook and Twitter can compete with what you have to photogenically say!
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It’s clear that these social media giants, won’t be playing nice in the sandbox anytime soon. For now, it’s best that you learn to utilize their best features separately and that way, no matter what improvements or changes happen next – YOU STILL WIN!
Have you tried out the new photo filters on Twitter? Are you still a die-hard Facebook fan? What would make you leave any of these social platforms for good. Share below…
Do More With Documents On The Go With The Remarks App {Review}
March 16th, 2012 by Christen
As a businesswoman on the go, there’s nothing I hate more than being restricted to conduct business indoors while stuck in front of a computer. Successful professionals have one thing in common – the ability to conduct business as usual regardless of current location. From the same company that brought you the PDF Expert app for the iPad (Read my review HERE.) now brings you Remarks, the iPad app that lets you write notes, draw and annotate on PDFs, books and more.
Remarks is more than just an editing app! Sure you can draw, type notes within PDF documents, edit presentations & contracts on the go. Recently, I’ve used the app for editing and filing contracts all in one location on my iPad making it easy to access, forward and email them while on the go.
But unlike PDF Expert, Remarks allows you to co-edit notes with other Remarks users (just like sharing Google docs except it’s on the go!) This is a great app function for bloggers co-editing documents, sales professionals and entrepreneurs alike who work on a team and edit materials together.
I’ve used the Remarks app for editing & formatting articles during downtime and it’s a great alternative for writing notes and keeping them organized together. As a bonus, the Remarks app adjusts to your writing style (lefty’s rejoice!) and adjusts to your wrist better blocking the bottom toolbar and making edits a lot easier to manage.
The highlighting feature is perfect for noting important elements within contracts while eliminating the unnecessary jargon and text.
And just in case you’re stuck in a meeting and want to work on your Draw Something skills Remarks has a feature that’ll allow you to do just that. Remarks functions as a sketch pad, allowing you to draw shapes, diagrams, markups and more using a stylus or the natural skills of your fingertips.
Available in the iTunes store for $4.99 the Remarks app by Readdle is definitely a cool app to add to your productivity repertoire.
