(Guest Post) Instagram Your City For An International Trip To Social Media Week
June 7th, 2012 by Guest PostGuest Post By: Terrance (BrothaTech) Gaines
(image courtesy of Instagram user arizonamarty)
Is the first thing you do when you wake up is grab your smartphone and browse your Instagram feed? Do you take photos all day – just to post them online? Think you’re an Instagram Guru? You could win a trip to an international Social Media Week host city in September.
The contest is pretty simple: Whip out your smartphone, open a popular image sharing app like Instagram or Hipstamatic, and take some dope shots (filters welcome) of your city. You can also upload your images to web services like Lightbox and StreamZoo for more options and exposure.
Then share those images on Twitter or Facebook using the tag #InstagramYourCity. You can take as many pictures as you want, so long as you use the tag when sharing the images.
Judges will pick the top 14 submissions world wide to display on the Instagram Your City website. From there, one “Best in Show” image will be selected from the 14 submissions and the winner will win a trip to any of the host cities for Social Media Week on September 24-28.
Host cities include: London, Glasgow, Torino, Barcelona, Berlin, Doha, Jeddah, Hong Kong, Seoul, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Chicago, Los Angeles and Vancouver.
Whether you’re a beast on Instagram, a slick iPhoneographer, or just need another excuse to flood your friend’s streams with images, your smartphone-snapping eye may just land you a trip to a host city for Social Media Week to rep’ your city. Contest ends June 29th. Click here for official rules (if you don’t believe a Brotha).
Terrance (BrothaTech) Gaines is a husband, father and Technology Evangelist who shares tech news, reviews, tips and tricks on his site BrothaTech.com in addition to writing for other tech sites across the web and in print. Catch him blabbing about all things tech (and some other stuff too) on Twitter as well @BrothaTech.
iPhoneographers Rejoice! This Stylish Case IS For You!
May 1st, 2012 by Tech StaffThere are a lot of skins, cases and accessories for the iPhone. It doesn’t matter if you want it for your first generation iPhone or if it is to geekify your iPhone 4s. There are cases for pretty much any model you can think of, even for the iPod. But for photographers, the number of accessories has been sparse. Designer UN Design put together a fund raising project on the popular Kickstarter site hoping to fund the awesome looking iPhone case meant solely for dedicated and professional iPhone photographers. The case comes in several different materials and colors, and there is even an aluminum one in the works.
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Although the designs aren’t available yet, if you contribute to the UN Design Kickstarter campaign, you can probably score one before anyone else!
