On Friday last we spent a day at the Facebook (and Instagram) Community Boost event, here on the Gold Coast. I was definitely
a day well spent. These are happening worldwide and if there is one coming to a city near you, we recommend it highly. We enjoyed especially the two sessions we attended on using Instagram, and particularly Instagram Stories. A big Aha! from the day was finding out about Facebook Blueprint - a free to join site which has a range of courses to help marketing with Facebook and Instagram.
Lewis Howes on
YouTube
Lewis Howes, for those of you who don't know the name, is one of the great success stories of social media. In this training he provides a practical strategy for building your Instagram followers to the magical 10,000, whereby you not only have quite a tribe of followers (hopefully also fans) but you
qualify to use Instagram's link-sharing "Swipe Up" feature. The video goes for just under 2 hours: if you watch the first 57 minutes you will have the training - the rest is a lengthy pitch by Lewis to sign up for paid training/coaching.
Ingrid Lunden
(LinkedIn) is relaunching Groups by rolling it into its main app by the end of the month after quietly pulling the standalone app earlier this year, and it will be streamlining the service by
cutting out several features, including an ability for Group administrators to pre-moderate comments; and a way to email send Group posts as emails to the whole group, while also adding in new features like threaded replies and the ability to post video and other media.
