What is it About Photographs That Makes People Click? Why is it that some photographs go viral online while others are left by the digital wayside?
Are there certain elements in photos that make them more “sharable” to Internet users? Curalate, a company that creates social media analytics software, decided to tackle this question by analyzing the photographs published by brands to Pinterest. The research was done on over half a million photographs gathered from the service. 30 different features were examined in the photos, including “presence of faces, texture, hue, saturation, lightness, brightness and aspect ratio.”
Curalate then connected these features to the popularity of the images (e.g. likes, repins, and comments) in order to determine the things that make photos “sharable.” One aspect was “color.” Being “colorful” also helps a photo out. Are Your Pics Blue Enough? How to Turn Your Photos Into Instagram 'Like' Magnets.
Want to get more likes on Instagram?
Make sure your images are predominantly blue, spaciously cropped, bright and mildly desaturated. At least those are the criteria handed down by Philadelphia-based research firm Curalate, which recently shared the results of an extensive study charting likes for 8 million Instagram posts against 30 image parameters. According to the survey, other factors that contribute to an image’s likeability include: Dominance of a single color, preferably blueBrightness in the 65-80 percent rangeA recognizable background (i.e. don’t crop tightly)Mild desaturation, like what you get with the “Walden” or “Rise” filtersUploaded via Twitter Oddly, some of the Instagram results directly contradict an earlier Curalate survey on Pinterest popularity.
One possible explanation is that images with a single dominant color are so rare (10 percent or so) on Instagram that they tend to stand out. (via The Daily Mail) Why People Mistake Good Deals for Rip-Offs. Last Saturday, an elderly man set up a stall near Central Park and sold eight spray-painted canvases for less than one five-hundredth of their true value.
The art works were worth more than two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, but the man walked away with just four hundred and twenty dollars. Each canvas was an original by the enigmatic British artist Banksy, who was approaching the midpoint of a monthlong residency in New York City. Banksy had asked the man to sell the works on his behalf. The Best Times To Post On Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn And Pinterest [INFOGRAPHIC]
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What is a "Social Media Chaplain?" « Phil Cooke Phil Cooke. About Kumbuya. On Kumbuya, users join and create themed communities that we call Camps.
Within each Camp, members connect over the things they love by posting topic-related media, comments, and user-generated content. Because communities are curated by the most enthusiastic fans, members get to engage in a beautiful medium that caters directly to their interests. Kumbuya is Social Commerce Unlike other existing social platforms that turn your users into their commodities, Kumbuya empowers you to benefit from the camp that you build and that you curate.
Kumbuya offers individuals and businesses the ability to seamlessly communicate through common interests, which transitions into buying and selling more effectively than other social networks based on friends and personal relationships. Camp leaders have the ability to choose which businesses and organizations can reach the members within their camp, and the camp leader shares in the revenue when business is transacted. Creating a Camp. Social Media Tips & Tricks Series Part 2: Google+ By Elizabeth, Associates Mentor 1) Create your Google+ page Effort : Easy Payoff: Long Term Choose the product or brand box, and then choose your product category.
The Guides - Vocus. Direct Mail, Evolved. The Pay-Offs of Personalization. Free Visual QR Code Generator. 25 Awesome Facebook Apps for Designers. Facebook might not have all the glittery text and obnoxious backgrounds that MySpace has, but it still has its fair share of useless apps.
This is especially true if you have ever tried to search for creative Facebook apps or those that may be of interest to creative people. If you have ever searched for such a thing, you have no doubt realized that there is an abundance of useless apps. This is the reason that I went through just about every app on Facebook to find the very few that were best suited for creative individuals, or had some sort of visual flair about them. So here are 25 awesome Facebook applications that most designers will enjoy in their Facebook pages. 1. This is a neat app brought to you by the master minds behind the “Sheezy” sites (Brusheezy, Flasheezy, etc). “Photoshop Brush Junkies Rejoice! 2. Get the latest news on just about everything in the design industry right on your Facebook page. 3. 4. 5. 6. Ever wanted to be an Art collector?
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Facebook’s Commercialization Driving Users Away, Analyst Says. Creating Custom Folios for Self-Promotion & Presentation « David Saffir's Photography and Printing Blog. This article was originally published in Photo Technique Magazine, Nov/Dec 2012.
It appears here with some minor changes. Creating Custom Folios for Self-Promotion & Presentation by David Saffir.