With Instagram, I feel like I'm a fog, and finding who I need to engagement is the most troublesome part. I'm still trying to make sense of it all and so asked the community to tell me where I might find engagement.
I'm starting to "get it". So I have a Company page but I realize that my personal page is as important.
It's hard because when I see Instagram I see people selling a lifestyle and I don't feel like people want to see my ugly mug sporting to t-shirts on funky furniture while pantomiming behind a laptop.
I'm the CTO of international video agency Wooshii and I run an educational media brand called Skill Pathway. I also occasionally chat to people on my podcast, The Learning Developers Podcast.
A couple of things on that, there's this weird psychological principle (I forget the name) where people are just genuinely interested in people. So we all find ourselves kind of boring but we want to peek into the lives of others just for the sake of it.
The other thing I was going to say is that running your SaaS or Educational brand page as more of a media company (in your case reporting on all things AWS and providing value there) is something I've seen a few companies execute really successfully, and even on Instagram. If I can find some links, I'll send them over. It's what I'm doing here!
It may just be me, but the only people I follow on Instagram are ones that are visually interesting. I'll follow photographers, travellers, wild life experts, but I'm not going to follow companies - they're usually posting visually uninteresting stuff and just trying to sell me things. I get enough of that from Facebook.
I think there's a platform for everything but IMO Instagram generally isn't one for developers or tech companies. Maybe it would be better to continue to focus your efforts on platforms that suit the product, like Twitter, I follow heaps of devs and tech companies on that, but again, that could just be me.
I found Twitter pretty pointless when I first signed up for it. I guess I just didn't really get it initially. It was only once I started discovering interesting developers to follow on it I found a use for it - mainly as a consumer. Now I use it solely for that. It helped bring order to what otherwise just seemed like chaos in the form of up to 280 characters. Personally the most interesting things I find on it are developers sharing random projects or code snippets they've worked on.
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With Instagram, I feel like I'm a fog, and finding who I need to engagement is the most troublesome part. I'm still trying to make sense of it all and so asked the community to tell me where I might find engagement.
Who/what should I follow on Instagram for web-dev?
Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 ・ Aug 28 ・ 1 min read
I'm starting to "get it". So I have a Company page but I realize that my personal page is as important.
It's hard because when I see Instagram I see people selling a lifestyle and I don't feel like people want to see my ugly mug sporting to t-shirts on funky furniture while pantomiming behind a laptop.
This might help spur some ideas: I would start following @github and find followers who have 10k+ following and look at their content for inspiration.
@Sasha.codes has a great feed. She alternates post with a more personal picture and then a dev tip.
If sorting through followers is a lot of work, I made a tool that lets you search for followers from any Instagram account.
Feel free to check it out: metaplug.io
A couple of things on that, there's this weird psychological principle (I forget the name) where people are just genuinely interested in people. So we all find ourselves kind of boring but we want to peek into the lives of others just for the sake of it.
The other thing I was going to say is that running your SaaS or Educational brand page as more of a media company (in your case reporting on all things AWS and providing value there) is something I've seen a few companies execute really successfully, and even on Instagram. If I can find some links, I'll send them over. It's what I'm doing here!
It may just be me, but the only people I follow on Instagram are ones that are visually interesting. I'll follow photographers, travellers, wild life experts, but I'm not going to follow companies - they're usually posting visually uninteresting stuff and just trying to sell me things. I get enough of that from Facebook.
I think there's a platform for everything but IMO Instagram generally isn't one for developers or tech companies. Maybe it would be better to continue to focus your efforts on platforms that suit the product, like Twitter, I follow heaps of devs and tech companies on that, but again, that could just be me.
I agree about the company pages.
I do have a lot of unique original content, though I don't feel branded companies can connect as much as personal accounts.
Instagram is as you say a visual platform and I think its a lean towards lifestyle perceptive.
Twitter is another social platform I'm terrible at and I've never been able to go beyond that 300-500 follower count.
I found Twitter pretty pointless when I first signed up for it. I guess I just didn't really get it initially. It was only once I started discovering interesting developers to follow on it I found a use for it - mainly as a consumer. Now I use it solely for that. It helped bring order to what otherwise just seemed like chaos in the form of up to 280 characters. Personally the most interesting things I find on it are developers sharing random projects or code snippets they've worked on.