These past couple of months have been a real learning journey for me with social media.
I want to sum up what I have learnt, what I will take forward with me to help improve my social media presence and what I won’t.
I have decided only to use Instagram for my art practice, because of it being a great visual tool to reach likeminded people.
With it not being carbon neutral I have decided to limit my social media posts to no more than one a week. I hope it will follow in Facebook’s (who owns Instagram) footsteps to be carbon neutral soon.
I am not going to worry too much about algorithms and analytics, like Henry @ pot_punk says for his top tips, to just post what you enjoy, make it the best quality that you can and have fun!
I have over the past few weeks, reached new ground, creating a story, and posting a video.
I posted images from an art exhibition I went to see that I thought really linked with my work, Mahal De Mans exhibition at the Art Station in Saxmundham.
I got to speak to Mahal, her work is very inspiring and I have been in contact with her since the exhibition.
Mahal has a lovely website showcasing her work (mahaldeman.nl)
She also promotes her work through her Instagram account.
I will be keeping my work promoted through Instagram only at the moment. In the future I may build a website but its not something I am going to do as yet.
Making the best quality posts that I can, adding more hashtags, making my videos better visually and not worry about the quantity/ and that it has to be posted at a certain time. Since I have been looking at improving my Instagram account I have gained six new followers, and I feel more confident about the content I am creating.
