Welcome to Insta Family : Apps, Sites & Tips for Instagram users Pt.3

Dear Instagrammers,

Welcome to our third and last week for apps, sites & Tips for Instagram users. I hope you enjoyed the previous posts and learned a lot from them. Today we will share more apps, sites and tips. So let’s start the ride.

1- Webbygram

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Want to check the most popular pictures on Instagram just sign in and enjoy the interesting and most liked pictures in webbygram. Who knows maybe your picture will be one of the most liked pictures :0

2- Carousel

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If you are a mac user and wanted Instagram photos shown on your desktop. Here’s an app that will help you enjoy this feature. What Carousel does for you is that it can let you view your feed, follow and explore users and comment on their profiles. More than that you can drag and drop your pictures and save them on your desktop easily. With this interesting app you need only $3.99 to enjoy the Instagram experience.

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3- Try posting at least one or two pictures everyday. Don’t just post any pictures, post an interesting pictures and tell them what’s the purpose of sharing this experience.

4- Be creative when you post your pictures, for example today post a funny picture, tomorrow share an inspirational picture and the day after share a poem or a picture of a great moment in your life.

5- VSCO Cam 

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An interesting app that will make you creative in taking pictures. VSCOCam has a great filters and you can create beautiful images that will make you to share it for sure.

After this interesting journey for the past few weeks all I can say is take these interesting apps, sites and tips and put them to work and if there’s anything that you want to share feel free to add. Keep Instagraming and share your moments see you in our next post and with a new topic :)

aalzain

Welcome to Insta Family : Apps, Sites & Tips for Instagram users Pt.2

Welcome back dear followers and readers to our 2nd post for interesting apps, sites and tips for Instagram users. In our last post I shared a few Apps, sites and tips. Today I will share more interesting things for you to become more productive and efficient when you use Instagram app. So let’s start our ride!

1- Overgram and Instarabic

Sometimes when we take pictures we would like to put memorable or interesting comments on the picture, but Instagram app still doesn’t provide this feature yet! So an alternative solution for this challenge is to use these two interesting apps:

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A- Overgram is an app that will allow you to write in english and you can use it with different interesting fonts.

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B- InstArabic This is app is for arabic users who would like to write on their photos and share it with their friends and loved ones.

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2- Taking multiple pictures is one of the most advices that I like to share with others and it is very effective to take more than one picture from the same scene, because some times the first picture is blurry or someone passed…..etc. So my advice is to always take multiple pictures.

3- TagsforLikes

Want to see your picture get searched more often, want to get more likes, to know the top hashtags, and sometimes get more followers this app will help you a lot. So enjoy the likes :)

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4- Follow professional photographers and learn from them how they take pictures and what kind of angles, lenses, apps and devices they use. So like, comment and learn. Instagram profile promote many photographers on a weekly basis and that is a good start for you.

5- Recollect – InstArchive

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How many pictures you took from your camera or your mobile device and sometimes we don’t know where did we put the flash drive or maybe we lost the data?! Yikes! Here’s the solution for you! Recollects (InstArchive) helps you recollect all your Instagram photos and save it in a zip file and have a backup in case something goes wrong. Simple as that.

Still more to come so till next time enjoy Instagramming!

Welcome to Insta Family : Apps, Sites & Tips for Instagram users Pt.1

Hello World!

It’s been a while since I wrote something for my audience and for my self!

And from now on inshallah I would like start sharing a few of my thoughts every week so I am looking forward to share these thoughts and information and I hope you’re also looking forward to read it.

Now let’s get to the point.

If you are an instagram fan I will show you some of the apps, sites and tips that will help you become more productive and effective. This topic will be discussed in several posts inshallah so enjoy the ride :)

1- Statigram

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Statigram is one of the sites that I recommend to sign in and check your status. It helps you how to check your performance and manage your account. It tells you how many likes you received since you established your account people you’re following and how many people following you plus it tells how many followers gained and lost lately.

2- Followers+

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Followers+ is an effective FREE app that will keep you seeing your performance during the week and who followed and unfollowed you lately. The good thing about it is available for IOS and Android users.

3- Calendagram

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Calendagram is a place where you can create your own calendar with your own photos. After creating the calendar you can put it in your office or at home and remember the moments you spent visiting these places. It’s also available for IOS for iPhone and iPad.

Calendagram Example

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4- Always have a purpose for sharing and taking your pictures and if they didn’t understand  and it rarely happens! try explaining it to them.

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5- Always be Creative at taking your pictures

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Till our next post enjoy Instagramming!

Kuwait it’s Time to Celebrate

Congratulations Dear Kuwait for your 52nd national day and 22nd libration day Feb 25 – 26 and May Allah (God) bless this country with safety and security. 

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Now, who wants to celebrate!

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It’s so beautiful seeing people celebrate their national and liberation day with family and friends. Looking around you and the only thing you see is only your country flag. 

So far so good!

What I would like to see is less trouble and accidents during these days?!

People like to go to certain areas in the country to celebrate, but the problem is some of them goes wild and makes trouble and annoys people and sometimes they get into fights. Okay you can celebrate, but with limits and making no harm to anybody else and don’t forget your manners matters and it will reflect your country’s image! I know you will say don’t judge on one persons behavior thats right, but some of them will stereo type so watch yourself.

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Plus, you can share your moments by using Social Media tools such as:

Twitter and Facebook = sharing interesting thoughts, memories and what are you doing in the mean time.

Instagram and VIne = share interesting photos from the celebration and you will get the like :)

YouTube or Keek = record these moments for later.

or write an interesting blog post “better than mine of course” and share your opinion about the celebration.

Again congratulations Kuwait and we hope the best for you and your people

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I am going out to celebrate! 

till my next post inshallah take care

aalzain :)

To share or not to share that is the question.

Aziz 1: Hey Zee have you heard of Product / service / company X it launched a few days ago. I got it from this source. He/she releases the latest info up to date and I really like watching her/his twitter account, blog, facebook page, Youtube videos, Instagram account, Pinterest….etc.

Aziz 2: Yeah. I heard about it a few weeks ago!

Aziz 1: Then why didn’t you share this valuable info with us?!

Aziz 2: I don’t know? I thought no one will know about it or share it?!

Aziz 2: I was planning to share it on that date!

Aziz 1: Well, someone did before that date!

Many questions comes to my mind, but I will share the main ones.

1)      Why do we share?

2)      Is sharing a good thing?

3)      Do we need to share everything we know?

4)      When it is appropriate to share?

5)      Is sharing equals copying

Have you ever thought of sharing good information with your friends / colleagues / family members / community / the world?

If the answer is yes. Why? And if the answer is no. why also?

Think about it for a bit

1)      Why do we share?

Because I want to let people know about the latest information.

Why?

Because I want them to use it.

Why?

Because  I want them to share it with others.

Why?

Because I want them improve in what they’re doing and better their life.

Why?

Because I want to be a good source for that field.

Okay makes sense and that will take us to the next question.

2)      Is sharing a good thing?

Some people might say yes and some might say no, but I say yes it is a good thing to share.

Sharing gives you credibility – trustworthiness and people will start asking you if there’s anything new or interesting to know about or what do you think of these new trends, and they will respect your opinion and it will build a good image.

Here’s a good example, when you’re thinking of buying a book, DVD, clothes, shoes…etc and let’s say you visit amazon. You write down the type of product you’re interested to buy, but before you click add to cart button first you read previous buyers opinions and their ratings about the product. After reading their opinions you make your decision that you will buy this product or not. But wait a minute I don’t know these people that well, but how did they influence my decision? (Will talk about it in depth in a different post.)

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3)      Do we need to share everything we know?

All I can say is you can share what do you think it is important, interesting, good to know about for your audience. And don’t forget you share something you’re interested in.

4)      When it is appropriate to share?

With Social media tools we can say anytime you can share there’s no limit of when to share your content, but don’t share it more than it needs or your audience will get annoyed fast so be careful.

5)      Is sharing equals copying

Some readers might say sharing good information is copying others work and others would say the opposite. What I can say here is there are situations when it is copying and there are other situations when it is not. For example, taking good information from a good source and mentioning where did you get that information from that’s what I call sharing, but if you get information from another source and put it under your name…..I think you know what I mean

Here a few thoughts about sharing from Clay Shirky

I shared my thoughts and I will keep sharing inshallah. So here’s my advice to you is to start sharing or keep sharing for the benefit of good. There’s a nice quote from James W. Young’s book saying don’t hold your ideas or information to yourself submit it to the public and let them criticize it. You will generate great ideas and share a lot of interesting information.

aalzain

6 Career lessons should be in your mind

I read an interesting book for DanPink called the Adventures of Johnny Bunko and I really liked it. While surfing the net that day I found an interesting presentation via slideshre.com talking about this interesting book so I why not the share.

Enjoy Ramadan and the presentation and I hope you will make a new start with your career soon :)