You are your own Community Manager
You are your own CM. You will learn how, when and how many posts to make on your Instagram, the best time to do it, the amount, the interaction, use of hashtags, etc.
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How to operate your account
In this lesson I will give you suggestions to generate engagement with your users, increase your base and manage your publications.
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How to keep your audience
In this lesson I will show you some exercises to talk about how to generate an audience and maintain it.
Tasks
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Posts on Instagram Practice exercise 4.1
Prepare a series of 9 posts for Instagram. Decide if you are going to take photos, photos with texts or photos with drawings. It may also be just drawings.
Develop a list of topics that you would like to post about. It can be as simple as your favorite food, the things you like about going to the movies, tree shapes, or portraits of people you admire. Now with the lists, choose the one that seems easier for you. (Ex: It is important to start with, have a good collection of images of ducks with blue plumage so that you can choose the most appropriate one)
With your designs finished, post one a day starting Monday at 7 AM, and so on every day. This will allow you to know which day of the week you have the most likes and followers.
I also recommend that you post the same drawing on your Instagram stories. You can publish it completely or partially. If it is partial, use a legend indicating that they go to your profile and see the total publication.
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Choose a topic of global interest, make a design and use the appropriate hashtags Practice exercise 4.2
This task requires you to generate a graph that summarizes your point of view on a global issue. The best reference is the peace sign combined with Jean Jullien's Eiffel Tower.
Make several sketches, explore techniques, and combine ideas. You can prepare it in advance if you are looking for an important date, such as December 10, which is the universal declaration of Human Rights, or you can simply publish something that has to do with your personal life and human rights.
Additional resources
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Interview with Pablo Amargo
Here is an interview with Pablo Amargo, I like it because it explains how and why it illustrates for different types of communications and talks about the humor and visual poetry, paradoxes and the mechanics of the visual.
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Community Manager
If you want to delve into the topic of community management, I recommend Ana Marín's course, Introduction to Community Management, here in Doméstika.
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Series of publications with different topics
These exercises will inspire you to generate your own content.
Some were born organically and others were nurtured with a kind of conceptual curation, to give an intention and a background to my Instagram posts.Assvertising Series
Postits Kulloneliner
Interstellar
Iphone Thumbsketch
9 kitties made on iPhone
CDMX Women
One liner