Ethics and Social Responsiblity Featuring Instagram

 Instagram's is sharing awareness through photos!

       What more can the mega application give us!

Well this week Instagram  is giving back to the community and 

launching there first photo pop up exibit  in New York City.  

Instagram live ? I Think so !  From Sept 18- Sept 28, The free 

exhibit will take place at Brooklyn Bridge park where you can see 

all the time artwork and the Instagram editorial division team .

   



The Everyday Projects and Here in the World organization has joined forces with Instagram to out together Instagram's first ever pop up art exhibit .  The Everyday Project and Here Are the world are two organizations that focus of getting images from around the work of everyday world events. There overall goal is taking photography to another level by getting images of third world countries that are usually left out in the Media today.

The Image above is a photo of a editorial shoot taken In Africa. The purpose of this image is to show the world that there is more then poverty and illness going on in Africa.  You can find this image at the Brooklyn bridge park along with other famous painting and photographers of todays generation.

Instagrams Strategic Planning for Competitive Advantage

   In Todays age , Instagram is one of the most popular online community for imaging posting and video hosting. According to expandableramblings.com Instagram has " 200 million active users from March 26, 2014.".Along with Facebook, Twitter, and other well known social networking sites, Instagram serves as a place of marketing and networking . Whats makes Instagram special from other social networking websites is there way of marketing and networking through pictures and video.  Instagram's mission statement reliefs its visions on being a online networking community shared through photos and videos by creating and sharing beautiful ways to post your videos and photos to the world. Living in society today, everyone is obsessed with photos and videos.  In todays age, A video of Beyonce's first baby pictures gets more views then the president's state of nation Speech.

Insragrams Strategic planning for competitive advantage is by create a community of photosharing by providing the latest resources in photo and video sharing.Today, Instagrams latest strategy for a competetive advantage is the launch of Hyperlapse.

Hyperlapse is  new video system by Instagram that gives user the chance to record time-lapse video of high quality while in motion.

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INSTAGRAM HISTORY AND MISSION STATEMENT

INSTAGRAMS  MISSION STATEMENT


“To capture and share the world’s moments”


 INSTAGRAMS HISTORY

  Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras. Users can also apply digital filters to their images. The maximum duration for Instagram videos is 15 seconds.

Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012. Instagram is distributed through the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Windows Phone Store. Support for the app is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android handsets, while third-party Instagram apps are available forBlackberry 10 and Nokia-Symbian Devices.

The service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock.^[In 2013, Instagram grew by 23%, while Facebook, as the parent company, only grew by 3%.