{"id":111,"date":"2014-11-15T02:07:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T02:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/?p=111"},"modified":"2014-11-15T02:07:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T02:07:57","slug":"the-gram-feed-at-iucn-wpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/2014\/11\/15\/the-gram-feed-at-iucn-wpc\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Gram Feed at IUCN WPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been following the ICUN Worlds Park Conference (WPC) on Instagram for a couple days now and there are quite a few things that have struck me. \u00a0 First of all, right off the bat, I think it is quite interesting that there are only 314 followers for such a massive world wide and what thousands would say is a very important event. \u00a0Contrast this to a popular pop\/country artist, Taylor Swift, who has 13 million follows. \u00a0I understand some would say these are like comparing apples and oranges but in the end they are both fruit \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0 There have been some solid snap shots over the last few days that are doing a pretty good job of capturing the essence of what&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremony was a big hit and\u00a0they posted 42 pictures and videos in a 3 hour period. \u00a0Since then, almost 3 days later, there has been 46 more posts. \u00a0There have been some pretty cool videos nearly all of them capturing tribes people music and dances. \u00a0The diversity of shots since the opening ceremony have been really cool too. \u00a0One thing that I find somewhat lame for a social media use such as Instagram is that there are a lot of pictures of people speaking. \u00a0This is not captavating or interesting &#8211; a video of them speaking would be more appropirate. \u00a0Another great feature of instagram, the they are not using, is applying your personal creativity, using filters and adjusting a bunch of features.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I am really looking forward to more diverse pictures and some sweet tribal videos. \u00a0I still feel a little left out of the loop and am unsure\u00a0if Instagram is catching all the fascinating moments over there. \u00a0Generally between 10 and 20 people out of the 314 followers are clicking the &#8220;like&#8221; button which is clearly a low percentage. \u00a0I am hoping they throw some exciting stuff up on the feed and really turn up the energy level for these next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been following the ICUN Worlds Park Conference (WPC) on Instagram for a couple days now and there are quite a few things that have struck me. \u00a0 First of all, right off the bat, I think it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/2014\/11\/15\/the-gram-feed-at-iucn-wpc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/iucn-2014-congress-cltl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}