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Clary Lake Association on Facebook and Instagram

The Clary Lake Association has had a presence on Facebook for some time but Instagram was not really on our radar until just recently. We’re finally up and running on Instagram with the id @clarylakeassociation. One thing that makes this actually feasible is automatic cross-posting to those two social platforms and it appears that we have that cross-posting functioning now. I hope. Having to cross-post everything manually literally takes all the fun out of it.

Instagram is essentially a photo-sharing platform so we’ll be making more use of “Featured Images” because posting to Instagram requires them. You’ll notice an Instagram widget on the sidebar on most pages which shows recent Instagram  posts. We’re still experimenting with how to make use of this new dimension to the Clary Lake Association on the web.

The above picture was taken by Danny Bell.

21 June 2016: Instagram Feeds and Other New Features Added To CLA Website

[dropcap]Observant[/dropcap] visitors to our website will have noticed some changes and additions to the Association website. First, in an effort to stay relevant in a rapidly evolving online world of social media, we’ve added some Instagram feeds. You’ll notice on the sidebar, right under the “Recent Site Pictures” two Instagram items. The first shows pictures from the “Clary Lake Me” Instagram page, and the next one down shows pictures from the #clarylake feed. I’ve also added an Instagram Page under the Pictures main menu heading. Many of you will know all about Instagram but for those of you who don’t (which group included me about 3 days ago) 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 either publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr”. The hardest thing for me to grasp about Instagram was that while you can cruise around Instagram and look at stuff using a web browser on your desktop or laptop computer, you can only post pictures using an Instagram app on your cell phone or tablet.

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