Instagram for work/personal phone

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Does anyone use their personal phone for social media at work?

One of my projects is creating a catalogue of some vintage items that our housed in our department, and I want to create an Instagram account to help show off the pieces in the collection. I'd have to use my personal phone to take/upload the pics (rather than use the pics I have stores and saved on my computer.)

1) am I justifiably leary of using my phone, or do I need to get over myself.
2) is there a way to post from a non mobile device? My tea search had come up empty.

I wish I could just have my twitter posts auto feed to Instagram. That would be so much easier.

[Susie]

So you would be using your personal phone to take pics of vintage items and upload them to a work-owned instagram account? I guess I'd need to hear an articulated reason other than "I prefer to keep them totally separate" for why this is a problem. It doesn't sound like confidential or sensitive information is involved, just a principles thing.  I'm all about getting things done using the easiest tool at hand.

However, my firm doesn't pay for smartphones, so out of practical necessity, I have all kinds of work stuff on my personal iPhone. Way more sensitive than pics of vintage items. So perhaps that skews my view.

[Deleted]

I use my personal phone to manage client instagram accounts. There's no other alternative.

It's not that big of deal. Biggest thing is to remember to log out afterwards.

Unfortunately, Instagram doesn't share their kpi so there's not platform to manage multiple accounts.

[Redpoppy]

Is there a work iPad that you could use instead?

[Deleted]

No work iPad/etc. Hopefully next year.

Really, I'm just annoyed that 1) I have to log out to go back and forth between this and my personal account, and then I lose my hashtags; and 2) I can't find anything like hootsuite where I can schedule when things are set out.

Thanks for indulging my whining.

[L]

I think that "I prefer to keep work completely separate from my personal devices" is a perfectly legitimate reason if you don't want to use your personal phone for this.

[redredwine]

My work totally supports the use of social media-it's a big part of our work culture, etc. Many of us have phones that work pays for but are also for personal use, so we have our Instagram accts/FB, etc. However, my company also has very strict social media guidelines as well, to protect our company. A big part of this is posting photos because A. we don't want to leak stuff and B. anything you post (photos, etc.) on FB and Instagram, as it's owned by FB, is technically "owned" by FB at that point and they legally have the right to use those photos, etc (or something like that). So basically, be aware of the the legal implications that can happen by mixing social media and your line of work.

Do you want to show off the pieces to the public? Or is this more for internal and you want an easy way for other employees to view? What about a Sharepoint site or something that you can use an internal only? Upload your photos to a shared internal site and then delete them off your phone?

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Why are you losing Hashtags? It's impossible to lose Hashtags.


ETA - there's no platform available to schedule instagram posts. Or manage multiple accounts. Sucks. I manage half a dozen and constantly logging in and out.

[Deleted]

It's more of an outreach for patrons and alumni.

I do have permission to share pics of pieces on social media.

When I log off and log back in, I have to type out the whole word again #lazy (<--on IG, if I hadn't logged off, I could have just hit #l and tapped on a previously used one.)

[Deleted]

Oh... I see. I use SwiftKey, a keyboard app, and it saves my Hashtags + remembers sentences you previously strung together.

Plus, once you use the same Hashtags on your company one they'll pop up like your personal.

[StJess80]

I have my library's twitter account signed into my phone because I get texts from coworkers about info that needs to be sent out right away. I don't use my personal twitter much, but I have a bookmark on my phone home screen so I have access to both on my phone.

I've been meaning to download the hoot suite app because you can sign into more than one social media account and see all your feeds.

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Aug 30, 2014 10:14:41 GMT -5 Catlawdy said:

Can't you take the pictures with a work camera, load them to a computer, and load to Instagram from the computer?

I use my phone for work (and get a stipend) but have things carefully segregated BC of public records issues.

No. Unless there is a hole in my research, Instagram is exclusively a mobile app