• Complain

Sara Tasker - HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence

Here you can read online Sara Tasker - HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2018, publisher: Quarto Publishing Group, genre: Home and family. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

No cover
  • Book:
    HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Quarto Publishing Group
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2018
  • Rating:
    3 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 60
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

Instagram is the fastest growing of all social media platforms, with 400 million monthly active users worldwidehalf of whom are under the age of twenty-five. While some use the app as a personal networking tool, many also use it to build their creative business endeavours; whether in food and drink or fashion and lifestyle.

Sara Tasker has done just that, and since setting up her account whilst on maternity leave in 2013, has become an Instagram coach, iPhoneographer and social media influencer. Her chronicle of authentic everyday life and her mindful Me and Orla blog has developed into a business in which she provides access to free insta-tips, alongside some hugely popular paid for e-courses for independent creatives.

Hashtag Authentic draws on the lessons Sara has learned over the past five years to provide readers with tips, advice and guidance on how to turn their personal Instagram account into a profitable creative outlet. From visual...

Sara Tasker: author's other books


Who wrote HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
Contents
Guide
HASHTAG AUTHENTIC Finding creativity and building a community on Instagram - photo 1
HASHTAG AUTHENTIC Finding creativity and building a community on Instagram - photo 2
HASHTAG AUTHENTIC
Finding creativity and building a community on Instagram and beyond SARA - photo 3

Finding creativity and building a community on Instagram and beyond

SARA TASKER
@me_and_orla

INTRODUCTION By the conventional rulebook I should never have found success - photo 4

INTRODUCTION

By the conventional rulebook, I should never have found success. Small, socially awkward and devoid of any real self-belief, I made none of the life choices that could facilitate my dreams coming true. I thought I might make a good photographer, but didnt dare choose to study it at university. I love to write and considered journalism, but there was no way I could move to London to await a break that would probably never arrive.

Instead I built a quiet, simple life for myself and squashed those dreams down into hobbies that never asked me to try. I told myself all the bigger dreams were for other types of people: those from wealthier families, with better health, mindsets and opportunities. And then Instagram changed my world.

That sounds ridiculous, I know to give so much credit to a free app we all have on our phones. And yet it is utterly true: starting my account, beginning to take photos and share tiny fragments of my thoughts was the catalyst to everything unfolding for me; the tightly scrunched paper ball of my life being spread out and opened, full of uncharted territory like a long-forgotten map.

I was on maternity leave from my National Health Service job, learning the ropes of being a mother and feeling utterly, hopelessly lost. I hated being in our inner-city home, looking out onto concrete and other peoples walls. I missed my job, my patients, my sense of usefulness. I missed my identity outside of this new role of motherhood that, like my post-partum wardrobe, just didnt seem to fit how Id imagined. I sat at home under a sleeping newborn and wondered how I would tell her about all the talents and skills that Id secretly possessed, but never thought to put to use.

Trapped in this bubble, whole days fuzzing by, I turned to my phone for some solace and company. And thats when I discovered Instagram.

Here was a place where my creativity could exist. Here was a space where I could connect with others other parents and mothers, yes but also makers and writers and artists and coaches. It was a place where I could reclaim a wider sense of identity; where I could put all my years of nerdy Internet sharing and connecting on forums to a next-generation use. It felt like a place where I could be entirely and safely myself; something I had never and still havent, if Im honest managed to fully discover in the realm of real life.

I called my account Me & Orla myself and my daughter because in those long stretches of empty daytime, thats all that it felt like there was. I began to share the small, inconsequential moments of my days the ripe pears on the windowsill, the way the sunlight streamed through the curtains in the afternoon, the slice of cake I walked two miles with her to eat. Too tired to lug around my old DSLR, I decided to shoot a photo each day using only my iPhone, and so began my long-term love affair with those incidental phone cameras we carry with us wherever we go. I set myself a challenge on 1 January that year: I would try to post daily and find 1,000 followers by the end of the year. Within a month Id exceeded that target, and by April Id been featured by Instagram and was approaching my first 40k.

From there things continued to bloom: a bigger audience, a well-read blog, lucrative influencer work, press coverage, new friends, trips away and exciting events.

I was able to quit my job and move my little family out to the countryside, to a house that was home, where the windows look out onto green hills and sky. And I found my real passion the thing that got my heart pumping fast: talking about the how of it all. Sharing with anyone who wanted to listen what I knew and had learned about photography, social media, Instagram and beyond. How to use it, as I had, to build something more, in this digital landscape that didnt follow the old rules.

I began to mentor, and then to teach online courses and classes about social media. Gradually that grew into the multiple six-figure business that employs both me and my husband today, with enough time and space for spontaneous summer picnics with Orla, or a what the hell road trip when my schedule allows.

My free podcast, which shares its name with this book, has allowed me to connect with thousands of other like-minded souls, and my speaking engagements have taken me on more far-flung adventures than my old self had amassed in her whole thirty years.

Ive appeared in my favourite magazines Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Stylist and more chatted on BBC Radio and in what I think we can all agree is the ultimate achievement in life exchanged a string of DMs with my teenage celebrity crush.

But most significantly of all, Im living my life as myself. Seen and heard, messy parts and all and learning the kind of valuable lessons that I hope will help my daughter escape all the traps that Id put myself in.

Tuning into my creativity and finding a community that sees the world like I do has been transformational. And when I stopped to look back and took in all it had made possible, I really only had one question that I couldnt find an answer to. Why did nobody tell me this was possible? My hope is that this book will tell you what nobody has before. That its possible, entirely doable, for you, right now, exactly as you are. Not you ten pounds skinnier, or you in another degrees time. Whatever you have, whatever has brought you to this point, its really all that you need to begin to follow your heart.

People will tell you its silly. There will be folk in your life who simply wont understand. Thats ok; it doesnt matter. Do it anyway, and trust that your right people including me will be cheering you on.

The Internet is a huge, diverse and colourful place. Dive in, share your world, and come see what is waiting for you.

STORYTELLING OUR VISUAL CULTURE My Grandad took pictures Hundreds of them - photo 5
STORYTELLING
OUR VISUAL CULTURE My Grandad took pictures Hundreds of them each one a tiny - photo 6
OUR VISUAL CULTURE

My Grandad took pictures. Hundreds of them, each one a tiny rectangular labour of love. Light metered, settings carefully chosen, he would capture the moment and wind on the film; walk down to the camera shop days or weeks later to get them developed, and then write on the back in his perfect, sloping hand, the place, occasion, and date.

Both he and my Grandma are gone now, but these pictures remain. I found so many as we cleared out their home an entire treasure-trove of forgotten memories and love. Pictures of them smiling at familiar Venice landmarks. My Grandad, a heartbreaking twenty-year-old soldier with dreamboat hair, perched on the hot steps of the Pyramids in Egypt. Me and my siblings with toys, with friends, with Christmas trees, with missing teeth. In school uniform, in tears, in homemade Halloween masks.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence»

Look at similar books to HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence»

Discussion, reviews of the book HASHTAG AUTHENTIC: be your best creative self via your instagram online presence and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.