Auto Awesome Photos in Motion on Google+
Auto Awesome is a photo feature on Google+. It was launched on Google+ on May 15th 2013. The feature creates "Photos in motion" automatically, and hence the name. It has been a big success, and many people are having fun figuring new and innovative ways to use this for fun AND business. They look like a gif, act like a gif and while they really are a gif, and they take zero to no effort to create. Get a Google+ account and upload photos in sequence to the platform, and Google takes care of the rest.
I have written a couple of articles already on the subject and a tutorial on how to make them. The question comes up as to why not just use video. The answer is that Photos in Motion are much easier and don't require all the details to put together that a video would entail. The point is that you can actually use them more often and to highlight a place or event much easier. Since they are more unique than a still photo, they attract attention for someone to click on a post. They are never meant to replace a video. It is just a photo in motion... nothing more, nothing less.
So if you are looking to try to create a Autoawesome photo, you will want to read the tutorial. Once completed the next step after you have created the photo would be to implement them into an ActiveRain or a WordPress blog. The tutorial I wrote tells how to pick up the URL from Google+ and then place it into your AR blog. Nothing much to it and bam.... photos in motion.
I was recently asked how to get the photo in motion specifically into a WordPress blog. It is done the same way that it happens on ActiveRain. Nothing different really, just drop that URL of the photo into the WP site the same you would any other photo.
Important tip to remember is that the photo is actually a Gif. It lives in your Google account in the photo section. You can't eliminate the photo in motion from google, or your photo will disappear everywhere else you have put the url. As long as you have the account there is no problem.
While you can put these photos on Pinterest and Facebook, they become still. The good thing is that you can link them back to the original article for SEO and then they will be seen live.
Something new and easy to do. Give it a try, and share your photos in a community post. Check out the Autoawesome Community and see how amazing the members can be. Great exchange of ideas and maybe something will spark your marketing style with an awesome photo.
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