With Instagram, I was a late adopter. Maybe it was resistance to using the iPhone as my primary camera, or filters anyone can use, or the idea that I actually would want to see my friend’s photos, but it took me a long time to warm up to Instagram. Over Thanksgiving, I spent some time on my grandfather’s farm in rural Illinois and began to see the appeal and have since become addicted to the app and now check it as much, if not more than Facebook and Twitter.

Since Instagram has no real native web presence (aside from a simple single photo viewer) I set about looking for a plugin to pull in my most recent photos and found Instapress.

With Instapress, the WordPress admin can select any feed and choose how many images to display, whether to show the picture’s title or not, and whether to use a lightbox to display your images inline or not. The plugin is extremely flexible and can be used as a shortcode in a post to show a single image, as a sidebar widget, or can be embedded in a page with a single line of code. So far I’ve been extremely happy with its reliability and simplicity and highly recommend it to anyone looking for an easy way to integrate Instagram into their WordPress Blog.

Read more about Instapress here.

Check out my most recent Instagram photos here.

Yesterday the Atlantic Records digital team launched a mini site to promote the release of the new Shinedown single “Bully”. The page showcases the new music video and allows fans to share specific lyrics from the song by selecting them with their mouse cursor. Selecting a lyric will spawn a popup allowing fans to share the lyric via Facebook or Twitter. The campaign in one day has produced 5x more traffic than the first week the last single was available.

Check out the video and lyric sharing app here.

The new AtlanticRecords.com website has been getting a lot of press since it first launched early this year and now has been nominated for or won a few major awards. Last week the site won 3 WC3 Awards including Best in Show for Music Websites, and two awards for Community and Navigation.

Gold: Website – Website Features – Structure and Navigation

Best in Show: Website – General Website Categories – Music

Gold: Website – General Website Categories – Community

The site was also nominated for redesign of the year by .Net Magazine.

Check out the .Net Magazine entry here.

Special thanks to our partners at Code and Theory as well as everyone at Atlantic who put long hours and continue to make this site the best label website on the internet.

There is a great recap of the presentation “Data-Driven Bottom Line Results: Making Social Media Actionable A Real World Case Study” that Carmen Sutter and I gave at the Web 2.0 Summit on the Informationweek website. The presentation was about our strategy around social media and how we use analytics and data to convert music fans to customers.

Read the full InformationWeek interview here.

Carmen (Senior Director of Online Analytics at WEA) and I presented a case study from the current Bruno Mars record outlining Warner Music Groups’s strategy for using social media and analytics to track success across our artist’s web properties with an end goal of converting music listeners into customers.

Read more about our presentation here.

How do you answer the question, “What is the business impact of my social media efforts?” How do you connect the conversations happening on your social networks to the systems that measure business performance? In this real-world session you’ll hear from Eric Snowden, VP of Creative & Technology at Atlantic Records and Carmen Sutter, Senior Director of Data Services at Warner Music Group as they share how Warner Music Group is leveraging the power of data to make smart social media strategy decisions and tie their fan aggregation and traffic-driving efforts to bottom line performance.

Today an interview with Carmen Sutter, from WEA, and me is featured on the ClickZ homepage. The interview was a continuation of our keynote speech from the Adobe Online Marketing Symposium last month. In the interview we talk about how marketers at Warner Music Group use social networks, analytics and technology to convert music listeners from anonymous fans, to site members and eventually to consumers.

Check out the full ClickZ article here.

Read more on the official GetGlue blog

We’ve also been running official Cee Lo Green stickers for a few weeks now and the response has been amazing. Check out the announcement on GetGlue’s Blog below.

Cee Lo Green and The Voice launch exclusive GetGlue Stickers

A few weeks ago I was inspired by HackNY (where students design/develop/launch an app in 24 hours) and decided to try and fix a recurring problem I’ve been having with Facebook.I often want to segment my Facebook friends based on what they like (places, bands etc) and message them individually. Instead of posting to my wall and spamming everyone I know about an extra concert ticket I have, I wanted to be able to easily message my friends who “Like” the specific band.

So in 24 hours (not consecutive) I designed and built a simple app that accepts a Facebook login and allows you to search through your Friends likes. The first time you login modern browsers will cache your friends’ likes and save them to your computer for quick access. Logging out, or a manual reset, will empty the cache. The app is all Javascript with no database access, so nothing is being stored on my servers.

24 hours is not a long time, so chances are it’s not perfect, but it was fun to build something quickly that solved a problem. I was hoping to launch it later this week, but wanted to get it live today due to the new Bing Facebook integration and wide discussion around social search.

I’ve deployed it as a website here and a Facebook app here.

Check out the full post here.