Update: I have decided that, for now, I’m only going to follow back transportation organizations and agencies. My concern is that if I start following individuals, my feed will become overwhelming for the limited time I have for Instagram.

As an experiment, I have created an Instagram account for Getting Around Sacramento. I started using Instagram for the Week Without Driving Sacramento campaign last year, on the encouragement of one of the program partners, SABA, which has an active Instagram. I maintain the WWD Sac website on behalf of Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (which does not so far have Instagram). We gained some engagement, but not much participation in Week Without Driving. It was definitely a learning curve for me.

The main reason for my interest in using Instagram for Getting Around Sacramento is not promoting my posts, but linking to events sponsored by other organizations and agencies, which are important but not necessarily worth a separate blog post.

I stopped using Facebook years ago because there was little of import there, and stopped using Twitter/X two years ago because it had become toxic under the regime of Elon Musk. I’ve looked at Mastodon, but the most logical server is a bay area server, and haven’t found one relevant to the geography and mission of Getting Around Sac.

A media icon for Instagram has been added to the top of the sidebar.

Time will tell!