These the slides of a lighting talk I gave at NSSpain 2014. Unfortunately, PDFs cannot contain GIFs, so this presentation is actually pretty bland. ;) You can download the Deckset source with included GIFS here: http://cl.ly/3l2l1U0S2m2O

1. Communicating with
GIFs
⚡️talk #NSSpain14

2. BONO ESTENTE

4. Why use GIFs?

6. Why use GIFs?
4 it’s like emoji, but more expressive

8. Why use GIFs?
4 a picture says a thousand words
4 beats typing
4 humour!

10. Why use GIFs?
4 you can use the actual gif image
4 iMessage
4 mail
4 warning: gifs tend to be big

11. Why use GIFs?
4 You can use just a text link
4 You can use them everywhere
"connected"
4 it's text -> fast
4 works great in social media
4 EXCEPTFACEBOOK

13. Why use GIFs?
4 Also great in work related communication
4 chatrooms (Stack, Hipchat, ...)
4 lovely in commit messages
4 works great for PRs

16. Why use GIFs?
4 Gifs of cats. Nuff said.

21. No really, they're great for all
sorts of stuff

29. How to use GIFS?
4 it has to convey more info than just text
4 you have to be able to reply fast
4 not all answers are good as a gif
4 know when to use gifs
4 Watch out for gifstorms
4 except on friday

31. Manage your urls
4 use original URL:
4 fast for you (no extra work)
4 fast for viewer (may be cached)
4 linkrot!

34. Manage your urls
4 Upload image to "managed" storage:
4 dropbox
4 cloudapp
4 S3
4 your-own-domain.io

36. Size matters
4 Keep on eye on the size of the gif
4 some can be quite large
4 no need for “quality”
4 plain text gifs
4 If you use gifs a lot (in the same group/
context), you can fallback to plain text
4 Just use the name of the gif

37. *justin gif*

39. Tools
4 Make your life easier
4 Use the correct tool for you
4 easy to find, easy to copy

41. Tools - Mac
4 Alfred
4 Boom
4 Gifwit
4 GIFs

42. Alfred
4 Add gifs as clipboard
snippets
4 Use the 's' shortcut to
find snippets
4 http://alfredapp.com
4 Needs Powerpack!

43. Boom
4 Snippets from the
commandline
4 Great if you're a
Terminal person
4 http://github.com/
holman/boom

44. Gifwit
4 App store app ($2.99)
4 http://gifwit.com
4 url + keywords
4 preview!

45. GIFs
4 Open source app by @orta
4 repository of gifs
4 WIP but definitely useable ;)

46. Tools - iOS
4 iOS text shortcuts
4 Popkey

47. Tools - iOS text
shortcuts
4 tedious to manage
4 no spaces in shortcuts
4 better than nothing

49. Tools - PopKey
4 Gif keyboard for iOS8
4 http://popkey.co
4 "Coming soon"

51. Sources
4 Reddit
4 http://reddit.com/r/gifs
4 http://reddit.com/r/michaelbaygifs
4 "Specialized" sites
4 http://replygif.net
4 http://reactiongifs.com
4 http://giphy.com

52. Sources
4 ALL THE Tumblr BLOGS
4 Google Image Search
4 Search tools - Type - Animated

53. Make your own!
4 gifme
4 https://github.com/holman/gifme
So easy:
gifme ~/Desktop/*.jpg
You now have a handsome animation at ~/Desktop/animated.gif

55. Thanks!@inferis ~ http://inferis.org