08 Sep, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



WHAT’s HAPPERNING? -- Will the iPad increase demand for stock photos? Does still photography fit in communications of the next decade? How can you put your ideas to work? Can you keep your clients happy through social media? That’s what you’ll learn about at the The Paca Conference that takes place in New York on October 15 to 17. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/blog/2010/09/01/paca-introduces-major-speakers-at-conference/


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01 Sep, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



How to Use Twitter to Promote Your Websites
Twitter is the most popular social networking site in the world. Nowadays, companies use Twitter to promote their products and services. All you need to do is to tweets about the updates on your product. http://www.lonad.com/2010/08/23/how-to-use-twitter-to-promote-your-websites/


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04 Aug, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes





Update. . . .
LET THE FIGHTS BEGIN -- And now the latest on the “Ansel Mystery.” The dispute heated up last week after Norsigian presented what he and his lawyer, Arnold Peter, presented as conclusive proof at a gallery in Beverly Hills – only to have Adams’ heirs and the trustee in charge of the photographer’s copyrights challenge the expertise of Norsigian’s experts and pointedly deny their conclusions.
SOURCE: Mike Boehm; Los Angeles Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/08/ansel-adams-controversy-should-fresno-states-art-gallery-show-disputed-photos-.html


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14 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



GETTING IN TOUCH -- Photographer Mary Kate McKenna called on the power of Twitter to help her through a business disaster. She said using social media as a business tool was a natural step. McKenna said she can track 100 percent of her business to her Twitter account. She tweets several times a day from her iPhone, posts weekly blog entries and regularly updates her business Facebook profile. SOURCE: Lauren Redding
Frederick; News-Post Staff; http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/business/display.htm?StoryID=107106




FACEBOOK ON TOP -- What started off as a social networking website, Facebook now has more photos on it than any other dedicated photo sharing website! According to comScore, Facebook is growing at three times the speed of top photo websites. It is not customary to compare a social networking site and a photo sharing site, but this has become unavoidable in this case. SOURCE: Rohit Bhat http://www.watblog.com/2010/07/12/facebook-photos-leave-flickr-picasa-way-behind/


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23 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



HOW ‘BOUT A KISS? Locals pucker up for photography project. “Kissing couples become a part of the SMOOCH! Project and have the opportunity to directly experience the universal joy shared by all humans when receiving affection from someone who loves them, Fournier said.” Source: Ashley Brown http://www.statenews.com/index.php/m/article/2010/06/locals_pucker_up_for_photography_project


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09 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



IT'S FACEBOOK -- Local businesses using social media to keep in touch with patrons. Chattanooga businesses are increasingly embracing Facebook to amass huge fan bases and keep in touch with customers.“Facebook is one of the most effective and lowest-expense mechanisms for reaching our core audience,” Chattanooga Market Chairman Chris Thomas said. The social network has essentially brought more business.Source: Harrison Keely; Times Free Press http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/jun/09/local-business-using-social-media-keep-touch-patro/?business


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02 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



EASY PROMOTION -- Guy Kawasaki: Social Media Marketing Lessons .The goal of this webcast was for the audience to learn how to use social media to increase the reach of their business using these fast, free and ubiquitous online tools. The focus of this discussion was how companies could leverage Twitter to grow their businesses.
SOURCE: Brian Rice, b2cmarketinginsider.com. http://www.b2cmarketinginsider.com/social-media/social-media-marketing-lessons-learned-from-guy-kawasaki-0333



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19 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



WE ARE WATCHING -- The 7 types of pictures that will haunt you on Facebook We all do dumb things. Some of us do some very, very dumb things. And unfortunately, everybody has a camera on their phone these days meaning you are always being watched. SOURCE: Shawn Norris
http://guyism.com/2010/05/the-7-types-of-pictures-that-will-haunt-you-on-facebook.html


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05 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



SURVIVING FACEBOOK What has become uncomfortably evident is that Facebook is starting to factor into many of my friends’ lives. When I came face to face with this statement, I almost deleted my FACEBOOK bookmark and started to “defriend”: SOURCE: Ronnie Citron-Fink Care2
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/balancing-social-media-8-ways-to-keep-it-from-sucking-up-your-time.html


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31 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn



Artists, not starving: Two successful creators take to the web to spread their works
Shellie Vickrey describes herself as a fine art lifestyle photographer who looks beyond what other people to see to create beautiful renditions. This success is no different than what many artists are experiencing in the age of social media for business. SOURCE: Zdnet; Jennifer Leggio
http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=2584


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17 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn



THE LAST PICTURE PRINT – Pros and cons to Facebook's fast-growing role in digital photography. The advent of the affordable digital camera circa 2001 was hard enough on the photo industry. People no longer had to buy film because photos could be stored on memory cards or on a computer hard drive. Now Facebook is slowly but surely turning the nozzle off the industry's only other real revenue stream: photo printing.
Source: Caitlin McDevitt; The Wahington POST http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/13/AR2010031300090.html
TAKEAWAY: Even more reason to specialize and use metadata to allow your photobuyers to find you and your pictures easliy through a Google search.

NOT FOR STORAGE -- Don’t Use Facebook for Photo Storage - The Washington Post just published an interesting article which contains quite a few interesting statistics. Among them, 40% of households with digital cameras no longer make prints, 65% of people sharing photos online do it through Facebook. http://www.petapixel.com/2010/03/13/dont-use-facebook-for-photo-storage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29


FUN OR PROFIT -- The Surprising Places Where Photography Meets Business -Photographers who shoot stock might enjoy their shoots but they’re rarely taking the kinds of pictures that they’d create for fun. They’re taking pictures that sell. Services like Microstock and Flickr allow enthusiasts to sell fun images but there are a few other areas where business meets photography in surprising ways http://blogs.photopreneur.com/the-surprising-places-where-photography-meets-business?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotopreneurBlog+%28Photopreneur+Blog%29


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09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn



KEEPING IN TOUCH – Social Media Guide for Photographers- The report provides valuable insights and strategies for photographers interested in using social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook to market their work and more effectively communicate with customers. The Social Media e-book can be found at http://www.photoshelter.com/mkt/research/social-media-for-photographers
http://tinyurl.com/photosmg


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03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn



GET KNOWN -- Secret Social Media Marketing Recipe from Photographer John Lander - Five Ways to Use Social Media Sites to Boost Your SEO. http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/01/photographer-john-landers-secret-social-media-mark.html


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27 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



YA’LL COME AND JOIN -- Benefits that photography clubs can bring. You can find indispensable facts about photography clubs. If there is one fact that you didn’t know before, imagine what a difference it might make to you. Photography clubs or organizations can provide many possibilities of enhancing your skill and knowledge.
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20 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



USING TWITTER -- An increasing number of travel companies are using Twitter to market their brands, often by tweeting exclusive deals to followers. JetBlue calls out last-minute discounts at JetBlueCheeps on Tuesday mornings. A recent example: “$89 BOS to LAS this Sat. LAS to BOS this Mon. or Tues. 25 seats avail or til 6 pm ET.” Fairmont Hotels offers its Twitter followers special discounts before anyone else. Farecompare’s “flyfrom” Twitter feed offers location-specific fare sales when you plug in your home airport’s three-letter code, as in flyfromNYC.
All you need to do is sign up for a free account at Twitter.com and start following the companies you like or travel experts who do the work for you. SOURCE: http://timespeople.nytimes.com/getstarted/twitter?return_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftravel.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F01%2F10%2Ftravel%2F10pracsave.html%3Fpartner%3Drss%26emc%3Drss




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12 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



Social Media Marketing: It's Not The Boogeyman - Social media marketing does not generate revenue overnight. It takes time. It takes effort. It places demands on you that are nearly impossible to anticipate. But it is do-able. That's right, even you can do it.
http://bretedge.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/social-media-marketing-its-not-the-boogeyman/

ARE THEY DISAPPEARING? -- From Jiml: “Your friends and followers are very vital to your success with social media marketing. Without them, you’re basically talking to an empty room. You know that feeling you get when you log in to your Facebook fan page and your once 200 friends have suddenly diminished 197, a feeling of disappointment and slight loneliness that leaves that burning question deep in your gut “was it something I said?” Well let’s see if we can stop that feeling from occurring too often.” SOURCE: Author: Jimi
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SOCIALisBETTER.
http://tinyurl.com/keepingfriendsfollowers


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22 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn



BIG CHANGE -- How social media changed our lives in 2009 – This years biggest social media stories of 2009: 1) Twitter valuation at $1 billion, 2) Facebook buys FriendFeed, 3) EA acquires Playfish for $275 million, 4) Zynga worth $1 billion, 5) MySpace acquires iLike for $20 million, 6) MOL acquires Friendster, 7) Citizen Journalism, 8) The Rise of Augmented Reality, 9) Google + Bing go real-time, 10) US Government 2.0 Takeaway: It would behoove you to be familiar with these new stories – we’re(journalism) in an informational revolution.
http://vator.tv/news/show/2009-12-14-top-ten-biggest-social-media-stories-of-2009


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02 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn



GOTTA START SOMEWHERE – Talenthouse, a Web site that gives the entertainment and business world access to a bastion of creative talent. It’s a veritable blend of crowd sourcing and social network marketing, with contests and collaborations covering the fields of photography, music, film, fashion, writing and graphic design.
TAKEAWAY: If you like working for free, check this site out. You just might hit it big. http://tinyurl.com/talenthouselink

TWIT ON TWITTER? – Cathy, across the cubicle wall from you and any number of colleagues are taking to social gathering spaces. Can we be trusted to behave like professionals in a place offering so much anonymity?
TAKEAWAY: Maybe it seems like no one is watching. But they are. http://tinyurl.com/twitontwitter


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24 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



KODAK FLIES WITH TWEETPhoto – TweetPhoto and Eastman Kodak Company announced that the two companies have begun a collaboration focused around real-time photo sharing, Event Photo Stream. "Real-time photography is used across social networking sites to start a conversation or give context to a tweet,” says Sean Callahan, Co-Founder of TweetPhoto.
TAKEAWAY: The nature of photography is changing as well as its role in communication on platforms like Twitter. http://tinyurl.com/kodakcollaboration

FACEBOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS -- New Media Photographer Rosh Sillars writes an interesting blog article on the photographer’s place and best practices on Facebook. He explains the use of Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups, as well as addressing their effectiveness.
TAKEAWAY: Facebook can be your Internet home address. Use this free real estate to your advantage. http://tinyurl.com/facebookforphotographers


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17 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



SOCIAL POWER Top Social Media Resources Study -- Business.com’s study looking at the popularity and prevalence of webinars, podcasts, user ratings and reviews and corporate profiles on social networks used by professionals. Commentary is made on the restriction of employee access to social media sites that will help grow your business? http://tinyurl.com/topmediaresources


NEW SOFTWARE FOR STOCK PHOTOGRAPHERS -- iSyndica's latest release, 2009 PDN Photo Plus Expo, gives stock photographers the ability to distribute groups of their images with automatic custom watermarks on sites like Facebook and Flickr, saving on processing and uploading time. Resizing abilities also guarantees that the images they publicly share can't be reused for unauthorized commercial purposes.
TAKEAWAY:. Photographers who take the time to label their photos with copyright metadata (see above) may find it's all for nothing, since Facebook and MySpace erase it anyway.
http://tinyurl.com/isyndicamedia


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11 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



WHAT WORKS? – Newspapers and social media sites. - The use of social media for promotion had really begun to pick up in the world of publishing. BBC just recently announced that they will be appointing a Social Media Editor in the near future. And a new article from the Newspaper Association of America explores the extent to which particular bookmarking and social networking sites increase page traffic for newspaper sites. http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/11/newspapers_and_social_media_sites_what_w.php


SHOTGUNNING – Stock Photographers Power Up Their Social Media Activity With iSyndica. It’s latest update gives stock photographers the ability to distribute their images with custom watermarks to popular social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS163459+02-Nov-2009+PRN20091102


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04 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn

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LEARNING HOW -- New Lynda.com Courses on Photography & Social Media Marketing - Do you want to market your company on Facebook and Twitter? Try Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Twitter course.
http://www.creativepro.com/article/new-lyndacom-courses-photography-social-media-marketing


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14 Oct, 2009 | Posted by: psn



A TRIO-- --Antisdel, a Louisburg High School graduate, is now accompanied by her daughter, Kia Bondurant and her niece, Tressie Gilmore, who are also LHS graduates. The three photographers have combined their imaginations to use settings on site and around the city.The three women said they have definitely felt the effects of the bad economy, but that isn’t stopping them. Those aspects include not only being affordable for the Louisburg, Kansas City and surrounding areas, but also marketing themselves on social-networking sites like Facebook. Their Web site, www.antisdels.com features photos of everything from babies to weddings to the most popular — soon-to-be graduates.
http://www.herald-online.com/200910145302/news/community-news/women-pioneers-of-photography-celebrate.html



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30 Sep, 2009 | Posted by: psn



FACEBOOK PHOTO GRAB -- Interesting reading for anyone placing photos on Facebook! by David Crockett

From FACEBOOK:
"When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site.
By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content. Facebook does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content. - Facebook Terms of Use as of today 2/26/08
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I read additional (unsubstantiated) stories where Facebook did sell someone's photos in Europe only to have them end up on thye side of a bus! Hope this is helpfull ...David Crockett ,
www.god-alive.davidcrockettphoto.com

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GOOD FOR YOUR BUSINESS -- It's smart business to have a social media policy. Big business such as Intel, Kodak, and IBM are in the forefront. They have published policies that you can emulate. http://bit.ly/3q8XKY


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22 Sep, 2009 | Posted by: psn



DISCREET ADVERTISING – Aaron Lindberg: “My Twitter Strategy: Business in the Front, Party in the Back - Having spent the past several months on Twitter tweeting and reading the tweets of the people I follow, I've gradually evolved a strategy for using this service to market my photography business without being too obvious about it.”
http://rising.blackstar.com/my-twitter-strategy-business-in-the-front-party-in-the-back.html


BIG DEAL, TINY PICTURES – The Online photo service Shutterfly Inc. has acquired startup Tiny Pictures, a picture and video sharing startup, for an undisclosed amount. Tiny Pictures' Radar service lets people share cell phone photos and videos on its Web site, and it connects to sites like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. http://bit.ly/RAnvu



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