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Conversation

Schedule Your Tweets? Should You? How To?

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Tweet For several years, savvy bloggers have used the scheduling features of blog software to write posts in advance and have them published in the future (see How to Schedule Blog Posts). What about tweets? Should you schedule those as well? Should You Schedule Tweets? While scheduling blog posts is universally seen as a good [...]

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What Do You Have to Say?

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Tweet Have something on your mind about social media as a photographer? Want to talk about some great service or tool? Have you found an effective way to reach folks with your photography? I’d love to have you write a guest post for Social Photo Talk. Your article will be seen by our audience and [...]

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Getting to Know People via Social Media Before Face-to-Face Situations

Tweet I know a whole lot more people than I’ve met. Watch this video and learn more about what I mean… Have you had a similar situation?

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This Really Short Blog Post is Waiting for Your Answer

Tweet What’s the social media thing that you know you should do, but aren’t? Why?

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I Almost Left a Blog Comment

Tweet I had an interesting experience last night where I almost left a blog comment (but didn’t). Here’s a short video I made to discuss what happened… I’d love to hear your reactions or thoughts if you’ve had a similar situation: What do you think?

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Social Photo Podcast #10: Conversation vs. Broadcast, Twitter, and Cameras for Beginners

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Tweet Subscribe via iTunes: – this link will launch iTunes for easy subscription Here’s the slightly-delayed episode ten of the Social Photo Podcast. Hosts Aaron Hockley and Lyza Danger Gardner talk about entry-level cameras, social media being used for broadcast vs. conversation, and more. This episode is about sixteen minutes long. Links to Things We [...]

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Looks Like Antisocial Media to Me…

Tweet One of the cornerstones of my definition of what is social media is that social media features conversation – two-way interaction instead of traditional marketing which often consists of a one-way broadcast. There’s a certain type of social media user that really wants to keep things one-way… I refer to that as antisocial media. [...]

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Marketing on Twitter? Which Style are You?

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Tweet Jason Falls posted an interesting piece yesterday on Social Media Today in which he notes there are Four Styles of Marketing on Twitter ranging from the Conversationalist to the Spammer. I’d suggest you check out Jason’s piece. I’d argue that if you’re purely in his “Spammer/Broadcast” category that you’re not really participating in social [...]

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Your URLs, Please…

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Tweet I know I follow the blogs and photo websites of some of our regular commenters, but I know there are a lot of you who have websites and blogs and Twitter accounts that I might not know about. Tell me about it. Leave a comment on this post full of nothing but shameless self [...]

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Can You Tweet Too Much?

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Tweet What happens when you tweet too much? A better question would be how much is too much? Yesterday I got a question from one of my Twitter followers and decided to respond in the form of a blog post. @MarahMedia asked: How many tweets per day do you think is an acceptable number to [...]

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