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PhotoShelter and PicScout Announce Partnership for Easier Sales of Images

One of the biggest concerns for photographers (especially those who have been in the industry for quite a while) is the risk of photos posted online being stolen for unlicensed uses. In the last year we’ve seen a few software solutions developed that address some of the image tracking issues, but there has been [...]

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Trey Ratcliff Speaking as Part of the Authors@Google Series

Trey Ratcliff, best known for his HDR work on his Stuck in Customs blog (and book), gave a talk last week at Google. It’s about an hour long and is a great overview of his take on photography, a look at quite a few of his photos, art and science, and attention as currency. [...]

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Another Day, Another Dollar: the oncemany Project

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I love it when I run into a photographer who is thinking in new ways with a social marketing venture. I recently noticed the oncemany project by photographer Shane Rich. It’s a 365 day project, and Shane is selling each day for its numerical value. January 1st is $1, the second is [...]

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Marketing on Twitter? Which Style are You?

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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 media [...]

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One Week Only: Special Bonuses as Part of the 31DBBB Program

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A couple weeks ago, I noted that if your goals for 2010 included improvements for your blog, the best bang-for-your-buck program is Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. What I didn’t know at the time was that he was going to make his workbook even better. For one week only, [...]

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Paul Cunningham Rounds Up Blogging Productivity Tips

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Last week blogger Paul Cunningham polled a bunch of other bloggers about productivity tips. If one’s social media strategy includes blogging regularly, it can often be a challenge to balance that along with the various other duties of a photographer. I could rehash a bunch of what he said, but it’s a lot [...]

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Photography and Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Welcome to 2010… it’s the new year and everyone’s a prognosticator so I figured I should join the club with a few predictions of what we’ll see in the photography and social media spaces this year.
Social media haters will become irrelevant. Right now there’s still a healthy debate amongst those who see things like [...]

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Watch the Other Space

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Here at Social Photo Talk I focus on showing photographers how to best use social technology for sharing and marketing photography. Most of the content that I write is aimed directly at photographers. It’s great that you’re here, but don’t get too focused only on photography information.
I like to mix things up and [...]

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The 30 Hour Day: New Ways to Use the Web for a Cause

Sometimes interesting things can happen when one mixes older ideas along with newer technologies. The 30 Hour Day is one of those things. The show is designed be 30-hour Web-based telethon. Think YouTube meets Jerry Lewis. No sleep. All for charity.
The telethon will be hosted by Cami Kaos of Strange Love Live, [...]

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Gift Ideas for the Social Photographer

Were you up at oh-dark-thirty this morning for the doorbuster specials? I’ve been thinking a bit about ideas for gifts for social photographers, and put together a list of recommendations.
Check out the Social Photo Talk list of Gift Ideas for the Social Photographer.

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