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Watch the Other Space

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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Thesis Just Got Better: An Easy to Customize WordPress Theme

I’ve blogged previously about why I think Thesis is the best WordPress theme. The folks at DIY Themes just released Thesis 1.6, a new version that adds some incremental updates along with some really nice new design and customization features.
Thesis has always offered menu-driven customization for things such as number of columns and the [...]

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On Your Kindle, On Your Phone, and Amongst the Alltop

Today I have a few announcements about expanding the reach of Social Photo Talk.
Subscribe to Social Photo Talk on the Amazon Kindle
If you have an Amazon Kindle ebook reader, you can now subscribe to have Social Photo Talk delivered automatically to your device. The Kindle is quickly becoming a very popular mobile reading device, [...]

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Guest Posts are Win-Win for Bloggers Building Content

Last Thursday, Dale Chumbley provided us with a great look at Animoto, a fun tool for producing multimedia slideshows. That was an example of guest posting, which is the term for having someone contribute to a blog when they’re not one of the usual authors. Guest posts are usually win-win situations which can [...]

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Social Photo Talk: Now in 9rules

I’m pleased to note that Social Photo Talk was selected for inclusion in the 9rules blog network. 9rules is a hand-selected group of blogs chosen because they produce quality content covering a wide variety of topics. If you check out the site you can browse a bunch of really great material including topics [...]

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Amazon Just Became Your Local Camera Store

The issue of online sellers vs. brick-and-mortar camera shops is one that’s been discussed ad nauseum over the past several years, but Amazon just made a move that’s sure to be a game-changer. Last Thursday, Amazon announced same day delivery in several cities.
One of the big strengths of patronizing a local camera store has [...]

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Get the Most out of Conferences

Conferences, trade shows, and industry expos aren’t anything new. Photographers have been doing them for years. What’s new? What’s the social tie? Social media tools like Twitter (and to a lesser extent, Facebook and Flickr) have changed the conference experience. The additional realtime communications provided by new media tools can [...]

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Better Your Blogging with the ProBlogger Community

Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger website is one of the best sources for information on blogging. He’s been blogging about blogging since 2002 and has built up a huge readership that follows his blog. Recently Darren wondered “What would happen if the thousands of bloggers who read ProBlogger each day decided to work together to [...]

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