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Inspiration

Are You a Photographer Going to SXSW?

In about a month, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival will take over Austin, Texas with events focused on Film, Music, and Interactive topics. I’ll be headed down there for the Interactive portion of the event, and it would be great to get together with other photographers who are in town. I know Trey Ratcliff [...]

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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 $2, and so [...]

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The Most Important Thing for a Photographer

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As I look at the various topics that I’ve blogged about (or am planning to blog about), there’s a variety of information being presented… but I want to make sure that nobody loses sight of what should be most important for a photographer. Create beautiful photos. Lots of them. Taking photos (nearly) every day, instead [...]

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Your URLs, Please…

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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 promotion. [...]

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I Don’t Know What You Mean!

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This is a guest post by James Richmond aka The InfoPreneur. His site covers all aspects of information exchange including blogging, videoblogging, and other social media. Today he offers his thoughts for photography bloggers. I want to talk about KISSing. No, not you me and a tree, but Keeping It Simple Stupid. Now I love [...]

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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, he’s releasing [...]

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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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Boost Your Blog for the New Year: 2010 and Beyond

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Did one of your resolutions for 2010 involve kicking your blog up a notch? Want to move your blog from an afterthought to a core part of your online presence, both for retaining existing clients as well as attracting new ones? I can heartily recommend ProBlogger Darren Rowse’s workbook 31 Days to Build a Better [...]

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On the Fifth Day of Tips-Mas…

From December 25th through January 5th, I’m running a series called the Twelve Days of Tips-Mas, offering quick and easy tips for social media use by photographers. On the fifth day of Tips-Mas, this blogger said to thee: Try a new medium for your message. If you usually only write text blog posts, record a [...]

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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 see [...]

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