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Continuing the Conversation: Picture Pundit

Tweet As mentioned in my last post on this site, I have a new site. The Picture Pundit is now online and contains its first few articles. Head over to Picture Pundit and get photography news, articles, and commentary that should make photographers think a bit.

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iPad: The Missing Manual – Book Review

Tweet After having used an iPad for a couple months, I can say that most things on the device are fairly intuitive, but there are a lot of things to learn. I was given a copy of iPad: The Missing Manual for review and I’m happy to say that for someone who wants a comprehensive [...]

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Social Photography Offline: Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk

Tweet Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk is the largest social photography event around – last year over 32,000 photographers participated in over 900 photowalks around the world. The photo walk is a great opportunity to meet other photographers (both amateur and pro) in your area. During the couple hours of photography, you’ll meet new people, [...]

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Book Review: Digital Workflow for Photographers by Trey Ratcliff

Tweet When I found out that Trey Ratcliff (of Stuck in Customs) was releasing a book about workflow, I was excited for a couple reasons. First, I’m kind of a workflow geek. I love reading about others’ workflows in hopes of improving my own. Secondly, Trey has a proven record in producing a large volume [...]

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Schedule Your Tweets? Should You? How To?

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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Read All About It! Three Relevant Books Right Now

Tweet In the last couple of weeks there have been some great developments for photographers looking at interesting things to read. First, The Linked Photographers’ Guide to Online Marketing and Social Media was released. I’m currently reading through my copy and will post a full review once I get through the book. It’s all about [...]

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An Intro to SEO for Photographers

Tweet Due to some technical difficulties, this week’s podcast will get rolled into next week’s show. I’m excited to offer up this video however, produced by the folks at Photoshelter. In addition to their great photo hosting services, they produce a variety of resources to help photographers grow business. Here’s a great introduction to Search [...]

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Rick Sammon’s Social Media for Photographers: the App

Tweet Last week photographer Rick Sammon released an iPhone app called “Rick Sammon’s Social Media Marketing for Photographers” (iTunes link) and I was able to work through and review the app this last weekend. The application is essentially a five part movie, with Rick narrating and presenting with a slide deck showing onscreen. The application [...]

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Resources and Recommendations for the Social Photographer

Tweet I’ve tried and used a variety of online services, software, books, and other resources as I have built my photography business using today’s social technologies and online tools. I’ve made recommendations along the way, and I just consolidated all of those into a master Resources page that lists my recommendations for blog software, WordPress [...]

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Announcing Photo Blog Boost: Kick Your Blog Up a Notch

Tweet One consistent theme amongst a lot of conversations I have with photographers is that they’re pretty sure they should have a blog, but they’re not so sure what to do with it. It seems that a lot of photographers set up a blog, write four or five great posts, and then abandon it. I’d [...]

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