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Transparency

I Almost Left a Blog Comment

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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 [...]

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Online and Offline: It’s All Real

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When personal computers still cost multiple thousands of dollars and the internet was somewhere that only technical geeks would be found, the term IRL came to mean “in real life” as opposed to an online interaction.
Here’s a reality check for those using the internet in 2009: online life and offline life are one and the [...]

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Retrospective on my 2009 in Social Media

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We’re now into December, and if you’re like me you’re wondering what happened to most of 2009. With the new year approaching, it’s worth spending a few minutes and doing a bit of a retrospective on the past twelve months. It’s a good idea for any business to periodically step back and look [...]

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How Not to Use Twitter as a Photographer

I’ve talked a lot about how photographers can use Twitter (grab that paper if you haven’t already) as part of an online presence and marketing plan. Although it’s important to think about what to tweet, it’s also important to think about what not to tweet:

That tweet was posted yesterday by a wedding photographer that [...]

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Oops… Now What?

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What happens when something goes wrong? How do you react to failure online? Did a blog article generate too much controversy? Is a client unhappy with photos of them that you posted publicly? Did you post something in haste on Twitter that was better left unsaid? Much like offline life, [...]

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Share Your EXIF

One of the great things about Flickr is that unless photographers have stripped it away, the EXIF data for a photo is accessible. In this screenshot, you’ll see that for a photo with EXIF information, most of the goodies are hidden behind a “More Properties” link:

Hit that link and you’ll see all of the [...]

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