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Schedule Your Tweets? Should You? How To?

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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 practice, [...]

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Read All About It! Three Relevant Books Right Now

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 [...]

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Social Photo Podcast #15: Flickr Contacts, Shane Rich Interview

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Here we go with Episode 15 of the Social Photo Podcast. Host Aaron Hockley talks about the beefier Social Photo Talk newsletter, Flickr contact notifications, an interview with Shane Rich, and more. This episode is about fourteen minutes long.
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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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Stock Photography and Journalism Ain’t What They Used to Be, and That’s Awesome!

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I’ve had some observations…
Old Journalism
Creation of news for publication used to be very hard. Typewriters could be obtained, but they produced documents that could be considered utilitarian at best, with no graphics, a lack of typeface options, and difficult situations if errors needed to be corrected. Then the 1980s happened: personal computers became [...]

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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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I Can’t Afford to Not Be On Flickr

About a month ago, I highlighted the situation of a Flickr user Matt Stigliano, whose account was permanently deleted without warning. At that time, I decided to rethink my use of Flickr and whether or not it was a wise choice for a professional photographer to publish work on a service that engages in [...]

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