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Flickr Unveils New Photo Page Interface. I Swear I Didn’t Know, Really.

I swear that when I tweeted this morning: Flickr is starting to look *really* dated.less than a minute ago via TweetDeckAaron Hockleyahockley I had no knowledge that only a couple hours later, Flickr would unveil a newer interface. Flickr has been enhanced with several updates to photo pages. Similar Look; Several Enhancements The overall look [...]

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Flickr Enables Anyone to Make Commercial Sales… Sorta

Late last week, Flickr rolled out a change that widens the reach of it’s collaboration with Getty Images and allows anyone on Flickr to offer their photos for sale via the Getty program. Previously, the Flickr+Getty partnership was essentially invitation-only, where selected photographers would be invited to have selected photos represented by Getty. Now, photographers [...]

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Photoshelter Updates: Better Customization, Better Sitemaps, Better URLs

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As mentioned in yesterday’s article, Photoshelter just released some new changes to their service. Better websites for free, better SEO, and easier customization are the themes of these updates. More Photographer-Centric Branding for Free and Basic Accounts Previously, Photoshelter’s free and Basic account types had Photoshelter-themed image galleries. With the latest updates, photographers on these [...]

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New Flickr + Facebook Integration Marred by Irrelevant Yahoo Clutter

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Last night Flickr announced direct sharing integration with Facebook. Sounds great, but as part of Yahoo’s attempt to stay relevant in the social space, it’s integrated with something called either Yahoo Updates or Yahoo Pulse (I can’t figure out if they’re the same thing or not) that adds one more layer of complexity to the [...]

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How to Let Others Share Your Flickr Photos via Blogs

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Flickr’s blog integration has never been too hidden, but most users’ experience has probably been in using the feature to post one’s own photos. Allowing others to blog your photos can be a great way to have your work shared. How do you allow this? The blogging permissions can be found by logging onto Flickr [...]

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Facebook vs. Flickr: Where to Share?

We talk about photographers being social and sharing work via social media, but when to comes to sharing photos, does it make more sense to share pictures on Facebook (with its wide audience and photo album and tagging features) or Flickr (with the photo-centric site offering more photo-centric features)? Using Facebook for Photo Sharing While [...]

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License Your Photos for Sharing; Encourage Photography Clients to Be Social

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If you photograph businesses, company events, retail openings, parties, or the like, are you keeping those photos under lock and key or are you encouraging your clients to share? Hopefully you’re encouraging some sharing. If you don’t allow (and even encourage) folks to share your work, you’re probably going to be replaced by a photographer [...]

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Social Photo Podcast #6: Family Photo Sharing, WordPress 2.9, and a Couple Funny Sites

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Subscribe via iTunes: – this link will launch iTunes for easy subscription Episode 6 of the Social Photo Podcast is ready. Hosts Aaron Hockley and Lyza Danger Gardner talk about photo sharing with family, WordPress 2.9, a contest, and a couple fun new sites for photographers’ amusement. This episode is around 10 minutes. Links to [...]

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Share Easier: the Eye-Fi Card

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine. Our poll last week indicated that 95% of the readers of Social Photo Talk use photo sharing sites such as Flickr or even Facebook. It’s a bunch of fun to share photos with friends, family, and clients, but [...]

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[Poll] How Do You Upload to Photo Sharing Sites?

As part of some upcoming discussion on social photo workflow for the podcast, we’d love to know how you usually upload photos to photo sharing sites: What is your primary method for uploading photos to photo sharing sites (Flickr, SmugMug, etc)?(online surveys) Thanks!

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