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Social Media Time Management: Splitting Time Between Twitter, Facebook, and Blogging

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Let’s talk about social media time management. This is part one of a two-part series (Part two will be on Wednesday) talking about how to best use your time for social media marketing. Think about your…

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Each of the tools listed above (plus others) can potentially bring you new business or keep you in [...]

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Social Media is No Longer New or Leading Edge

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One of my social media predictions for 2010 was that we’d reach a point where social media use and marketing would stop being thought of as some special or “new” thing and instead be considered mainstream and normal.
It’s the beginning of March, and I’m there, at least in the photography world. I’m pretty sure [...]

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Social Photo Podcast #12: How Do You Learn? Twitter Contests, Barriers to Blog Comments

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Episode 12 of the Social Photo Podcast is ready. Hosts Aaron Hockley and Lyza Danger Gardner talk about how photographers learn their craft, contests on Twitter, barriers to blog comments, and more. This episode is about eleven minutes long.
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Use Social Media to become the One to Call

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When someone needs to hire a photographer, how do they find one? Regardless of whether it’s for a wedding, corporate material, senior pictures, sporting event, or editorial need, they probably follow this path:

A photographer they have previously hired.
A referral from a trusted source.
Someone they personally know who is a photographer.
Someone they don’t know personally, [...]

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Social Photo Podcast #10: Conversation vs. Broadcast, Twitter, and Cameras for Beginners

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Here’s the slightly-delayed episode ten of the Social Photo Podcast. Hosts Aaron Hockley and Lyza Danger Gardner talk about entry-level cameras, social media being used for broadcast vs. conversation, and more. This episode is about sixteen minutes long.
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This Post Does Not Contain a Podcast

It’s Friday which is usually the day we release the Social Photo Podcast. I was sick this week and wasn’t in good shape to record a podcast so we had a bit of a delay. The plan is that the episode will be posted this weekend.
In the meantime, if you weren’t a reader [...]

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Looks Like Antisocial Media to Me…

One of the cornerstones of my definition of what is social media is that social media features conversation – two-way interaction instead of traditional marketing which often consists of a one-way broadcast. There’s a certain type of social media user that really wants to keep things one-way… I refer to that as antisocial media. [...]

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Marketing on Twitter? Which Style are You?

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Jason Falls posted an interesting piece yesterday on Social Media Today in which he notes there are Four Styles of Marketing on Twitter ranging from the Conversationalist to the Spammer.
I’d suggest you check out Jason’s piece. I’d argue that if you’re purely in his “Spammer/Broadcast” category that you’re not really participating in social media [...]

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Social Photo Podcast #8: More Tips, Prognostications, Websites, and a Gadget

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Episode 8 of the Social Photo Podcast is ready for your listening enjoyment. Hosts Aaron Hockley and Lyza Danger Gardner talk about the 12 Days of Tips-Mas, prognostications about 2010, a fun photo website, and more. This episode is about twelve minutes [...]

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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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