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How Many Times do you Tweet Links to Blog Posts?

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Is it worthwhile to repeat yourself? Most folks who have a blog and use Twitter will send a tweet that links to a new blog post (either manually or through an automated means). That’ll drive traffic, but how many of your Twitter followers will see it? Hint: not all of them. Probably not even a [...]

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How Tea Parties, Abortion, and Healthcare Can Affect Your Image

Are you thinking about how hot political issues might be costing you business due to your social media personas? Here are a few of my thoughts and warnings: Do you mix these topics into the streams that your clients see? Why or why not?

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Getting to Know People via Social Media Before Face-to-Face Situations

I know a whole lot more people than I’ve met. Watch this video and learn more about what I mean… Have you had a similar situation?

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How Much Time Should a Photographer Spend on Social Media?

I’ve been thinking about time spent using social media. Especially how that might affect photographers. Last Monday, I wrote about how one might choose to split their time and resources between various services such as Twitter, their blog, and Facebook. Today I offer a few thoughts about time commitment in general. Question: How much time [...]

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

Let’s talk about social media time management. This is part one of a two-part series (Part two will be next week) talking about how to best use your time for social media marketing. Think about your… Blog Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Flickr Forums Each of the tools listed above (plus others) can potentially bring you new [...]

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Please Don’t Use HootSuite; Ow.ly is Dangerous

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Today’s article is a warning for anyone using Twitter (including photographers). There are a variety of third-party Twitter clients (I generally recommend TweetDeck or Brizzly), but I’m concerned by one of the players that seems to be gaining some traction. HootSuite offers a range of Twitter tools (including some really nice ones) but one of [...]

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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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An Intro to Google Buzz for Photographers

I’ve had full access to Google Buzz for just over 24 hours, and I’ve worked to figure out the various nooks and crannies of the service. As a technologist, I’m intrigued by buttons and links. As a photographer, I want to know how Google Buzz will impact my ability to share my work, connect with [...]

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

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Subscribe via iTunes: – this link will launch iTunes for easy subscription 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. Links to Things We [...]

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Twitter Contests: I Now View Them All as Spam

One of the posts I wrote the first month of Social Photo Talk’s existence was about what I thought was the right way to handle contests on Twitter. http://www.socialphototalk.com/contests-on-twitter/ I’d like to rescind that earlier opinion. I was wrong. Contests have no place on Twitter. They’re really damn spammy and it makes your followers look [...]

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