Guy Tal on April 3rd, 2010

My heartfelt thanks to more than 70 of you who responded to my Twitter follower book giveaway!
In order to draw a winner, all eligible participants were entered into a numbered list, and a random number was drawn using the online service random.org.
The first number drawn brought up the Twitter name of someone who had since [...]

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Guy Tal on March 26th, 2010

As I’m approaching the 500th follower milestone on Twitter, I’d like to test the proverbial waters and get a feel for how many followers are also readers of this blog and vice versa. To that end, I’m offering a signed copy of my book Exposures to one Twitter follower who will be chosen at random.
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Guy Tal on December 21st, 2009

It’s almost impossible to have a conversation with professional artists these days without some mention of SEO and Social Networking. Everyone seems to be engulfed in an all-consuming struggle to rise to the top of the search engine heap and to drown out the competition in sheer number of posts. An astounding amount of energy [...]

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Guy Tal on September 24th, 2009

As some of you may know, I remain a skeptic about the business value (as distinct from social value) of Social Media. Friend and fellow photographer Jim Goldstein launched a survey which may help answer some of my questions and I urge you to participate. The results may prove very interesting:
2009 Photographer Social Media Survey
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Since reluctantly joining the masses on various social networking services I received quite a few questions about any benefits reaped. Well, I’m hardly an expert, nor do I claim to be a typical user of those sites (far from it, in fact) but for what it’s worth – here are some initial impressions as of [...]

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