Photography in the digital age can be described in many ways. It is exciting, innovative, productive, and liberating. Still, one cannot ignore the undertones of dissatisfaction from traditionalists. Some will say they simply like film, others may be afraid to step out of their comfort zone and I suspect for some there’s also a certain [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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