I’ve received a few submissions for the project to share the photography blogs that you read, but could use a few more. If you haven’t already sent along your list, see the information in the original post. Thanks!
Photo by koalazymonkey, used under Creative Commons licensing
These other posts might be of interest to you:
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 who will… or even replaced by the amateur snapshots or cell phone photos of the business’ customers.
I’m not advocating that you give away all of your work for free; take sharing into consideration as you price a job. Will the company want to use your work on its Facebook page? The answer is yes, they should. Are they going to use the pictures on their blog? On their Flickr stream?
How about something even less traditional? What if you license the photos such that the organization not only uses the images on their social networking presences, but allows and encourages their fans to take the images and use them on their own blogs, Facebook pages, or the like?
Sharing is hot. Social media and social networking are all the rage at the moment, and a lot of businesses and other organizations are struggling with how they can “be social.” As a photographer, you can help them. When you license your work, include sharing. Help your clients to help themselves.
Photo by *Sally M*, used under Creative Commons licensing
There are some great blogs out there by a bunch of talented photographers. I read a bunch of them, but I know that I’m missing out on some great content that I haven’t yet discovered. Likewise, it’s probable that I’m reading some photography blogs that you don’t know about. I bet we’re both missing out on some great material and sources of inspiration.
Since social media is all about sharing, I had an idea: let’s share!
I’d like to create a giant list of photography blogs and make that list available for all. I’d like to have a bunch of readers send me the blogs they read (see below for how to do this), then I’ll consolidate, eliminate duplicates, and publish the list both on the site and as an OPML file that can be imported into feed readers.
If you read blogs through web bookmarks, send me an exported file of those bookmarks. Go into the bookmark manager in Internet Explorer (they’re called Favorites), Firefox, or Safari, and export your list of bookmarks. If you want, edit the file so it only shows your photo sites, then e-mail me the resulting file.
If you use a feed reader, export your subscriptions. In Google Reader, this is done by going to Settings, then Import/Export, then clicking the “Export your subscriptions as an OPML file” link near the bottom. If you want, edit the file so it only shows your photo sites, then e-mail me the resulting file.
If you could send me those files in the next week, before September 23, I’ll work on the compilation and get them published near the end of the month. Let’s share our links and share some great resources.
