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Facebook vs. Flickr: Where to Share?

Tweet We talk about photographers being social and sharing work via social media, but when to comes to sharing photos, does it make more sense to share pictures on Facebook (with its wide audience and photo album and tagging features) or Flickr (with the photo-centric site offering more photo-centric features)? Using Facebook for Photo Sharing […]

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License Your Photos for Sharing; Encourage Photography Clients to Be Social

Tweet 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 […]

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PhotoShelter and PicScout Announce Partnership for Easier Sales of Images

Tweet One of the biggest concerns for photographers (especially those who have been in the industry for quite a while) is the risk of photos posted online being stolen for unlicensed uses. In the last year we’ve seen a few software solutions developed that address some of the image tracking issues, but there has been […]

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Photo Licensing and the State of Wikipedia

Tweet Wikipedia is the de facto online encyclopedia, providing a vast amount of information on any subject imaginable. Recently New York Times writer Noam Cohen took a look not at the text of Wikipedia, but at the photos. He wasn’t impressed: Photographs are a glaring flaw in the Wikipedia model. Unlike the articles on the […]

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