Just a quick heads-up for everyone. Just switched up the poll today, we’re now asking our readers to tell us what platform your photoblog is running on…make sure you cast a vote!
I am working on some exciting new features for the site and hope to have them launched shortly!
Just wanted to follow-up my earlier post on using social networking to promote your photoblog with a little more information. I’ve mentioned before that I have been using pixelpost for ages on my photoblog and when I decided to create a link between it (my photoblog) and my Facebook page I decided it would be a good opportunity to create my first pixelpost plugin at the same time.
I am a bookie, no not that kind of bookie, I love to read books. I spend quite a bit of time each day commuting on public transit and if you happen to bump into me on my trip, you’ll most likely find me reading a book (or two).
Recently, I picked up “Crowdsourcing” by Jeff Howe with the intention of reviewing it on my other blog, The Procrastinating Entrepreneur. Fifty pages in and I was quickly realizing that I could easily apply the concepts Jeff was discussing to my passion of photography, namely photoblogs. Jeff talks about how crowdsourcing functions like “an immense talent-finding mechanism” (sound familiar?) The more photoblogs I come across the more amazed I become on the immense talent pool that exists in the world of photography. He also defines a sort of logical progression a person take when participating in a crowd, which I have taken the liberty of massaging with the goal of making it “fit” into the world of photoblogs.
It’s horrible I know, but I am a very visual person, so pictures help me think! Normally, I would leave the drawing to more talented folks, but I was feeling inspired tonight. If you feel my pain and feel like brushing up the image, come join my crowd, I won’t say no! 
I am still churning the ideas around in my head (when I manage to put the book down), so keep your eyes open for more on these concepts in the coming days.
Strangely, I received my copy of Seth Godin’s latest book, Triibes, just yesterday and I can already see how Triibes and Crowdsourcing kind of work together. Which reminds me, my copy of Purple Cow is getting very bored down-under (totally not Brendan’s fault!) and really wants to head somewhere new, let me know if you want to read it
First, by social networking, I mean using Facebook, we’ll discuss those other methods (mainly Twitter) sometime later on.
I created a Facebook page for my photography quite awhile ago, but never really promoted to anyone other than my real-life friends. Recently, I made the decision to try to get more people at “fans” of my photography and added a “club link” on my photoblog.
Check out the Behind the Lens to get an idea on what I have done.
Here’s what I have in an attempt to get folks to become fans,
My goal is to simply promote my photography in another channel. My opinion is the more eyes on my work, the better chances I have to sell some work.
NOTE: I am pretty happy with the results so far. I don’t get a ton of traffic to my photoblog properly due to any number of reasons, but I have managed to add two new fans already! I will keep you all updated on my progress.
Anyone else have any ideas on promoting your photoblog through social networks?
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was planning on using Amazon S3 with my photoblog. Well I am happy to let you all know that I have finally managed to get everything switched over and it’s not hard at all. I had a couple of goals in mind when I decided to host my photoblog images on S3. Just to recap, here they are:
I think that we would all agree that our favourite photoblogs (and the most popular) are the ones which are frequently updated by their owners. The beauty of your photoblog is that it’s a creative outlet – meaning that everything doesn’t need to be polished and perfect before being published. Leave that to your portfolio site. Here are a few tips on how to make sure that you’re “pumping out the content”
If you haven’t already stopped by Burns Autoparts I would highly suggest that you make a point of visiting, it’s a really great site which is focused on providing marketing information to photographers. This morning I decided to check out the podcasts that Leslie is kinda enough to make available on the site and was not disappointed! The latest podcast is about photoblogging, and everyone who has a photoblog needs to listen to what she has to say. I took away two main themes from this podcast,
As I was listening I scrawled down a few notes and wanted to make a few comments, so here it goes,
Did I ever mention to everyone just how much I enjoy looking at how people are finding this site? A big thank you has to be sent out to the kind person who searched for “…start a photoblogging career”, if you happen to come by this article please drop me a note.
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