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Personal Branding: It All Began With A Picture
Your photo speaks volumes about you: make sure those volumes are filled in with your hopes, aspirations, personality and talent and not the result of a haphazard occurrence that you have been too careless to display. Your quality picture will pay off big: and the more visible you are, the higher the return. So get ready to collect. [read more]
Another Great Mick Mather Photo Transformation
Here is another great transformation of one of my photographs by Mick Mather, artist and blogger. The original is a study of a row of plastic chairs down on the beach at Point Independence Inn, Onset, Massachusetts that appeared in my Art and Photography Blog. Mick takes a photo and does a process of cropping, filtering and layering. I... [read more]
Photographs of People by Akos Szilvasi
I went to an event of the Cambridge Art Association recently and saw the photographs of Akos Szilvasi. They have a very direct quality. Akos said he often crops off the top of heads to focus more on the eyes and mouth were there is much more information. You see this in the four portraits on his opening page. He talked mostly about... [read more]
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Lightroom Workflow: Part 1 of 3 | Layers MagazineIn this 3-part series, photographer Chris Alvanas takes a tour of Lightroom and explains what makes this application a worthwhile addition to your photography workflow. [read more]
Central European Photography 1918 - 1945
Between the two world wars, there was a brief flowering of independence in the parts of central Europe not controlled by Germany or Russia. Then things got real bad for a long time. The time and place provided us with some of the most innovative photography of the last century according to the organizers of Foto: Modernity in Central... [read more]
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Gini Dietrich Gini Dietrich is the founder and chief executive officer of Arment Dietrich, Inc. More »
Vanessa DiMauro is the CEO of Leader Networks & has been creating successful online communities for over 15 years. More »
Maggie Fox is the founder and CEO of Social Media Group & was named one of the Top 100 Marketers in Marketing Magazine. More »
Laurent Francois I lead the marketing&development hub @ Express Roularta Services, a media company. I focus on 2 main brands (L'Express, More »
Rachel Happe is a Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable & a blogger at The Social Organization. More »
JD Lasica is a consultant who is considered one of the leading authorities on social media & user-created media. More »
Brian Solis s author of Engage and is recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders & authors in new media. More »
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“Up until this point we have always understood content through the lens of the distribution channel it sat within. The channel, in fact, gave its name to the content (TV is a form of distribution but we think of it as a form of content) - or, as per your reference to McLuhan, "the medium was the message". The social media revolution is all about the liberation of content from its means ...”
“Alternatively, and this is what I believe, GM is simply not very good at Social. The easiest way out of that situation might well be to blame the tools, rather than the craftman. From what I've been observing, GM has been using Facebook, and especially their brand pages, as little more than a glorified megaphone. ”