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Join me as I talk with Robert Scoble about social media tips for photographers. Scoble literally wrote the book on blogging—”Naked Conversations”, and continues to be a vanguard in the use of new media such as twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, etc. Take note of his tips to get your photographs seen and be part of the “conversation.” He and Thomas Hawk really popularized the idea of “Photo Walk”, which is how Robert and I met, he asked me to join him on one.

I thought it would be interesting to get his take on how how photographers can make use of social media, some of the points he mentioned were:

1.   How to get attention for your photos and a following.

2.  Create an on-going relationship with other photographers: Reciprocity, For example commenting on their photos and blogs.

3. Build your brand around a certian style of photography and join that community: groups, blogs, etc, will bring you more and more visitors.

4. Keep up the conversion in places like FriendFeed  so others can see what you care about too.

5. With Twitter and Friend feed you can get very rapid feedback. You can “tease” the photos you’ll be putting up after you process them, even put up shots form your iPhone to FaceBook, Twitter, etc, to let people see what you’ll be putting up.

Click here to see some of my shots that day