Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes Nathan, but also my very modest company is on twitter too http://twitter.com/lrmusicbcn Cheers Lluis El 06/12/2009, a las 11:53, Nathan Wajsman escribi?: > Twitter is increasingly used by serious organizations for serious > purposes. For example, our institution: > http://twitter.com/OAMITWEETS > > Several other international organizations are on both Twitter and > Facebook. > > Oh, and I am there to, as nwaj, but I do not tweet. I have an > account just so I can follow others. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Michiel Fokkema wrote: > >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michiel Fokkema >> >> I'm on twitter too. Posted a bit. But still wonder why people want >> to know what I'm doing or need to know what I'm doing. I'm also not >> always interested in when people pick their nose or brush their >> teeth. >> But I do recognise thatit can be a powerful marketing together with >> Facebook. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michiel Fokkema >> >> Kyle Cassidy wrote: >>> Over the years I have been known to bark, at random times, "What >>> do you think Bob Denver is doing RIGHT NOW?" -- and not because I >>> had some personal curiosity about the star of Gilligans Island and >>> Dobie Gillis but because it was a synecdoche for something I _was_ >>> curious about -- what do famous people DO when they're not being >>> famous? >>> Fast forward 20 or 30 years and now we have Twitter. >>> >>> For those of you who don't know, twitter.com is a service that >>> rebroadcasts text messages to subscribers. Nothing more than that >>> really. You pull out your cell phone, type "I'm standing in line >>> at the DMV" and send it to anybody who cares to listen. And who >>> cares to listen? It could be your family, old college buddies, >>> your Mahjong club.... Or, if you happen to have achieved some >>> level of notoriety ... thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even >>> millions of people. >>> >>> And what does this mean for photographers? >>> >>> I've wondered this myself for a long time and resisted twitter -- >>> after all, you're limited to 140 characters, it seems to be the >>> sort of thing that destroys our conversational skills, promotes >>> ADHD, and removes meaning from our lives. And ... it can be. But >>> it doesn't have to. While photographing a celebrity who shall >>> remain nameless, I watched him twitter several times, remarked >>> that I found it useless "I write in the long form," I said (albeit >>> not exactly that pretentiously). "You still can," he replied, "I >>> do as well, I just send out a note to twitter saying "I have a new >>> blog post up. And people go and read it." >>> >>> And I realized then that twitter has a use for photographers. A >>> good one. >>> >>> People who are following you on twitter are people who are >>> _predisposed to like the things that you do_. Which means if you >>> have a gallery show, a fine art print go on sale, an image in a >>> magazine, or even a new image posted to your web page, the people >>> who follow you are much more likely to buy it, see it, or talk >>> about it than any selection of people walking past a Barns and >>> Nobel window on any street. The life of an artist is one about >>> building community and as such, I've found twitter to be useful. >>> >>> In the grand scheme of things, Twitter is a Good Thing in two >>> ways: one, if you have a lot of people following your "tweets" >>> it's useful for nearly everything, from finding a developing tank >>> and Dektol at 1 a.m. in Burnt Church Michigan, to getting people >>> out to your gallery show, but also it's good for keeping like >>> minded groups of people in contact -- like this mailing list but >>> from moment to moment. The use of keywords (called "hash tags") >>> allows people to search for posts they're interested in. You >>> could, for example, post a photograph and add the hash tag #leica, >>> allowing people who are interested in Leica to find you. (Checking >>> twitter right now for people using the hash tag #leica, I find >>> this interesting message: "ianjindal Celebspotting: stood in front >>> of Rowan Atkinson in RG Lewis, #leica shop today. He didn't >>> recognise me." -- we find out that Rowan Atkinson is shopping for >>> Leica's. Oh the magic of the Internet.) >>> >>> I know LUGger Chris Williams (who can be found on twiiter here: >>> http://twitter.com/zoeica) >>> posts photos from his shoots. But who else? >>> If you're talking about Leicas on twitter, you can find me here: >>> http://twitter.com/kylecassidy >>> & I'd love to hear why people like, dislike, or are ambivalent to >>> this, or how people are using other parts of the Internet to move >>> their photography forward. >>> >>> Kyle >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information