Two years ago, in the very early days of Skip’s Photo Network, my now good buddy Scott Bourne wrote the following post. It couldn’t be more simple to understand. It’s ten points to help you be more effective in your use of twitter, blogging and podcasting. 
What prompted me to give Scott an encore performance was something I [...]

Working on an article for an upcoming issue of PMA Magazine, I had a conversation with DIMA guest speaker, Georgia McCabe the other day.  Georgia is doing a four part bootcamp on social media on January 9 in Las Vegas as part of the DIMA Conference and this year’s PMA show.    After talking to her, I plan on being in [...]

I’m surprised to be leading off this morning with a quote from Barbara Bush, but it sure seems to fit my thoughts…
“You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do.  You build step by step, where it’s friendships or opportunities!”
I doubt that I’m any different than any of you.  [...]

A year and a half ago I made the decision to move back to Ohio and in the process of moving to Akron, noticed a new friend on Facebook was from the area.  I sent him a one-liner like, “What’s new in Akron?”   The knucklehead who answered me back was photographer, Brian Palmer. 
My first week or two [...]

Every now and then something happens to remind me just how special social media really is.  There’s no real point this morning, just a fun reminder to keep track of your friends. 
 I got a call from an old buddy yesterday, Mike LeBlanc.  We spent a lot of time together when we were both at Polaroid in [...]

Watching TV last night I found myself thinking about branding.  It was just one of those days when I couldn’t get my brain to shut off, but here’s what I was thinking.  You need to be working to build brand awareness, literally with just about everything you do.  There’s so much noise in our lives [...]

Okay, so all we did was change our Facebook status from engaged to married yesterday and that set off a barrage of congratulatory emails that was simply overwhelming.  Neither of us know how to truly thank everybody for their good wishes, funny comments and especially the big curiosity question of who was the photographer!
If nothing [...]

Whether you’re headed to Skip’s Summer School or not, this year’s instructors are some of the very best in the industry.  If you can join us in August, terrific, but if you can’t, you really should follow each of these fifteen photographic icons on Twitter, their blogs, websites and Facebook.  Each one is making a contribution to our industry [...]

It’s just a quickie for a Sunday morning.  Sheila was on her cell phone this morning with her brother, Randy, when they lost the signal and the conversation ended.  Like all of us used to being disconnected, she went to the window, looked for the 300 guys from the Verizon commercial ready to back her up [...]

I know some time before Facebook, before Twitter, before email, blogging and the Internet, I actually had a life.  It wasn’t too different from The Brady Bunch minus Alice and just two of the kids.   Yeah, I’m dating myself a little, but just look back at how your life has changed in the last ten years!
The Internet changed [...]