Every day there are things that happen that have become normal events, but there aren’t any words out there to describe them.

I was on the phone one morning talking with the Queen of Lighting, Bobbi Lane. About three minutes into the call we got disconnected. It was instinct, since I originated the call, to just call her [...]

There are thousands of you who have blogs today and even more on Facebook or Twitter. If it’s just a hobby you can stop reading now. However, if it’s part of your livelihood and meant to be one of your marketing tools, if you’re not consistent then you’re completely wasting your time! Consistency is such [...]

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 [...]

It’s always tough to get back on track after a great weekend, but there are times when I wish I could get off track a little easier.
I just spent five days out of the office in Sarasota. The blog was all caught up with two posts in the pipeline when we left on Thursday. The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“We tweet, we text, we e-mail.  Everybody’s chatting, but is anybody listening?  Why America needs to revive the vanishing art of conversation.  We need to talk.”
It was the headline of a story by David Dudley in the AARP Magazine this month and yes, I admit to reading AARP and damn proud of being old enough [...]

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 [...]