RF-Photography

What? Kings? Queens? We’re playing chess? We’re playing chess on the internet?

Well, no, not really. You’ve heard the saying ‘Content is King’, right? It means that having good quality content in your web presence (website, blog, social media) will keep people interested and those people will spread the word about you and bring more eyeballs to your efforts. And while that is true in this age of the digital message there’s more to it than just content.

[According to this article, content isn't even king. While I'd agree relationships are important, if you don't have good content, people still aren't going to spend the time.] Internetworking Pt VI - Content is King, con't >

This blog started just a little less than 2 years ago with a travel article on my experience in Trinidad for Carnival. Two years later it’s still one of the most consistently read articles and is often at the top of the hit count for search strings that bring people to the blog, particularly in the couple months leading up to and the couple months after Carnival.  Another article that is consistently at the top of the read and search string list is my Feisol Tripod Review.  It too is just about 2 years old. Internetworking Pt V - Blogs, con't >

In my ongoing exploration of social media topics, one that seems to come up fairly often; and it’s one that I’ve had discussions with people about too, is the idea of quantity vs. quality. This comes into play both in the quantity vs. quality of messages posted via various social media outlets and in terms of the number of connections we make in the social media world. Internetworking Pt IV - Quantity vs Quality, con't >

This is the third in my, hopefully, continuing – but perhaps not regular – series on using the internet and social media for business purposes.

I recently, late October 2010, made some changes to my blog and website. I scrapped my old site and combined everything under the WordPress format. The WP format is easier to update, there’s less work in terms of coding/programming and it means I’m managaing one site instead of two. All good. Right? Internetworking Pt III - Permalinks, con't >

With any luck, I’ll be able to turn this Internetworking idea into an ongoing series. What’s this have to do with photography? Well, lots. Social media is already a valuable tool in business marketing and its value will continue to grow.

It seems that a ‘trend’, if we can call it that, is developing with users at Facebook. When someone new, who has a business Page of their own (as distinct from a personal profile) comes to ‘Like’ your Page the trend developing seems to be to post a comment on the Wall of the Page they’re liking that includes a large graphic about their own business with a remark something to the extent of ‘Just found your page on [insert place name here]. Great fan page. Head over and Like mine.’

Internetworking Pt II - Social Media Etiquette, con't >

Internetworking. What’s that?   Many possibilities. A contraction of internet and networking to signify using the internet, specifically social media, for networking purposes. A combination of ‘inter’ and ‘networking’ signifying a multi-platform approach to networking. For example, face to face and social media. A question: Internet working for ya? Positing the question of whether a networking approach that includes the internet and social media is beneficial. Internetworking, con't >