Notes from SheTech

In the last week I have begun researching a topic for a new book with David Busch, along the lines of the last two, this time with a great and, to me, relevant spin: Flickr; specifically, how to promote your photography using Flickr.

These days, social media platforms are nearly as prolific as video games, and in the Game of Social Media, a few are inevitably rising to the top. Flickr and Facebook currently reign in their respective niches, even while users continue to spread their presence out among multiple platforms. As a result, and as the technology has made such a thing possible, users have demanded–and developers have responded with–ways to connect all these many media. Particularly because many of these platforms have evolved into very specialized sites, it is useful to be able to connect them in order to take advantage of one’s not-always-overlapping circle of contacts across the sites. (more…)