Archive for the ‘speaking’ Category

I’ll see you in Adelaide, South Australia

Friday, September 9th, 2011

The 2011 Nikon AIPP Event Promo Video from AIPP TV on Vimeo.

I look forward to seeing you in Australia at the AIPP Nikon Eve

Podcast 161

Monday, July 11th, 2011

This week: Quick hello podcast from Colorado.

  • New Media Photographer: A photographer who publishes to the web.
  • Time: 10:08
  • Podcast hosted by Rosh Sillars
  • This podcast is about new media, social media and digital marketing for the photographer.
  • This week’s show notes: Hello from Colorado and Google +
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What do Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago have in common?

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) Strictly Business series starts this week in Los Angeles.  Is your business where you want it to be?  Join over twenty experts who have gathered to support your photography business this weekend.

Some of the workshops offered are Breaking Into the Biz, The Basics of Copyright, Licensing and Pricing, Multimedia & Digital Video, Stock and my workshop Secrets to Driving Traffic to Your Blog.

On Friday many of the experts, including myself, are available for one on one consulting sessions.

If you can’t make the LA event you are still in luck.  The Philadelphia SB3 event is February 25th to 27th and Chicago is April 1st-3rd.

Take the opportunity to meet the experts and photographers at all levels who want to network, build their business and support you.

Don’t miss out on this event, Strictly Business doesn’t come around every year – the last one was in 2008.

See you there.

Rosh

The Joy of Marketing 2011

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

You may have seen a few Tweets about the Joy of Marketing event announcement. The online events start in late December.  They have a great line up of experts sharing excellent information for wedding, portrait and family photographers.

My presentation (free) on social media will be January 12th 1PM CST.  More important are the other topics and speakers such as branding with Sarah Petty, December 29th, boudoir photography with Kay Eskridge January 5th and search engine optimization (SEO) with Erin Verbeck January 19th.

There are eleven experts total sharing basic and advanced information over four Wednesdays.  You can find more information here – The Joy of Marketing (tracking link).

The eleven hours of information is free – you just need to register.  These are no sales pitches, but each speaker will offer a product at the end of their presentation.  I created cool downloadable audio and PDF package for the listeners.

Let me know if you sign up.

Rosh

The future of personal communication

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Facebook announced their “not e-mail” answer to e-mail Monday.  It is the next leg in the race to redefine daily communication.

Google Wave began the big push in 2009 with real-time organized communication. Twitter followed with an updated direct message system that offers similar functionality and layout to Wave without the real time.

Facebook is expanding the narrative concept to include traditional e-mail. This was one of the too-little, too-late missteps of  Google Wave.  Facebook is also offering a Facebook e-mail address to every user who would like one.  They are not abandoning the short message system (SMS). In fact, it will remain as the core of  its messaging system because the younger generation seems to prefer it.

The system is also designed to guard against SPAM by only allowing communication between Facebook friends.

It’s both convenient and practical to keep in one place all communication (in one long narrative)  from each member of our community.

The narrative solution doesn’t answer all communication needs.  Google Wave created a method of communicating with many people in a group. The new platforms don’t seem to have an answer.  E-mail is still superior with its ability to carbon copy (CC) and quickly respond to all without limitations.  The ability to e-mail anyone without their permission is still the biggest drawback of e-mail.

While Facebook is trying to keep everyone in touch, Path is working to make social media communication more exclusive. On Monday, Path was launched for the iPhone.  This new platform only allows 50 people in each member’s network.

Path is the next step toward the niche communities we have been predicting for a while.  This is a reaction and rebellion to Facebook’s 5,000 friend limit and unlimited followers on Twitter and other communities.

Our future will include multiple niche communities representing various groups related to our interests and profession.  The only thing we can count on is change.  Communication will become more streamlined and integrated into our everyday lives with options for the mass macro, intimate micro forms, and niche communication platforms that fit our style.

Rosh