Having and maintaining an online presence today means a web site, a blog and a Facebook page. And, if you can handle it, a Twitter account too.
How and where does one find the time, let alone the energy, to Twitter, blog, chat on Facebook, update a web site and don’t forget email? If content is king, then quality content is even more important.
This blog is about digital photography, the novice photographer and better pictures. People new to digital photography or analogue photographers making the transition may, at times, become over whelmed by all there is to learn. There is a lot. No longer is it a matter of “you click the shutter and leave the rest to us” as the Kodak ads used to say.
While capturing an image on a digital camera is simple, once you download that image file and look at it on your computer screen, you may find out that what looked great on the LCD may not look all that great on your PC. Now you start to ask questions, browse the Internet for simple solutions or check a few books out of a library. Or you may even buy some books on digital photography.
You soon learn, buying the digital camera was just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. It’s the 90% of the “iceberg” you don’t see below the surface that really scares you. Suddenly new and different types of technology raises its head and you feel snow under. There is so much to learn if you want to take really good pictures. I know I felt that way a number of years ago when I made the transition from analogue image making. But I persevered and, in time, it all made sense.
So here I am again at a technology threshold trying to create and maintain a comprehensive online presence – creating a quality web site with quality content, writing a blog that has meaning to more than just myself and maintaining a Facebook page where “friends” can join in the sharing of images and discuss photography. And learning all the technology that goes with it.
So I will persevere, take one step at a time and trust it will work itself out. As for Twitter, not really for me.
