Survival Guide Reading Notes Ch. 8 & 10

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Chapter 8: Media Communities

• Image sharing sites are a way for you to get some serious mileage out of your photos and other images.
• Flickr is the most popular.
• Even though it’s easy, don’t go without a plan.
• Create badges using your Flickr photos.
• Fill out your profile completely.
• Video sharing: YouTube.
• Make your photos and videos searchable with key terms.

Chapter 10: Social Media Newsrooms

• One place where you can tell the media, prospective clients, book reviewers, or anyone else exactly what they need/want to know.
• For individuals or businesses that tend to get or want to get a lot of media coverage, or who put out news releases on a regular basis.
• Best to use a blogging platform.
• Social Media news release is a traditional news release that is social media or Web 2.0 optimized.

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