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Comment by Harriete Estel Berman on February 26, 2013 at 11:40am

"Did you see this "Guide to Image Sizes for Social Media" . This blog post on ASK Harriete has the information you need to create background for your social media profiles. This is essential for a memorable online presence AND SAVE YOU HOURS.

http://askharriete.typepad.com/ask_harriete/2013/02/guide-to-images...

Comment by John Lunn on February 22, 2013 at 4:02pm

I jumped off the ledge, friends. Let's see what happens. Please join my twitter at www.twitter.com/FluteSculptor  for comments and whathaveu. My blog is up and running at http://grampyslittleacre.blogspot.com where I live the life of a flawed artist raising grandsons. I have a youtube www.youtube.com/user/JKLunn with lots of videos, and a facebook page at www.facebook/jklunn that is mostly musicians but lots of artists too and all nice people. Please visit, join up, make comments and share. I'll be glad to reciprocate and see what kind of buzz we can all create.

Looking forward to where this discussion leads to help me navigate the rough seas I just created :0)

 

Comment by John Lunn on February 3, 2013 at 4:12pm

Sunday afternoon and I'm setting up a twitter page. How sad. But now that I have all this good advice I figured I better get started. So... I've created an avatar, I have a name and personalized my page. Now all I need to do is find followers and followees and start tweeting! What are the best ways to find those with whom I should connect?

on that subj...my tweet page is https://twitter.com/FluteSculptor if anyone wants to hook it up!

Thanks for all the help so far.

Comment by Vickie Hallmark on February 1, 2013 at 3:34pm

Obviously I need to get a plan! ;-) I've read lots about keeping logs of ideas, writing ahead of time, and timing posts for blogs. I guess those ideas can be applied elsewhere, although the idea of treating FB like that frankly never entered my head. Please, keep the ideas coming. I obviously have a lot to learn.

Comment by Tara J. Brannigan on February 1, 2013 at 1:13pm

@John Lunn - I tend to create content for FB well in advance so that it's always ready to go and well polished, as it's almost always the primary social marketing channel for the product. Twitter is far more casual and conversational, not something you can plan for particularly well if you want to be effective at using the channel. While there are instances in which I plan Twitter content far in advance, those are few and far between.  

Blog content is almost always planned and created in advance, and some (but not all!) Pinterest content is as well. 

Comment by Tom McCarthy on January 30, 2013 at 5:52pm

John, I haven't really quantified how much time I spend. My Thursday goal is 2 - 5 pm. I will post to my FB page if I have anything relevant. I also cruise other's pages and comment where relevant. If I finish early I use the time to look things up and learn more that's tech related.
Informally, I'm much like Christine and check in daily and reply if appropriate. If something is time sensitive I'll post or comment then. Otherwise I save till Thursdays.
I usually use LinkedIn's aggregator at night while the TV is on...

Comment by Christine Simpson Forni on January 29, 2013 at 10:01pm

Social Media doesn't seem to take up too much time. Every morning I take 5 mins. to check emails, review social networks, afternoon 5 min, then evening 5 mins. Having an iPhone makes it super easy to take photos & post them online in under 2 mins. I like to respond quickly or else I know I never will. I'm in my studio at least 50 hours a week, so I enjoy it. My galleries tell me they've enjoyed getting to know me better through social media so that's a plus.

Comment by John Lunn on January 29, 2013 at 8:04pm

@Tom McCarthy - what is your weekly time commitment with all the different organizations?

@Tara - it sounds like you do a weeks worth of posts in one day and then mainenance the rest of the week. Is that with all the different media or just Twitter or FB?

I have a blog that I wrote on every day (not art related) that I've taken a break from. While it didn't take "that much time", it still ate into my life just trying to come up with daily posts and make sure everything was well written.

I will be blogging on Crafthaus as part of my scholarship and I'll definitely need to make sure I allocate time for all this stuff. Sheesh.

Comment by Tom McCarthy on January 29, 2013 at 6:56pm

It is a strange coincidence that Thursday has been mentioned several times.  That  is when I dedicate time to the net.  I teach till early afternoon that day and found that I never really made it back to the studio when I got back.   So I try to post on my FB page then or at least participate in other's posts.

The FB page/profile split has not worked as well as I'd hoped.  I had planned to use my page to communicate with students and clients, thus keeping my professional and personal separate.  However, I've found pages cannot communicate with profiles which defeated my devious plans.  I've ended up friending business contacts.

This is a natural progression to google+ as their circles work the way I'd hoped my page would.  I'm on google+ but haven't figured out my roll in it yet so I'm not active on it. Google, to me is pretty fascinating.  I think google plus is going to be a pretty big deal especially with the things Harriete has been writing about on her blog regarding "real author."

I'm on linkedIn but haven't learned my roll on it either.  I've found no craft groups there that had much content.  I do use their newsfeed a lot.  I've learned quite a bit about the tech world through their aggregation so that is its highlight to me.  I've added "endorsing" as a skill but so far no one has endorsed me for endorsing.

I've used Flickr somewhat socially but have been inattentive to it lately and need to get back. I have a vast hidden component to it which is where I store my portfolio archive.  I also have a public area where people who are interested can view more of my work than is visible on my website.  Just recently I've begun putting smaller images for public viewing and save the large files for my archive.

So far with pinterest, I've only used it to keep up with who's pinning my work.  Late last year I created a board for a class I was teaching on marriage of metals so my students could see examples of that technique.  I will probably use it again for a teaching aid.

That pretty much covers it from my end.  I'm really glad this is being discussed here and I look forward to future posts.

Comment by The Justified Sinner on January 29, 2013 at 1:48pm

The only way to do it! Focus is the answer.

I also think that it is important to see social media as a part of your general practice.

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