Hidden | Fort Davis, Texas | Feb 2009

To follow up from my Why Should Photographers Twitter? post, I mentioned how I should write a “How Should Photographers use Twitter?” post.

Well, I kind of already have: Lesson 4: Connect with context and content:

We’re all overloaded with content, yet we’re constantly looking for what’s new and better. We create context when we find, organize, analyze and share “new” and “better” with our world. Technology can’t completely replace people: we’re still flawed people making flawed decisions with incomplete information. Use your platform as a leader to help people make decisions, solve their problems, give them the right information, lead better lives… and be better photographers.

I could lay out the exact steps for you and your business, but what fun would that be?

You get out of Twitter what you put in.

Dig in, listen, figure it out. It’s about the people, not the tools; the community, not the technology. Listen, reach out, help, share, and above all, be a person. Think of the web as a giant party where everyone’s conversations are available, archived, shareable; how would you act? What would you do?

Read the rest of the post for more thoughts and specifics.