I guess it pays to use Twitter. This past June I attended the third annual Creative Freelancer Conference. I rave about it often. It's a must-attend event for anyone who makes a living as a freelancer in the arts (illustrators, photographers, graphic designers, etc.) This year to promote the conference the organizers ran a contest: Whoever could get the most people...
I'll be among several attendees live tweeting from the Creative Freelancer Conference this weekend (June 5-6). To follow the feed just search Twitter for hashtag #CFConf. Afterward I'll be attending the Licensing Expo June 7-10 and will be likely be posting a few tweets from there as well. So far I haven't found an official hashtag for the Expo. If anyone...
Wed.-Fri. of this week (Aug. 26-28) I'll be in San Diego attending the second annual Creative Freelancer Conference. The conference organizers are encouraging attendees to tweet live from the conference using the hashtag #CFConf. I plan to do a bit of tweeting but mostly I'll be furiously taking notes during the presentations. I'm sure other attendees will be tweeting as...
Happy New Year everyone! Here's a few misc. items of interest I've stumbled upon recently. If you follow me on Twitter you've likely seen them all already, but since many of you don't here they are: 8 Ways Twitter can help grow your freelance business. I used to dismiss Twitter as a massive waste of time used primarily by members of...
Thanks to everyone who posted comments about Twitter. They were very helpful. I've been playing around with Twitter a bit more and I'm really starting to like it. If you use Twitter you can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/cedricstudio. I want to give a hearty "Congrats!" to two friends of mine, both fellow Minneapolis artists. Sherwin Schwartzrock recently submitted several of samples...
Lately I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Twitter, the popular "social networking" tool that allows you to write brief one- or two-sentence updates about your life (called "tweets") and then instantly broadcast them to your friends and colleagues. Some praise Twitter as a cutting-edge networking and marketing tool, while critics brush it off as a narcissistic time-waster. This...
