Less work more social
As many photographers have blogs and feeds from twitter I would like to point out some opportunities that are available to cut down on the work that you do trying to keep up with multiple feeds and blogs, it would seem pointless to have to rewrite your posts for every single one and you can combine these using a API from the software to cross post.
If you have set up a blog, search it either on the site or on google for an API with the name of your blog or tweet/post applications. You will find it simple to add your tweets and posts to a single feed that covers all your posts across multiple software apps on line.
Youtube has a API for twitter and Friendfeed has a feed for Youtube that will post your content to the tweets on twitter. Friendfeed will post across multi twitters that you have and even link with blogs and Facebook’s. So what you could do, is post a video showing work on your you tube account and then it would be posted to your blog of feed or tweet and even all of them.
Post on friendfeed and both posts will be put together and you can use the feed API that is produced to post on your website. Effectively you can produce a website that could have pages which were photos, posts, and videos feeding into each page automatically from the post you make and therefore keeping your website up to date and current with out all that manual work.
A good example of this working is the City-photography.co.uk websites, the news pages on the site has a sidebar that contains the feeds.
http://www.city-photography.co.uk/news.htm
A simple page layout could feed blogs onto your website pages so that news is auto updated on to your website and you can break down the feeds to show posts on certain parts of the page without much technical knowledge and make your website page more creative and active as well as up to date for your users.
Most of the places where you post do have feeds applications and the code is provided, so you can simply cut and paste the code into your website page.
You can see this news feed is simply placed into this post page as an example.
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