http://www.baradell.info Dallas-based former Fortune 1000 media executive Scott Baradell helps clients to develop and execute online marketing strategy and offline marketing strategy. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:03:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently came across two job postings that say a lot about the state of the photography market today. And while the news is not altogether surprising, it still might stick in your craw a little bit. The first listing, on Craigslist, was flagged by John Harrington. A New ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Black-Star-Rising/~3/nh1WqaBaaDM/job-postings-reveal-that-for-pro-photographers-the-squeeze-is-on.html Ah, Media Orchard. It’s idyllic here — green, lush, fun-loving, carefree. It is all those things, that is, until those pesky Idea Grove clients of ours swoop in like the Valkyrie pilots in Avatar and blow up our hometree with their incessant demands for this Unobtanium they call ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MediaOrchard/~3/2otL0LtOL_c/big-doings-at-the-idea-grove-hometree.html Charles Moore, the celebrated Black Star photographer whose searing images of violence and injustice during the Civil Rights Era helped mobilize U.S. public opinion toward change, died last week at the age of 79. The Black Star family joins the world in mourning him. Ben Chapnick, Black Star’s president, has had ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Black-Star-Rising/~3/lf91Mbb7bdI/charles-moore-1931-2010.html Charles Moore, the celebrated Black Star photographer whose searing images of violence and injustice during the Civil Rights Era helped mobilize U.S. public opinion toward change, died last week at the age of 79. The Black Star family joins the world in mourning him. Ben Chapnick, Black Star’s president, has had ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Black-Star-Rising/~3/lf91Mbb7bdI/charles-moore-1931-2010.html In alphabetical order… 1. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 2. Movie director Michael Bay 3. Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck 4. Pope Benedict XVI 5. Terrorist Osama bin Laden 6. U.S. President George W. Bush 7. U.S. President Jimmy Carter 8. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez 9. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney 10. U.S. President Bill Clinton 11. Naturalist Charles Darwin 12. Animator ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MediaOrchard/~3/CKlWBhUBqUI/44-people-and-1-cat-who-have-been-compared-to-hitler.html Before I started the Idea Grove, I was a senior corporate communications executive for billion-dollar companies. I’ve led public relations campaigns of all sizes and budgets, and I know how important it is to select the right PR firm during the agency review process. That’s why I’ve created a simple ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MediaOrchard/~3/JRS6GFHz8tI/25-questions-to-ask-before-hiring-a-pr-firm.html “Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.” – Historian James Harvey Robinson Funny thing is, that quote’s about 100 years old. So when we talk about the excessive partisanship that plays ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Black-Star-Rising/~3/YeyLiWokZwg/partisanship-lies-and-photoshop.html As most photographers on Twitter likely know, Twitpic is a service that makes it easy to post images to Twitter, and to view and comment on photos from your Twitter account. It’s also emerged as the trendy new candidate to kill old-school spot photojournalism once and for all. Ben LaMothe ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Black-Star-Rising/~3/gOwWiiP0WIU/will-twitpic-succeed-where-scoopt-failed.html I’m not a photographer (a casual look through my family albums will offer proof of that), but I’ve been hiring photographers for corporate assignments for more than 15 years now. I’ve hired photographers while leading the corporate communications function for billion-dollar companies, heading up marketing for a tech startup ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Black-Star-Rising/~3/k8RWGqi_5p4/eight-ways-ive-found-photographers-for-corporate-assignment-work.html I love journalists. Heck, I used to be a pretty good newspaperman myself, and the blogosphere has given me a chance to dabble in the discipline of journalism again here and there. I also work daily to convince CEOs who are suspicious of the media (is there any other kind?) ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MediaOrchard/~3/pwpGhE3pNgM/eight-warning-signs-that-a-reporter-plans-to-flip-the-script-2.html