Some of you may have recently noticed a new link in the page menu bar. The Community is a free photography forum and is open to anyone of all experience levels. It’s a place where we can all share information, get critiques, and grow as photographers.
There’s a quite a bit that you can do in there so I’ll go over some of that now.
When you first head over there, you’ll be able to view all of the posts and discussions, but not able to actually participate until you register. Registration is completely free and literally takes about 10 sec. After that, you can sign in with facebook, twitter, or the e-mail that you registered with. (Don’t worry, I’ll never sell or distribute your info. The world already has enough spam.)
There’s plenty of categories on there already for you to start discussions in and if you ever think that there should be a different one, just let me know I’ll see what I can do.
You’ll also see some stats about each discussion including the options to vote for or to follow a particular topic. The voting doesn’t really affect anything but will just help show the popularity of posts. If you want to vote for a particular post, just click “vote” and watch the tally increase by one. When you follow a post, you’ll receive notifications (if you have it set up in your preferences) when there’s updates to that discussion.
I’ve made it pretty easy to get to know the other members of the community as well. Everyone will have their own profile page which includes some Basic information and a little more information about interests if you’d like to add. You’ll also have your own profile photo with an adjustable thumbnail image.
You’ll be able to keep track of posts that you make and receive notifications about certain things that you can determine inside of your profile such as when people reply to your topics or post on your wall. Yes, you also have a wall where people can send you comments.
There’s also the option of updating your status. The status will display on your personal profile as well as the Activity tab. The activity tab is basically a news feed for the community.
Basically, I don’t want the typical forum atmosphere but an actual social networking community where we can all have our own little space and grow together as photographers.
Head over there today and join in the conversations!
