Hiring Social Media Experts

New post from a forthcoming Identity Marketing magazine article on hiring social media experts is available over at the eBlox E-commerce Blog. If you're considering bringing in a social media expert to help with your marketing and SEO or perhaps you're considering becoming one yourself (why not? everyone else is doing it) then head over and check it out.

If you're a photographer looking to build a website inexpensively, here are some tools that come highly recommended:

Wix: http://www.wix.com/ - Free Flash-based website builder
Other People's Pixels: http://otherpeoplespixels.com - Specifically for artists and photographers, $16/mo
Snap Pages: http://snappages.com/ - General website creation, also used by photographers/artists, $8/mo
Folio Twist: http://foliotwist.com/ - Built specifically for artists, $30/mo

How to Build a Web Site from Scratch

This is intermittently technical, but for those of you who might be tinkerers, Lifehacker has a good overview of how to build a website from initial concept to completion without any prior knowledge. If you're an autodidact or just want to pick up a few tips, this is a pretty good read. Check out the full article here.