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forum => International forum for English speakers => General discussion => : Syates November 25, 2007, 08:24:57 PM
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Me! OK, obviously as I started this forum, many may know me from other boards, my name is Sybille and I am forum-addict! Serious now, I started this forum together with Lev to as an international meeting point for (micro) stock photographers. What ever your question, here you should find somebody that can answer it in your own language. So, have fun, start to post around and watch the news line on top of the forum for updates of languages added. The Russian forum is fully functional now (thanks again Lev!) and the English one is also set, I might add in future a child board when the need arises but the structure is pretty finished so far. If you would like to more languages added (French, German and Spanish are already on the way) just drop me a note! Glad to have you all here, SY
BTW, what is YOUR name? Just present yourself and start posting! SY
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me.
i the case i need any introductions, check http://www.dolgachov.com
i'm moderator of russian forums here and i hope i'll have time for participation in English-international as well.
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Hi! My name is Darja. Member of Russian forum, but also going to read and may be do something in English, French and if it happend once Estonian forums. My very beta home page http://www.msdnv.com (http://www.msdnv.com)
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and me =) I'm from Russian forum too but I'll be here for sure.
Cheers,
Alex
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Welcome Darja, your home page looks less beta then mine (I don't post my link here, too embarrassing!) I like the intro page especially, great images!
Welcome Alex, hope you will post also in the other forums a lot, not only in the Russian one!, (that goes for both of you!) Don't panic if English is not your first language, it is mine neither, I am German by birth! Just chatter away and fill this forum with information, SY
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hello all,
i am here too from now on,
here is the link to my web,
i am from turkish forum but, i will watch Eng. forum too of course
regards
www.boraucak.com
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Hello,
I'm Alexey and I'm from Russian forum. I plan to participate in English forum too :)
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Welcome KHZ! Thanks again for agreeing to moderate the Turkish forum! I had a look at your web site (not that I can read anything ;-) looks very impressive!
Welcome Alexey! Isn't microstock great? So many people from different countries! SY
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Hello! I thought here colleagues from the English-language countries, but while all of old acquaintances. I'm from Russian forum too. ;)
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Found my way here too, thanks to Sybille. Part time Leuven, Flanders, Belgium - part time in South-East Asia, Mindanao, Philippines.
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Hello everybody! Praise for Sybille for getting this thing started! My name is Travis Manley, I am a full-time photographer and I sell my photos as stock. You can find more info about me at www.twcdm.com
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Hi everyone it is nice to be a part of such a friendly international forum. Nice to see so many familiar faces here.
Thanks for the invitation to join Lev, I wish I could speak and read Russian, French, German, Spanish, etc.
:)
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hi, everyone. just found myself here thru lev, thanks man. great to see everybody here.
best regards
vince
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Hi everybody, POOH, Flemishdreams, Travismanley, Susan, Shadow216! Glad to have you all here, feel free to tell others about this new and great international forum! We are only a couple of days old and count already 100+ members, nice to have you all here, SY
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Hey All! Sy, I saw your post on talkmicro and found my way here.
I am looking forward to the many discussions and friendly faces!
Best to all,
Lorraine
www.kourafasphotography.com
(http://www.kourafasphotography.com)
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Hi all!
Lev, you are tireless. :) Sybille, you are too probably, I just do not know you yet. :) Good luck with new project.
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Hi All,
Suhendri here, I hang out mostly at SS forum only and sometimes microstockgroup and talkmicro. Nice to have this international forum. I wish I can hang out at Russian, lots of great photographers from Rusia. Me, I am from Indonesia (if anybody care to know :)
Thanks for the invitation!
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Hi, I am Bobby and thanks Lev for the invite to join here. I look forward to looking around and kicking the tires and checking out the portfolios of the few names I have seen that I am not already familiar with. Those that may not know me can find my work at RealDealPhoto (http://www.realdealphotography.smugmug.com/Models)
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Welcome everybody! Lorraine, Talya, Suhendri and Bobby, great to have you here, SY
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hi, I'm konstantin, from ukraine. i shall join too
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Hi Konstantin, welcome! SY
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Hi guys, I am Cyril from over at shutterstock,
I'll be moderating the french forum, feel free to drop a line there if you can sing the Marseillaise
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Welcome Cyril, and thanks for joining, but I better don't start to sing, if I would do this forum would be empty in seconds! I speak a little French but my written French is really, really awful, SY
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Hi everybody, great project Sy!
I'm from Montreal, Canada; I'll be on this forum and also on the french one, even if I can't sing La Marseillaise!
Claude
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GReat to have you here, Claude, I am sure you will find us a very friendly bunch! SY
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I just joined the forum with a generous invitation by Leo (dolgachov). I find it quite helpful. I mostly browse the Russian part but make a few trips over here too. Nice to meet you all!
A quick presentation if you don't mind:
My name is Olga and I currently live in Paris (France). Coming from Russia and Sweden where I lived for 14 years.
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Welcome Olga! Nice to have you with us, if you live in Paris you might also want to check out the French board, perhaps you find a fellow Parisian there! SY
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Sybille Yates, Thank you! I'll join the French discussion too when my French gets better. I've been living in Paris only for a year or so and my French is still very very limited.
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LOl, I know what you mean, French is sooo difficult to learn! SY
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Hi everyone. A brand new forum, very nice. :)
I am in England, in the chilly north.
I have never sung the Marseillaise, but can hum a few nursery rhymes, will that do? ;)
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Hi Clivia, welcome on board, great to have you here! Singing is optional here (hint hop over to *Off Topic*)
SY
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;) hi all, landed here to see what's up :)
can join French forum too, my French is much better than English :) but i think i will stop working then ;) I wish i had 72 hours in day ;)
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Hi all who are here. Great idea, I like everything I have seen so far.
rosta
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Hi all! Great thanks all people who made this forum!
I'm from Russian and hope my English lets me to read and sometimes to write in English part too :)
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Hi. My name is Dzimitry. I'm from Belarus. I'm just a beginner yet. ;)
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I am also leave my post here. Hello from Ukraine.
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Steve-oh is here. Hello everyone!
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Sorry, Lev. Just that I recognize many of these names already. :)
For those of you who don't know me, I'm in charge of community development over at Stockxpert, and I'm also a contributor (or at least I try).
I look forward to being part of this new microstock community, helping people out with their SXP questions, and contributing to the general discussion when I have something useful to say.
I'm also trying to learn Russian, so hopefully, I will be able to contribute in that forum too someday.
-Steve
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Welcome also from me, Steve, I am always in favour of admins joining the forums and giving their view angle of the business! If a forum would consist only of contributors, then there would be the danger that it circles only around itself. We have to see and to learn to know "every site of the coin" to succeed in this exiting business that microstock is. Please don't hesitate to drop me or Lev a message if you need anything, SY
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We would love to have you and do not worry at all about your English. This is after all a place to learn and share!
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Hi all! Great thanks all people who made this forum!
I'm from Russian and hope my English lets me to read and sometimes to write in English part too :)
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Welcome Bzzz, constructer, sazonov, rosta and anouchka (I hope I have forgotten nobody)! No worries about English or languages in general here, as Susan said, this is a place to learn and share! So just chat away and start sharing information ;-) BTW in case you haven't come across This Thread (http://photographicfreedom.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=172.0) hop over and leave your name and where you live, I am putting together a google map! Welcome again everybody, SY
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Hi, my name is Alex, I`m from Latvia (seams to me - I`m the first on forum from this lil` republic, uh?)
I`m working in Latvian magazine as photographer and also sell my vector works on some stocks.
Found this forum via Lev Dolgachov LJ, will try to communicate with my colleagues in English and Russsian branches of this forum, also will read Franch one (je adore Francois, mais ne peux pas communiquer facile). Sorry for mistakes :)
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Welcome Alex! My grandmother was from Latvia ;D No worries about typos, most of us post also in boards that are not in their native language, this is a forum to help and share, not to criticize linguistic matters ;-) SY
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It`s an interesting information, Sybille! so, we surely can be some kinda relatives? ;)
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Might be! SY
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Ok here we go. After meeting SY at LO (long live the shortcuts) where we contribute next to 10 other agencies we thought we might join up here.
Find us at www.dnf-style.com and, under the same name, in the main agencies.
Frenk and Danielle
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I'm Nanka, from Ukraine
http://nanka.kiev.ua/ (http://nanka.kiev.ua/)
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Nice pf Nanka.
Welcome
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Hello!
I am Alexey Utemov (adekvat) from Russia.
I'm glad to join!
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Hi, my name is Alex, I`m from Latvia (seams to me - I`m the first on forum from this lil` republic, uh?)
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Nope :) You are not alone ;) I'm from Latvia, too... And I'm Alex too :)
Welcome!!!
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Hello! My name is Natalia, I am from Belarus, live in Italy, and participate in Russian part of forum 8) and in English one too
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Hey-ho! Hi, friends!
My name is Irina, coming from Kiev, Ukraine. :) it`s the first year I learned about photography, so my experience in the subject is very small. Two weeks ago I started my photographic courses so I hope to evalute in my skills with a time :D
Thx everybody for this great opportunity to learn from you! ;D
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Welcome everybody! Iribo, I love your avatar! Nata_Russ, where about in Italy are you? We were in North Italy for holidays in October. Frenk&Danielle, how is the winter survival going? Nanka, you really have an excellent portfolio, glad to have you with us. And welcome, to Aleksey and Alex*2 ;D SY
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Joined yesterday, Domen Colja from Koper, Slovenia;)
p.s.: Happy new year to everybody!;)
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Joined yesterday, Domen Colja from Koper, Slovenia;)
p.s.: Happy new year to everybody!;)
Welcome Domen! Feel free to spread the word about this forum! ;D SY
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Hi SY, and everyone - I'm Ann from L.I., NY, USA.
I've always loved art and photography, but just started stock photography in 2007.
I'm so happy to now be part of photographic freedom!
my very humble site (which also includes work I do for charities I'm actively involved in) is:
www.parrypix.com smiles - Ann
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Hi Ann!
Big Welcome Smile from me ;D I will update the map (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=111181881865906020753.00044012973e8dbb2d9ad&ll=61.522695,-93.867187&spn=33.851042,119.53125&z=3&om=1) asap, now I have to run, will be back soon! SY
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Just thought I would ping in to say Hello!
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Welcome, Bryan, nice to see you here ;D SY
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Thank you, SY! How exciting - I'm on the map! Very interesting to see who else is, too. smiles - Ann
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Thank you, SY! How exciting - I'm on the map! Very interesting to see who else is, too. smiles - Ann
Was my pleasure, ;D, SY
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Thanks for the invitation Sybille! I'm very happy to join THIS forum, though I'm not very keen on posting my personal thoughts ( guess I'm too shy :P )
Well, my name is Rui and I live in Porto, north of Portugal.
Here's my Hello to all of you here, some of whom I know pretty well from the big 6.
Cheers!
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Thanks for the invitation Sybille! I'm very happy to join THIS forum, though I'm not very keen on posting my personal thoughts ( guess I'm too shy :P )
Well, my name is Rui and I live in Porto, north of Portugal.
Here's my Hello to all of you here, some of whom I know pretty well from the big 6.
Cheers!
Please don't be shy ;-) Biting heads of is forbidden here, you are amongst friends! :D SY
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Hello everyone!
Another one from Portugal here!
Very first post to say HI! and thanks for inviting me, Sybille.
Carlos
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Welcome, Carlos! Hope you like it here ;D, you will meet some new faces and some well known, but in genral we are a friendly bunch, ;) SY
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Hi!!!
I am here mostly with Russian forum and it's not because of language - our folks are really cool and professional and ... more talkative ;D.
It's strange but I've expected English forum to be the hub of this site, 'cause obviously we Russian-speakers are so outnumbered on the world scale.
I hope some more real world masters of microstocks will join this forum later on. And I'm happy to be among those who are already here. ;) As for me - I'm just a beginner, a little more than a year into microstocks, with just mediocre sales.
But now i am transforming into full-time stock photographer, having some free-lance advertising and web design jobs.
PS My user pic icon is Hattori Hanzo - a character of Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' movie.
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Hello everyone! I'm Dave based in Spain, I know some of you from SS where I'm also 'Bluesky'.
Looking forward to participating here, and in the Spanish forum!
Seeyas
Dave.
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Welcome y bienvenido David! SY
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HELLO ALL!
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And hello and welcome to you! ;D SY
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Hi SY, and everyone - I'm Ann from L.I., NY, USA.
I've always loved art and photography, but just started stock photography in 2007.
I'm so happy to now be part of photographic freedom!
my very humble site (which also includes work I do for charities I'm actively involved in) is:
www.parrypix.com smiles - Ann
ummmmm
where on LI
We Vin and fran come from Smithtown-
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Hi SY, and everyone - I'm Ann from L.I., NY, USA.
I've always loved art and photography, but just started stock photography in 2007.
I'm so happy to now be part of photographic freedom!
my very humble site (which also includes work I do for charities I'm actively involved in) is:
www.parrypix.com smiles - Ann
ummmmm
where on LI
We Vin and fran come from Smithtown-
I'm on south shore of Nassau County, which isn't all that far from Smithtown. How is it "having left the island"? smiles - Ann
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Hello everyone
Not sure how well known I am yet! (LOL) but my name is Michael (aka Nicemonkey) and I am the new moderator on the English Illustrator forum.
Any photographers wanting to cross over into the dark side, please feel free to drop on by.
Nicemonkey
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Hi!!!
I am here mostly with Russian forum and it's not because of language - our folks are really cool and professional and ... more talkative ;D.
It's strange but I've expected English forum to be the hub of this site, 'cause obviously we Russian-speakers are so outnumbered on the world scale.
I hope some more real world masters of microstocks will join this forum later on. And I'm happy to be among those who are already here. ;) As for me - I'm just a beginner, a little more than a year into microstocks, with just mediocre sales.
But now i am transforming into full-time stock photographer, having some free-lance advertising and web design jobs.
PS My user pic icon is Hattori Hanzo - a character of Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' movie.
Sundance, from the member stats I know that we have also a lot of non-russian members, but like you said it seems they are less talkative! If you know a good way to get them to post instead of only to read posts don't hesitate to share it with me ;D Personally I find it fascinating how people use this forum across language borders and also if some boards are slower then others - it is still the only international microstock forum I know of! Hope you enjoy it here, Sy
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Hi all,
Very new here, just figured I'd say hello to everyone... I'm pretty new to the microstock scene, so I presumably have more to learn than teach at this point. Not sure how much time I'll have for participation here, but it seems like a nice online community so I figured I'd join.
:D
I guess I'll go post my location in the "where do you live" thread...
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Just saying hello to all here.... ! Hello :) :) :)
Olga
aka photonotebook aka chasingmoments :)
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Hi SY, and everyone - I'm Ann from L.I., NY, USA.
I've always loved art and photography, but just started stock photography in 2007.
I'm so happy to now be part of photographic freedom!
my very humble site (which also includes work I do for charities I'm actively involved in) is:
www.parrypix.com smiles - Ann
ummmmm
where on LI
We Vin and fran come from Smithtown-
I'm on south shore of Nassau County, which isn't all that far from Smithtown. How is it "having left the island"? smiles - Ann
Well it's been a while since we left...... we have lived upstate since 1990. Long Island is great but so expensive.
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TRITOOTH: Well it's been a while since we left...... we have lived upstate since 1990. Long Island is great but so expensive.
....tell me about it :-0
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Hello everybody!
It's great place with positive people!
With love from Russia)
Kuzma
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Sundance, from the member stats I know that we have also a lot of non-russian members, but like you said it seems they are less talkative! If you know a good way to get them to post instead of only to read posts don't hesitate to share it with me ;D Personally I find it fascinating how people use this forum across language borders and also if some boards are slower then others - it is still the only international microstock forum I know of! Hope you enjoy it here, Sy
I enjoy it here as good as it possibly gets. ;)
I think you and other international users of this forum - can post into Russian part (it's up to you and Lev as moderators to decide if it's appropriate to post there in other language than default.) I'm 100% sure everybody would get quality feedback from our folks. :) And THAT will make others less shy.
We almost all speak English for obvious professional needs.
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I enjoy it here as good as it possibly gets. ;)
I think you and other international users of this forum - can post into Russian part (it's up to you and Lev as moderators to decide if it's appropriate to post there in other language than default.) I'm 100% sure everybody would get quality feedback from our folks. :) And THAT will make others less shy.
We almost all speak English for obvious professional needs.
Hi Sundance,
It is certainly not forbidden to post in other boards in a non-board language but I think it would confuse people and wouldn't work out very well. But if you ever have a thread running that would be more picture based like "Show your xyz picture" then it would be great if you could post a link-invitation to it on another board, like the English one.
Perhaps it is time to tell a bit how this forum was planned and how it developed, and where it might go in future.
I guess a lot of you know me from other forums, I am a communication freak so to speak ;-) When I was looking at other microstock related forums, I came frequently across a post saying "please apologize my English" or "I can't express xyz as good in English as I could in my own language" That was point number one for me to consider for a new forum set-up: Making sure that people could express themselves in the language they were most comfortable in. Point 2 developed directly out of this: Having an international forum in several languages at the same time to encourage people to cross post language boarders. As I thought about how to set-up and organize such an international forum the only viable way was organizing it by language-specific boards and then give each language board the child-boards the moderators wanted. Some boards like the English and the Russian ones have a more detailed set-up then for example the French one for this reason. Third point (pointing a bit in the future) Out of my work as a reviewer, for Lucky Oliver, came an awareness that some peoples less perfect key words were actually the result of language difficulties rather then of bland key word spamming. I would quite often send them a link to the only Russian forum I knew of (if they were Russian) at http://www.zastavkin.com in the hope that someone there could help them with their key wording problems ;-) But obviously not everybody speaks Russian ;-)
So at this time I had some spare moments and I set up this forum to allow people to communicate in their preferred language on specific boards and by encouraging people to cross post into other languages help the exchange of ideas/ tips etc between artists from different linguistic backgrounds. I felt it would be easier for most people to post in another language if they have a home-board in their own language where to feel "safe". At a very early stage I contacted Lev and asked him if he would like to moderate the Russian forum and he agreed, for what I am very thankful. For practical reasons (back-ups etc) he became also a forum admin, as it is better that to people in different locations back up the database and also to cover for me server side issues when I would go on longer holidays.
Regarding the key word problems quite a few people have, I am looking at possibilities that we all together can develop a wiki, list or similar to help each other. But that is still a bit music for the future. So give me a bit more time to check things out and if I found ways of doing this I will certainly invite everybody to give their input and ideas as it should be a project "from everybody for everybody" and not something that a few people decide on their own ;-)
More things: There will be more added "parts" to this growing community in the near future like a gallery app so that people can upload photos for evaluation by the members (like for the "which 10 shall I send to Shutterstock"). So stay tuned for more things to come ;-) My goal for this year, regarding this forum, is to develop it into a place where people find help (personally or by tutorials etc.) to improve in this industry. Many words, so if anything is unclear please ask, as English is also NOT my first language. SY
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I am a communication freak so to speak ;-)
well the volume of your posting speaks for itself ;D me too ;)
"a bit music for the future" that's a nice expression - is it a common English saying or you just made it? :)
it would be cool to have a word with inspectors, because from photographer's point of view they sometimes seem like ruthless machines, with little sympathy for the effort put in our submissions. :-\
Sybille, I know you are LO inspector, so would it be appropriate to begin a kind of interview thread? - to understand how basically inspectors work and to be eventually more successful. (I haven't join LO yet so my grudging about inspectors can not be applied to you yet :D)
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I am a communication freak so to speak ;-)
well the volume of your posting speaks for itself ;D me too ;)
"a bit music for the future" that's a nice expression - is it a common English saying or you just made it? :)
it would be cool to have a word with inspectors, because from photographer's point of view they sometimes seem like ruthless machines, with little sympathy for the effort put in our submissions. :-\
Sybille, I know you are LO inspector, so would it be appropriate to begin a kind of interview thread? - to understand how basically inspectors work and to be eventually more successful. (I haven't join LO yet so my grudging about inspectors can not be applied to you yet :D)
"a bit music for the future" ehm, is actually a direct translation from the German expression "Zukunftsmusik"
regarding interview with reviewers, feel free to start a thread, but please be aware that we all are bound by NDA's etc so there are things what we can't answer specifically, but yes, start this thread and I am sure that I and other reviewers will do our best to answer them as accurate as possible. SY