Social Network Intergration

During research for my Photographer website I noticed that one site that I was using had intergrated social networking into it. Smashing Magazine features Twitter and an Rss feed for regular news feeds straight from the site. This is handy as this feeds from this website would keep designers in the loop with news around their area of design which would make the feeds they recieve relevent to what they are doing.

I also found a designers website that features a Skype icon in the contact me section, where you can contact this design through Skype

Contacting designers is starting to advance from phone calls and emails to other internet based methods such as Skype and Twitter which gives people faster responces. The pace of communication and the rate of information sharing is growing with applications like these being used on the web.

For Tom's Photography portfolio site to remain professional then I will not include links to his facebook page as this is his personal and social environment which is not related to his work and to include this as a link from his website would make no sence as it infringes on his personal life. It is important to keep your personal life seperated from your proffesional life especially when the website is a source of potential work.

What I will use on the site will be links to his Twitter page which is consentrated around his work or technologies in the field and his blog which again is where posts are made that relate to the work that he is producing. This will create more of an online presence for him as an artist and could also increase his social network as people with similar interests may also find what he posts interesting and make comments on the topics as a collaberative way of thinking on a topic.