Loudmouthman

I am not the most organised of individuals. I have yet to master  a process for managing, organising and storing my photos. I am constantly on the edge of playing it safe by copying files multiple times to various locations. Enough is enough however and I realise that I was getting inundated with copies of files, I cant see where they are and I just cant work out what they are to me and where.

A while back I had installed ACDSee Photo Manager and Photo Editor on the recommendation of Connie Benson, whose persistent community Blogging of her experiences with ACDSee products lead me to purchase the software. Like many other purchases though this one had been languishing in my start menu for several months. It was time to bring it back up into the recent programs list and have a look to see if it could solve my photo hording dilema.

The first task I had set for ACDSee was to find the duplicate images between several directories and machines then  delete the unwanted sets. This was a far easier task  for the application since its Tools->Find Duplicates function allows you to locate  the duplicate images between two or more lists or within the same list. It then gives you the choices to remove duplicates from the first or the second list.  One hour, 3200 Images and 1.7Gb of data later and I had streamlined down my folders and directories into one folder.  Huge Success !

The more I play with the features in ACDSee Photo manager and ACDSee Photo Editor the more impressed I become with the pounds per feature ratio of their products. This is the third time that these products have dug me out of a hole of my own creation.

Now that Photos are becoming an important part of the SoMe feature set its damned handy to have tools that make the management of that media easier.

Now if only I could get it for the Mac !

Thanks for reading.

feel  we are reaching that stage in the curve where the early majority and the incoming masses are changing over. We are crossing that chasm where corporations are asking , Do You Blog ?

It seems these corporations  go through this stages on a regular basis, everytime asking a new question.

• Do you have a phone ?
• Do you have fax ?
• Do you have email ?
• Do you have  a Web Page ?

Each of those technical advances has required a redefinition of roles and responsibilities within the corporate. Early adopting companies have approached blogs as an extension of their public announcement and press release platforms, they assign the roles to Marketing and PR departments  and task  some engaging employee with the responsibility of “letting everyone know”.

Though many more corporations are still dragging heels and raising excuses and for which I point them to some of the sage advice over on SearchRank.

However those that are posting new posts and creating communities are having to define what that means as a role within the corporation. The role of community manager will provide HR departments with some interesting challenges when it comes to Hiring, Firing and Promoting an employee. Like Salesmen before them the community manager is likely to come with a predefined set of leads, their audience, whom have tracked their progress and activities constantly. A community manager will be building new audiences and finding new ways to connect the business with its clients and in doing so forming relationships as individuals.

Whilst the role of community manager and their responsibilities is  being discussed by Tamar Weinberg and Connie Benson the issue of managing and employing for the roles is still being decided upon.

In many ways this is not too dissimilar to issues faced by media in hiring celebrities to host breakfast or chat shows. The expectation of that mass of interested followers add value to the celebrity and can add value to that companies brand.

What will be interesting to watch are not the first hires into new roles for corporations but how those corporations deal with transition and change of those community managers.

No matter what happens I certainly hope they Blog it.

Thanks for reading.