Visit To Brooks In Santa Barbara • Tip For New Artists
September 19th, 2008Last week I was a guest speaker at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. A few former Brooks students have contacted me about assisting, and after speaking with Eli Davis at Career Services, I was invited to present some of my work to students and talk about my experiences in the photo industry. Not only did I speak about the photo business, but I was also able to get some information from them. Here is some of the info we talked about.
I learned (3) things from Brooks and AAU students (classes started two weeks ago)
1) Roughly 80% are on FaceBook and/or other social networking sites. No surprise there.
2) Less than 5% of them follow any blog. Many students do not know what is a blog, or assumed a blog they visited was in fact just a website. They are not reliant upon industry related blogs for news or info.
3) Less than 2% know what is a an RSS feed.
