How To Increase Your Presence with Photos

One of the best things you can do to spice up your online content is to add visuals. It’s not as hard as you might think. Even if you’re camera shy, you can still share visuals of the things around you or related to what you’re talking about.

Photo Sharing Sites

There are quite a number of photo sharing sites that you can use as conduits to post photos through. I say through because the ultimate goal is to get these photos to show up on your favorite social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. We also want to make posting photos as easy as possible. You may not always be at your computer, so posting via mobile is a must.

Services that fit this description include DailyBooth, Pikchur, and Ourdoings. You can post to any one of these via email. From there, your posts can go out to Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and other services. In addition, each of these sites has their own social networking and discussion abilities to extend your social graph. Comments can optionally be shared to the social networks of your choice, depending on your settings.

If you mostly do Twitter, you’re probably used to seeing links to services like Twitpic, Tweetphoto, and Yfrog. These are great for Twitter power users because they’re geared specifically for Twitter. Your Twitter friends can easily login and comment using their Twitter credentials and their comments will show up in their Twitter streams with a link to your photo. This gives you the potential to go viral…at least a little bit.

Photo Ideas

The hardest part of all this is probably figuring out what to post photos of. There are only so many pictures you can post of yourself or your kids or your pets before you start to run out of ideas. Not only that, but your friends and followers will probably get bored too. Being spontaneous and catching things in the moment will help a lot here, which is why being able to post from your mobile device is a must. If you still need help, there are a couple of services you should check into.

We’ve covered Plinky earlier this year. It’s basically a site that gives you a meme of the day. Some type of question to get your creative juices flowing. Another site I’ve started to pay attention to is Tweak Today. Same type of thing as Plinky, giving you ideas for visuals to create.

It’s not all about just posting photos of you, but sharing a bit of yourself. Post what you eat, where you hang out, what you wear, where you live. Once you start keeping your options open, you might find that most of your tweets or status updates could easily be accompanied by a photo. This makes you that much more interesting to those that interact with you.