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Stock Artists Alliance’s free metadata seminars serves nearly 800 picture professionals
The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) , a trade organization for stock photographers, announced last May that it was launching an educational speaking series called getMETAsmart made possible with an award from the Library of Congress and supported by industry partners. Since then SAA is touting that it has already held seven, free educational events over the past two months, with nearly 800 participants from around the country. The Stock Artists Alliance plans three more getMETAsmart events for this fall.
Audiences in Dallas, San Antonio, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington learned how to use metadata to help protect copyrights, make money licensing photography, smooth workflows, track image use, find images they need and find them again. In addition to sessions by metadata guru David Riecks, those who attended in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington also learned some of the newest techniques for search-engine optimization during presentations sponsored by Photoshelter.
Positive reviews abound. One commenter in Seattle said, “The speakers did a great job of catering to the full spectrum of audience experience/knowledge—not easily done!” New York’s Susan Shamper described the evening as “such an impressively organized seminar presented by well-informed, inspiring and entertaining presenters. Well done!”
Web: http://www.PhotoMetadata.org - http://www.stockartistsalliance.org
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