Social media and online portfolios:

Twitter
Tumblr
Pintrest

Facebook:

Facebook pages have many pros and cons; However, one of the most important thing is that they can be found via Google. Here, figure 1,  I typed in my page name and the first thing found was my page. This gives an bigger audience and that they can see your page from a simple search.   

Other pros of having a page is that you can separate work and personal life, once a page is set up. There is no need to filter through personal updates, you should always keep your personal life separated from business.  Possible clients can see your work without any changing of settings and very quickly, via a search of Facebook. You can still have messages, wall posts, comments and even sales/ competitions to max your audience (share and like the picture to be in a chance to win… ) 

The cons include posts only being seen by some of the fans, due to Facebook's settings and wanting to get money from business pages.  The photos you upload on Facebook are also not safe, part of the terms and conditions is that Facebook can use the images as they are its property. Therefore it is worth watermarking work, to show its yours and to also let audiences  know where the image has come from, meaning a higher audience reach. 

My Facebook page shows my logo and I also have the opportunity to have my best picture, at the moment,  as a cover photo, to enchant the audience into browsing deeper. It could be a collage of images, or perhaps just a slogan – but it must say something about the page. All my images are in the corner, in a sort of box shape, which again, gives the audience a view on my current shoots and adventures. This could be changed into my portfolio, at the side. 

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Behance:
This website allows you to show different projects you have worked on, both WIP and completed. It shows you one main page, where all of the projects are located, illustrated with a cover photo (that summarizes the project) and then allows the audience to click the icon and see all the pictures. It allows you to add the creative field it belongs to, tags  (about the image so people can click and see relevant work) and even a description, to give more content, see figure 1. This could also allow  you to organize and show your work more professionally.  Figure 2 shows the opportunity ,after publishing your page, to link and show more audiences that you have made a project. Again, attracting the audiences attention in more than one site.
Figure 3 shows my first project, you can leave appreciations,  comments and also share the project. Perhaps this project is a portrait session, this could be shared by the model and then attract more clients.    Figure 4 shows the beginning of my portfolio, one it is done it will allow the audience to scroll through all my work and begin to get an idea of my style of photography.

Here I have posted an update on my Facebook page to my Behance. My audience on here would then click and see my projects. They could then share it on and I could reach more audiences.

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Wix and other online website makers:
Having your own website is similar to an in hand portfolio; within a quick flick or click, you can see all your best images. The one difference is that on the website you can organise your images into pages, which all of names. You can have an about and contact page, letting all sorts of clients come and contact about prices etc. This gives you a direct link to the audience and lets you know how to improve on your website. You can link to other social media, shown below, which expands your audiences on all the media. However, your home page needs to be captivating and showing your best, eye catching, bright and inspiring work. I have done this via having a slideshow of 6 images, one from each catergory, highlighting my skills and just giving the audience little information. They can then click onto the image and it will send them onto the correct page where they can see more work. 

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Twitter:

Pros:
Can link to other social media
Easily give updates and links to other social medias
Great way to communicate to different audiences.
Wide type of users/audiences. Different ages etc

Cons:
Not very good for viewing of images - mostly used for text and sometimes settings means that the audience has to click to view - or even misses tweet.
Caption characters are limted- cant describe shots, talking and information about business is limited.