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Did you know you can manually edit your Facebook URL to be much shorter? Ideal for business cards.

By on May 5, 2012 in Social Media

Did you know you can edit your Facebook URL to be much shorter? Ideal for business cards. So my URL is http://www.facebook.com/chrisjonesfilmmaker Which I can manually edit down to fb.com/chrisjonesfilmmaker which is much better for business cards. If you want to get your vanity URL for your Facebook page, I wrote a post on it [...]

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Have you resisted social media? I say jump onboard the evolution revolution.

By on April 10, 2012 in Social Media

I am sitting here reading an article about how some boffins who have developed a DIY 3D printer have reached $50k of their $300k goal on IndieGoGo in just two days – I am sure they will reach their goal. Only five years ago they would have been pitching to venture capitalists, or worse, getting [...]

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A filmmakers guide to Tumblr

By on March 18, 2012 in Social Media

If blogging is where you share your thoughts, Facebook is where you connect with friends and Twitter is where engage in short conversation, Tumblr, is kind of like that shoebox under your bed, full of random but very cool stuff. Tumblr is a microblog with a strong emphasis on images and video, though it can [...]

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Film makers, want your own branded daily newspaper? Get YOUR Paper.li to promote your work or brand.

By on March 16, 2012 in Marketing, Social Media

Paper.li is an online newspaper that is published, automatically, every day. The content for YOUR paper.li is generated by feeds from your Twitter and Facebook accounts, plus other sources you setup – so it’s personal to you. If you follow people with great content, it will draw from that stuff to create your branded, daily [...]

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How to communicate to get what you want, top strategies and pitfalls to avoid

By on August 30, 2011 in Books, Film Production, Production, Publicity, Social Media

As a film maker I am in the business of communication. It is the cornerstone of my business. Communicating big ideas with the world. Communicating stories with financiers, backers, actors, producers and broadcasters. And communicating with my community, sharing my journey and sometimes asking for help. As I write this I am downloading 79 emails. [...]

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Filmmakers and writers, grab your About.Me URL now

By on August 18, 2011 in SEO, Social Media

About.me is a new, elegant and simple online tool that creates a clean and modern looking contact / resume style page for you. It features all your links, sites, a bio and photo. It’s elegant, simple and I believe it will take off. Why? It has the great and memorable URL, www.about.me, its fast and [...]

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How to rate your social media footprint and engagement for filmmakers

How to rate your social media footprint and engagement for filmmakers

By on July 21, 2011 in SEO, Social Media

Do you have Klout? http://klout.com/#/livingspiritpix Klout is an online tool that analyses and rates your social media presence, engagement, influence, outreach… however the heck you want to describe it, and offers up a single simple score. As of writing this, my Klout is 61 (in a range from 1 to 100, where Lady Gaga is [...]

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Is social media useful to film makers or simply an empty promise and a distraction?

Is social media useful to film makers or simply an empty promise and a distraction?

By on August 20, 2010 in Feedback, Social Media

Is social media useful for film makers or a distraction? Last Sunday I did a live radio show in LA, Film Courage, which went out to thousands of film makers around the world. I blogged about it in my last post where you can hear the podcast here. The final question in the show is [...]

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We all love something AMAZING and FREE! Film makers, download a great book on social media and film making!

We all love something AMAZING and FREE! Film makers, download a great book on social media and film making!

By on March 10, 2010 in Books, Facebook, Social Media

As the debate around BECTU and the minimum wage rages onward (read my post here and the replies at the bottom of the post), so a great example of the future for film makers appears online for free. Yes free. Not always free though, it’s a paid for book sometimes, but right now, this week [...]

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The Great Film Makers Social Media Experiment is done and the results are in…

The Great Film Makers Social Media Experiment is done and the results are in…

By on January 30, 2010 in Facebook, Social Media

OK so thanks to everyone who got involved. READ SLOWLY, it's confusing. Just like FACEBOOK! OK so a little back history to this. Over the last few weeks I had been researching Facebook and discovered there are two kinds of entities you can have – Pages (aka Fan Pages) and Groups. Which to choose? Facebook [...]

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Focus for success and Tweeting to the converted…

Focus for success and Tweeting to the converted…

By on January 25, 2010 in Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks, Social Media, Twitter

I am in the final furlong now… The deadline for The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook is February 8th, and it’s all hands on deck in the Living Spirit office. I printed the book out last Friday and was horrified at how many blank pages I saw, and how little time remained. And so, I engaged [...]

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From Lunar Girl to Luna-cy!

From Lunar Girl to Luna-cy!

By on May 16, 2009 in Social Media

I want to let you know the extraordinary story of something happening right here and now in our own country. A few years ago, I interviewed a film maker called Janis Sharp, for my Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint book,  about a micro budget feature film she had made called Lunar Girl. You can read [...]

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