The best way to describe how GRC can be agile, is to have a look at these three men who walk the GRC line.

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Although information management (IM) is something that every organization needs to master as a strategic capability, convincing executive leadership to make the investment in time, resources, and money to do so can be challenging. 

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There’s no easy way to say it: Vox, Six Apart’s (news, site) blogging/social network platform, is dead.

In yet another move that screams of the merger Six Apart continues to deny, Vox will be officially kaput on September 30th.

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One of the things that has bugged me about the WP Super Cache settings page was how it was laid out. Well, the next version of the plugin will display a simplified settings page to new users. If you’re upgrading, you’ll get the same old page as ever, don’t worry.

This version also adds a new method of serving cache files. It uses PHP, but serves supercache files. So, it’s a halfway house between using mod_rewrite (difficult to install for some users), and the legacy caching of WP Cache. That caching will be what is activated for users who use the simplified settings page.

There are lots of other bug fixes. The cache tester works if WordPress is installed in a sub directory, the admin page is separated out into tabs now to make it easier to find things. Error messages show up as “update messages” at the top of the browser now, making it easier for new users to figure out when mod_rewrite rules need updating and when other house keeping tasks need doing.

The code is red hot, liable to bend and break and may cause problems but it works fine here and on a test multi site install but I need testers to hammer on it and do things I don’t expect. If you’re brave, grab the development version off the download page. Thanks!

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In last week’s article, Content Strategy: 7 Practical Tips for Getting Stakeholder Buy In, we talked about how to get stakeholders to buy-in to your new content strategy. A critical step in implementing a content strategy is achieving this consensus. The next challenge is making sure that all of your stakeholders understand and keep up-to-date with your content strategy.

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Large numbers of visitors for a particular search term is not in itself a positive thing. We always have to ask the question why?

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Ah yes, this is indeed a wonderful era for learning and networking. There are conferences and webinars coming out our ears, hotspots a-plenty and if you’re lucky, sponsored drinks at the bar.

Our weekly events list is designed to help you plan ahead. And if we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to our industry events calendar.

  Featured Event:

• Day Software Ignite Conference — Chicago
  October 13th & 14th — Mingle with fellow Web professionals, discover the latest in Mobile and Social Engagement, and get a sneak peek of what’s coming in Day CQ 5.4! Not to mention…find out more about the exciting future of Day and Adobe.Learn about the future of Web CMS via a comprehensive review of current challenges.

  September Events September 8-10 (Chengdu): 5th Annual Asia shared service and outsourcing summit

The Annual Asia Shared Service and Outsourcing Summit, which is an annual event for companies in China, is recognized as one of the most outstanding and influential gathering for shared service professionals in Asia.

September 13-14 (San Francisco): APPNATION

APPNATION is the first global conference and exposition to focus exclusively on the burgeoning consumer applications marketplace.

September 13-15 (Las Vegas): Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit

The Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit is the premier forum for executives in the hosting, datacenter, CDN and cloud Internet infrastructure sectors.

September 13-17 (Online): Intro to Social Network Analysis (On Demand)

ntro to Social/Organizational Network Analysis is designed for people who want to understand how to systematically identify and map networks within their organization as well as those who want to learn about the tools and methods to map and analyze networks.

September 14-16 (Orlando): NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition

Is your computer safe? In partnership with industry and academia, the NSA is pioneering breakthrough Trusted Computing technologies that stop cyber threats dead in their tracks.

September 14-17 (Boston): Information Organization and Access Certification

This is a 4 day intensive study of the best practices for optimizing findability and enterprise search drawn not only from the 50,000 members of the Association for Information and Image Management world-wide but also, and importantly, from our own extensive experience consulting on these issues in real world client situations.

September 15-16 (Shanghai): 2nd Annual Customer Loyalty Asia Programme & CRM Summit

2nd Annual Customer Loyalty Asia Programme & CRM Summit 2010, carefully researched and organized by Neoedge Singapore, will provide all international and local companies an in-time and efficient platform of learning, networking and partnership building for your corporate advantage in the increasingly vibrant and fierce market.

September 16 (London): ICS Solutions Cloud Day, London - Azure and BPOS

Register for one of ICS Solutions Azure seminars to be amongst the first people in the world to see how easy it is to build, deploy and manage applications in the Cloud and gain insight into the hottest platform currently available from Microsoft.

September 16-17 (Basel, Switzerland): Magnolia Conference 2010

The first day will consist of keynotes and sessions with business and technical topics in regard to Magnolia CMS. The day after will be Community Day, an Unconference-style event run by the attendees.

September 16-17 (Amsterdam): CMS Made Simple Geek Moot 2010

t’s that time again. The developers of CMS Made Simple have finalized plans for our yearly user conference. This year, we’re thinking much bigger, so join us. There will be plenty of presentations by the devs and other members of the community, events, networking and just general geeking out. 

September 19-23 (San Francisco): Oracle OpenWorld 2010

With thousands of sessions and hundreds of exhibits and demos, there’s no better place to learn how to optimize your existing systems, get an inside line on upcoming technology breakthroughs, and meet with the strategists and developers responsible for the products and services that help you get better results for your company.

September 20-22 (Monterey): X Change Conference 

The X Change Conference is built around intimate conversations led by Enterprise analytics managers and senior practitioners.

 

September 22 (Chicago): Henry Stewart DAM Conference 2010 Chicago

The Henry Stewart DAM events, held in New York, London, Chicago and Los Angeles, highlight all the important issues from the fundamentals of how to get started with a DAM solution to the latest developments in DAM technology and processes.

 

September 22 (Basingstoke): SharePoint and Project Server 2010: Enterprise Control and Collaboration seminar

ICS Solutions have teamed up with leading Enterprise Project Management specialists, Program Framework, to provide a free half day seminar on SharePoint 2010 and Enterprise Project Management.

September 22 (Basingstoke): Overview: SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010

Following the launch earlier in the year of these two great products, it is time to understand what is new with SharePoint and Project Server 2010 by registering for one of our half-day seminars. We are offering this in collaboration with ICS Solutions at their campus in Basingstoke on the M3 corridor.

September 22-23 (New York): Createasphere Digital Asset Management (DAM) Conference

The Entertainment and Media industry premier event on the management of digital assets. This conference and expo will shape the standards and explore the urgent global issues of digital asset management in the entertainment and media sector.

September 22-23: (Singapore): Social Media World Forum Asia

Social Media World Forum Asia will bring together the Asian Social Media community to debate the hot topics for 2010.  

September 22-24 (New York City): Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference

The Entertainment and Media industry premier event on the management of digital assets. This conference and expo will shape the standards and explore the urgent global issues of digital asset management in the entertainment and media sector.

September 23 (San Francisco): Think Mobile West

Mediabistro’s Think Mobile conference explores the broadening mobile ecosystem, the application marketplace, and the innovation that drives the industry.

September 23 (Basingstoke): SharePoint 2010: ECM and Records Management

This SharePoint 2010 ECM and Records Management seminar helps you to discover how to get control of your electronic information and mitigate compliance risks with SharePoint 2010.

September 24-25 (Paris): European Information Architecture Summit VI (euroIAVI)

The Sixth European Information Architecture Summit does not have a specific theme. Rather, we will be putting together an English-language programme that represents a wide range of subjects - from hard-core search strategies, to more general user-experience topics.

September 24-26 (Tampa): TikiFest Tampa 2010

A tradition in the Tiki community, a TikiFest is a meeting between Tiki community members (that usually only meet online). This is an opportunity to socialize, code and discuss about wiki technology and culture, etc.

September 29-30 (London): IBC’s User Generated Content 2010

When you attend an IBC Legal conference you will benefit from a thoroughly-researched programme, delivered by leading experts in the field, and an event structure that offers the invaluable opportunity to network with event participants.

September 29-30 (New York City): Location Based Marketing Summit

The Location-Based Marketing Summit in New York City, is the leading event for Fortune 1000 companies seeking to maximize marketing, commerce and business strategies using location-based services.

October Events October 1-2 (New York City): Open Video Conference 2010

The Open Video Conference (OVC) is a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to explore the future of online video.

October 3-6 (New York City): TikiFest New York 6

A tradition in the Tiki community, a TikiFest is a meeting between Tiki contributors (that don’t usually meet). This is an opportunity, usually, to drink adult beverages, get some laptops out and code wildly in group sessions and/or discuss about wiki technology and culture, etc. depending the mood and context.

October 4-8 (Boston): FutureM

FutureM is the first ever week-long, collaborative, multi-location conference in Boston offering participants the opportunity to tap into the freshest thinkers in marketing, media and technology.

October 4-7 (New York City): Digital Content Monetization (DCM) NYC 2010

DCM 2010 is working with 60+ content owners including the NFL, Universal Pictures, NASCAR, NBC Universal, Warner Bros, Sony Music, Disney, A&E Television Networks and Electronic Arts to deliver ‘how to’ knowledge that enables you to drive a sustainable multi-platform digital business model.

October 4-7 (Atlanta): FutureMedia Fest 2010

FutureMedia Fest 2010 – Explore new paradigms in how Content is Created, Distributed, and Consumed with FutureMedia at Georgia Tech. Join our mash-up of talent, ideas, trends and technology.

October 5-6 (Prague): Online Marketing & Social Media in Travel Summit

EyeforTravel’s Online Marketing & Social Media in Travel Summit brings together top travel brands to share key insights on how to maximize the impact of your online marketing and social media initiatives. 

October 5-6 (New York City): Digital Content Monetization 2010

Digital Content Monetization 2010 examines new models for monetizing content and the tools and technologies being used across the media industry to enable effective distribution of different content types.

October 5-8 (San Francisco): International CTIA Wireless 2010 - Mobile Business

With a focus on applications, network architecture and technologies such as LBS, machine-to-machine and WiMAX (just to name a few), this international event brings a community of users, carriers, developers and manufacturers together to generate dialogue, share ideas and debate the economics of MOBILE BUSINESS.

October 7 (Utrecht): HartmanEVENT 2010 - Social Media & Mobile Usability

The HartmanEVENT will teach you everything about strategies, methodologies, techniques and tools to get more value from your information.

October 7 (Reading): SharePoint 2010 - Overview and Introduction

The SharePoint 2010 overview seminar gives you a high level introduction to everything you need to know to succeed with SharePoint 2010 in your organisation.

October 7 (Reading): SharePoint 2010 - Social Computing and Collaboration

The Social Computing and Collaboration SharePoint 2010 seminar is focused on ‘People’. That’s what business is about. At this seminar you will understand how SharePoint Server 2010 can unlock innovation and creativity, and improve the performance and productivity of your teams.

October 9-14 (San Francisco): Digital Marketing 2010 (DMA2010)

Unlike other conferences out there, DMA2010 is the only Global ROI Marketing Event, focusing on direct and digital marketing integration across all channels! Learn from 300+ experts from brands like Pepsi, LG, HP and Twitter.

October 11-15 (Miami): Akamai Global Customer Conference 2010

We are pleased to invite Akamai customers and partners to our third annual Akamai Global Customer Conference as we explore and discuss the industry trends that shape the Internet we use every day to work, live and play

October 12 (Soho, London): SharePoint 2010 - Internet Development Seminar

This SharePoint 2010 Internet Development seminar discusses the use of SharePoint Server 2010 to manage your web site(s).

October 13-14 (Chicago): Day Ignite - Chicago 2010

Day Ignite is the one place where you can mingle with fellow content management professionals, discover what’s possible with Day Software and get a sneak peek of what’s coming in CQ 5.4!

October 14 (Basingstoke): ICS Solutions Cloud Day, Basingstoke

Register for one of ICS Solutions Azure seminars to be amongst the first people in the world to see how easy it is to build, deploy and manage applications in the Cloud and gain insight into the hottest platform currently available from Microsoft.

October 14-15 (London): Online Video Strategies: Solutions and strategies for publishing your video on the web

Creating and distributing video online? Join us at Online Video Strategies this October in London and learn how to choose the online video solutions that meet your needs.

October 14-16 (New York): Gain: AIGA Design and Business Conference

Attend “Gain: AIGA Design and Business Conference” to learn how industry leaders addressed business challenges through design—and how they reinvented their businesses, their strategies and even themselves.

October 15-16 (Las Vegas): BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2010

BlogWorld & New Media Expo is the first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of new media including all forms of blogging, podcasting, social media, social networking, online video, music, Internet TV and radio.

October 16-17 (Philadelphia): Voices That Matter - iPhone Developers Conference

You’ll acquire skills for mastering iOS development from leading authors and experts during a weekend of strong educational sessions.

October 17-19 (New York City): Pivot Conference 

Attend Pivot Conference and hear from those successfully engaging with today’s emerging consumer and create your own action plan for success.

October 17-21 (Orlando): Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2010

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry’s only event to deliver the insights, tools and relationships necessary to create, validate and execute transformative business technology strategies.

October 18-20 (Singapore): Online Reputation Management, Asia

The Online Reputation Management Asia Conference convenes thought and industry leaders to determine key industry solutions for online reputation management in an ever-competitive industry.

October 18-20 (Washington, DC): Social Media for Defense and Government

IDGA’s 3rd Social Media for Defense and Government provides a forum for senior level Government and Military officials, industry partners, and the academic communities to align shared goals, showcase new technology, and define the way forward.

October 18-20 (Prague): Kentico Connection Conference

Building on the success of the last years. Kentico connection will be the ultimate opportunity to get the whole Kentico community together and enjoy three days of learning, sharing experiences and getting answers to your questions.

October 19 (New York City): Smart Content: The Content Analytics Conference

This conference is about digital transformation, about enhancing the business value of information, both enterprise content and social media.

October 20 (Paris): Alfresco Developer Conference Paris

Here’s your chance to sharpen your Alfresco technical skills, learn what’s new and network with other community members at our inaugural Alfresco Developer Conference. You can expect two packed days of Alfresco immersion delivered by some of the engineers and visionaries behind our technology.

October 21-22 (Huntsville, AL): Cabinet NG Collaborate 2010

The Collaborate Conference is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to connect with the people, products, and trends at the forefront of the document management industry.

October 22-23 (Petaluma): SocialBizWorld

SocialBizWorld is a 2-day Social Media and Web 2.0 business conference for private and public-sector business executives, leaders, managers, employees and consultants looking for insightful speakers, hands-on workshops, in-depth discussions and real-world examples to move their business forward with new media.

October 26 (San Jose): SocialTech 2010

SocialTech 2010 brings together the visionaries and experts who are using the power of social media to transform the way that B2B technology companies market their products and services.

October 27-29 (Washington, DC): Advanced New Media Strategies for Federal Government

This event will showcase 15 federal perspectives on different strategies government agencies can implement to comply with the Obama Administration’s Open Government Directive.

October 28 (London): International Search Summit

The International Search Summit will focus once again on international and multilingual search marketing topics and offer delegates insight and advice on how to effectively develop and manage international online campaigns.

October 28 (London): Reducing Project Costs with Microsoft Project Server & Project Professional 2010

The seminar provides an excellent opportunity to interact with both our Enterprise Project Management (EPM) and Microsoft Project Server experts.

November Events November 1 (New York City): Social Media for Sustainability Conference

The 2010 Social Media for Sustainability conference will follow the successful first year conference in San Francisco, held on October 19th, 2009. The second year event will bring together an anticipated 400 corporate leaders, social entrepreneurs, activists, and other key thought-leaders for a full day of interactive case studies.

November 1-4 (Las Vegas): DotNetNuke Connections ‘10

Whether you are a user, developer, web designer, or other open source community member, DotNetNuke Connections ‘10 is the place to learn about the latest developments in the DotNetNuke ecosystem.

November 1-4 (Santa Clara): Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (7th Cloud Expo)

Delegates will leave 7th Cloud Expo with dramatically increased understanding of the entire scope of the cloud computing spectrum, from storage to security.

November 2-3 (Berlin): Day Ignite - Berlin 2010

Day Ignite is the one place where you can mingle with fellow content management professionals, discover what’s possible with Day Software and get a sneak peek of what’s coming in CQ 5.4!

November 2-4 (Aarhus): J. Boye Conference Aarhus 2010

A sales-pitch free environment with focused two-way sessions and ample opportunity to engage in dialogue with fellow web practitioners and the most influential experts in the fields of web and intranet.

November 3-4 (New York City): Alfresco Developer Conference NYC

Here’s your chance to sharpen your Alfresco technical skills, learn what’s new and network with other community members at our inaugural Alfresco Developer Conference. You can expect two packed days of Alfresco immersion delivered by some of the engineers and visionaries behind our technology.

November 3-5 (Washington, DC): Cyber Security Readiness Summit

This conference will bring together Government, Industry and Academia to discuss the ways in which we can begin to take a more long-term, holistic approach to Cyber Security Readiness.

November 7-10 (Orlando): Ektron’s Worldwide Customer Conference: Synergy 2010

Ektron Inc., a Web content management, social software and marketing optimization solution provider, today announced that its fourth annual customer conference – Synergy 2010 – will be held this year at the Lowes Portofino Bay Hotel in Orlando, Florida from November 7th through the 10th.

November 7-12 (Washington, DC): Open Text Content World 2010

Network with fellow users and Open Text product experts, learn technical tips and business how-to’s, and discover Open Text’s ECM strategy and vision—all in the award-winning Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center just minutes outside Washington, DC.

November 8-11 (Santa Clara): Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Santa Clara

See the latest collaboration tools and technologies and learn from thought leaders in Enterprise 2.0’s comprehensive conference.

November 8-11 (Las Vegas): PubCon 2010

 When it comes to creating marketing buzz online, webmasters pretty much invented the concept. PubCon is four days of leading edge education and networking in over 90 sessions featuring 200 expert speakers in Social Media, Affiliate Programs, Search, and SEO/SEM.

November 9-10 (Silicon Valley): Attensity Engage Conference

This two-day conference is designed to bring together colleagues, industry luminaries and Attensity experts to exchange ideas, successes, best practices and challenges surrounding Social CRM strategies and their practical daily use.

November 11-12 (Bangalore): Business Technology Summit 2010

Tracks at Business Technology Summit 2010 cover various aspects of Cloud Computing and SOA and Web Services.

November 12-14 (Berlin): TikiFest Berlin 2010

A tradition in the Tiki community, a TikiFest is a meeting between Tiki community members (that usually only meet online). This is an opportunity to socialize, code and discuss about wiki technology and culture, etc.

November 15-19 (Online): UP! 2010 - Cloud Computing Conference

This conference is an annual review of cloud computing developments, on the cloud’s impact on world economy and society, and an aggregation point for the study of future trends.

November 15-16 (Los Angeles): Henry Stewart DAM Conference 2010 Los Angeles

The Henry Stewart DAM events, held in New York, London, Chicago and Los Angeles, highlight all the important issues from the fundamentals of how to get started with a DAM solution to the latest developments in DAM technology and processes.

November 17 (Phoenix): Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference

In the current environment, some companies will still come out stronger than before. Has your business suffered? Have you been laid off? Are you trying to grow in difficult circumstances? Here at AZEC10, we’ve got your back.

November 17-18 (Paris): Nuxeo World, Paris 2010

We invite you to network with peers, engage the Nuxeo team and add your input to the future of Enterprise Content Management. Learn how to derive even greater value from your current deployment.

November 17-18 (Raleigh): Internet Summit 2010

Join over 1000 Internet Executives, senior marketers, entrepreneurs and investors at Internet Summit 2010 for expert content on opportunities and trends created by web innovation.

November 28-29 (Berlin): Employee Portal Evolution Masters 2010

The first annual “Employee Portal Evolution Masters” in Berlin will discuss strategic approaches to the handling and management of complex Intranets & Employee portals in rapid changing digital environment.

November 29-30 (Maastricht, Netherlands): Medicine 2.0 2010

Medicine 2.0 is the annual open, international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, also known as the World Congress on Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine, Health, Health Care, and Biomedical Research.

November 30 - December 1 (London): Apps World 2010

Apps World, a two day event taking place on the 30th November & 1st December at Olympia 2, has been designed to create a unique platform to bring together the next generation of this rapidly developing sector.

November 30 - December 2 (London): Online Information 2010

Online Information covers 6 core segments: Content Resources, ePublishing Solutions, Library Management, Content Management, Search Solutions and Social Media, providing an annual meeting place for this global industry.

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Busy, Busy, Busy. Labour Day weekend over and right back into it. This week document capture features quite large, with a couple of new solutions and Kofax hitting the high notes with its end-of-year figures. Hyland Software has also been looking at document and content security.

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The world of Social CRM is starting to get more and more involved with trying to change how an entire organization functions and operates. However, from the client standpoint they want something they can get started with today and evolve over time. Are we making things too complicated for clients by telling them they need to change everything about how to do business?

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WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.4.3 has been released to BlackBerry App World.

Depending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World, but on your device the latest version 1.4.3 should be available starting now.

Many big improvements have been made for devices running OS5.0 or higher,  including:

• Improvements to the post GeoTagging feature.  The app allows you to choose a location from a list of predefined options:  GPS,  contact entry in the address book,  manually inserting an address,  recently selected, clicking on a point in a map.
• Preview Improvements.
• Bug fixing.

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Do you have questions or feedback that would enhance the app ? Please visit the WordPress for BlackBerry forums.

The Mill is a simple, yet elegant, two-column WordPress theme.

Misty Morn is a grey-based WordPress 3.0 child theme for Purple Pastels with custom image and attachment templates, thickbox enabled image attachment pages, and additional page templates for pages without comments and pages without the sidebar.

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Steampunk is a steam punk inspired theme built under the Themeatic Theme Framework environment with clean and SEO friendly HTML/CSS code.

Sun City is a darker WordPress 3.0 theme that makes use of orange, green, blue and other primary colours to provide a visually rich display.

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I had a pretty interesting experience going through security at Ben Gurion airport — I almost didn’t make it through. I had heard the airport security in Israel was different but I had no idea. They spent about an hour asking questions, turning on (and taking apart) every piece of the 20+ electronic items I travel with, with particular attention and questions around my iPad. They took it out of the Apple case, turned it on, scanned it, took it away for 10 minutes to scan somewhere else, asked if anyone else in Israel had used it, when I last used it, asked when I got it, and ultimately said that their “technology team” had not cleared it for carry-on and they would need to pack it in a special box, wrap it, tape it, and check it directly with Continental (I couldn’t touch it or the box except to put some WP stickers on so I could identify it later). Wowza! My Sony PC, though, is safe to fly with. No wonder I saw so few Apple products at WordCamp.

Venture firms seem to have realized that Twitter accessories may not provide huge financial gains. It's the platform, not the extras, that matter in the Twitterverse.

Kubota Image Tools has announced availability of its latest package of presets for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Compatible with Lightroom 3, the Kubota Lightroom Presets - Vintage Delish offers pre-programmed short-cuts to create popular image effects while saving you time.

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Kodak is expanding its photo capture scanning range for retail and niche service markets with the release of the KODAK Picture Saver Scanning System PS410 and PS810. Picture Saver Scanning System's available output options include KODAK Picture CD, photo DVDs, CDs, and more.

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This is the first in a series of new instructional guides for photographers, of all levels, who want to improve their portrait work through smarter use of Photoshop.

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Our last community workshop gave one of our readers some great tips on how to approach photographing a model so I’ve decided to post another reader question. This one is a question I get quite a bit – how do I photograph the birth of a baby?

Here’s the latest question from one of our readers – Drew.

“My wife and I are expecting the birth of our new baby daughter in two weeks time and I’m wondering if you might have any advice on how to photograph the birth?

It’s such a special time for us as family that we want to capture it somehow but I’m a little nervous about how to do it tastefully, meaningfully and without my camera dominating the event.”

I know not everyone will have experience in this one and that there are probably different opinions on whether people would take a camera into this situation – but if you’ve got some advice or tips we’d love to hear them.

What advice do you have for Drew?

PS: As a dad of two and an avid photographer I’ve found myself asking the same question. I know some families choose to make a birth a camera free event and can respect that – while others take an ‘access all areas’ approach. In our situation we did take and use the camera but were certainly not using it during the seconds babies arrived.

One piece of advice that I did share a while back here on dPS that came from a friend who took a lot of photos through the birth of his kids was – sometimes images in black and white can be good for this type of situation where color images can be be quite overpowering and graphic. My friend took a lot of photos during the birth of his babies but they were so vivid in color that it was very confronting. He experimented with converting some to black and white and found that the images were still very powerful but not quite as confronting.

The other piece of advice I’d give is to talk about it before labor starts! You probably want both of you on the same page before you start pointing cameras on a day like that!

Looking forward to hearing your tips on photographing the birth of a baby!

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