Flickr Not Blogs the Main Influence in the SL Fashion Scene?

SL blogger Monica Querrien makes an interesting case that Flickr, not blogs, are the key influencer of Second Life's fashion community:

What I think bloggers need to understand is this: Your blog is not only your personal space, but it’s also your personal brand. The people who are asking all of these requirements don’t necessarily care about your brand – it’s about what you can do for them to help get their message out there. You have to position yourself so when the next big trend to promoting for an event/store comes around, that it won’t be such a drastic change for you. With regard with Flickr, every blogger should already be on Flickr, posting pics, following people, and have a list of favorite photos. I will even go as far as saying that your blog should have a link to your Flickr somehow. So now, with the latest trend focusing on Flickr, it is just a matter of building on what you have already started.

Read the rest here on Monica's blog, which she's promoting via her Flickr photo above. Flickr is definitely a major node of influence among SLers (not to self: revive our SL FLickr Stream posts), but it's a striking idea that it's the most important, at least among SL fashionistas. Agree there?

Via SL Reddit..

Comments

[Alicia Chenaux]

Unfortunately, it kind of is these days. I am not sure when it started, but suddenly you couldn't apply to blog for stores/events any more without having 500+ views on EVERY photo. That led to a lot of people adding everyone on Flickr just to get views, or reposting their photos 2-3 times to gather more views.

Now personally, I don't look at Flickr as much as I used to since now I have all these people I'm following. Which sounds weird, but it's true. I can no longer keep up. So I read blogs. I especially read bloggers who choose to do more than just pics and credits. But that's a personal choice and I realize I'm in the minority these days with that choice.

[Ciaran Laval]

Flickr is a brilliant resource for Second Life users of all types, creators, bloggers, explorers etc.

However, do tread carefully, especially if you're a business, or you could fall foul of Flickr's TOS.

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

ou can't apply unless you have 500 views on every picture? I'm a failure as a Flickr'r, such shame as a fashionista. ;-)

I'm with you, "Ch'now", I prefer blogs with words and paragraphs and stuff. An outfit tells a story.

But I have been uploading photos to flickr more than blogging.

[Danaf]

I do both WP blog & Flickr. Flickr is kinda the easy way out, just post a picture and wow! soon you get lots of views & favs. in comparison my blog takes a lot more effort but there's a lot less views. It's all relative I guess.