Social networks have long been an effective tool for promoting websites and driving significant traffic. It’s no secret that many websites receive the majority of their visitors from social media rather than from search engines.

iStockphoto, together with the esteemed photo magazine Life, has announced a new photography contest. They named it “Together,” meaning “Unity” or “Togetherness.”

Today’s post is dedicated to reviewing the news that stock photo agencies have churned out over the past few months of the closing year and the beginning of the new one. But I’ll try to present the information with a bit of originality—after all, it’s the first post of 2011. So, let’s get started:

When arriving in a new city, before even settling in at a hotel, a traveler often looks for beautiful landmarks to explore. With a camera in hand, the tourist sets out and dreams of showing friends the city’s architectural masterpieces.

Anyone who has already started working with stock photo sites and reached a certain workflow volume eventually faces the challenge: how to speed up uploading and attribution? This becomes especially critical when you are working with multiple stock sites simultaneously.

In my previous post, I wrote a short review of BigStockPhoto, now called Bigstock, and promised to explain how to register and upload images. So, let’s get started!