Photos from the Photo Marketing Association conference #pma

I spoke at the Photo Marketing Association meeting today. My topic was “How to Use Twitter as a Marketing Weapon.” Feel free to use the script that I created for this speech in case you need to demo Twitter.

Last night there was a PMA tweetup. These are my buddies from the PMA.

These are the toughest ID rules I’ve ever seen. I just made it by twenty-five years.

Sukhjit Ghag hamming it up with the Sony Bloggie. Sukhjit is the social-media evangelist for Sony Electronics.

He gave me an Anaheim Ducks hockey jersey!

These guys made me autograph their oranges. Go figure…

These are the founders of FixMyPhotos. They have taken care of me so many times that I’ve lost count.

At times, there was more tweeting than talking.

The vendor shot: Sukhjit Ghag (Sony), Liz Philips (HP), and Susan Polizzotto (Kodak).

First stop: Nikon.

Getting tech support.

Sony’s new point-and-shoot with interchangeable lenses.

More of the Sony booth.

This guy was showing how he shoots models.

Several boths showed the Microsoft table thingie.

Had to try the Sigma fisheye lens.

My lens is bigger than Scoble’s.

This is Emi Arata. She is the person who tweets for Sigma.

I hope you know who Jason Wu is because I didn’t.

Cool Olympus “four thirds” camera that combines the best of point-and-shoot and SLR.

I hope they make better cameras than hockey teams.

This is the Lensbaby booth. The company makes very trippy lenses.

See what I mean?

This company, Blackrapid, had the only thing that I tried to buy, but this guy traded my Nikon strap for it.

It makes a camera strap that goes diagonally across your body. It’s a much better way to carry a digital SLR—I wish I had it when I was at the WInter Olympics.