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 * Games-workshop**

Games-workshop is the creator/manufacturer/distributor of all games //Warhammer;// currently the leading table-top miniatures games on the market. They sell model kits (traditionally lead, but invariably plastic or tin these days) which their customers assemble and paint, then use in fantasy-set battles using a complex rule-set based on statistics and dice. Phew! Anyways, I found this video which describes them from a business point of view:

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 * About* a year ago, Games-workshop started a Group Flickr Pool for their customers/fans to add pictures of their own painted models. According to the website, there are 2,100 members (you have to be a member to post), and over 21,000 photographs. Not bad for one year! Every week a selection is displayed on one of the company's thrice-weekly blogs, and the hobbyist responsible is usually asked to say something about their painting techniques, or how long they've been playing etc.

They also have a main Facebook Page with regular updates and linked into the Flickr Pool. Just this second I've discovered that each of their stores (about 340 I think, across the world!) has their //own// Facebook and Twitter accounts too! If you're interested, here's the Dublin shop's Twitter feed. I have no idea how they can keep up with all this... I shall have to email somebody and hope they tell me! That's my plan for next week.

As discussed here is a link to Guinness Storehouse visitor experience photo competition:

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You can also view the image gallery through the website. There are some pretty cool photographs. I think all the photos have links to info on the visitor.photographer. The competition (and image gallery platform?) is in conjunction with:

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Check out wikipedia entry on Flickr, there are links to other similar photo platforms.

Here' s a link to an digital image vendor: []