Sonialena Photography Joins the Cloud

I’ve finally finished setting up my online client access system. Now clients can electronically sign their contracts and make payments online, all from their personalized client access page. I’m using a web-based studio management system, rather than software that runs from my computer. And I’m looking for even more ways to join “the cloud.”

A few months ago I read an interesting article in Slate about cloud computing. The idea is that you can chuck your computer out the window, watch it smash into tiny little pieces, and think nothing of it. Why? Because all your data, your photos, your files, your digital life, are stored on the web instead of on your hard drive. A smashed computer means bits of plastic lying in the street; it doesn’t mean your life as you know it has disappeared forever.

Unless Adobe comes out with web-based versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and InDesign, I won’t be giving up my desktop anytime soon. But I recently purchased a very tiny, very cute netbook that I plan to tote around with me for client meetings and photography shoots. We’ll see how much of the cloud I connect with when I’m jetting about town.