Photo sharing web sites have been around since the 1990s; but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr is fastest growing photo sharing site on the web. It is also known as one of the first web sites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site.
For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries (list also here) are using Flickr for.
Discovery Resources:
Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps)
Flickr: Popular tags
Interesting- Last 7 days
Flickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups)
and let’s not forget to look at some other libraries on Flickr
Discovery Exercise (Option 1)
1. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about.
2. Create a blog post about your Flickr experience. Be sure to include either a link to an image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use Blogger's photo upload tool.
Discovery Exercise (Option 2)
1. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use your location's digital camera to capture a few pictures of something in your branch. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “VBPL_L2” and mark it public.
2. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature.
So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun and if you're interested in looking at some photo hosting sites, then why not check out this Wired story.
NOTE: Photo posting etiquette
1 - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr.
2 - Never upload pictures that were not taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent)
3 -Always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else.
3 comments:
Had to sign-up for a Yahoo acount to get a flickr account. I now have so many accounts, I'll never remember them all.
So very true!
The hardest thing I do is try to remember how I signed into my blog the last time!
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