Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites 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 are using Flickr for.
Discovery Resources:
· Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps)
· Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials
· 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: In this discovery exercise, you have two options…
a. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the 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.
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b. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera (or a camera phone) to capture a few pictures of something in your community library. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “QueensLibrary” and mark it public. 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.
PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - 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. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.
PPS: This entry was posted via the "blog this" feature inside Flickr. The photo is of Forest Hills Library, where two of the three QL L2.0 team members work.
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Taking photos of the libraries, it is not a problem if it is outside. However, if it is inside, it may have to get clear of the MCD (used to be Public Relations) first. An old issue, just an reminder.
We've got a couple of MCD folks signed up. I'm sure they'll post a comment about guidelines to follow.
That said, I hope we would be able to share our interiors with the outside world, taking care not to post photos of people without the proper releases, especially where minors are concerned.
I didn't think I would be using this except to tell customers about it until I saw the calendar feature. That I'm interested in.
There shouldn't be any problem to post pure interior pictures of our libraries. They are already on the QL homepage for all the community libraries and the Central since since its inception.
Just wanted to add that the photos posted on our site deliberately have no people on them. This was a way to avoid that whole issue of getting proper releases from people. It makes for a less interesting photo IMHO but at least we avoid any unwanted lawsuits from people who don't want their images online.
Check out my post on Flickr copyright issues, dated 10/18 "#5 Discover Flickr...done"
Is it too late to do #5?
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