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Flickr
Photo sharing Web sites 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 is known as one of the first Web sites to
use tags to create associations and connections between
photos and users of the site.
Flickr is free for a limited account, but Tech Soup has a great price for non-profit organizations and public libraries that want a professional account.
For this exercise, you
are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has
to offer. Find out what groups are and see all the neat things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for.
Exercise
- 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. If you already have a Yahoo account, you can use that account to login into Flickr.
-- OR --
- If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr
and use a digital camera to capture a few pictures of
something in your library. Upload these to your Flickr account, tag the images, remembering to use semls20 as one of the tags,
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. You can do this by using Flickr's blogging tool.
Note: This post can count as your blog post for the week. However, if you had already been thinking about something you wanted to post on your blog this week, feel free to do more than one post!
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.
Examples of Libraries Using FlickrWeymouth Public Libraries
Reading Public Library
Thomas Ford Memorial Library
Libraries & Librarians Group
Library Signage Group
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Hi! I am enjoying all the photos on Flickr. One question: Both times that I posted a picture on my blog, Flickr gave me this error message: "Your blog posting failed" So I clicked on "TRY AGAIN"
Well, when I looked at my blog, they had posted the pictures twice.
I figured out how to delete the extra ones, so I learned something. Does this happen all the time?
Guess what? Third time was a charm. I just posted my own photo, and it worked! No error messages. Just proves the old saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." (I think that's my motto for this course.)
Sue H.
I'm not sure why you got the original error messages, but I'm guessing Flickr may have been having problems at the time?
Kathy
I was able to post a picture to my blog. (I had more trouble with creating an account on Yahoo than anything is this class!) This is a wonderful resource and I can see uses for it. We need to buy a digital camera. Eden
I was able to upload my own picture to flickr, but not to get it to my word press blog. It rejected the API location. Im not sure what is meant by including a link to the image. Where does that go?
Hi Sherry,
Try copying and pasting the API Endpoint from here to see if you can get it to work:
http://sherrysinfoblog.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php
The other way you can add it to your blog is to do the following:
Create a new blog post
Click on the "Add an image" button - this is directly above the button for bullets.
Click on "From URL"
Add the URL for the Flickr photo - you can find the URL by clicking on the photo in Flickr, click on the "All Sizes" button above the photo, select the size you want to use. The URL is located underneath the photo.
Let me know if you run across any trouble!
Kathy