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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. Within the past year, 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.

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.

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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 Flickr

Weymouth Public Libraries
Reading Public Library
Thomas Ford Memorial Library

Libraries & Librarians Group
Library Signage Group

6 Comments

kathykeirstead, 211 - days ago

I was able to create a Flickr account with no problem, but when I try to enable it to post to my blog, I keep getting a message that my API endpoint is incorrect. It's supposed to be the address for your wordpress account plus the other string of letters?
Then I somehow got confused and posted a Flickr picture to my Del.icio.us account. Oh well.
Kathy K.

kmlussier, 210 - days ago

Hi Kathy,

So for your site, it should be http://kathykeir.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php. Try copying and pasting it from here and see if you can get it to work.

I did some searching to see if this is a known problem with a fix, but it typically came up with WordPress blogs that were installed on a local server, not the ones hosted by WordPress.com. Let me know if it's still a problem and I'll keep on looking.

Kathy L.

kathykeirstead, 210 - days ago

I tried copying and pasting the address, but I'm still getting the message that my API endpoint is incorrect. I tried having one of my son's computer whiz friends help me with it, but he couldn't figure out how to do it either?
Thanks, Kathy K.

kmlussier, 209 - days ago

Hi Kathy,

I found a suggestion through the wordpress.com help forum. Try entering URL without the http//.

So, in your case, it would be:
kathykeir.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

murphvanv, 206 - days ago

I got a Flickr account set up and so far just their home page shows up on my blog, but at least I'm that far into it!

murphvanv, 204 - days ago

Got a photo up but it has some html code in it that needs editing out.

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