Flickr & Libraries

Slide 1: Point, Click and Learn: flickr & libraries Education Institute 31 October 2006 Michael Sauers, BCR

Slide 2: Disclaimer • Since I have no control over the content of the flickr site there is the possibility that you may see images you find offensive.

Slide 3: What is flickr • “Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. There is a huge mass of photos in the world, and Flickr provides a way to organize yours, and for you and your friends and family to tell your stories about them.”

Slide 4: Free flickr account • 20 MB monthly upload limit • 3 photosets • Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent images • Storage of smaller (resized) images

Slide 5: flickr Pro account • $24.95 / year • 2 GB monthly upload limit • Unlimited storage & bandwidth • Unlimited photosets • Permanent archiving of high-resolution original images • Ad-free browsing and sharing

Slide 6: Creating an account Since Flickr is owned by Yahoo! you’ll need a Yahoo! account to use it. You can create one here if you don’t already have one.

Slide 7: User profile You can include as little or as much information as you’d like. Other options include: Web site URL, home town, interests, favorite movies/books, and more.

Slide 8: Uploading • Methods – Web interface – Flickr Uploadr (Yes, that’s how they spell it.) – Upload to Flickr via Windows XP Explorer – E-mail – 1001 for Mac OS X – iPhoto plugin for Mac OS X

Slide 9: Web interface Tells you how much of Browse for your upload the image you you’ve used wish to so far this upload. The month. Web interface limits you to six uploads at a time. Click this link for the Tags added uplodaing here will be tools. attached to all photos uploaded in this batch. Privacy options

Slide 10: Flickr Uploadr Add / remove Rotate photo selected photos The only Options limit to uploading via the uploadr is your monthly bandwidth limit. Photos to be uploaded.

Slide 11: Upload to Flickr via Windows XP Explorer Adds Flickr as an option for Web publishing via XP’s “Publish this file to the Web”

Slide 12: E-mail Clicking on this link will present you with a custom e-mail address attached to your account. E-mailing a photo to that address will post it to your flickr account. Click this link again whenever you want a new e-mail address.

Slide 13: Describing & Tagging Title Narrative description Tags

Slide 14: Editing Clicking on the “Edit” link allows you to change a photo’s title, description, and tags.

Slide 15: Organizing The organize screen allows Search photos by tag, you to keyword and date. Select manipulate & drag them into the your photos in organizer. batches including tagging, sending to groups and sorting sets.

Slide 16: Creating a set Click on “add to set” then select “create a new set”. You’ll then need to give the set a title and a description (optional). When you create the set this photo will automatically be added to the set.

Slide 17: Adding to a set Click on “add to set” then select the name of the group you wish to add the photo to.

Slide 18: Removing from a set Click on “add to set” then click on the [X] next to the name of the group. Deleting all photos from a set will delete the set.

Slide 19: Available sizes will All Sizes depend on the size of the original photo.

Slide 20: Slideshows Stream slideshow link Group pool slideshow link

Slide 21: Slideshows

Slide 22: Slideshows Moving your mouse over the picture allows you to select a particular picture.

Slide 23: Blogging via Flickr To send flickr photos to your blog you must first set up your blog info in your account. You can also control who is allowed to blog your flickr photos.

Slide 24: Click “blog this” to send Blog This the photo to your blog. Then compose your blog post. The photo will automatically be cited.

Slide 25: Exploring flickr • Tags • Favorites • Contacts • Groups • RSS Feeds

Slide 26: Tags The larger the word, the more popular it is.

Slide 27: Favorites To make a photo a favorite, click on “add to favorites”. To view your favorites click on the “your favorites” link on your photos page.

Slide 28: Adding/editing contacts To add someone as a contact, find the link on their stream page. You’ll be given the option to mark them as a friend and/or family. Once you’ve added a contact they’ll be marked as such on their stream page along with a link for you to change their status or remove them from your contact list.

Slide 29: Contacts You have a page listing your contacts linked to on your homepage.

Slide 30: Contacts @ home The four most recent photos from your contacts will appear on your homepage.

Slide 31: Groups Try a search on topic of interest and to see what groups already exist before creating your own.

Slide 32: Creating a group Choose your group type carefully.

Slide 33: Joining a group Joining a group will add the group pool to your groups list and will allow you to submit your photos to the group.

Slide 34: Adding to a group Click on “send to group” to post your photo to a group. You must be a member of a group before it will show up in this list.

Slide 35: Removing from a group Click on “send to group” then click on the [X] next to the name of the group.

Slide 36: RSS Feeds Look for links to RSS feeds at the bottom of any group, tag, or user stream.

Slide 37: Leaving your mark • Comments • Notes

Slide 38: Comments Comments will be shown beneath the photo. You can also add your own comments to any photo. Be sure to preview before posting.

Slide 39: Recent comments Use the dropdown box to change the timeframe for displayed comments. You can link to recent comments off your home page.

Slide 40: Viewing Notes If there’s a note on a photo a box will appear. Hover your mouse over the box to see the content of the note.

Slide 41: Click “add Adding notes note” to do just that. You can drag and resize the note box. The content of the note goes here.

Slide 42: Your Account There are options you can change here. Be sure to look at all of them before you get to far along.

Slide 43: More flickr fun • Flagrant Disregard’s Flickr Toys http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/ • Color Fields Colr Pickr http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/ • How to embed flickr slideshows in your Web site http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2005/11/19/how-to-quickie- embedded-flickr-slideshows/ • Flickrnation Blog/Podcast http://www.flickrnation.com/

Slide 44: Thank you! Any questions? Michael Sauers msauers@bcr.org http://travelinlibrarian.info/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/