This is a guide for all AFH Chapters to use the online photo sharing service called Flickr. It will allow us to populate our new website and network our efforts and projects.

1. Chapter Network
Introduction to Flickr
Flickr’s generous capacity for storing, tagging,
organizing, and following images makes it an ideal
tool for Chapters to showcase, promote, and share
their various initiatives and celebrate their community
partners.
Over a dozen legacy chapters have already launched Flickr accounts.
Membership and 1TB of storage (as of Nov. 2015) are free, provided
you launch a Yahoo mail account to tie it to. This document introduces
features, process, and recommendations for managing your Flickr.

2. Chapter Network Introduction to Flickr
Flickr offers a robust and rather intuitive user interface
allowing members to sort, tag, describe, organize, and
even map their photo uploads.
Customize your
taste in design. It’s
like Pinterest but
with less cake.
Yep, the Chapter
Network runs
a group that
combines the
image feeds of
all its members
- join up to add
your work to the
conversation.
LOGIN
UPLOAD
Albums can
effectively
organize Chapter
projects and
events. (A lot of
the date and time
information is
read automatically
by Flickr from
the each image’s
metadata.)
Yass.
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*Like a Facebook
timeline of your
image uploads.
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*Get your affairs in order.

3. Chapter Network Introduction to Flickr
Offerings
Even before the fall of the Open Architecture Network, the Chapters
have been asking whether social media platforms were strong enough to
support the needs of online project hosting. Flickr accomplishes many
of the OAN’s goals with a (not surprisingly) much higher level of UX
design and accessibility.
The following Flickr features are helping chapters promote their missions
and organize their accomplishments:
• Images can be uploaded with titles and descriptions, and can be
organized into albums and collections of albums
• Photograph metadata such as date taken and camera used are
recognized and catalogued automatically
• Images are automatically resized for download and fit any number of
applications; downsized image URLS can be copied and applied to
off-site web pages
• Images can be assigned to a map feature
• Following, comments and sharing means your network can interact
with content, and you can get a feed of other organization’s inspiring
work
• Creative Commons licensing can be set for pictures upon upload

4. Chapter Network Introduction to Flickr
Starting an Account
Starting a Flickr account is not exactly straightforward – you must first
establish a Yahoo email account for your Chapter, for which you’ll
need a first and last name and a cell phone number. Flickr is geared
towards individual accounts and does not have dedicated support for
organization accounts (however very many orgs are using it that way).
From there, make sure you have a profile logo img sized for a round
frame and a wide image to use for the header of your page.
Once you’ve signed up click on your profile image (default at right), and
go to Settings to be able to set or change your screenname, “actual”
name, and add some about text (highly recommended), and set a
custom url for your page (which can only be done once, so be sure it’s
a hit).
Image URLS for your website
Getting a web-friendly version of any Flickr image on your web page is
as easy as selecting exactly what size best suits your needs. Flickr offers
a selection of embed codes to set you in the right direction.
If you’re just looking for a simple URL, you can find it (under “View all
sizes,” and then right click / Control click on the size you want to Copy
Link Location) but Flickr wants to ensure that when an image it hosts is
placed on another site, that that image links back to its location on Flickr.

5. Chapter Network Introduction to Flickr
Uploading a batch of pictures can save a lot of time with the use of
Flickr’s editing and assignment tools.
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Drag everything onto the page and use the left column to set titles,
descriptions, tags, destination album and your Owner settings (i.e.
which creative commons license you’d like to set.
This is also a place to create and detail a new photo album. A few
verifications and the album is live! with readily accessible options to
edit your information.
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Your album is live.

6. Chapter Network Introduction to Flickr
Organizing photos and batches are done through this somewhat awkward
organization canvas. The plus side is you can toggle just about anything or any
group of things from here. Below, we add some pics of Onagawa, Japan, to the map.
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(It’s actually taller
than shown here.)
You’ll want to
switch to satellite
view to get a good
idea of where
you’re placing your
images - Flickr’s
map isn’t built for
navigating by.
Aaand – PLACED. Just
navigate away from the
page when done – Flickr
will warn you about
saving, but there is no
manual mechanism
to do so. Rest assured
your images have been
mapped.