Comments on: Flickr learning and sharing @ TechSoup http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/ Changing the world, one network at a time Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:02:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Flickr Uses for Libraries…06.26.08 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-1295 Flickr Uses for Libraries…06.26.08 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:05:24 +0000 http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-1295 [...] Flickr Learning and Sharing: In this guide, you’ll see how to use Flickr for marketing and building your library. [...] [...] Flickr Learning and Sharing: In this guide, you’ll see how to use Flickr for marketing and building your library. [...]

]]> By: Michaela http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-946 Michaela Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:33:35 +0000 http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-946 Thank you Richard, Sue, and Micael for your thoughtful additions to this post. I completely agree 100% about saving bandwidth through Flickr, <strong>Richard</strong>. It's also a neat way to virally spread your images in multiple venues to get your message across. I also think you have a great point <strong>Sue</strong>, about RSS and keeping up with your Contact's images. I've been buried under threads and threads of RSS in my own world and personally I found that adding Flickr feeds to it made the task of digging out more daunting, but I also have a lot of Contacts I like to keep up with. Some friends I know who swear by RSS in everything they do absolutely adore the way you can use its function with Flickr. I never before thought of using RSS for tracking the comments I make on other people's photos, however, that sounds fantastic and I'm definitely going to set that up for myself. I usually spend hours paging back in all my "recent activity" to see if someone has responded to a post I made. <strong>Micael</strong>, you also make a good point. One of the ways I've always used Flickr is to integrate photos into blogs and my organization's website. Having a Flickr account is just another way to spread your message and make more people aware of the cause you support or the fieldwork you do. The words you choose are everything, and can make the most amateur or simple shot appear incredibly powerful. Sharing these photos on Flickr can also be great for getting immediate feedback on that messaging too. Thank you Richard, Sue, and Micael for your thoughtful additions to this post.

I completely agree 100% about saving bandwidth through Flickr, Richard. It’s also a neat way to virally spread your images in multiple venues to get your message across.

I also think you have a great point Sue, about RSS and keeping up with your Contact’s images. I’ve been buried under threads and threads of RSS in my own world and personally I found that adding Flickr feeds to it made the task of digging out more daunting, but I also have a lot of Contacts I like to keep up with. Some friends I know who swear by RSS in everything they do absolutely adore the way you can use its function with Flickr. I never before thought of using RSS for tracking the comments I make on other people’s photos, however, that sounds fantastic and I’m definitely going to set that up for myself. I usually spend hours paging back in all my “recent activity” to see if someone has responded to a post I made.

Micael, you also make a good point. One of the ways I’ve always used Flickr is to integrate photos into blogs and my organization’s website. Having a Flickr account is just another way to spread your message and make more people aware of the cause you support or the fieldwork you do. The words you choose are everything, and can make the most amateur or simple shot appear incredibly powerful. Sharing these photos on Flickr can also be great for getting immediate feedback on that messaging too.

]]> By: Micael Waugaman http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-943 Micael Waugaman Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:48:04 +0000 http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-943 Thank you, Michaela, for sharing such an concise bit of flickr-minded goodness! Having 'attended' the event myself I was surprised that there weren't more questions/answers about the value of using RSS and related widgets/plugins/components to bring the photos back to your website or blog. Like most folks I can easily spend an hour surfing around flickr just out of personal interest & fascination - and flickr certainly makes this worth doing from the perspective of community. But it seems to me that smaller and/or less flickr-conscious groups may be overlooking the benefits of setting their pictures within the context of the message(s) that they are trying to deliver online. To over simplify: a picture may be worth a thousand words but a thousand words accompanied by the right picture is worth so much more to a nonprofit's cause. Thank you, Michaela, for sharing such an concise bit of flickr-minded goodness! Having ‘attended’ the event myself I was surprised that there weren’t more questions/answers about the value of using RSS and related widgets/plugins/components to bring the photos back to your website or blog.

Like most folks I can easily spend an hour surfing around flickr just out of personal interest & fascination - and flickr certainly makes this worth doing from the perspective of community. But it seems to me that smaller and/or less flickr-conscious groups may be overlooking the benefits of setting their pictures within the context of the message(s) that they are trying to deliver online.

To over simplify: a picture may be worth a thousand words but a thousand words accompanied by the right picture is worth so much more to a nonprofit’s cause.

]]> By: Sue Waters http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-942 Sue Waters Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:03:05 +0000 http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-942 Excellent post Michaela. I also like to point out to people how I use RSS to get the most out of using Flickr. I subscribe to the RSS from my contacts photos plus the feed from comments I make. This way the photos (only 5 max) from each of my contacts are delivered directly to my Google Reader and I am notified of replies to any comments I make without having to spend a lot of time on Flickr. Excellent post Michaela. I also like to point out to people how I use RSS to get the most out of using Flickr. I subscribe to the RSS from my contacts photos plus the feed from comments I make. This way the photos (only 5 max) from each of my contacts are delivered directly to my Google Reader and I am notified of replies to any comments I make without having to spend a lot of time on Flickr.

]]> By: Richard http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-937 Richard Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:28:05 +0000 http://www.girlswithmacs.org/2008/03/27/flickr-learning-and-sharing-techsoup/#comment-937 Great post Michaela but much of it assume that the purpose of flickr is solely social networking and popularity. One can also use flickr to save bandwidth on other sites where one pushes photos stored at flickr. If one does this, uploading time and amount have little meaning. I would also argue that your point about being involved in flickr and building your own community is more meaningful than again, time of day and number of images in garnering comments and attention; if you post meaningful comments on other people's images that you like (or dislike) you prime the pump, less on quid pro quo commenting, more on forming community. I wrote an essay a while back on the downside of a piece of flickr social networking that may become meaningful to some of your readers as they get more involved in flickr. It can be found here: http://www.richardsnotes.org/archives/2007/08/24/flickr-explore/ Great job Michaela, too bad flickr doesn't give credit for evangelizing, you'd have a free pro account for life (as would I). Great post Michaela but much of it assume that the purpose of flickr is solely social networking and popularity. One can also use flickr to save bandwidth on other sites where one pushes photos stored at flickr. If one does this, uploading time and amount have little meaning.

I would also argue that your point about being involved in flickr and building your own community is more meaningful than again, time of day and number of images in garnering comments and attention; if you post meaningful comments on other people’s images that you like (or dislike) you prime the pump, less on quid pro quo commenting, more on forming community.

I wrote an essay a while back on the downside of a piece of flickr social networking that may become meaningful to some of your readers as they get more involved in flickr. It can be found here:

http://www.richardsnotes.org/archives/2007/08/24/flickr-explore/

Great job Michaela, too bad flickr doesn’t give credit for evangelizing, you’d have a free pro account for life (as would I).

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