I have had a Flickr account and used it to share pictures with friends. Since I had a set of pictures that I wanted as a flickr badge (another cool widget) I thought this would be easy. Now it really is but as with most things on the web the first time it gave me indigestion. So here are a few tips. 1. Make sure your photos are for public viewing. You can mark them for public viewing by set or by individual picture. 2. Use the HTML gadget in Blogger when you're copying the code from flickr.
Angela has set up an ACLD Flickr account with several sets of pictures. She tells me that the whole account has received 600 hits--pretty good. I think that this is one 2.0 feature that libraries can use in marketing. It's another access point for library events and publicity. Internally, any of us can now grab a picture when we need it. The Library of Congress project of tagging pictures has opened up the ability for anyone to find a picture of a subject and use it or comment on it.
Flickr is a good thing.
9 hours ago
I LOVE your wordle!
ReplyDeleteThe old LoC photo solution was completely ridiculous--session IDs in the URLs for photos? Jebus. Give me permalinks any day.
ReplyDeleteOf course, LoC has yet to put *all* of their photos on Flickr, so many of them are still only accessible by directions like "go here, then search for this, then look for this one dated 1937"....