Thing 7: Exploring Flickr

For Thing #7, we'll be looking at Flickr, an online image and video hosting website. There are many online photo-sharing sites: Snapfish, Picasa, Photobucket to name just a few. Flickr was one of the first websites to use tagging to help identify concepts and subjects. For instance, if you share a picture of your new car and tag it "Shelby", it will be classified with all the other pictures of "Shelbys" on Flickr, allowing users to easily find pictures that interest them.

First, take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer.
Try out Flickr's Tour, Search, and Explore features.

To complete Thing #7, you have to do two activities (each one has three parts):
1. Learn About Flickr
a) Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. What did you search for to find it?
b) Create a blog post about this experience. Be sure to include a link to the image that you want to blog about. Check the Creative Commons license for the photo: many people allow you to use their pictures as long as you give them clear credit!
c) Find out what tags, groups, and interestingness are. A good place to start is the Explore page.

2. Your Own Flickr Account
a) For an easy challenge, create a free account in Flickr.
b) Take some photos in the library where you work that could be used in promotional material, though if there are people in the photos be sure to get signed talent releases! Upload some digital pictures to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “Nhulunbuy Community Library” (in quotes) and mark it public.
c) Create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature.