Monday, February 21, 2011

Flickr

I've used Flickr and Photobucket in the past, even once presenting managers with a quick walk through of Flickr and its potential use for librarians and organizations.  Alas, this was quite a while back and I had forgotten a number of cool things I covered back then.  Still yet, was fun to revisit the site.  Of course, the map searching is great but I, of course, chose to search under "motorcycles", yielding some cool pictures of bikes at various points around the globe and also finding the "motorcycles" group as well.  I think Flickr could be used as a neat reference and networking tool.  I often get questions from young adults needing a photo of the individual they are covering for school.  Just a cursory search under "thomas jefferson" will land you some cool images.  On the flip side, I honestly very rarely get questions about photo sharing per se.  Regardless, I think Flickr is great for the organization in terms of posting photos from various events/programs held at the library.  

1 comment:

  1. Yeah, I don't know that we've ever really explored using Flickr organizationally as opposed to sharing photos on Facebook. You certainly get the advantage of higher resolution, but I wonder what other upside there might be.

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