Filed under: Photo Sharing, Social Networks | Tags: Flickr, library 2.0, Photo Sharing, Picasa, Shutterfly, Snapfish, Social Networks, videos, web 2.0
Flickr (a Yahoo product) , Picasa (a Google product), Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Photobucket are all photo (and video) sharing sites. And with the holidays coming up, what better time to learn to share photos online – and for free?!
Common Craft has a great video that introduces the features common to most of the services:
With these services, you can spend hours and hours looking at photos of every possible person, place, and thing you can imagine.
To complete this Thing, you have a couple of options.
Choice 1: Go to one of these sites and explore. Warm up by choose a favorite subject to search about (for example, Muppets, books, babies, etc.). Now get down to work by thinking about using such a site for the library. Many libraries have Photo Sharing accounts and regularly upload photos of events held at their libraries. Here is an (old but viable) link to several libraries that are using Flickr. Make sure to comment on a few in your blog: which ones do a good job and what can be done to improve the others?
OR (More challenging, but more fun!)
Choice 2: Create an account with one of these sites. (If you have a Google account, you’re well on the way to having a Picasa account. If you have a Yahoo account, then you already have a Flickr account.) Sign in and upload some images to your account. How do you do this? You’ll want to take some pictures with a digital camera and put them on your computer. Then once you sign in to the Photo Sharing site, click on the link to “Upload photos” and the site will guide you through. After you’ve uploaded some photos, go back to your blog and write about your experience. Provide a link to your photostream.
OR (for the experienced users)
Challenge: Those of you familiar with photo sharing sites and blogs may be interested in using the photos you have gathered and placed on your photo sharing site appear on your blog! Blog entries that include photographs often grab readers attention more than unaccompanied text. Or go wild and try making a video to upload to Flickr to embed in your blog entry. Using the free Movie Maker download you can turn photos and video clips into a custom video that even gives you the option of putting in background music. Now that would get the attention of your readers! Need inspiration… read about one librarian’s success story with videos in the library here.
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The video now loads as private.
Comment by digitalblizzard April 8, 2011 @ 3:37 pmThanks for letting us know. We’ve updated the post with a different link to the same video.
Comment by EAChase April 9, 2011 @ 10:46 am