Flickr: My latest addiction
Having discovered the photo-sharing website Flickr a few weeks ago, I’ve gotten addicted. I suspect I won’t be maintaining our Evangel photo gallery in the future if Flickr works out as well as it looks. Anyone can easily upload photos then assign them tags (keywords) and group them into sets (e.g. our Scotland vacation) to make them easy to find. Going further, you can join any number of groups (Children in Africa, Playful Cats, Caffeine, Christian Missions) or create your own group. Group members can pool their pictures to share either publically or privately with group members. It’s all quite slick and fun.
Check out our Flickr site (the link is permanently on the right side of this blog page), play around with some of the options, and maybe you’ll want to join in and share your photos, too.
Now this photo jag has had me so occupied this week with either taking pictures, editing them, or posting them, that I almost forgot the real news, that we have a new little foster baby. Born Tuesday, healthy and happy. We’re provisionally naming her Tina, knowing that her future parents, whoever they are, may have a different name. Barb will (I hope) be writing more soon about Tina’s story.
May 21st, 2006 at 7:09 am
I’m slow to discover things, so I’ really don’t know the half of Flickr, but I’m very happy to see your photos there. The community aspect of Flickr is really great. I’s sure I’m not unusual in checking in on photos posted by a number of organizations. “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Pictures combined with brief descriptions and tags are really valuable. The community around your photos is great for addressing small and immediate problems that come up by alerting your regular photo viewers about them. The community is also a way of bringing together interested parties to support on another. It’s infectious, and I mean that in a good way.
May 21st, 2006 at 7:17 am
I didn’t think of this earlier; and you may have thought of this already: You can add links to your photographs to direct people to Web pages you want to tell them about. Use Flicr to tell haow people can be involved.