Photo Sharing

New Web 2.0 media sharing destinations enable people to organize and share their photo and video collections online. These social websites spotlight amateur and professional creations which can be rated, reviewed, and favorited by the community.

• 62% of American teens have uploaded photos to the Web

Flickr

• A photo sharing and management application
• Recently acquired by Yahoo!
• An online space to upload, store, and organize digital images
• Over 8.5 million users
• Over 2 billion photos

Features

• Ability to tag images with keywords
• Can create sets
• Can create Favorites
• Can Annotate anyone's images with notes
• Can leave comments on others' images
• Can Join Groups
• Exploration by Interestingness
• Exploration by user or tag or even by camera!
• Search by clusters
• Geotagging

Great Tools for:

• Marketing & Promotion
• Digital collections management
• Online exhibits

How Are Libraries Using It?

• To post photos of new library acquisitions
• To share historical collections
• To spotlight library staff
• To post photos of the library buildings
• To post photos of library events and programs
• To post photos of library renovation and construction
• To post photos of staff and community events
• To store and preserve large photo collections
• For library promotion

How Are Librarians Using It?

• Librarian Trading Cards
• To share photos of library conferences and events

Other photo sharing applications

• Flickr
• Photobucket
• Kodak Gallery

Additional Resources

Flickr Toys & Trading Card maker

Hands-on

Exercise:

• Go to Flickr

• Create an Account
• Explore by Interestingness
• Add a photo to your Favorites