All About flickr

Speaking Notes from a Tech Talks Presentation by Nancy Reis, December 7, 2005

• What Is flickr?
• Getting Started With flickr
• Deliverables
• Participating in the Community
• Partaking of the Visual Feast
• Fooling Around With flickr
• Stuff I Didn't Tell You About

What Is flickr^TM?

Getting Started With flickr^TM

• Creating an account: free or pro?
• Uploading photographs
• Setting permissions
  • Public or Private?
  • Copyright or Creative Commons?
• Tagging
• Organizing/sets
  
  

Deliverables

• Prints and Enlargements
• Posters and Photobooks
• Stamps
  
  

Participating in the Community

• Commenting
• Making notes
• Tagging
• Making Contacts
• Joining Groups
• Forums
• Flickr^TM Mail
• Blocking
• Learning from EXIF Data
  
  

Partaking of the Visual Feast

• Searching, browsing (You can do this even if you don't belong to flickr^TM.)
  • By creative commons license type
  • By tags
  • By title, description, and tags
  • On Google use this string: [keyword] site: www.flickr.com/photos
• Favoriting
• Interestingness
• Pools and Clusters
  
  

Fooling Around With flickr^TM

• Flickr Color Picker
• Flickr Graph 
• Development, see API Documentation
  
  

Stuff I Didn't Tell You About

• Blogging
• Geotagging
• RSS and Atom Feeds

About the Author:  Library Associate Nancy Reis works for the UNT Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.