I love words and pictures and storytelling. And I love playing with tools that help us tell our stories. So it’s no surprise that I’m having great fun playing with Flickr Poet from Stories in Flight which I discovered last week from a colleague’s flickr stream. Pop in a poem, song lyrics or just random [...]
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Flickr’s “People in Photos” feature
A couple of weeks ago, flickr added an option to help identify people in your photos. On the right side of the photo page, right near where the Tags feature is, you’ll now find the “add a person” option. Click on that and just type in the person’s name or email address, matching flickr user [...]
Galleries on Flickr
Flickr has a new galleries feature that lets you create sets of up to 18 photos around any idea, theme or concept you find interesting. This encourages you to explore other people’s photos and search beyond just your own contacts photos for interesting content.
My first thought was that it will help me organize some [...]
flickr, National Library Week and New York libraries
flickr class at Nioga Library System, Lockport, NY
New York libraries – get out your cameras and take a shot at fame! The New York Library Association is having a fun photo contest. Visit the NLW – Library Snapshot New York State flickr group to learn more and submit your photos.
During National Library Week 2009 on [...]
On Sharing Photos & My Not-So Clean Desk
Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love flickr. I love how shared photos & conversations around those photos help me connect with friends, family and colleagues. And how photos can bring to life, places I may never get to see in person.
And thanks to the generosity of people who share their photos [...]
Great flickr images about our online world, media, life
About a year ago Helene Blowers tipped her readers to a great set of flickr images – Lynetter’s Interesting Snippets. Lynetter takes quotes about the online world, media and communications and finds great images to illustrate them. (Creative Commons licensed of course.) I love these images and quotes and have used quite a few of [...]
