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flickr, National Library Week and New York libraries

Apr 11th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Nioga (NY) Library System - Blogs & Flickr Class
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 the days of April 12 – 18, New York Librarians and Library Staff will take a range of photographs of libraians working, meeting, teaching, and other activities that librarians do in a given day.

We encourage you to be creative in taking photos that capture the essence of New York Librarianship. Winners will be picked for the following categories:

  • Librarians as Teachers and Trainers
  • Librarians as Trailblazers in New Technology
  • Most Humorous

Winners will be recognized on the NYLA website (www.nyla.org) and during the 2009 NYLA Annual Conference this October in Niagara Falls.

Each photo should also have the tag snapNY09. You may use any additional tags and titles and descriptions that relate to the photo.

Please visit NYLA Snapshot Contest for complete contest guidelines.

More Features for Free Flickr Accounts

Mar 8th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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If you have a free Flickr account, you can now organize your photos into as many sets are you like. Used to be a limit of 3 sets. And you can now upload 2 videos a month as well.

Create Photo Slideshows with PhotoPeach

Jan 18th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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PhotoPeach is a new photo slideshow service. It’s currently free and allows 100 photos per slideshow. Users can create up to 100 slideshows. Photos can be uploaded from your computer or retrieved from Facebook, Picasa or flickr. In addition to a selection of music on the site, users can search for and use music used as background in YouTube videos.

Summer in Quebec (and Maine) on PhotoPeach

Transitions from slide to slide seem to remain the same regardless of the music tempo, something that slideshow service Animoto has mastered. It’s easy to add titles/notes to each slide, but I couldn’t find a way to edit them. Viewers can also leave comments, though I couldn’t find a way to delete comments.

This service creates attractive slideshows with great quality photos and it’s easy to use. I assume they’ll be adding more features in the future.

On Sharing Photos & My Not-So Clean Desk

Jan 2nd, 2009
by pollyalida.
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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 via Creative Commons licensing, flickr is also a terrific source of images for livening up your blog, illustrating a school project or for use in presentations. Use flickr’s advanced search option to find Creative Commons licensed content.

Most of my own photos are licensed for use by anyone as long as it’s a non-commercial use and they give me credit. Like many other people, I set up a  search alert on Google that lets me know whenever it finds my flickr user name mentioned anywhere. It’s always interesting to see where a photo may end up. And sometimes rather funny.

The photo above, ended up on a blog posting encouraging people to bring a bit of order to their workday by clearing up some of the clutter on their desks. A laudable goal. One that I will now try to live up to. I’ve been clearing mountains of papers all week. I hope to see the surface of my desk soon.

With that goal in mind for the New Year, let me wish you all a happy, healthy and peaceful 2009.

SimpleViewer Photo Gallery Tool

Sep 8th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Simple Viewer screenshot I wasn’t looking for software to make web based photo galleries and I can’t remember what led me to this tool, but SimpleViewer is a very nifty tool. I used the free desktop version that works with Picasa and quickly created a slick looking photo gallery.

The download file from SimpleViewer is a template that Picasa uses to create a web page of your photos. Simply pick the photos for the photo gallery, export them using the SimpleViewer template and upload the files to your web server. All the directions are on the SimpleViewer site.

No doubt there are many other photo gallery tools out there, but I like the look and feel of these photo galleries and it really was simple. Granted the free version doesn’t have captions and titles for the photos. Those features appear to be available in their Pro ($45) server based version. There are other SimpleViewer tools available for use with flickr and WordPress.

Any other suggestions for great looking photo galleries?

Photo collage software – FREE Today only

Sep 5th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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I haven’t tried this particular piece of software, but Wondershare produces good software. And when Giveaway of the Day has their stuff for free, I grab it.

simple yet powerful tool that makes amazing photo collages and digital scrapbooks for print. With plenty design templates, clip arts, photo frames.
  • Turn photos into collage and scrapbook
  • Plenty collage templates and layouts
  • Multiple-page Designs
  • Wordart, cliparts, stamps & more
  • Photo retouching and effects
  • Magic doodle drawing
  • DIY personalized calendar
  • Print & share anywhere

To get the free deal, you need to download and install today.

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