Finally, finally, finally--I am past the Flickr assignment! I enjoyed the video regarding online photo sharing, and it totally makes sense that if one was really into taking tons of photos, keeping a back-up copy on the Internet would be the smart thing to do. As a matter of fact, this may be a tool I share with my sister, who has a new digital camera and is enjoying becoming a somewhat amateur photographer. This would be a perfect storage solution for her. She is slightly less web savvy that me even, (if that's possible), so I will need to explain it to her. But now having used Flickr, it is fairly easy to understand. However, I did need to refer to my notes taken during one of our Library 2.0 sessions when Jen discussed Flickr, as when you are on the page nothing appears to be intuitive to me. But I created an account and successfully uploaded, titled, described and tagged a photo of mine (the same one on this blog). I then searched Flickr for some other images of the Manistee River, and found some interesting stuff. In fact, over on the left are two photos that I particularly liked--the Day's Landing on Lake Eleanor in Brethren (created by D. M. Day) is fun because of the family name connection, although not an actual relative. I love the photo of the freighter coming into the Manistee River channel at night, (taken by Open Lake Group LLC), because it is always an exciting time to hear the ship's horn and know that another big lake freighter is in town.
I can certainly see the many benefits of using Flickr to create buzz for your library. In fact we are working on a library tour, and Jen uploaded some 28 photos that I took of the Library onto our Library's account last week. With the search capacities of Flickr I can envision all sorts of ways that Flickr users may stumble upon our Library tour. I obviously understand the benefits of the storage aspect, and if I was a big photo nut I would probably use that aspect of Flickr. The private verses public debate is where I sort of lose interest--again I just don't get into the concept of everyone looking at my private images. So if I did use Flickr for myself, I would more than likely use the private option. Obviously, for institutional uses the public aspect of Flickr is what it is all about, and that makes sense, too.
All in all, an overall useful tool. By the way, in a follow-up to Thing #3, I never got the RSS email feed to work--I must be doing something wrong.
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