I spent a while on Flickr for the first time this afternoon. I did several searches, one for librarians. I got some surprises and unexpected photos along the way. I did enjoy the photos from the search of Chesapeake Bay. Some were so beautiful. The Library of Congress site is awesome. I clicked on several links to explore those. Interesting that they want the public to comment on photos that have no comments or tags. Do they trust us to have all the facts correct? So often patrons don't even have the name of the book they want to read or the author of a selelction so we have to be mindreaders and good researchers to help them out!
I did the Flickr tour and will think about posting some photos but did not do so today. I did learn a llittle bit more about tags.
Now if a patron comes in and wants to set up a Flickr account, I will know where to send that person and can encourage them to take the tour and learn about posting photos, comments and tags. I hope I will be more more helpful now. I had no idea prior to today. Good day.
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I like Flikr, but I may start using Picasa more. As soon as you add a photo to your blog you will automatically get a Picasa account from Google. The more google stuff you have, the easier it is to connect it all together. Don't know if that is good or bad!
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