Flickr Photo Sharing Made Easy

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FlickrPhoto Sharing Made Easy
Last Updated April 2008
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Outline

• Overview
• Social Networking Websites
• Where Flickr fits in
• Getting Started
• Signing up
• Signing in
• Flickr toolbar
• Searching

• Uploading Photos
• Devices for uploading photos
• Putting photos on Flickr
• Tagging Photos
• Organizing Photos
• Sharing Photos
• Your Flickr Page
• Making Contacts
• Joining Groups

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Social Networking Websites
Overview

• Meet people who share similar interests and
  activities
• Stay in touch with friends and family easily
• Share photos, video and music
• Many different social networking websites

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What is Flickr?
Overview

• An online social networking website
• Emphasis on photo sharing
• Easy to use design, making it preferred choice
  over other sites

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Part 1 Getting Started
Go To

• www.flickr.com

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Part 1 Getting Started
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Part 1 Getting Started
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Part 1 Getting Started
Search Box
Tool Bar
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Part 1 Getting Started
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Part 1 Getting Started

• Exercise 1 Searching for pictures on Flickr
• Type a search term into the search box
• Click on Search
• Examples Halifax
• flowers
• boats
• cars
• dogs

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Part 2 Uploading Photos
Devices for putting photos on a computer
Digital Camera
CD/DVD
Scanner
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Part 2 Uploading Photos

• Exercise 2 Uploading Photographs to Flickr
• Go to www.flickr.com, login and click on Upload
  Photos
• Insert the CD into the drive
• Click on the first Browse button and find your
  picture files (navigate to the DVD Drive (D))
• Click the photo you wish to upload, and click on
  Open
• Repeat steps 3 4 for all additional photos
• Add tags and specify privacy settings
• Click on the Upload button and wait
• Edit titles, descriptions and tags and click on
  Save this Batch
• Click on the You tab to see all your photos

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Part 2 Uploading Photos
Organizing Photographs

• From the Organize page you can
• Edit titles, tags, descriptions
• Change permissions and dates
• Create sets

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Part 2 Uploading Photos

• Exercise 3 Organizing Photographs into Sets
• Click on the Organize tab
• Drag photographs into grey area
• Click on down arrow beside Add to Set
• Select New Set
• Edit title
• Click on blue Save button
• Click on Your Photostream (top right) to view
  your photos and sets

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Part 2 Uploading Photos
Set
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Part 3 Sharing Photos

• Three Social Networking Tools in Flickr
• Your Page and Profile a way for you to reveal
  as much, or as little, information about yourself
  as you like
• Contacts Adding family or friends as contacts
  will allow them to see your private photographs
• Groups When you join a group you can contribute
  photographs and communicate with other group
  members

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Part 3 Sharing Photos
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Send this URL to your friends.
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Click on You
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Part 3 Sharing Photos

• Exercise 4 Adding a Contact
• Click on the Contacts tab
• Type Spring Garden into the find a person
  search box and click search
• Put the mouse pointer over the picture of the
  contact you want to add. Click on the down arrow
  that appears and select Add as a contact from the
  drop down menu.
• Check the box next to Friend and click OK
• To see all your contacts, select Contact List
  from the Contact tab menu

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Part 3 Sharing Photos

• Removing a Flickr Contact

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Click Contacts
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Click Contacts List
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Place mouse over contact and click on arrow that
appears
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Click on Change
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Part 3 Sharing Photos

• Exercise 6 Joining a Flickr Group
• Click on the Groups tab
• Search for an interesting group to join (e.g.
  type Halifax Public Gardens into the search box
  and click on search)
• Select the most relevant search result
• Click on Join this Group
• Click on the Groups tab again to view all of your
  groups

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Part 3 Sharing Photos
Deleting a Flickr Group
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Conclusion

• Deleting photographs

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Conclusion
Always remember to Sign Out
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Conclusion
Check out the guidelines and use policies found
at the bottom of most pages
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Conclusion

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• Upcoming training programs
• Library resources
• Program evaluation forms

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