FLICKR ~

• Flickr is a popular online photo-sharing community that allows anyone to share and organise their digital photos with friends, family, colleagues, and the rest of the world.

• While many people use Flickr recreationally, it can also be a powerful tool for organsations, including nonprofits.

There are many ways that Flickr can help nonprofits share photos online and accomplish their goals.

• For example:

Keeping a Photo Bank:

• flickr not only allows the exchange photos and information, it also creates an image bank from which organisations can select photos for its website and blog.

Photographic Documentation:

• Photographs are able to be organised and tagged for future use and education, as well as to document activities in the field.

Internal Planning:

• As flickr allows the user the power to control who can access any particular photograph, you are able to easily share photographs and experience with counterparts and other organisations to get a visual reference programs, and projects.

Presentations:

• flickr’s Creative Commons licensing search feature enables greater access to photographs that can be used in presentations, without having to pay for stock photography.

Make things:

• Photographs can be used in cards, stickers and other items that flickr produces.

What Is Flickr?

• Anyone who signs up for a free Flickr account can upload photographs and use the site to store, share and explore photos (up to 100 MB per month).

• A pro account member can upload an unlimited amount of photographs.

Flickr is a global community

• There are more than 2 billion photos on Flickr, with 1 to 2 million new photos uploaded every day.

• More than half of its members live outside the United States, and the site is available in eight languages.

How to use Flickr ~

Setting Up Your Account

1. Respect Flickr's Community Guidelines.

2. Set up your account as an individual, but use group features as an organisational hub.

Uploading Photos

3. Pick the uploading method that best matches your needs.

Organising

4. Use tags, titles, and descriptions to make your photos easier to find.

5. Use sets, collections, and archives to keep your photos organised.

6. Use the Mapping feature to show where your photos were taken and to find photos of places near you.

Sharing

7. Use Creative Commons licensing to extend the distribution of your photos.

8. Use the privacy settings and filters to share appropriate photos with other users.

9. Use Groups to share your photos with others.

10. Make things.

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