Flickr

1. Flickr Jenna Westberg Bus. 111

2. What is it… • Flickr is an image and video hosting and website/web services suite and online community. • Tell a story with your photos and allow whoever you want to comment. • Add notes to explain or comment right on the photo. • Favorite the photos you like best to easily find them later, and see who has favorited yours. • Add people to your photos for your reference, and so they can see what you've posted. • Add tags to categorize your photos and to help others find them in searches

3. What can you do with it… • Upload: There are multiple ways to upload your photos to Flickr. Through the web, your mobile device, email or your favorite photo applications. • Discover: Keep up with your friends and share your stories with comments & notes. Add information like tags, locations & people. • Share: Upload your photos once to Flickr, then easily and share them through Facebook, Twitter, email, blogs and more.

4. Integrating into social media… • Flickr integrates a lot of social media techniques that we have covered in class… • Such as… • Tags- for easy searching • Great for bloggingto host images that they embed in blogs and social media. • Helping you go digital…You are able to tell a story through your photos in a digital format.

5. Why it’s unique… • Flickr is an online community so you can share your photos or you can just browse through interesting photos from others. • You can also organize your photos to make it easier for others to view.

6. Wrapping it up… • Flickr can is an easy way to communicate through photos for personal or business use. Try it out today • http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenna09/