Week 6: Online Photo Sharing

1. Set up an online photo sharing account.
   
2. Upload one or more digital photos.
3. Post the photo(s) on to your Facebook site and your blog.

Wow, that was easy.

This week's assignment:

• Blog about the process on your personal blog for this course. I logged in to my Flickr account to see what was loaded. Most of my items are on Snapfish. I'll have to experiment a bit more with organizing the photos behind the scenes on Facebook. Can I choose to show my photos to only selected people? What about those crazy Halloween photos? I'll just share the "all audience" ones. Since I'm not a big photo taker, I won't have to micro-manage my collections anyway. The Flickr display templates are kind of fun. However, it looks like I can't display items within albums. I can see why Flickr would be my photo bank and Facebook would be one outlet for display. Flickr keeps my stuff mine; Facebook permits me to share with a selected audience.
  

• Share how this concept might be used in your library. It really doesn't fit in my library at all. Photo sharing via Flickr might fit into my institution's collections of photos for web pages and (future) social networking site use. My organization hosts several conferences per year. It could be useful to host conference photos in Facebook, particularly if we can identify individuals and link them to the conference site, the institution, and each other.

On another note, Duke University Medical Center Archives (with Duke Medicine) is using blogging technology and to facilitate identification of selected images from their online repository. The project Demystify Our Mystery Photos, is over a year old now, but there are still many photos to be identified. Loyal alumni and support from active partners contribute to the success of this project.