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Using Flickr™ to manage your image collections
S. Schoenian1
1Sheep and Goat Specialist, University
of Maryland Extension, Western Maryland Research & Education
Center, Keedysville, MD 21756
As the old saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Photos and videos are important educational tools for extension educators and research scientists. However, storing, finding, manipulating, retrieving, and using images can be difficult and time-consuming for busy professionals. Flickr™ is an inexpensive, online photo and video management and sharing application that is increasingly being adopted by web users as their primary photo storage site. In Flickr™ photos are organized using tags (a form of metatags), which allows users to find images related to certain topics. Users are allowed to organize their photos into “sets” or groups of photos that fall under the same category. Flickr™ provides both private and public image storage. It is easy to edit images in Flickr™. Flickr™ records the number of times an image is viewed. Users are allowed to make comments on images.
This abstract was presented at the Annual Meeting and Professional Improvement Conference of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents in Portland, Oregon in September 2009.
Visit my Flickr™ web site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/baalands/.