Monday, February 08, 2010
Thing Seven:
Create a flickr account (if you already have one, skip to the next paragraph). Browse to www.flickr.com and click on the "Create Your Account" button. If you already have a Yahoo! ID, you can use this to sign in on the right side of the page that appears. If not, you will need to create a Yahoo! ID first, in the section below that where it says "Don't have a Yahoo! ID - Sign Up".
UPDATE FOR 2011: You may have heard rumours about Yahoo shutting down or selling off some of its most popular websites. It would be especially worthwhile making sure you back up anything you upload to Flickr just in case. There are some alternative sites listed at the bottom of this post.
Once you've completed the flickr signup process and are logged in to your account, upload some of your own photos. Start by clicking on the "Upload Photos and Videos" link on the main page. Be sure to tag each photo with some descriptive tags. Next, visit the page for the Oxford 23 Things group on Flickr, and ask to join it by clicking on the Join? link (see image below)
Once your membership has been approved, you can revisit the group page and click on the Add something? link to add some of the photos from your photostream to the Group Pool. (It may take a little time for me to get the email from flickr and approve your membership, but I'm trying to check it regularly.)
If you don't have any pictures to upload and would like some sample ones to work with, just drop me an email and I can send you a few to use. Also do get in touch if you have encounter any problems or have questions.
Finally, don't forget to write a blog post about your experiences with flickr, including the tags "Thing 7" and "Week 4".
UPDATE FOR 2011: You may have heard rumours about Yahoo shutting down or selling off some of its most popular websites. It would be especially worthwhile making sure you back up anything you upload to Flickr just in case. There are some alternative sites listed at the bottom of this post.
Once you've completed the flickr signup process and are logged in to your account, upload some of your own photos. Start by clicking on the "Upload Photos and Videos" link on the main page. Be sure to tag each photo with some descriptive tags. Next, visit the page for the Oxford 23 Things group on Flickr, and ask to join it by clicking on the Join? link (see image below)
Once your membership has been approved, you can revisit the group page and click on the Add something? link to add some of the photos from your photostream to the Group Pool. (It may take a little time for me to get the email from flickr and approve your membership, but I'm trying to check it regularly.)
If you don't have any pictures to upload and would like some sample ones to work with, just drop me an email and I can send you a few to use. Also do get in touch if you have encounter any problems or have questions.
Finally, don't forget to write a blog post about your experiences with flickr, including the tags "Thing 7" and "Week 4".
Additional things:
1. Put some of your flickr photos into a set - look under the Organize & Create menu at the top of your flickr home page.
2. Change the rights settings for one of your photos by going to its page (click on the photo in your Photostream to go there) and clicking on (edit) next to its current rights settings (these are shown under Additional Information on the right side of the page). On the page where you edit the rights settings, you will also have the option to change the default rights settings for all your photos, maybe you want to share them all under a Creative Commons licence? For instance, if you choose Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons, then only non-commercial entities can use your image, they must give you credit for it, and whatever they create from it must be shared in the same way.
3. "Geotag" some of your pictures to indicatewhere they were taken. To do this, go to the individual photo's page, then click on "Add to your map" under Additional Information on the right side of the page. To look at photos from various locations around the world, choose "Places" from the Explore menu at the top of your flickr home page.
Take a look at some other photo sharing sites:
2. Change the rights settings for one of your photos by going to its page (click on the photo in your Photostream to go there) and clicking on (edit) next to its current rights settings (these are shown under Additional Information on the right side of the page). On the page where you edit the rights settings, you will also have the option to change the default rights settings for all your photos, maybe you want to share them all under a Creative Commons licence? For instance, if you choose Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons, then only non-commercial entities can use your image, they must give you credit for it, and whatever they create from it must be shared in the same way.
3. "Geotag" some of your pictures to indicatewhere they were taken. To do this, go to the individual photo's page, then click on "Add to your map" under Additional Information on the right side of the page. To look at photos from various locations around the world, choose "Places" from the Explore menu at the top of your flickr home page.
Take a look at some other photo sharing sites:
- Picasa Web Albums from google
- Photobucket
- Kodak Gallery
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Hello Penny
Was really succesful in adding photostream set to my blog. Only to discover that might photostream set entitled L-Space was shared by a swimwear site so along with L-Space (Library Space) with attractivly posed women in swimsuits. I changed the name of flickr photostrams set but now it won't recognise it. Please help. My cat is cute but I would really like to have my L-Space photos on my blog !
Hello Martha,
You might need to link flickr to your blog again, maybe you've tried this... what is your username on flickr, so I can take a look at your sets? Thanks
Hello,
Can someone please accept my membership request for Ox23 group on flickr?
Thanks.
How does one link their flickr account to their blog? I tried downloading some pictures from my flickr account to a blog. I clicked on the picture icon and copied my flickr url to the "or add an image from the web". It seems to do something, but when I click on Done there is nothing in the blog I'm working on.
Hi Gigi,
There are a couple ways to do this. If you want to blog individual photos, the easiest thing to do is, from flickr, link to your blogger blog. Then in future, you can click on Blog This above an image.
To do this, go to Flickr, then under You, choose Your Account, then Your Blogs, then click edit at the right.
When you say that you have a blogger blog, you will get an informational page telling you to click Grant Access on the next page. Click "Head over to Google now", then click Grant Access.
Now you can easily blog a photo from flickr.
The other thing to do is add a flickr widget to your blog, so that your entire photostream appears. We haven't really done widgets in detail yet, but if you want to try it, go to your blogger dashboard, click Customize in the blue bar at the top, then choose to add a widget. The one you want is "flickr photostream". It will ask for your flickr account information when you add it. Do post again if you have any trouble with either of these methods.
Thanks Penny. by the way, has anyone been complaining today on how long it is taking to download a flikr photo to be edited by Picnik. I had no problems before, but now the wheels spin and spin while the progress bar says 100%, but it doesn't continue onto the edit page. I am trying to re-edit some pictures I already Picniked, is this the problem?
Whoops! I just tried clicking on the photo itself instead of the little edit wheel below and it worked.
Hi Penny,
I tried the flickr widget but it couldn't connect to my flickr account. It just keeps saying: Flickr Error: User not found
I'm not sure what my flickr username is: is it my Yahoo ID, my password, this other www.flickr.com/name_you_choose. None of them seem to work.
Hi Gigi,
It is confusing, I agree. What you want is how flickr identifies you, not Yahoo! - the easiest way to find this out is, when you are signed in to flickr, go to the main page, www.flickr.com, and see at the top where it says "signed in as: xxxxxx
"xxxxxx" should be the right thing, I used mine in the Flickr Photostream Gadget and it connects. I had the two mis-matched for a time and got an error so I know it is tricky. Let me know how you get on.
Yep, I went to my flickr page and looked at what I was signed in:
Gigi's My Friend Flickr
So I typed it in and something seem to have happened and when I go to my blog page I see Flickr Photostream and then a blank space below. No thumbnail photos are coming up. Clicking in the space does nothing and down in the very lower left-hand side of the page is a message: Error on page
Now my flickr photostream url is:
www.flickr.com/photos/noireau
could this be a problem that my username is different from that of the url?
Hi Gigi, Sorry it's giving you so much trouble. One thing you might try is going into flickr, then choose the You menu at the top, then My Account from the drop down list. See what is listed for Your Screen Name part way down the page. That should be what the widget on Blogger wants. I suppose you could also click edit when viewing your screen name, and make your screen name shorter, to simplify things. Then enter that new one in the Blogger widget. Good luck and do report back!
I discovered what the final problem was: the privacy settings for my photos on flickr. Once I changed the permission to Public for a choice few then the photos appeared in my Flickr Photostream gadget area. Thanks for your help Penny.
Excellent news - glad you got it sorted!
Hello again,
Thanks Penny for the new insight during today's workshop in regards to uploading flickr photos into a blog. Once again my problem stemmed from privacy permissions. Once I made a photo public, then I was able to use the "add an image from the web" option successfully. I also took note of Jane's suggestion to select the photo size in Flickr first before copying the URL. I didn't need to use the html version.
Hi Gigi,
Glad to hear you got that method of inserting a photo to work, I suppose it is a comfort to know that privacy settings actually have some teeth, even though they can cause problems. I know flickr is keen for people to make blogged photos link back to the flickr site and encourage use of their html inclusion method since it does this automatically, but you could manually make the photo a link in your blog. I doubt this is really enforced, so I don't expect any "ello, ello, ello, what have we here?" comments on your blog if you don't though :-)
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