Pictobrowser — Here’s an easy way to add an elegant slideshow of your Flickr photographs to your blog or website. It’s a great way to share a group of images of a particular subject or event, and it makes it easy for people to browse through them without switching back and forth between your website and Flickr.
Setting one of these up is actually much easier than setting up a badge on the Flickr website — you just click on the Pictobrowser link, enter your Flickr screen name, choose your images by selecting a set or group or tag, and you’ll get the code you need to copy and paste into your blog or website. There are lots of options for customizing the way these slideshows look.
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Flickr just announced a great new statistics feature which can really help you understand which of your photographs are getting viewed, and how people are finding them, which can help you evaluate your library’s use Flickr, and help you use it more effectively.
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There are thousands of library photographs on Flickr, some taken by librarians to show off their buildings and services or highlight their collections, some taken by members of the public. There are beautiful architectural shots, pictures of kids listening to stories, playing with puppets, or doing crafts. There are pictures of shelves of DVDs and displays of books, pictures taken outside the library looking in, and inside the library looking out, pictures of librarians and pictures of library cats, pictures of people studying and people sleeping. There are pictures of all types of libraries, all over the world.
In order to collect a variety of library photographs to use as examples in working with librarians using Flickr, I decided to start saving my favorites on del.icio.us, using the tag libraryflickrfaves. Feel free to look at my selection here : Library Flickr Faves
The Boston Phoenix has an interesting article comparing the websites of the Presidential candidates. It’s worth reading, and worth spending some time visiting all of the candidates sites not for the messages but to see how the candidates and their campaign organizations are embracing the web, multimedia and social networking to get those messages across.
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