Thing #5 Flickr

The more I investigate Flickr, the more I like it. I have hundreds of photos stored on another online photo site, but Flickr has many more features. It will be a monumental job to transfer and upload all my photos (days and days), and probably years to tag everything, but it is now on my "to do" list. A few at a time...a few at a time.

I think that the organizational features of Flickr will be great. I use photos for many, many projects -- personal and at work. I can keep great blogging photos in a "file", personal photos to share, to scrapbook, to archive, to "keep all for myself".

The possibilities are limitless. I also love the feature to be able to send my camera-phone photos directly to Flickr. That's a handy tool. All kinds of possibilities come to mind for the library.

Use in the library? I do see this as a good alternative to kids Googling everything. I can filter the results as for safety (Advanced Search settings) and owner permissions (Creative Commons). I will probably set up a link on a search page on the website to see what kind of use it will get. Always an uphill battle with the easy Google search...

Now, I need to get all my 8mm film and videos digitized for safe keeping and make them easily viewable.

So much to do...so little time.