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How to use Flickr

There’s a lot of good reasons to use an online photo service. Online photo services make it easy to save and organize your photos for later. Have you ever tried to find a picture from your last trip and had no idea where it could be? Ever had your hard drive crash and were not able to recover anything on it? I have, and it’s not fun.

Sharing your Photos
Sharing your photos online is a lot easier and faster than emailing your photos to all your friends and family. And your friends and family can also keep up with your new pics.

Networking your photos
This maybe a little extreme: I just came back from Barbados and saw about 20 properties, and yes I have plenty more to go. Some unique features: These pictures are sized to fit on any area of a web site, each picture has a description, and are copy righted as creative commons so they can not be resold, anyone can use them, and there must be a reference that I am the photographer.

I liked Club Med so much I set up a Club Med Group on Flickr where others could share their vacation photos as well. What a great way to see other Club Med locations than through the eyes or photos of others that have been there. And if there are more questions there is a place to start a discussion or ask questions.

Just came back from the first part of the Bausch & Lomb Tennis championships on Amelia Island. I must have taken close to 500 pics. Most of those are multiple shots per second of serves. Also started a Flickr Group for Bausch & Lomb to post some of those.

I saw Venus Williams for the first night game and during the day I sat in for a match with Petrova seated #1, on the last day I was there.

When you come early to a large tournament it’s easy to move around between matches. And everyone was pretty good about waiting until players changed sides.

Hotspots
Found 2 free wifi hotspots on Amelia Island; Seattle’s Best on Centre Street is a big gathering spot for locals before the day begins. And Latitude’s, out in Yulee by Home Depot, I usually hit this coffee shop early in the am when leaving to head home.

Social Sites
I’ve started adding my sites to some social communities and social bookmarks and in a very short time starting to see a good increase in viewers.

Added a little Flickr widget on to the lower right column.

It looks like most of this coming week I’ll be loading pics up to Flickr.