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Newbie needs a flickr tutorial
I am computer savvy, even camera savvy, but not savvy with flickr or
such sharing sites. Recently I participated in a group tour. The organization wants me to help people post and share their pictures at flickr. So I need a plan and tutorial quickly. The organization already has an account at flickr. Photos for previous events are already posted there. Ideally, we want to open an area just for our event, inside it a page for each participant where he can upload his photos with captions. Then we could tell each participant to navigate to their own page and upload the pictures. (I think it would be better to organize by people rather than attractions but that's a separate issue.) So I need a quick tutorial on how to accomplish this. I went to flickr site and saw words like collection and set. I couldn't figure out the difference; does one fit inside the other or are they conceptually very different things? Thanks for all help. |
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Newbie needs a flickr tutorial
AKT wrote:
I am computer savvy, even camera savvy, but not savvy with flickr or such sharing sites. Recently I participated in a group tour. The organization wants me to help people post and share their pictures at flickr. So I need a plan and tutorial quickly. The organization already has an account at flickr. Photos for previous events are already posted there. Ideally, we want to open an area just for our event, inside it a page for each participant where he can upload his photos with captions. To upload to flickr you must be a member of flickr -- which is easily done and free at the basic facility level. You ought to check if there's a daily limit on number uploaded on the free accounts. Perhaps what you should do is buy a professional account for the group, and then give everyone the login name and password. But there is then the risk that any of them can do anything to any of the uploaded photographs. Depends on how grown up your tour members are, and whether any of them are somewhat clumsy -- "oops! I didn't mean to cancel the whole account and delete everyone's pictures! I was just trying to log off!" Then we could tell each participant to navigate to their own page and upload the pictures. (I think it would be better to organize by people rather than attractions but that's a separate issue.) So I need a quick tutorial on how to accomplish this. I went to flickr site and saw words like collection and set. I couldn't figure out the difference; does one fit inside the other or are they conceptually very different things? Sets hold only photographs. Collections hold only sets or collections. But both only belong to a specific Flickr member and nobody else can upload to them. The usual way of doing this kind of thing on Flickr is for the individuals to each have their own personal Flickr account, where they upload their own photographs. You create a public group for the whole group, which you as administrator restrict in membership to people you invite or permit. You invite or permit all the group members. Then they and only they can submit photographs to that group, but nobody can do anything nasty to anyone esle's photographs. You can choose whether the photographs are visible only to group members, only to group members plus extra non-Flickr people you name, or anyone on Flickr, or anyone. -- Chris Malcolm |
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Newbie needs a flickr tutorial
Chris Malcolm wrote:
: But there is then the risk that any of them can do anything to : any of the uploaded photographs. Depends on how grown up your : tour members are, and whether any of them are somewhat : clumsy -- "oops! I didn't mean to cancel the whole account and : delete everyone's pictures! I was just trying to log off!" Yes this is a risk I discussed with our organization. Members are highly educated and computer savvy, just not savvy about photo sharing. So they just give out login and password, nothing bad has happened so far, but it is a concern. : The usual way of doing this kind of thing on Flickr is for the : individuals to each have their own personal Flickr account, where they : upload their own photographs. You create a public group for the whole : group, which you as administrator restrict in membership to people you : invite or permit. You invite or permit all the group members. Then : they and only they can submit photographs to that group, but nobody : can do anything nasty to anyone esle's photographs... This is certainly better. Question: If we create a public group, then do people need to have a separate individual fickr account before they can join the group? Or, joining the group creates an account for them within the group? Each group member gets a "collection" inside the group and is limited to uploading to or deleting from his own collection? Finally, as this will mean starting from scratch, is flickr the best place for such things or would some other free site be better? Thanks. |
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Newbie needs a flickr tutorial
AKT wrote:
Chris Malcolm wrote: : But there is then the risk that any of them can do anything to : any of the uploaded photographs. Depends on how grown up your : tour members are, and whether any of them are somewhat : clumsy -- "oops! I didn't mean to cancel the whole account and : delete everyone's pictures! I was just trying to log off!" Yes this is a risk I discussed with our organization. Members are highly educated and computer savvy, just not savvy about photo sharing. So they just give out login and password, nothing bad has happened so far, but it is a concern. : The usual way of doing this kind of thing on Flickr is for the : individuals to each have their own personal Flickr account, where they : upload their own photographs. You create a public group for the whole : group, which you as administrator restrict in membership to people you : invite or permit. You invite or permit all the group members. Then : they and only they can submit photographs to that group, but nobody : can do anything nasty to anyone esle's photographs... This is certainly better. Question: If we create a public group, then do people need to have a separate individual fickr account before they can join the group? Only Flickr members can join a Flickr group. Joining means they can add to the group photograph pool and contribute to group discussions. Or, joining the group creates an account for them within the group? Each group member gets a "collection" inside the group and is limited to uploading to or deleting from his own collection? No. A group is an independent pool of members' photographs. Only those who belong to the group can add to the group pool by submitting photographs from their own personal pool, and can only remove their own photographs from the group pool. The group also has one or more administrators, who can do anything to pool photographs. Finally, as this will mean starting from scratch, is flickr the best place for such things or would some other free site be better? Sorry, I simply don't know what mechanisms other photo sharing systems offer. -- Chris Malcolm |
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