1. Introduction to the Basics of Flickr
(and potential library uses…)
A presentation by Scott Clark
Bennett Martin Public Library / Lincoln City Libraries / Lincoln, NE
for the annual conference
of the Nebraska Library Association
sponsored by the Paraprofessionals Section
What is Flickr
• Free vs “pro”
Creating an Account
User Profile
Only share as much info as you want to provide
Uploading Your Photos
• Flickr’s built-in upload feature
• Flickr uploader / desktop apps / browser
• e-mail
• mobile – Android, iPhone, Windows Phone
• third party apps
What to Do With Your Photos Once They’re on Flickr
• Titling, describing, notes and tagging
• Editing
• Copyrights and Creative Commons
• Organizr
• Mapping
• Sets – creating a set, adding to and removing from sets
• Collections
• Viewing sizes
• Slideshows
• Blogging with/about your photos

2. Exploring the World of Flickr (i.e. the “Social Network” of Flickr)
• Tags
• Favorites
• Searching
• Expanding your family, friends & contacts
• Flickrmail
• Groups – joining and/or creating, adding to/removing from a group
• Comments
• Adding Notes
• RSS feeds
• The “Explore” page
• Sharing, Promoting and Networking – Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Yahoo Updates, badges,
slideshows
• Browsing Flickr – Current Events, Galleries, The Commons, Places, Groups, Flickr Blog, Third
Party Apps
Your Account Information
Expand Your Flickr Experience
• Flickr badges – http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne
• Flagrant Disregard’s & Big Huge Lab’s Flickr Toys – http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
• Color Fields Colr Pickr – http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/ (just fun to play with)
• The Flickr Forums – http://www.flickrnation.com/
Your Flickr Professor for today was
Scott Clark
http://www.flickr.com/people/cannellfan -- personal account
http://www.flickr.com/people/bookguide -- Lincoln City Libraries’ BookGuide Flickr account
Recommended titles for more detailed information:
How to Use Flickr Hacks Sams Teach
Flickr Paul Bausch Yourself Flickr in
Richard Giles 006.6 Bau 10 Minutes
[2006] [2006] Steven H.
Holzner
[2009]

3. Full detailed information available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
The Licenses
Attribution Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY CC BY-NC
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your
upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit work non-commercially, and although their new works
you for the original creation. This is the most must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they
accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for don’t have to license their derivative works on the same
maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. terms.
Attribution-ShareAlike Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA CC BY-NC-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your
work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and
you and license their new creations under the identical license their new creations under the identical terms.
terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and
open source software licenses. All new works based on
yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will
also allow commercial use. This is the license used by
Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would
benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
similarly licensed projects. CC BY-NC-ND
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses,
only allowing others to download your works and share
them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t
change them in any way or use them commercially.
Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-
commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and
in whole, with credit to you.