N-TEN Conference 2007 - Flick Session!
Originally uploaded by christuttledotcom.
Just finished the flickr session. I am having lots of computer/Internet access issues and am now able to find this photo via Chris - who was a able to post to flickr! Most of the people in the room are folks who aren't participating in the NTEN Flickr Affinity Group and were new to flickr. Lots of questions -- a question that seems to asked of every single social media tool:
- How do deal with the lack of control? Giving up branding, not have the photos on our web site ..
- What happens if a photograph that we don't like is put in our flickr group? How can we moderate or filter photos?
- Fear of being sued - what if we stream photos with a tag and it publishes a photo that is all rights reserved in flickr?
- How do we measure the results? If want people to resue our photos, how do we measure? What is the conversion rate from sharing photos in flickr to donations or advocacy?
- What type of activity or strategy can I set on flickr that isn't going to require to much of my time to maintain?
- The amount of time it takes to search and participate in the community on flickr - is it worth it?
There was one person in my small group was interested in getting started in flickr, he is the IT person in a small organization. He said his major challenge now is to design something that doesn't a huge amount of time to maintain. So, I'm thinking of what the first small steps to using flickr looks like for a nonprofit.
I liked your tagging screen cast. Now, on this topic, I think this is a huge issue, perhaps more huge than we realize. How can we use tech efficiently? Good question for everyone, but especially for nonprofits.
Posted by: Shawn | April 04, 2007 at 03:09 PM
Hey Beth!
Great session! I led the "getting started" small-group and we had a great conversation about both the simple 123 steps for starting in Flickr and brainstormed and shared ways in which Flickr could be used to support the work each of them are doing. When I get some time I'll type up notes of our small-group and share.
Posted by: chris tuttle | April 05, 2007 at 08:11 AM
We are starting to use Flickr at Breast Cancer Care for our Events.
It's just the beginning but we gave all our trek participants instructions to set up an account on Flickr and join our groups.
We are planning to stream the photos on a new Events site we are currently building.
Posted by: Bertie Bosredon | April 05, 2007 at 08:36 AM
Is education also nonprofit? I work in special needs education. For a lesson I used Flickr to show the children photo's of Egypt.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rietberg/tags/egypte/
Posted by: Kaj Rietberg | April 05, 2007 at 01:14 PM
I gave a workshop to the Communications folks for the different PTA branches in our community. The first three reservations kept coming up about using Flickr. I like the way conference attendees were able to share their photos on a single slideshow at:
http://acmboston.org/media?PHPSESSID=5a3d30c2562e89e9b914ff9cde028d92
Posted by: Elliot Margolies | April 06, 2007 at 06:37 PM