Thing 4 flickr photo

Travel Library DSCF0641
Originally uploaded by Sharon N MN

I love the mapping feature in flickr!

Nuisance to have to create so many accounts for things (yahoo for flickr, google for blogspot). It took a few tries to figure out I had to enable google to accept flickr, but once I did it automatically linked to my 23 Things blog like magic! It worked so well that it appeared TWICE on my blog! ? (had to delete the duplicate).

Several years ago our IT techy recommended flickr for posting photos of a group trip so the participants could access them online. I only sourced the program; my patron utilized it. That seems the best use of flickr. I don't think I would use it for my private corporate library. Not for my private personal life either. I'm protective of my data!

For personal photos, I use Snapfish. I can allow family to view my albums there. It's not as public as flickr. You can make flickr private, but that's not really the purpose of flickr. Snapfish allows me to store, edit and print photos.

Thing 3 RSS

I created an aggregator in Google Reader and added 6 subscriptions. I put 23 Things on a Stick in there, plus my own blog and some friends' blogs. I was surprised to stumble upon an old colleague's podcast while browsing, so I added that too: grammar grater.

I like having these organized as I'm more likely to read them and keep up to date now that they are conveniently singled out in one locale.

For finding feeds, I think I'll more likely click the icon on sites I already use, vs. going out to look for additional sites.

Wish I'd had RSS feed training a year ago. I needed to subscribe to a news service for current travel updates and the provider told me we could put an RSS feed on our intranet. I didn't know much about it then. We didn't end up subscribing (too expensive) so I did not need to learn more about RSS at that point.