| How to share pictures... |
| Escrito por Bart-Jan LePoole | |||
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There are no translations available. Are you still emailing pictures to friends and family? Still putting pictures on CDs or USB thumbdrives? Then please continue reading as there is a better way to do this. There are many sites that allow you to share your pictures, amongst the most popular are Flickr (Yahoo!), Picasa (Google), and even social networking sites like Facebook. In fact Facebook just announced that it has more than 10 billion pictures. So which one is best? And why did we choose to use Flickr to share pictures via the alumni site? To answer that I will try to explain some of their differences. Facebook is by far is the leader when it comes to volume. This should be no surprise as they have made it very easy to upload pictures and while they already have your friends organized in your profile it makes it very easy for you to share pictures this way. However when it comes to managing ALL your pictures it does not help you at all. For that tools like Picasa are great as it allows you to manage your pictures on your own PC without much effort at all. Almost automagically it organizes all your pictures from your PC so that you can browse them via a time line or in digital albums. Picasa now also has a website picasaweb.google.com that allows you to upload these albums with the ease of a click. Once the album is online you can simply email the URL (address) to your friends so they can view your pictures. EASY! Please note however you can NOT apply security with Picasa. Once the pictures are online they are public. Anybody that knows the URL (web address) of your album can view these pictures! Yes you can make the album unlisted which gives you a "secret" web address (URL) but anybody that would get the email with the address forwarded could access the album. SecurityFlickr is different. While they also make it easy to upload pictures and share them with friends WITH SECURITY (or without) their focus is on allowing you to manage your pictures online by yourself or as a group! This ability for groups, security together with the advanced tools to integrate pictures in other sites caused us to pick Flickr as the tool to share pictures amongst alumni.First before going into more detail as to why we choose Flickr I would like to encourage you to backup your pictures online as this can eliminate the possibility for you to lose all your pictures when your hard drive crashes or when you PC is stolen... When choosing a tool like Flickr (or photobucket or Kodak gallery ...) you can apply security to who can see these pictures. Sharing - albums, groups & tagsFlickr has several ways for you to share your pictures. First of all you can create albums sets or collections and then share the link via email (similar as to other sites). You can also stay up to date on picture uploads from friends, this also is possible on other sites like PicasaWeb. However Flickr also allows you to add security per picture. It even allows you to share with copy right information. Flickr also allows you to integrate your or a groups pictures based on albums (folders) or tags ! to other sites via widgets or RSS feeds. This completeness of the Flickr service means you only have to upload your pictures once, where after you decide which picture from what album or what group is shared with others. Note you can even add a widget (small web application) to Facebook to continuously keep your friends informed of your picture updates.An example to considerLet's imagine you are a student and take many pictures that you would like to share with friends, classmates, family, teachers, other alumni ... You could then save them all to your hard drive and email them to each person or group individually... - however sending many emails that all take a long time to send it is time consuming. Instead you could upload them to the web and add them to for example a picasa "webalbum" and share the web address. This would however also mean that you share your party pictures with the people that perhaps you rather not show these pictures to... Perhaps for that reason you created a different web album for each group... Note that this is time consuming as you will need to upload the pictures multiple times. Therefore if you want to save time, upload your pictures just once, and just give access to subsets of these pictures to specific (groups of) people then Flickr I think will be the right tool for you as well. Once you do, we encourage you to join the either one of the groups below and share some pictures.So which one is best? That is for you to decide. For more help on sharing pictures with alumni do not hesitate to ask questions via the discussion forums. Or click here to see how to add a picture to one of these groups.
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