Flickr

Cathryn Weems and Marssy Benitez, Flickr Community Managers are leading this session.

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-Being from England, Cathryn uses Flickr to share pictures with her family back at home.

-Flickr - you can download program to your computer to upload directly from there or you can do it on the Flickr site by clicking on "upload photos & video". (The Yahoo! Mother Board attendees are getting a free year of "pro" - yes! I'm hearing "I love you" being said - ha!) Increased bandwidth is the greatest benefit of the "pro" version.

-You can upload Flickr to photos on Facebook. (She doesn't really like to do it personally due to the privacy issues)

-On Flickr, you can set privacy settings (by set/by account/by individual photo).  You can have a default setting and make individual changes (public/family/friends & family).  Search for your friends on Flickr. Hover over their picture/buddy icon and add as a contact, friend, etc. or invite your friends to join Flickr under "Contacts" heading on the home page.

-You can also share sets of images with those that don't have Flickr accounts by creating guest passes (under "Contacts") .  You can also expire guest passes.

-You can also share public Flickr photos to twitter, blogs, Facebook, etc. You can do this by going to "Sharing and Extending" under "your account".

-You can use Picnik to edit Flickr photos due to their partnership.  You can watermark individual photos through Picnik. (I love Picnik!)

-You can order Flickr photo prints through their Snapfish partnership.(You can pick the photos up at Walgreens.)

-Video can be up to 90 seconds long (as "long photos").

Audience comments: *Batch watermarking would be an ideal feature.  There was a lot of interest in the "Groups" feature. Suggestion: Integrate Flickr into Yahoo! Groups platform.