Social Media Tools : Flickr

Introduction

• Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application on an online community platform.
• Personal cloud back up of photos.
• The largest photo-sharing cloud service on the Internet.
• Provides one account with 1Terrabyte of photos.
• Users can choose to share photos with the general public or keep them private.
• Easily connects to a Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or Tumbler.

Background of Flickr

• Flickr was launched in February 2004 by Ludicorp where founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake.
• Early versions of Flickr focused on a chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities.
• On 9 April 2008, Flickr began allowing paid subscribers to upload videos, limited to 90 seconds in length and 150 MB in size.
• On 2 March 2009, Flickr added the facility to upload and view HD videos and began allowing free users to upload normal-resolution video.
• On 20 May 2013, Flickr launched the first stage of a major site redesign, introducing a "Justified View" close-spaced photo layout.

Basic Function of Flickr

• Free online image hosting. 
• Photo sharing through peer-to-peer networking.

Application of Tools 

• Stored individual or organization photo by using cloud storage.
• Shared photo with others.

Analysis of Flickr

Strength

• Effective communication
• Online growth
• Innovation

Opportunities

• Financial market
• Product service and expansion

Weaknesess

• Bad communication
• Low market share

Threats

• Economic slowdown
• Lower cos competitors or imports

Benefit to Net Citizen

• A cloud achieve of our photos.
• Ease  of sharing through social media or email.
• HUGE Search Engine Optimization (SEO) if photos are named and tag.
• Drives visits to the website.
• Can embed slideshows to the website.

                           

                             

How to upload photos

• To upload photos, return to the homepage, by clicking Home at the top at the page.
• Click on Upload Photos and Video.
• Click on Choose photos and video.

•   Social media tools such as Flickr are on the leading edge of the social Web revolution. Flickr,  a social photo sharing site, allows users to post and tag their own images, view, comment on, and mark as favourite other people's images. 
• More importantly, these sites allow users designate other users as friends or contacts. 
• The resulting social networks offer users new ways to interact with information, through what we call social browsing and social filtering.