What do you use flickr for

Engagement is key on any media platform! Flickr offers statistics as to who is viewing your content, and how they found you.

And those are the facts, folks! To learn more about what Flickr has to offer we by no means covered it all , I recommend jumping on the site and creating a free profile for yourself. Playing around with various features is always the best way to learn more about a platform. If you want more than the basic stats Flickr is able to offer, check out these free social media monitoring tools for marketers.

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What are you waiting for? Sign up now! Flickr logo. If you click it, you'll go home. Sign Up Explore. Make a Flickr Badge! A Flickr Badge is a small embeddable picture viewer that showcases your latest pictures, an entire set, or just pictures with particular tags. To make one, click here.

We recommend Flash as it takes up less space and looks a lot cooler. Follow the steps, picking out the photos and colors you want until you get to the embed code, which you can simply copy and paste wherever you plan on showing off your photos. Flickr Community. Sharing photos is neat, but half of the fun of these photo-hosting services is seeing what other people are taking pictures of and interacting with them. The biggest draws to Flickr's community are groups, which let users create and contribute to themed groups.

Each group has a shared pool of pictures that any of its members can contribute to. There could be a theme, or maybe no theme at all; it's up to the user.

Each group gets its own forum for chatting about topics or individual pictures. It's almost like book club, but for pictures.

To join any group, just click the Join this group button on the right side of the page. To contribute your own photos, just click the Send to group button above a picture just like adding it to a set. You'll then get the option to select whatever group you're a member of in a drop-down list. Participating in forums and group discussions also is really easy. If you're signed in to Flickr, just click the "Post a new topic" link. You also can reply to someone's topic by typing in the reply box at the bottom of the discussion.

If you find a particularly amusing or noteworthy post you want to send to someone else, click the permalink at the end of the post. You can then copy this from your browser's address bar, or just right click the permalink and choose Copy link location. Flickr's community is a social network of sorts. You can make friends Flickr calls them contacts and track their newest photos.

When you want to make another Flickr user a contact, just click on his or her name. This will take you to his or her photos page. Before sending the person the invite, Flickr gives you the option to mark them as a friend or a family member. You can skip this, but you might find it helpful if you intend on sorting your contact's photos en masse later on. Advanced contacts tidbit: If you want to see your friends' newest photos without having to check the site, subscribe to the contacts RSS feed.

Just click on the contacts button from the main menu at the top of your screen, and scroll down near the end of the page where you'll see an orange RSS feed icon.

You can either click this to view the feed if your browser supports RSS , or copy and paste it into your favorite RSS reader. We've got a listing of popular single page aggregators here. Updated on September 09, Tweet Share Email. In This Article.

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