What is Flickr?
Why Flickr is Here to Stay?
- Leading image and video hosting website, web services suite and online community platform
- Service is widely used for bloggers and as a photo repository and source for photographic content
- As of June 2009 Flickr was reported to host more that 3.6 billion images
- Employs “Tagging” which alerts search engines about what’s there
- Flickr is community based technology
- Exposes core functionality with a documented API(Integrates well with 3rd party websites and applications)
- Flickr’s two main goals are; 1) To help people make their content available to the people that matter to them and 2) To enable new ways of organizing photos and video
- Gets photos into and out of the system in as many ways as they can from the web, mobile devices, from the users’ home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their content
- Flickr makes the process of organizing photos or videos collaborative
How FLICKR can work for you and/or your company:
- Allows you to create a Pro Flickr Account
- Allows you to upload, tag, comment and categorize photos
- Provides you with the tools to organize sets and collections
- Provides you with a Flickr profile where there are opportunities for social media networking
- Provides you with the tools to create contacts and target your company’s demographic
- Flickr profiles can allow photo distribution utilizing ‘Creative Common Attribution’ licensing
Services we offer to optimize your Flickr use:
- We will create a Pro Flickr Account for your business consistent with your other media.
- We will ensure that your account is properly tagged, sorted, geo-located, and grouped so that others can effectively search your photos.
- We will organize photo collateral into appropriate sets and collections.
- We complete your Flickr profile with information about your company and include links to all of your other social media profiles for increased brand recognition and to grow your network.
- We create contacts on your company’s Flickr account that are in your target demographic to increase your client list.
- We can ensure your Flickr profile can allow photo distribution utilizing the ’Creative Common Attribution’ licensing. This will allow users to use and repurpose your photographic content as long as they link to you with photo credit. It can also be highly beneficial for link building, traffic, and SEO efforts.
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