My Media Magnet’s Favourite 10 Social Media Sites – Flickr (6 of 10)

I think the real question for anyone reading this is how could you not love Flickr? Photo sharing made easy is enough to make anyone smile. I can’t be the only one who has watched the Facebook image uploading bar with fingers crossed in anticipation of a successful 5 picture upload, beads of sweat collecting on my forehead as the load reading changes from 98% Complete to Error! Fear no more! You can share those images with friends and have access to more options with Flickr!

Why we love it:

• 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

If you’re wondering how you can use Flickr for your business I can’t say enough good things about it. Currently we are working on a website and because our client is somewhat inconvenient to meet, we are sharing images over Flickr. This method is convenient, easy and saves us some communication time. It allows us to organize the folders, tag the images for search optimization and set privacy settings for the album. As well, My Media Magnet creates all their sites on WordPress and Flickr has some great integration options so that your images can work for you across several platforms.

The old saying a picture is worth a 1000 words still rings true today. If you have some striking images to show the world, or need a convenient way to upload product or business photos, we strongly suggest using Flickr. If you need some tips and tricks for using Flickr, image sizing, tagging and WordPress integration please visit our Contact page!