This week I played around with photo sharing services. I already had accounts with Flickr and Photobucket; and since I had used Photobucket most recently to share pictures I had taken at the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, I decided to use those to upload to my Facebook account. This was a piece of cake. Uploading to this blog was a little trickier because I wanted to upload an avatar I had created to the sidebar area–not to a blog post or separate photo section of my blog. I read the help FAQs and figured out how to upload the avatar but had trouble with the alignment. I finally centered it but I’m not all that satisfied with it. But it’ll do for now.
Having photo albums online to share is a great marketing tool for libraries. In fact, a lot of libraries have photos on Flickr. It’s a wonderful way to present your library staff to current users or introduce them to potential users. The public library where I work as a part-time substitute placed a link to its Flickr account on the home page and explained that different library staff would be profiled regularly. It’s fun to get to know the people working at the library. Plus it’s a good way to show folks what the library is up to. Why not put up photos of library programs and events? It’s a very inexpensive way to market services. A friend of mine put up pictures of her library on her Facebook page. Very cool! And at one library where I worked, Facebook is a very popular site among the residents. I wonder how they would react to seeing their hospital librarians on Facebook!!
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