More Flickr-ing

I now have a Flickr Flash badge and "Norton Knows" in Flickr letters. Very cool, and fun. One could easily spend as much time looking for letters as one spent looking for avatar clothing!

I had an idea about using a Flickr badge on some of our Minnesota History Topics to show the images from our Photo and Art Database that relate to a specific topic. That brought up a discussion (which hasn't been decided yet) about whether we want our images out there in "unprotected" webspace. I think there ought to be a way to make it work, we just need to find it.

I also would like to see us doing something similar to St. John's/St. Ben's, going from a Flickr account showing covers of new books in the library directly into the MnPALS catalog record for the book. Now that ought to be real do-able.

Flickr

I've spent WAY too much time playing with Flickr! And Norton is bound to become a star now that his image is out there for the whole world to see. That's Norton checking out Flickr. --->

I set up an account (Norton the Cat) and uploaded a bunch of images, including two of the Minnesota History Center and two of the Minnesota Historical Society Library. Then I joined the 23 Things on a Stick Group and posted a comment there. And I invited a bunch of friends to come check out what I'd done.

I see now why Flickr is 3 of the "Things." There is so much to explore and so many possible uses.