How many people have a Flickr account, either for your self or for your CVB? What about a Flickr group? Has anyone used Flickr photos in your blog or e-newsletter? Today I’m going to go over 4 main aspects of Flickr: Photostream, Groups, Connections and Creative Commons.
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Photos are compelling and can entice visitors to your area. Not only will be people find your photo on the Flickr platform, but with the correct keyword tagging, potential visitors can find them by searching on Google or other search engines. It’s necessary to share your photos and Flickr is the perfect platform to do so.
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3 strategies, divided by the amount of time needed to successfully achieve your goals
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Easiest / least amount of time needed
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In your bio, include links to your other social media networks and your Flickr Group. A great example is the Austin CVB: Flickr.com/VisitAustinTexas
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Make titles unique so people can reference them
LOTS of tags, include misspellings
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Edit photos in mass quantities before uploading
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2nd step
Range depends on how detailed you get in creating some of the assets (galleries, favorites, sets, etc)
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local.mapquest.com
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Collection: Shopping
Sets: antiques, boutiques, outlet, malls, farmers’ markets, (list store names)
Outdoor: camping, hiking & biking, beaches, parks, sports
Communities: list communities by names
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Uses other photographer’s photos = start to connect with (local) photographers
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Connecting with photographers
Highlight your area, ESPECIALLY if you don’t have a lot of photos
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Flickr’s “People You May Know” = a powerful new tool to help you find and connect with even more members of the Flickr community.
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If you’re only setting flickr up (not continually interacting with others), the only stat that will change are total views.
Log into your flickr account. The VIEWS are listed at the top of your photostream.
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Your flickr CONTACTS will be notified when you upload photos = increased chance of views
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Add your photos to multiple groups.
Comment on other photos in those groups.
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Squidoo – SoMeT tattoo
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3 strategies, divided by the amount of time needed to successfully achieve your goals
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Basic strategy = least amount of time
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How many photos can a member upload per day? Does CVB have permission to reproduce photos
Austin and Travel Portland are great examples
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Invite Flickr members (search for photos)
Promote: flickr bio, on twitter, FB
Search similar groups and invite recent photos
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Some interaction
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Relevant: hard search terms
Recent: on-going efforts
Interesting: one-time search to start group (best photos)
ACTIONS tab: INVITE TO GROUP
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Social network = real time = check regularly
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Taking it offline
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Use DISCUSSIONS to promote photo contests
Hold your own contest: flickr group (tagging, Poll Daddy voting on landing page) or WILDFIRE APP voting on landing page
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If you’re not a photographer, reach out to some of your active members and work with them.
Special tag = similar to twitter hashtag.
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Return on Engagement = GOAL
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Attribution: can change/alter but MUST GIVE CREDIT
Noncommercial: same but noncommercial use only
No Derivative: no changes
Share alike: others can distribute the modified work but they must use same license as you (like non-commercial)
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Using photos in your materials
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HTML “share this”
Choose side, links directly to photo page, gives proper credit
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Subscribe to feed
Use feed in website (Oregon Coast)
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Using photos in your materials
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