An online notebook
These products have come to be called ‘social media,’ but that’s not what Flickr was. Flickr was an online community. The reason they started calling it social media is because you can sell media. You can sell column inches, you can sell broadcast hours, you can advertise against it. But Flickr was not social media. Flickr was an online community.
Original: https://medium.com/@reidhoffman/the-right-way-to-build-an-online-community-3-rules-from-investor-and-flickr-cofounder-caterina-32d7b48b342c
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
Next up in the series of introductory guides to social technology is this one about Flickr.
Embedded below, or as usual, there’s a PDF to download from this page if you need it.
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.
You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.
You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.
Following the announcement that Yahoo! don’t care too much for Delicious anymore, I’ve been worrying away about Flickr. I know a few others have been too.
Phil Bradley points out that a great tool exists for backing up all your Flickr photos, so if Yahoo! decides to flickr the switch to off, you still have all those memories.
It’s called Flickredit and is an open source effort, and well worth trying out.
While you’re at it, think about the content you have on other services and have a look for ways of backing it all up, just in case.