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FLICKR TO PROMOTE YOUR MEETINGS
The largest photo-sharing community on the Web, Flickr hosts billions of images and thousands are uploaded every minute.

Return to the Social Media Toolkit home page or download the full Social Media Guide (PDF document). WHAT IT IS A Web site where users can share photos and video. If you visit Flickr.com, you'll find this description: "Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:

1. We want to help people make their content available to the people who matter to them.
2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video." WHY IT MATTERS Flickr is the largest photo-sharing community in the world, where thousands of images are uploaded every minute. In November 2008, the site hosted its 3 billionth photo. Flickr users make up an extremely diverse and actively engaged community. HOW TO USE IT TO PROMOTE YOUR MEETINGS 1. Encourage attendees to visit the Experience Columbus Flickr group to view photos of our city taken by visitors and residents. Your attendees will view a variety of Columbus things to see and do, taken from many different vantage points.

2. Start your own Flickr account.
  • Use it to upload photos of your meeting to easily share them with attendees.
  • Start a Flickr group to provide attendees with one online place to share photos. A group also provides you with an image library you can potentially use to promote future events. (An important note - individual photo owners set their own use permissions on their images. You can check them on the right hand side of a photo page under "Additional Information." It's a good idea to ask permission before using someone else's photo.)

Flickr has a comprehensive FAQ section that can help with additional basics to get you started. FEEDBACK Contact us with your questions, tips or success stories on using social media to build attendance.