Anyway, this week we spent time looking at Wikis, Microblogging, and online photo sharing. This forced me to get a Twitter account. I will be honest, just like Facebook, Twitter was one of those things that I just don't have a desire to use. I see its purpose and understand why people use it. I also see how it can be used by a teacher or by the school but it is not something that I feel the need to use personally. I am finding some good information from the people I follow but many of these things are retweets or post from RSS feeds that I already follow.
Online photo sharing is something I have dabbled in for the last few years. About 6 years ago I had a MobileMe account from Apple. Here I created a web site and used iPhoto to post and share photos with family. I decided that the cost was too much for the use I got out of it so I let the account expire. I have been looking at other ways to share photos. I have a Flickr and a Picasa account and am trying to determine which is better. I do store most of my photos in iPhoto and that has a built-in publishing tool for Flickr. It works fine with the testing that I have done. The one thing that worries me is that, while I want to share photos with my family members, I do not want photos of my kids posted for the public to see. If family members do not have Yahoo or Google accounts they are not able to see the photos unless I make them public. At least that is what I can tell so far. I have not explored all of the options so I will continue testing different services until I find one I like.
I also want to share photos, but only with certain people. I am in the middle of this article that might help you out. Also, I use Shuttefly. I can choose to share online or email uploaded photo link to friends. These are not shared online.
ReplyDeleteMy son's daycare provider uses shutterfly to share photos of their activities with parents. She is able to do this because it can be protected and only designated people can see the photos. I did have to sign-up for an account to have access, but one nice thing is I do get update emails when she updates the site, so I know right away when she has added new pictures. That would be a nice way to share photos with family also!!
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