Is Flickr A Social Media Site?
September 18th, 2009 | 
Author: I found the following paragraph on brighthub.com
“Flickr is a social photography website affiliated with Yahoo, so you will need a Yahoo ID to sign up. This site is good for connecting with other artists and whet people’s appetite for your artwork, but I must mention it is not a place for selling. Actually none of the social networking sites are, a constant commercial is a turn off. On this site, you can use your website URL as your user name, so when ever an individual looks at your photos, they will have your website to go to if they are interested enough to want to learn more.”
http://www.brighthub.com/office/entrepreneurs/articles/49064.aspx
Be careful not to use Flickr for commercial purposes, it is expressly forbidden in their terms of agreement. But you can use it to store and sort all photos of you art. It can be a data base for storing all you art work. If you are storing photos of your artwork on Flickr as a way to track you inventory make sure your description includes the following:
- Name of the Piece:
- Where is the Physical Piece: ie collection of the artist
- where else s this piece on line
- Date of creation:
- Support: Canvas board, paper
- Medium:
- Technique:
- size: height by width by depth
- Notes: Tell a short story about the piece
You can copy the above ans use it as a template for each photo of your artwork you upload to flickr past the above. The above list is abbreviated from Alyson Stanfield’s Great Book I’d Rather Be in the Studio!
In addition to using Flickr as a data store and catalog of you art. You can also link to Flickr through you blog, Imagekind and other web services. When you have a free Flickr account, you can upload 2 videos and 100MB worth of photos each calendar month. The value of a Flickr Pro Account (24.95) is you are limited by to a 20 MB file size for photos and a 500 mb file size for video. There no limit on the number of the files. You can combine Flickr with your Imagekind Account and have an easy way to get you Large High Quality images over to you Imagekind Gallery.
Back to the original question, is Flickr a social media site. You can use Flickr for social networking, but you can not use it for commercial purposes. It is probably the best investment you could make for an online inventory system. Just remember you can not sell your art work directly on Flickr, but you can sell it through you Imagekind Account.
Imagekind will be reviewed in great detail in an future Blog Post Print On Demand Part 2
Posted in Print On Demand Services, Social Media, Social Networking | 
Tags: Alison Stanfield, sell art, social, Social Media, Social Networking
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