Tech tip: photo-sharing sites

The NRVC Flickr page lets staff and friends of NRVC easily locate photos. This shows the "Photostream," but photos are also organized by event and by topic under the section called "Albums."

Vocation directors can reap several benefits when they use online photo-sharing sites such as Flickr.

• These easy-to-use sites make it simple to organize your photos.
• The sites can be set up so that others in your community can have access to your photos from anywhere in the world that has Internet access.
• Photo-sharing sites give you one more way to showcase your community. The "audience" for seeing pictures of your community can be global.
• If you do not want the photos to be seen by just anyone, you can easily adjust the settings to limit access.
• Sometimes the media (including the editors of VISION and HORIZON) use photo-sharing sites to find photos freely available for download. When photos are used in VISION and HORIZON, the communities making pictures available in these sites are given extra exposure among a public that cares about vocations.

Tell the editors!

If you use a photo-sharing site, please send your site's link to the NRVC publications editor, Carol Schuck Scheiber: cscheiber@nrvc.net. By making this information available, your community's photos may be used in VISION or HORIZON, with photo credit going to your community.

Check out the NRVC photo-sharing site: flickr.com/photos/nrvc

Besides Flickr, there are a number of other free photo-sharing sites; learn about them here.