This week’s assignment is one of my favorites. Although, I’ve used Flickr, I’m a BIG fan of Google’s Picasa and have been using it for a few years now. It’s great! The photo editing is simple and does just what I need it to. The best part is the “I’m feeling lucky” button, which takes all of the hastle out of editing pictures. It resolves color and makes some of my really “bad” looking photos look pretty good!

Not to mention the Web Albums features, which I am currently using 83% of the storage space provided. Basically, you can upload your photos from Picasa to your Web Album and have access anytime, anywhere! Plus, you can even upload videos, although at present you can not share them. But with photos you can share them via email, add captions, order prints and even embed them into sides in a slide-show.

Facebook not only has a Flickr application, but they also have a Picasa Web Album app (which I just discovered), which allows users to have their public albums displayed.

Online Photo Sharing is a terrific way for libraries to easily incorporate web 2.0, because it’s in my opinion one of the easiest to do. Libraries can take pictures during programs, events, and other occasions to give the library a “face” and show what’s going on. The Library of Congress Flickr page is a terrific example, in that, its collection was introduced to number of people that probably were unaware of resources available. At my library, we have found photo sharing to be useful because it allows us to share with our members what’s going on and what we’re doing. This helpful in library PR and giving patrons that cannot attend events an opportunity to see what happened.

“A picture is worth a thousand words”

and here’s a few of mine