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Photo Sharing with Flickr
Flickr is a massive photo sharing website
that allows you to:
•Find creative commons licensed
photos that you can use to brighten up
your presentations and documents for
stronger visual communication.
•Publish your photos online, and share
them using groups and tagging.
Use Flickr to:
store photos, •Put your photos on the map using
share photos, geotagging.
find inspiration •Get your photos printed in photo-
books or as photo cards.
Tagging: use key words to ‘tag’ and
Getting started organize your photos. Then find photos
other people have tagged at
1) Sharing photos www.flickr.com/photos/tags/
You will need an account before you can
share photos. Follow the instructions Pick a tag for your group or event (e.g.
from the front page to ‘Create Your PostcodestoriesB14) to be able to bring
Account’. together everyone’s photos in one place.
Then sign in and select ‘Upload your
photos’ and simply follow the Geo-tagging: use the ‘Your
instructions. It may take up to 48 hours Map’ feature in the ‘Organise’
after your first upload before your photos section to show where your
are publicly visible, as your account has to photos come from.
be checked by Flickr staff.
You can use your interactive
photo-map to tell a story about
2) Finding photos
your organisation or your work.
You can search for photos from the front
Plus find other people’s
page of Flickr.
geotagged photos at
www.flickr.com/map/
Use the ‘advanced search’ to find
‘creative commons’ photos. These are
photos you are free to re-use in your Creative Commons: make sure
own presentations and publications (as you grant others permissions to use
long as you attribute them to their your photos too, then everyone can
original creator). get make use of them.
Alternatively, use tags to find photos.Visit Set your photos to a creative
www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ or click an commons license in the ‘Privacy and
existing tag to browse. Permissions’ tab of ‘Your Account’
available from the ‘You’ menu.

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Live audio recording
Live recording allows you to record any audio
content and share it online immediately.
There are free or cheap tools around for live
audio recording from your mobile device or
directly onto your computer. Two easy to use
options are Audioboo and Soundcloud.
You can embed audio clips from audioboo or
Soundcloud: ‘Your sound, at the Heart’
soundcloud onto other websites – making it
very easy to share your stories with a wider Soundcloud also lets you record on the smartphone
audience. app or directly onto the website.
You can also use the social sharing tools to Sign up at www.soundcloud.com or download the
build interest in your content, or other content soundcloud app for your phone.
you find interesting.
Record from your phone by opening the app
and pressing the orange ‘rec’ button in the ‘record’
Audioboo: ‘Because sound is social’ section. Give your recording a title and choose
whether to geo-tag it with location data.
Audioboo allows you to record and upload audio to the
internet from the website or a smartphone (such as Once you have finished press the ‘publish’ button and
iPhone or android). choose to save your recording as public or private -
with the option to share immediately on Facebook,
Sign up - go to www.audioboo.com or dowload the Twitter, Foursquare or Myspace.
audioboo app to create your account.
Record on Soundcloud.com by going to
Record from your phone - go to your audioboo ‘Upload & Share’ button in the toolbar and pressing
app and pres the green ‘record’ button. You can record the ‘Rec’ button.
up to 5 minutes, and at any point you can pause the
recording and press the ‘play’ button to listen back. Soundcloud makes it easy to download your recorded
files, and open them in iTunes. Go to the ‘Tracks’
Once you have finished recording press the ‘publish’ button under ‘You’ in the toolbar and click the down
button on the top right. Be sure to describe your arrow above each recording to start the download.
recording to make it easy for others to find, and add any
hastags you are using, eg #postcodestories. Then press
‘save + upload’ and as long as you are connected to
wifi or on 3G the file will upload to the audioboo
website.
Record on audioboo.com - go to the ‘my
profile’ tab on the toolbar and you’ll find a pink button
to press to create a recording. Clicking the button will
lauch a new window where you can go through the
same process as with the mobile app.
Audioboo is useful if you want to listen to the content
online / on your mobile but not so easy to download.

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Twitter and Twitpic
Twitter is a short message communication
tool offering a mixture of micro-blogging and
social networking, where you can tell people
what you’re up to, find out information, You can think of twitter like:
and join in conversations a virtual open plan office space - formal and
informal conversation and interaction mixed together;
You can use it to send your own short messages muse aloud and see who responds; overhear other
(tweets) which will be seen by people who follow conversations, learn insights, get to know people, and find
you, and to follow people / topics / conversation opportunities to network and find work.
threads, or to send private messages.
a digital newswire - giving you the news that matters
to you and the people you follow, as it happens.
Getting started:
1)Sign up at www.twitter.com and edit your settings
to include a bit about you.
2) find people to follow - if you already know
someone using Twitter, put their name in the search
box and click the ‘follow’ button on their profile.You
can find other people using the ‘Who to follow’ button
Soundcloud also lets you record on the smartphone
app or directly onto the website.
3) start tweeting - below ‘what’s happening’ is a
text box where you can add your 140 characters, as
well as any links.
4) reply to any messages written to you by starting Using Twitpic:
your tweet with @username. Look out for anyone
sending @replies to you. Twitpic lets you share other media on twitter -
including photos and videos.
You can use Twitter just on the website or on your
phone, but to get the most out of it use one of the 1) Sign up at www.twitpic.com - you can sign up
many desktop or mobile-based Twitter applications easily using your twitter account login details.
such as Tweetdeck.
2) Once you have signed in you can find your unique
twitpic email address in the ‘settings’ section. This lets
you email pictures from your phone directly
to twitter. Use the subject line of the email to send
any message that you want displayed with your photo.
3) If the location services for your camera are on,
twitpic will also be able to automatically geotag the
photo.

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Creating Googlemaps
Googlemaps is an easy way for anyone to create
Get Started and their own maps online.
To create your own googlemaps, you need It enables you to locate any place on earth, and
a google account. If you don’t have one, set to view it on a roadmap, as satellite map, or
one up quickly at: https://www.google.com/ even as street view in many towns.
accounts/NewAccount
With google maps, you can also place a pin on
Go to http://maps.google.co.uk
your map, to mark a spot. Alongside the pin,
you can include text, pictures or a youtube film
Click on My Maps, on the left of the
page near the top. Then click ‘get - making it easy to describe or add notes to any
started’ (or watch the short video first for place.
more help).
You’ll see you can give your map a title, a Add Places to Your Map
description, and to decide whether you
want it fully public or accessible to those First of all, you need to find
who know the link only. If you want other the area your map will
people to be able to edit the map, click cover. Click Edit next to
Collaborate above the title, and invite your map, and in the search
people by their email. bar, type the postcode, the
street or the town/area you
want to cover. Googlemaps
will then display it. Then click
on the blue pin sign which
is on the top edge of the
map. Then click on the place
you want to plot, and add in
a title and text.
If you want to add a
Youtube film to your pin,
click Edit HTML in the
description area, then paste
Create a Route the code below into the box - the only bit to change is the
youtube link to your film (the blue bit), though you can also
To plot different places on your map into a change the width and height numbers if you want. When you
route or walk, click on the zigzag line button are finished, click ‘done’.
which is next to the pin button Then click on
your first map point, then your second and so <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie"
on, until they are all connected. value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hKoB0MHVBvM"></
param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></
param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hKoB0MHVBvM"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"
Share your Map width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Finished? Click on the link button on the
For more help watch this video - http://www.youtube.com/
very top right corner of your map, copy the watch?v=dbx6mT7me2Q
URL and share away!

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Sharing video on YouTube
YouTube is one of the best known
video sharing websites.
You can upload short videos to YouTube
(up to15 minutes long) and it will convert
Getting Started them into a format which can be viewed
online by just about anyone.
1) Sign up – go to www.youtube.com and look for the
sign-up link to create your account. You can also embed videos from
YouTube onto other websites –
Your account not only lets you upload videos, but it allows
making it very easy to get video on your
you to keep a list of favourite clips and to subscribe to
blog, website or online.
videos from other video makers whose content you enjoy.
2) Upload – if you’ve got your own clip to share, choose YouTube is also a Social Networking Site -
upload. Select ‘Upload a video’ and find the video file you with community tools for sharing, rating and
want to upload. You can also use ‘quick capture’ to record discussing videos wrapped around its video
from a web cam on your computer direct to YouTube. sharing features.
Give your video a title and description (use a catchy title and You can use these community and
include key phrases in your video description to help people networking tools to promote your videos,
find your video from search). or videos that you think need a wider
audience.
Once your video is uploaded,YouTube will process it to
make it into a flash video that can be watched online.You
can then choose your privacy settings and decide whether
or not to autoshare your video on any of your other social 3) Promote – share and promote your
network profiles. video, or other videos you like….
Go to the ‘My Videos’ section from the dropdown menu on Like it: show the world you like the video by
the top right to change the settings at any time. rating it with a thumbs up.
Once you rate a video it will stored in your
‘Liked’ folder under ‘My Videos and Playlists’ on
your profile (which can be found by clicking your
username at the top right of the screen).
Add to: you can also add the video to your
YouTube favourites, save it to watch later or add
it to any playlist you create.Your playlists are
displayed on your ‘Channel’ page (to find your
channel just click your username).
Share it: Send a video to a friend, or share it
on your profile on any one of the listed
networks.You can also share a video by
embedding it in a blog or on a website you use.