Articles on Podcasting | Topics: podcasting, podcast
by Kent Levy
At present over in the Flickr Central forum at Flickr, it is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Between those who look at Flickr as a numbers game, and those who find the numbers game, a distasteful and unfortunate side effect of popularity on Flickr. Of course admitting that you are obsessed with popularity is a somewhat unpopular thing to say in the first place as you all are fond of saying things, like, sure "I get lots of traffic, views, comments, and favorites," but it's not you motivation, because your motives are pure. Despite your denial of participating in the popularity contest, the game marches on. If you know much about a podcast, you know that you can get what you want using a variety of programs and applications.
At presen,t photostream on Flickr has been viewed over 400,000 times. While Flickr provides no rank of their photographers, this would probably put you in the top 1% of photographers viewed on Flickr. Certainly others have been viewed more but received more than a fair share of attention over the course of the past year. Hopefully these tips below will provide you some ideas on how you can better promote your work on Flickr. Take great pictures. Ok, first and foremost, quality does matter. If you want people to look at your stuff, make your stuff worth looking at.
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You get one shot a day. You have a single shot each day that matters. Choose it wisely. Don't randomly upload your last 20 shots. Make sure that the last shot you upload is your best. The reason why this is the case is the concept of contacts on Flickr. Your contacts on Flickr have two ways that they can view their contact's photos as they are uploaded. They can view one from each contact or five from each contact. If they choose one per contact they will only see the very last photo you uploaded. You can still upload five as some will see five but all will see one, the last one. Uploading more than five shots in a single upload all but relegates any beyond 5 to obscurity. If you upload more than 5 at a time make sure your last five are your best and your last one is the best of the best.Interestingness. The single greatest tool for garnering attention on Flickr is to have your photos appear in the "Explore" section of Flickr's interestingness stream. Interestingness is a secret sauce formula algorithm on Flickr whereby they post what their algorithm says are the 500 most interesting photos on Flickr each day to their Explore section. The higher the rank, the more people see it. Despite the top secretness formula of interestingness, it is really not that complicated to understand in broad terms. Your photos are deemed interesting when they have activity. When people tag your photos, comment on your photos, view your photos, leave notes on your photos, and especially when they favorite your photos you increase your interestingness rank.
If you want to see if any of your photos have made it to the top 500 for a given day you can check out Scout. Scout lets you put in your Flickr email and will show you any of your photos that have made interestingness. Tell everyone you know about Flickr. Tell your friends, your family, your co-workers, heck, even complete strangers. Get them hooked (and many will get hooked). You will of course be made a friend and find them faving and commenting on your photos all the time. Post your photo to lots of groups and participate in some of the game groups on Flickr. Don't spam the groups, but if you have a photo of a bridge, put it in the bridge group. Make everyone who makes you a contact a contact back. Don't be shy about making everyone who makes you a contact back. It's not just polite, but it makes sure that as they are seeing your work, you are seeing theirs. Flickr still has a mechanism where you can distinguish between contacts and familiy/friends and filter out only your family/friends when you want. It doesn't hurt making them a contact and it's the least you can do to let them know you appreciate them making you one.
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