Flickr’s blog integration has never been too hidden, but most users’ experience has probably been in using the feature to post one’s own photos. Allowing others to blog your photos can be a great way to have your work shared.
How do you allow this? The blogging permissions can be found by logging onto Flickr and then clicking on your username in the upper right corner of the site. This will take you to your account settings, and you can click the Privacy & Permissions link to reach this screen:
To the right of each item you’ll see an “Edit” link, using the highlighted setting you can choose who can blog your photos. Allow your contacts to blog your photos, or better yet, allow anyone!
You know where I find this really useful? When browsing my Flickr contacts’ photos, if I find a great one I love to share it with my Twitter followers. Since you can setup posting to Twitter from Flickr, I can use Flickr’s “Blog This” button to send a link to a photo to the thousands of folks who follow me on Twitter.
If you haven’t enabled the ability for me to do it in a couple clicks? Hoestly I usually won’t take the time to do it manually (get the link, shorten the link, open Twitter client, and post). I’ll simply move along and find someone who has made it easier for me to share.
Photo by mikecpeck, used under Creative Commons licensing
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