I am a flickr fan — I have had an account for over a year and use it regularly. My personal account only has a small portion showing of what I have uploaded to my flickr stream. I use flickr as a back up for photo storage and about 75% of my photos are set to strict privacy. One of the misconceptions about flickr is that everyone in the world can see all of your photos all of the time and this is what seems to make a lot of people nervous about flickr. If you look carefully, though, you will notice that you can set the privacy level of each individual photo.
I teach a class at PPL called Fun with Flickr and it is quite popular –and also one of my current favorite classes to teach. There is so much that one can do with flickr and so many great 2.0 concepts that can be explored just by learning about flickr. For instance, I use flickr as the opportunity to talk about Creative Commons and copyright issues in the digital age.
I have been challenging myself to new things with flickr. I have ordered a set of moo cards to have on hand for personal use (just because they are so fun) and also have been playing around at fd’s flickr toys quite a bit with making posters and mosaics. One of my all time favorite flickr toys is the trading card maker — I even played along by making my own librarian trading card a few months ago.
I created a flickr account for PPL, but have not found time lately to update it. That will be on my list of things to do this week (I hope). I did learn how to insert the cool flickr badge that you see on this blog a a result of the challenge.
Everyone taking the CJRLC challenge should join the New Jersey Libraries group that Connie had me start last summer and then post a few pictures to it!!! Now THAT would be fun 
