Comments on: Let's share the best pictures to use in presentations with #prezpic http://coreedges.com/blog/2009/09/27/lets-share-the-best-pictures-to-use-in-presentations-with-prezpic/ Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jan Schultink http://coreedges.com/blog/2009/09/27/lets-share-the-best-pictures-to-use-in-presentations-with-prezpic/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Jan Schultink Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:40:01 +0000 http://www.coreedges.com/2009/09/lets-share-the-best-pictures-to-use-in-presentations-with-prezpic/#comment-253 Your idea is a good one. Many of the professional stock image sites do not have the right key word indices for business presentations, and things are even worse for sites such as flickr. Tweeting images with a hash tag might still not be enough to make them searchable over a longer period of time. <br><br>Personally, I have a category for "chart concept"s in which I log images and chart ideas.<br><br>But maybe we can do something else? Maybe a flickr photo group would work. It has better tagging, an admin can do basic quality control. There is an issue with copy righted images though. Maybe you can put up the watermarked example icon, with a link through to the source side. But again, this might be too much work for people to do for each image they use.<br><br>Another approach would require some changes in photo sharing sites. You could create a mechanism where people could follow site users. "See which images has Jan favorite-ed" or something like that.<br><br>In short, I do not have a clear answer, but I appreciate your lead to try and get it sorted. Your idea is a good one. Many of the professional stock image sites do not have the right key word indices for business presentations, and things are even worse for sites such as flickr. Tweeting images with a hash tag might still not be enough to make them searchable over a longer period of time.

Personally, I have a category for “chart concept“s in which I log images and chart ideas.

But maybe we can do something else? Maybe a flickr photo group would work. It has better tagging, an admin can do basic quality control. There is an issue with copy righted images though. Maybe you can put up the watermarked example icon, with a link through to the source side. But again, this might be too much work for people to do for each image they use.

Another approach would require some changes in photo sharing sites. You could create a mechanism where people could follow site users. “See which images has Jan favorite-ed” or something like that.

In short, I do not have a clear answer, but I appreciate your lead to try and get it sorted.

]]> By: Jan Schultink http://coreedges.com/blog/2009/09/27/lets-share-the-best-pictures-to-use-in-presentations-with-prezpic/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Jan Schultink Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:40:01 +0000 http://www.coreedges.com/2009/09/lets-share-the-best-pictures-to-use-in-presentations-with-prezpic/#comment-225 Your idea is a good one. Many of the professional stock image sites do not have the right key word indices for business presentations, and things are even worse for sites such as flickr. Tweeting images with a hash tag might still not be enough to make them searchable over a longer period of time. <br><br>Personally, I have a category for "chart concept"s in which I log images and chart ideas.<br><br>But maybe we can do something else? Maybe a flickr photo group would work. It has better tagging, an admin can do basic quality control. There is an issue with copy righted images though. Maybe you can put up the watermarked example icon, with a link through to the source side. But again, this might be too much work for people to do for each image they use.<br><br>Another approach would require some changes in photo sharing sites. You could create a mechanism where people could follow site users. "See which images has Jan favorite-ed" or something like that.<br><br>In short, I do not have a clear answer, but I appreciate your lead to try and get it sorted. Your idea is a good one. Many of the professional stock image sites do not have the right key word indices for business presentations, and things are even worse for sites such as flickr. Tweeting images with a hash tag might still not be enough to make them searchable over a longer period of time.

Personally, I have a category for “chart concept“s in which I log images and chart ideas.

But maybe we can do something else? Maybe a flickr photo group would work. It has better tagging, an admin can do basic quality control. There is an issue with copy righted images though. Maybe you can put up the watermarked example icon, with a link through to the source side. But again, this might be too much work for people to do for each image they use.

Another approach would require some changes in photo sharing sites. You could create a mechanism where people could follow site users. “See which images has Jan favorite-ed” or something like that.

In short, I do not have a clear answer, but I appreciate your lead to try and get it sorted.

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