Assignment #3: Photos & Imaging

The first application that comes to mind for how the United Way could use photos and imaging on the web is buy utilizing Flickr to capture and share photos of our events. Our teen movie night in particular would be good to have photos online that the partipants could see and could be linked to from our primary website.

The first mashup application that comes to mind would be combining our donor demographic information with a map, and maybe also combined with statistics Canada information to get a picture of where the money is coming from in our community. The would be confidential of course however since it involves donor information and so couldn't be made public on the website. A public application could be combining a map of the transit system with a mapping of our funded agencies. Combining this further with our listing of volunteer opportunities and their locations would also be useful.

I'm not sure how image generation would apply for us.

Photo from Flickr

As part of assigment #2, here is a photo from Flickr of Algonquin Park - one of my favourite camping spots. It is taken from Eric_Jacobson's photostream.

First Blog Post

I am excited about the things that we will learn in the Web 2.0 course. I have heard a lot about things like Flicker, Twitter, Facebook, etc. and while some of them are tools that I use personally I don't have a very good understanding about how to implement them to help the United Way.

I have done some very basic blogging in the past, but again only in my personal life. When I travelled recently I kept a blog to update everyone at home about where I was and what I was up to and it saved me lots of time rather than sending multiple e-mails. (www.getjealous.com is a great site for this type of blog). A group of friends and I also use a blogger.com page for our knitting group to share patterns and post pictures of our projects. I'm looking forward to figuring out how to use this technology at work.