Over the last few days, I’ve been spending a lot of time messing with and organizing my Flickr sets, groups, contacts, etc.
The groups, for example. I realized that I was just in way too many of them, there was simply no way I could participate in them all. I found myself leaving groups that I didn’t even realize I was in, groups that I’d never submitted anything to, etc. I went from about 130 groups or more to 74, not including those 8 I administer. I’m still going through groups, trying to see if there are any that I can leave. I just want to participate with a few that really match my interests. If it’s one thing that annoys me about Flickr though, it’s the fact that it doesn’t list my groups alphabetically on the group page. Ohhh that bugs me, it’s so hard to find the one I want without Ctrl+F-ing it. :P
I removed a contact or two. One suddenly disappeared from Flickr with all of her photos. One I never talk to, have never enjoyed their photostream, etc.
I’ve done some set organization, too. Created a couple and moved photos over, deleted a couple, rearranged them all. Heck, I deleted 209 photos from one particular set, saving about 50 in that set, moving them to another. Don’t worry, it’s nothing you’d miss. They were all horrible, bad, old scans I had every intention of re-doing and updating… but months later I still haven’t and their very presence annoyed me. Haha, Flickr asked me about 4 times if I seriously wanted to delete those 209 photos or what.
But speaking of sets, I’ve always been a little unsure of how I should organize them. As of now, there are a few general categories but the rest are all categorized by location and the set list is growing all the time. How do you organize yours?
Oh, and while you’re here, how about a photo of my neighbor’s clematis? You know, to welcome you to September…
UPDATE: Oh. My. Gosh. This is. The. COOLEST. Thing EVER. I’m going to be here all night adding my photos to this map, I can feel it! Muahahahahaha
http://flickr.com/photos/anela/map/
I keep adding sets to answer part of your question. Some of my sets have overlapping photos too.
For example, my dining out-2006 set has photos that are also in the friends and family sets.
My Art-2006 set has overlapping shots with vacations, and friends, and famiy.
Etc..
I’m not sure me organizing into sets helps anyone, even myself. I had this delusion for a while that because I put all my flower shots in one set, that folks would find one, and peruse all the others. That apparently doesn’t happen often, unless they are browsing only at the set level.
Now I’m convinced that a few folks will actually check out a whole set, but more often I think folks will only check out adjacent photos in the stream that catch their eye.
Still, I’ve tried to keep my sets meaningful and not overly specific. Heck, a couple of my sets are basically redundant to tags on the photos, but I like being able to find all my flower picks without having to find just one to start my search.
Did any of that help? Also, I’ve not checked out geo-tagging in flickr yet. Glad you like it.
Wow, you have done the very job I postpone to do!! IT’s a big job!!
My sets are growing as well, but in a way it’s kind of what I expected not having more general-themes sets. I actually like the fact that my photos are in more than one sets, then I can put them wherever they fit….
The map looks cool; I might put some of my travel photos there too :D
Hope you enjoys the weekend!