Reasons to agree
- Flickr is a free way to store photos.
- Flickr is owned by Yahoo. Yahoo has thousands of employees. Yahoo employees would be more likely to look at Romney photos, and therefore learn about him, if he used flickr.
- Thousands of people use flickr. Flickr users would be more likely to look at Romney photos if he had a flickr account, and therefore learn about him, if he used flickr.
- Barak Obama has a flickr account link featured prominently on his front page.
- Mitt Romney's photos have some major problems. Users can not tag them, identify themselves if they are in the or comment on them. When users "tag" a photo in flickr, they help organize the photo, so Google, Yahoo, and MSN will know where that photo is, and what it is, and promote it in a Google, Yahoo, or MSN image search. If Romney got his picture taken with some Iowa students, and put that picture on his Flickr account, the Iowa students could identify themselves in the photo, and help promote the photo, out of their own interest. Putting photos into flickr is just one more way that a candidate can interact with the user. People can comment on the photo, give you feedback, and interact with you. It makes looking at your photos more interesting, because it is a game for them, that they can participate in... they can comment on, and discuss your photos, and interact with them.
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Click here to see my flickr account.
Here are all the tags that I have used to describe my photos. If you click here you will see the photos I have taken in Idaho. If Mitt Romney did that, and you could see all of his photos in Iowa, I think he would get more Iowa supporters.
Romney needs to embrace all these new technologies that let people find information about him faster, easier, and in a fun way.
