Week 9

Today's lecture centered around visual social media. Social media has various uses, e.g. social, recreational, academic and commercial. There are many different social media services and they also have different target audiences, e.g. social media, personal photo storage. There are several types of visual social media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.
This week's eLab was to set up a Flickr account and upload photos and videos. We had to add titles and descriptions to the photos individually or as a batch. We also had to organize them into sets, add tags and share them with groups. Tags are very useful as they allow you to access your photos with ease and sets allow you to create collections of photos. I enjoyed participating in this eLab and I will definitely use it again in the future as I found it to be very similar to Instagram that I personally use frequently. Below is a screen-grab of my completed Flickr account.
This week we had another group meeting. At this meeting we had a chance to view the completed app. We were delighted with the outcome and began to finalize the marketing aspect of the project.