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title: 150 – Flickr For Churches
description: "This week the WELSTech podcast discussion topic is online image hosting with Flickr plus graphic designer, Diahann Lohr, joins the conversation. The discussion: Photo Sharing – Living in a Web 2.0 world means churches and schools can take advantage of online photo sharing sites such as Flickr to post, organize and share digital images.  Martin and Sallie explore Flickr […]"
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# [150 – Flickr For Churches](https://welstech.wels.org/2010/09/22/150-flickr-for-churches)

 Written by [Sallie Draper](https://welstech.wels.org/author/sallie-draper) | Sep 22, 2010 4:00:17 AM

This week the WELSTech podcast discussion topic is online image hosting with Flickr plus graphic designer, Diahann Lohr, joins the conversation.

[https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Podcast_150.mp3](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Podcast_150.mp3)

Podcast: [Download](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Podcast_150.mp3) (45.1MB)

### The discussion:

Photo Sharing – Living in a Web 2.0 world means churches and schools can take advantage of online photo sharing sites such as [Flickr](http://flickr.com) to post, organize and share digital images.  Martin and Sallie explore Flickr and talk about ideas for using it for ministry advancement.

- [Sample embedded Flickr slideshow](http://setup.finalweb.net/site/cpage.asp?sec_id=1925&cpage_id=10769)
- Flickr groups of note: 
    - [WELS Inspirational Images](http://www.flickr.com/groups/streamsimages/)
    - [WELS Churches](http://www.flickr.com/groups/710355@N23/)
    - [Church Marketing Lab](http://www.flickr.com/groups/cfcc/)
    - Designer Steven Stelter’s church logos (Listen to [Steven’s WELSTech interview](https://welstech.wels.net/2010/01/27/116-photography-in-the-classroom/))
- Are you using Flickr to host your church or school images?  [E-mail WELSTech](mailto:welstech@wels.net) a link to your photos!

### The interview:

(15:05) Design Elements – Diahann Lohr, owner of [Adunate Word & Design](http://www.adunate.com/) in Watertown, WI chats with Martin and Sallie about the many questions that go into discovering a good graphic design for congregations and schools.

- Heather Holub recently wrote to WELSTech looking for a WELS designer.  We’ve started a new page on the WELSTech Wiki listing Graphic and Web Designers.  If you know of a business that isn’t listed, please edit the wiki page to add them.

### News in tech:

(32:35) [The New Twitter](http://twitter.com/newtwitter) is rolling out

### Picks of the week:

- (37:14) Creating School Information Network Channels from Silvia Tolisano at the Langwitches blog
- [Toodledo.com](http://Toodledo.com) – GTD-friendly to-do list

### Community feedback:

- (46:20) Adam Miller sent us a link to an article about [Microsoft’s licensing for non-profits outside of the USA](http://www.itworld.com/government/120477/microsoft-issue-blanket-license-ngos)
- We took a virtual trip on Lutheran Airlines thanks to Deborah Witte
- Gail Potratz from [Emanuel](http://www.emanuelnl.org/school) in New London, WI shared a link to a recent Free Technology For Teachers blog post, [5 Tools To Create and Administer Quizzes Online](http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/5-tools-to-create-and-administer.html)
- Nancy Leaverton commented on last week’s podcast episode, 149 – Calling All Secretaries
- Jason Schmidt (@[jasonschmidt123](http://twitter.com/jasonschmidt123) on Twitter) from [Gethsemane](http://falconnet.gethlc.org/mambo/) in Omaha, NE shared links and ideas: 
    - Podcast student memory work using tips from this helpful article on [How to Create RSS/XML Feeds For Podcasts](http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html)
    - A comparison table for Blogs, Wikis and Docs: Which is right for your lesson?
    - Interactive Whiteboard resource sharing

### Coming up on WELSTech:

(59:47) Episode 151 – WELSTech welcomes back Gail Potratz, our semi-regular classroom technology correspondent, and we talk about teacher professional development in the area of technology plus listen in as Gail interviews education professor Bernard Bull. (Release date 09/29/10)

### The featured artist:

(1:01:31) We close the podcast with the music of Corban Creek – *Epitaph* from their CD titled “Could It Be Me?”

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