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Photos/video galleries #50

Open KSherrod opened 11 years ago

KSherrod commented 11 years ago

How we can better offer access to our photo and video galleries, so folks who know know little to nothing about how our worship looks, have never seen a woman priest, etc., can do so, or so Episcopalians who just might want to see themselves and their neighbors at a parish functgion, ordination, etc.

skwechter commented 11 years ago

Adam said:

  1. Should we swap out the Pinterest link in the Social menu for Flickr?
  2. Would adding a link to Flickr, with the label "Photo Album", under (perhaps) resources, provide enough satisfaction to the "we need a photo album" people?
  3. Should do a more involved Flickr integration so that photos can be viewed within the context of the site?
skwechter commented 11 years ago
  1. Swap pinterest for Flickr link: Why swap? Just add Flickr link to photoSets, not photoStream.
  2. Adding a menu item under Resources that links to Flickr photoSets could work, but then you'd also add a link to YouTube labeled video gallery. Isn't this a cop-out? This is only coming up because that's the way our diocese implemented it previously. Our entire publishing paradigm has changed, can't we let go of this old way of segregating information? If we tie news stories to groups like churches and organizations, then related stories appear with that group's page, and photos and videos appear in the stories. STAY THE COURSE with integrating photos and videos in the context of a story, and tie stories to groups. Additionally, describing to our users how photos and videos are integrated with our stories is probably worth doing. 3.Flickr integration would be nice, but it's pretty low priority.

I'll add

  1. Photo gallery so folks who know know little to nothing about how our worship looks, have never seen a woman priest, etc., can do so. Perhaps this is better accomplished by writing a story, including well-captioned photos to tell the story, and putting the story in the right place. For photos, you can consider that to be a carefully-curated set of well-captioned photos, right? However, there's no reason it can't be a story as well, using photos to express the context. Or a page. But it IS FOCUSED AND INTENTIONAL, not random. If it's targeted toward newcomers, put it with the About or Welcome information. But I don't think it takes new tech to do it.