BangleBangle goes Web 2.0 on Flickr
We have started a bangle group on Flickr, a very popular web 2.0 site for hosting photos. Flickr groups allow people with similar hobbies to get together and share photos. Our group is called Bangle Lovers and can be found at http://www.flickr.com/groups/banglelovers/. It allows us to share our bangle photographs with other people who love bangles. The other group members in turn submit their favourite bangle photographs which give us ideas for what cool bangles are out there and how to take great photos on them. This is not only a great way to promote our bangle business to people who are self confessed bangle lovers but it also gives us a forum to discuss general bangle trends and styles with people who have an interest in the subject.
The main limitation of Flickr is that we only have a few friends that we are connected to on Flickr and not all of them would be interested in bangles. What Flickr does allow though is wholesale searching of other people’s public photos to find any photographs tagged with the words “bangle lovers”. A quick search revealed quite a few complete strangers who were as in to bangle as we were and we used Flickr’s in built functionality to invite them to the Bangle Lovers group.
The other great advantage of Flickr is that we can use it to host our bangle photographs and reduce our bandwidth costs. The following photo is hosted on Flickr:
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