I talked to Flickr’s Tara Kirchner, the Senior Marketing Manager of Flickr at Yahoo!, and recorded the conversation so that I can present it here on the site.

Some of the portions of this podcast are really more or less directed at Executive Directors and Development Directors. I guess the intention is for my fellow techies to play it back for their management staff. That conversation starts at 8:09 in the MP3.

There’s also a good explanation as to why Flickr for Good uses Techsoup to help them process new applications for Flickr for Good. I have to admit that myself and others have a bit of a reservation regarding Techsoup’s $3 processing fee. The only value that I see Techsoup is adding is ensuring that a real nonprofit is actually using a Flickr for Good license. Is a database call worth $3?

I also discussed a more advanced usage of Flickr for Good. You can use it as an informal digital assets management system for all your public images. This is actually a pretty good deal for those of you who serve nonprofits that have a stack of pictures just collecting dust in some corner.

Anyway, without further ado, here’s the podcast:

Download audio file (flickrforgood.mp3)

Free Flickr Pro accounts for nonprofits! It’s was always cheap now it’s free (for nonprofits in the United States only – sorry international readers). It looks like US and Canadian nonprofits can sign up now but there’s plans afoot to move it overseas to the UK and elsewhere. Here’s a quick cut:

We’ve partnered with TechSoup, a US-based non-profit technology training service, to donate 10,000 1-year Flickr pro accounts for good causes. TechSoup and its international partners will distribute these to qualifying non-profit organizations.

More details later but the link is here.

UPDATE: I’ll be presenting a 30 minute podcast tomorrow (if my luck with Talkshoe holds out) on Flickr for Good.

UPDATE (3/6/2008): The podcast is available at http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/flickr-talks-check-out-the-podcast