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
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Except you are still bound that the accounts are not for the organization, they belong to the individual they are assigned to. It states you have to assign the account to a member of your staff and they have to be the ones to upload the images to their login account, from there if they leave the organization the account goes with them. This means if your webmaster or whoever is doing the Flickr work leaves you loose that account and everything on it, if you transfer it you violate the terms of use, and this still have the account closed and loose everything.
So what happens to all of the contacts, friends, contributions to groups and messages you send in Flickr after this. Well simply they are all gone.
This is an attempt to put a smiley face on and say "look how we help" by Flickr when they close on a regular basis the accounts of other non-profits like churches, relief organizations, hospitals on a daily basis all of whom had no issues paying the $24.95 for the Pro account.
Why not just allow them to register as a group, make an addendum to the terms of use keeping non-commercial use but allowing groups to use the portal as well. That would have been simpler and kept the same financial structure.