Comments on: Flickr for Good just launched! http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/flickr-for-good-just-launched?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flickr-for-good-just-launched Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Matthew Blasi http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/flickr-for-good-just-launched/comment-page-1#comment-100364 Matthew Blasi Mon, 04 May 2009 20:53:16 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/flickr-for-good-just-launched#comment-100364 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. 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.

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