I enjoyed this lesson on photo sharing and saving. I recently started using Picasa from Google and have been working at sorting and saving my pictures, which I have been keeping private because most of them include people who do not wish to be shared!
At first I didn't tag the pictures, so now I am going back and tagging them so that I can use them for scrapbooking projects on specific subjects or events.
For the library, we have a news article with photos that we publish every year and it will be nice to be able to find those photos when we need them. Right now I have some of our photos uploaded to this blogger site. But I could start a Picasa private photo collection for the library and organize our historical and recent photos there. This will take some time, so I guess it's going on the "wish I had enough time to do this" list for now!

The photo which I uploaded is a picture from the google public photo album (by mogens). You can add comments, feedback, etc. regarding photos which are on the public picasa, so I don't know why it is not considered to have "social interaction", such as Flickr does. ?? Anyways, I uploaded this one because I went to Hawaii for our 25th wedding anniversary 10 years ago and we had a terrific time.

I don't have any specific criticism or praise to give about Flickr. Some of my relatives have invited me from time to time to look at their photos on Flickr. I guess I'm just getting used to using the Picasa and don't want to try learning another process from a different site at this point!

It was interesting to learn about geotagging, but I really cannot see any benefit to doing this with my personal photos. Just seems like a lot of work that is not going to reap any great rewards!