Social Technologies Data Flow - Photos and Graphics

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Photos and graphics is the final topic in this series of data flow / systems diagrams for our Department of Education social technologies services.

Photos and graphics are captured or designed from a wide variety of sources using many devices.

Editing is done through the Adobe Creative Suite for desktop and mobile - plus a wide range of other apps - increasingly on mobile devices.

Photos and graphics are processed, tagged, checked for permission to publish and licensed using the AusGOAL Creative Commons copyright licencing framework.

It is hoped that AI deep learning technology will take over some of the burden of tagging and searching thousands of images in our libraries over the next couple of years (eg automatic image tagging in iPhotos, flickr, Facebook, Google images which has developed rapidly since 2015).

Photos and graphics are published in both traditional media and social media.

Dropbox is frequently used to move digital assets between apps and devices. An increasing number of images are taken and edited on mobile devices and shared to social media.

Different photo libraries are maintained in Adobe Creative Cloud, Dropbox, flickr and Google photos for different purposes and audiences.

Interactive panorama require specialist software and hosting.

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This post is part 6 of a series illustrating Data Flow for some Department social technologies:

1. Social Technologies Data Flow - Facebook
2. Social Technologies Data Flow - Instagram and Twitter
3. Social Technologies Data Flow - Google+
4. Social Technologies Data Flow - Video
5. Social Technologies Data Flow - Mobile Apps
6. Social Technologies Data Flow - Photos/Graphics

Social Technologies Data Flow - Twitter and Instagram

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The data flow diagrams or system maps for the Department's Instagram and Twitter channels are similar to that of Facebook shown in the previous post - although the audiences and number of instances for both are currently much smaller.

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As before LastPass, two-factor authentication and Google Authenticator are used to manage the security of social media services.

Google Alerts and Hootsuite are used to track key hashtags and mentions. Hootsuite is used during live events.

Both the Instagram and Twitter mobile apps are used and these are signed into multiple accounts making it quick to monitor and share posts across accounts.

The Department's main Instagram is linked to the main Facebook account and Facebook Business Manager for Insights, advertising and invoicing.

Repost It! is used to share Instagram posts. InsTrack has some analytics to complement Instagram Insights and reports on gained and lost Instagram followers.

DashThis and Digi.me are used for reporting analytics, live display (in 2017) and archiving as described in the previous post.

2017 challenges in this area are:

• keeping up with the increase in Instagram accounts across the Department
• reaching a larger employee Twitter audience during live events such as conferences and workshops (approx. 25% of employees have signed up to Twitter)
• integrating Instagram and Twitter with the Department's Yammer presence.

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This post is part 2 of a series illustrating Data Flow for some Department social technologies:

1. Social Technologies Data Flow - Facebook
2. Social Technologies Data Flow - Instagram and Twitter
3. Social Technologies Data Flow - Google+
4. Social Technologies Data Flow - Video
5. Social Technologies Data Flow - Mobile Apps
6. Social Technologies Data Flow - Photos/Graphics

Playing TAG

Many staff and students are using web services for displaying, organising and sharing their work. A number of Creative Arts teachers have been looking at how work might be tagged within these services so that staff and students can search for products created

• by Tasmanian Polytechnic students and staff
  
• in the same course or qualification
  
• on the same campus
  
• using the same media

In addition to facilitating searching a state-wide tagging system could allow teachers to easily collate student work for quality assurance/moderation across the state.

One issue to be addressed is the fact that students and staff are currently using a range of different web services for the same function. For example photos are uploaded into Flickr, Picasa, Deviant Art... We can create a single RSS feed from multiple web services by using an RSS aggregator that creates a new combined RSS feed such as Yahoo Pipes - rather than mandate a single web service.

We would also like to showcase student work by tagging items so that they automatically appear in RSS feeds within embedded code set up for our intranet, Facebook and public website. This will be archived by creating a Flickr group (linked to a state-wide Creative Arts Flickr account) where students can display their best work. Some of this work will then be tagged for showcasing - as well as being organised into sets and galleries.

This cross-campus tagging can also be applied to web services for video, audio and other media - any services that provide an RSS feed from tag searches.

Some of the thinking behind the use of tagging is presented in the following slides created for Creative Arts staff considering using Flickr for the first time to encourage student comment and reflection. They would also like to use it to facilitate some mentoring and critique from the arts community outside the organisation.