You CAN put all your eggs in one basket. Want to place your images online but keep them private, just share them with a select group of contacts, or create an online image archive? You can do any or all of these things with a photo sharing platform like Flickr.com.

A web 2.0 application, Flickr can be called social networking with photography. But there are more uses for it than sharing your flower photos. Flickr’s not designed for commercial use, and you might not want to put your original artwork there, but there are still plenty of ways you can use it to show images of what you do.

We set up a Flickr account for historical photos and illustrations associated with the Rochester Labor History map project. And one for Artist Marilyn Anderson, who wanted a way to share and store images from her gallery openings. Setting up multiple Flickr accounts is possible, but it’s easy to organize images from a single account into sets and collections by subject, project, event or work area.