Moo hunting…

Sculpture

That’s Sandolio there, hiding out in Baden-Wurttemberg. He and his friends are in a jam, sort of. Stuck on things all over the world. If you’re feeling lucky, why not check out our Do More partner Moo’s new Egg Hunt – wherein eggs sporting a prize-winning code (including some free Flickr pro accounts) are hidden and waiting to be found.

The Moo folks are using a Flickr group to show hunters where the egg are hiding in the real world, and its handy to view the photos on a map to get a sense of where the eggs are in relation to you. For more information, head over to the Moo blog. Happy hunting!

Photo by MooHQ.

Posted by Tara Kirchner
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Flickr for Good

Gisimba Memorial Center

The school dress in a blur.

It’s lunchtime. On school days, the older children come back to the orphanage for lunch, a break that splits their day into two. The younger children attand school only in the morning or afternoon.

Gisimba Memorial Center
June 29, 2006
Kigali, Rwanda. Africa.

Sharing your photos with the world is something that’s core to the Flickr community. Sharing is good, but sharing for good is, well, really good.

Some of our members share their photos with a specific purpose in mind — to shine a light on social or global issues. There are many, many “for good” groups (and individuals) who are already here at Flickr, sharing photos of the good works they care about. To celebrate their efforts and to have a place where we share information on charity, issues, or other for good projects, we’ve created Flickr for Good, where we’ll highlight the good works going on around Flickr.

But wait, there’s more! Working to advance a cause or calling is an integral part of how our global society functions, and being able to use technology to achieve that mission is important. So we’ve partnered with TechSoup, a US based, not for profit, technology group, to donate 10,000 Flickr pro accounts for individuals who work at qualifying “for good” organizations in the US and Canada, with additional countries (UK, Australia, Hong Kong and Spain) expected soon.

If you’d like to apply to receive one of these donated Flickr pro accounts, please visit our partner to get started.

Photo by camera_rwanda/Kresta King Cutcher

Posted by Tara Kirchner
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Decorate our walls…

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We’re hoping to create a large collage of up to 5,000 5 x 7″ photos to deck the walls of our 4th birthday party. If you’d like to contribute a photo, please check out the full details in Flickr Turns 4 (description and group rules are available in Traditional Chinese, German, English and Spanish — Portuguese, Korean, Italian and French will follow shortly). And if you’re feeling in the curatorial mood, check out the companion group, Flickr Turns 4 in the Wild.

We’re going to announce the venue details this week. If you’re going to be in or around San Francisco on March 15th, we hope that you’ll consider joining us.

If you’ve never been to a Flickr birthday party, here are photos from Flickr 333:

the yip yips    Flickr Cupcakes    flickr party    Flickr dots welcome you

and Flickr Turns 2:

Happy 2nd birthday, Flickr!    Stewart    Say cheese!    flickr-party-27

Photos from wirehead, Twinmama, emilychang, Yodel Anecdotal, lucy huntzinger, George, Norby, and Kurohashi.

Posted by Heather Champ
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