Global Youth Service Day

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Title	Author	Replies	Latest Post
China GYSD volunteer Action, in 2009	Love Without Borders	1	6 months ago
GYSD2008 -Cool The Earth of GreenSOS	GreenSOS	0	18 months ago
Día Mundial del Servicio Voluntario Juvenil en la Universidad Santo Tomás	juandiegoval	0	18 months ago
GYSD 2008!	joncamfield	0	19 months ago
Gysd 2007 photos by frsd, madurai, india	FRSDMDU	2	29 months ago
Tagging Photos	joncamfield	0	29 months ago

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About Global Youth Service Day

Welcome to Global Youth Service Day's Flickr group!

Learn more about GYSD at www.GYSD.org

To add your photos to the group, you will need to sign up flickr (you can log in using your yahoo account once you click on the sign-up link above), join the group (if you are signed in just click join on the right), and then add your photos to the group.

As an extra incentive to upload your very best photos in our Flickr group, the staff at Youth Service America will pick their favorite photos to be featured in our promotions for Global Youth Service Day 2010!

Find out how to add your photos to the group here: www.flickr.com/help/groups/#57
If you have more questions, Flickr has a great Frequently Asked Questions section found here: www.flickr.com/faq.gne

How should I describe my photo?

On Flickr, users can search group photos using “tags.” For example, if a member of the group would like to see what GYSD looks like in Wyoming this year, the member can search by the tags “wyoming” and “gysd2009.” Please note that you should avoid putting spaces in your tags, so that “northcarolina” becomes the tag for a state with two words—North Carolina. The following tags are required for your photos to be included in our Flickr group:

•gysd
•volunteer
•Grant (if relevant, e.g. statefarm, disney, etc.)
•your location (e.g. germany, california, ohio, northcarolina, gainesville, china, )
•your zip or postal code (e.g. 20005)

Optional tags (to further describe your picture):
Youth, adult, group, semesterofservice, individual, literacy, environment, cleanup, your city, leadagency, nationalpartner, outdoor, indoor, media, officials, intergenerational, trees, garden, urban, rural, etc.

What makes a good Flickr photo for GYSD?

1) Choose and upload only your best pictures. Some of the best photos:
•Are clear, in-focus, and well lit
•Are close-ups of faces
•Contain event or program-related caps and shirts
•Show the “before” and “after” of your service projects
•Get down to the level of the action rather than shot from above
•Remember if you are using a free account Flickr limits your monthly upload by file size, so you place more photos by reducing the size of your pictures

2) For our media campaign, Youth Service America needs photos that reflect the diversity of the service movement. Examples include:
•Elected officials engaged in service with youth
•Members of the media engaged in service with youth
•Community leaders engaged in service with youth
•Youth with disabilities engaged in service with non-disabled youth
•Older youth serving younger youth, or youth of different ages serving together

3) Remember to include a caption with each photo, identifying the main figures from left to right and describing the action, e.g. Ian G. and Julie M. fill backpacks with school supplies to donate to Bates Elementary School in Mississippi.

4) Respect the rights and feelings of others—get permission from everyone photographed (there are photo releases in the GYSD planning materials)!

http://www.ysa.org/gysd