There are wifi-enabled cameras and phones that have "share to facebook" buttons, so it's all one step (I suppose it might be more than one, since maybe you have to pick and album, etc.). They're probably not great cameras, but you wouldn't have to drag the computer and USB cable around, either.
-----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Hanan Cohen Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:24 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv (mcn-l at mcn.edu) Subject: [MCN-L] Instant image uploading to Facebook? Hi, We are about to run an event here and we want to *instantly* upload photos from the event to an album on our Facebook page. We will hire a professional photographer to take pictures in a certain spot at the museum. The photographer will take a few shots of the person. His camera will be connected to a computer via a USB cable. He will choose the best shot of a person and save the image to the computer. This is as far as I have reached. Now I need a piece of software that will "listen" to a folder and when it finds a new file will *instantly* upload it to a specific album in our FB page. Do you know of a solution for this? Have you done something similar in your museum? I have read a bit and found that even though there are apps that upload images to FB, each image is waiting in a queue for a manual approval. Do you know anything about this? Can it be overridden in a way? Maybe there is a way to upload the images to a page in our website where people can find theirs and share it on their profile? Thanks, --- Hanan Cohen | Webmaster | Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem | mada.org.il<http://www.mada.org.il/> - Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/127569645760> - Twitter<http://twitter.com/madajerusalem> - YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/user/madajerusalem>
