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Randy Tyler is a recognized pioneer and expert in Online Volunteer program development. Since 1998, his work has been noted by numerous news sources from The New York Times to CTV's Canada AM, and shared with non-profit organizations through provincial, national and international conference presentations and published articles. Randy provides training, workshops, presentations and consultation for non-profit organizations. He is a Gold Medallist graduate of both the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. For further information, please visit: http://www.RandyTyler.org

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How to Easily Backup Your Photos from Google's Picasa Web Albums

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As a non-profit organization, there are a number of effective, easy and free ways to promote, reflect, demonstrate or illustrate your mission, whether it be, for example, your events, the contributions of your online volunteers or how you are making an impact. One such method is to use Google's (free) Web Albums. However, at minimum, you must ensure that your precious memories and stories sitting on Google's servers are regularly backed up to a local computer. One quick and easy way to backup your photos from Google's photo sharing site (without requiring other applications to be installed) is to use the free Picasa Webalbums Assistant, as I will briefly explain below.

How to download photos from Google's photo sharing site using Picasa Webalbums Assistant:

  • download the zipped file (PWA0_3_1.zip) to your desktop
  • extract the files from the zip archive (with WinZip, 7Zip or similar program)
  • double click on the 53 KB file called "PWA3.jar"
  • agree to the terms of use (if you so choose)
  • if you agree to the terms of use, as shown in the screen capture above, you will now have the option to select whether you want to download a public album (where you will be prompted for the UserID of the Album owner) or an album from an invitation URL (where you will be required to copy/paste the invitation URL e-mailed to you)
  • once you provide either the UserID or invitation URL, Picasa Webalbums Assistant will display thumbnails of all the photos within the specific album you haveselected
  • check the photos you would like to download and then click the "Download Selected" button.
  • You will then be prompted to choose a location to save your photos (I suggest you save the photos to a folder where you will be able to easily locate them, such as your desktop).

Picasa Webalbums Assistant Requirements:

  • requires Java 5 or later to be installed on your Windows or Mac computer (check your version of Java)
  • if you have Java 5 or later installed and doubleclicking on the PWA3.jar file fails to launch the Picasa Webalbums Assistant application, you may lost the file type/application association.
  • If you are using Windows XP or Vista, you can download Jarfix 1.1. (39 KB) to restore the .jar file association to the Java Runtime Environment
  • the Webalbums Assistant application (PWA3.jar) can also be launched from the command line as in the following example (the PAW3.jar file and the lib folder, which also contains nine jar files, in this example are on my desktop): C:\Documents and Settings\Randy Tyler\Desktop>java -jar PWA3.jar

For further information about how a non profit organization can develop a productive virtual volunteering program through the use of appropriate technology, please visit this Online Volunteering Resource.

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