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I've found facebook's photo uploading system really easy to use, and I think they have two different options for uploading so it can be compatable for everyone...I don't know any of the tech stuff on it, just that it's easy...

Flickr by a loooooooooong shot. We used it for Alaska Youth for Environmental Action when we had students uploading photographs daily updating our blog with students simultaneously in Iceland and in Alaska.

But Facebook's great 'cause you can tag photos of your friends and if your friends use Facebook they get the quick update and everyone of your friends can gawk at you so in that sense it's much more effective.

But there's so much you can do with Flickr shots on their page. I usually upload photos to Flickr first with full-res shots and then I send crappier smaller ones to FB for my friends to see since no one wants to flip through all the Flickr pages when they're already in FB.

Hey, thanks! This is already very helpful. Anyone else??

definitely flickr... and I'm not very keen on uploading my photos to multiple places. I'd rather have a way to "blog" my photo from flickr, particularly since flickr has very sensible terms of service with regard to hosting content that is copyright the uploader (facebook is TERRIBLE in this regard).

Winkflash's uploading system is great. I think it's the Java option... in any case, I can see thumbnails of the photos in the folder that's selected and then I can drag them into another folder, where I can still see them. Then you just press the Upload button. It's so much easier than anything else. (Snapfish has a Mac plugin that also speeds things up.)

I like Flickr for photo sharing, but their upload interface could be friendlier.

(sidenote about the profile page: any way to put more than one url on one's profile?)

(ditto eliza's sidenote! i'd like to link to both my flickr set and my website)

and yes, flickr rocks! i am all about it!

I love flickr.

I too love Flickr - especially their uploading tool you can download (Flickr Uploadr). Great for all the pics I upload for my blog.

How come nobody said Photobucket? Is that not what you mean? I have tried flikr but can't access it without changing settings on my computer. I think photobucket is super user friendly. Maybe I am wrong?

My boyfriend has a great workflow for sharing his photography using Flickr. The abbreviated version is, he organizes the photos in iView Media Pro on the Mac, then uses an app called PictureSync which automatically resizes and uploads your photos to Flickr. Once they're up there, he uses a small interactive application called PictoBrowser to easily display the flicker photos in blog posts. It's pretty darn easy to use, and the results look very nice.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pictobrowser

I'd second the Flickr photo auto-import suggestion. Facebook's picture handling is good too, but I think since most of us already have Flickr and have our pics on it, it'd be easier to keep them there. Since Flickr has a good API, it wouldn't be terribly hard to connect AT to it (there's probably a prebuilt solution for doing this somewhere), or heck, you could just have people put in their flickr photos RSS feed URL and get their photos that way. The downside of that would be that you could only get the most recent photos... using the API would probably be a better solution.
Anyway, that's probably wayyy too complicated, but however the feature turns out it'll just be nice to have photos on our profiles.

Why recreate the wheel and force people to upload to multiple places. Most blog platforms have the ability to incorporate some type of code to show pictures from flickr. Most likely you can just add some code if the custom platform here doesn't have the ability already. You can always make it so that photos tagged with a specific tag show up in the profile page.

I know I'm jumping on the bandwagon with Flickr, but it just works so well (and hopefully Jerry Yang will keep things moving along). Flickr is not just about sharing. Sending photos to blogs and websites are already well known features. I like it better than any other social networking site that I use, it's really easy for anyone to use and there are lots of ways to integrate with it.

As much as I hate MS, check this out.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

Me and Flickr just don't get along all that well...

I just started using Picasa, from Google, and I love it!!!

They have a little button for "Blog This" and the uploading is fast and easy. It's a great way to organize your own pictures at home, and they have the web interface as well.

Highly recommend checking it out!

I love flickr and use flickr uploader.

Just in case you want to use somethings besides flickr, i find the uploading at vox is super easy.

I have no idea what they use, but I'm not very knowledgeable about the tech stuff, I just find it simple, which I think is the most important thing.

Thanks to all of you! This thread has been read by me and our tech team and has been very helpful and confirmed our suspicions. We're moving ahead right now with the concept of providing at least two ways of uploading: direct to the site and via your Flickr account.