I don’t do much organizing of my photos on my PC, I just keep them in a simple folder structure of when they were downloaded. As for titles and tagging, forget it. The only thing I do is mark the ones I upload to flickr as a favourite so I can tie the two together.
Having listened to a couple of podcasts on the RIYA website that help you to autotag your photos (something I might go into later but I’m having trouble with the software on my machine) I sort of got the impression that if they tagged a photo, flickr would pick this up when you uploaded. I began to wonder if this was true of picassa and to my joy it is!
Tagging in picassa does not seem to be a high profile feature, I mean it’s hidden on a hot key (ctrl-K) and doesn’t appear in the context menu. I had to do a little searching to find it. But it does do tagging and somehow these tags must be part of the file and should you alter the photo with picassa and export it they do stay with the file. On uploading the file to flickr I found that flickr did recognize the tags.
However the reverse cannot be said to be true, the photos i’ve uploaded to flickr and tagged, when download, even at original size do not keep any tagging information.
If you don’t hear from me in a while I’m going on a tagging spree on my hard drive, I should be done by the next millennium 
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Cool, picassa must add to the exif and flickr to their own proprietary db?
i don’t think its in the exif as i check the jpg’s advanced properties under windows and couldn’t see any keywords.