Send Holiday Cards – via Facebook?
For several years now, I’ve sent e-cards to most of the people on my Christmas list. Although I love the e-cards created by Hallmark and Blue Mountain, I’ve always tried to create something that could be included in an email message. That will change this year. Thanks to Facebook, I have any number of options for sharing holiday greetings. Think of all the places you are finding the Share on Facebook icon and then put those platforms to work as Christmas Card Central. Here’s some quick thoughts:
- Create a page (or more) in Scrapblog and you’ll find the Facebook icon when you publish it. This could also be a fun way to do a holiday newsletter.
- Most of the desktop digital scrapbooking apps offer an online sharing option (Memory Mixer exports to MPEG-4 format) which can be uploaded to the video-sharing site of your choice. Also a good newsletter choice.
- A short video of photos and/or graphics with Christmas music and a recorded greeting could be posted at any number of video-sharing sites. Most offer a Facebook option, plus you have the ability to embed the video on your web/blog site.
- I’m finding today’s presentation software (PowerPoint, Keynote, Presentations, Impress, etc.) also makes a pretty cool slideshow creator. You can include narration and background music and many offer export to video options. Presentation-sharing platforms like Slideshare support multimedia presentations – and have one-click posting to Facebook.
- iPhone/Touch users will love the hiCard app which lets you email any number of cards – even cards with photos – straight from your device. The designs are delightful and cover just about every occasion. And, this app will only set you back $1.99. Getting it to Facebook is easy – I just email it to my Posterous address.
- Scrapbookers can create a design, then save it as a jpg or png file to share using Facebook Photos. I don’t see anything that says Facebook Photos only accepts photos.
I’m sure there’s a lot more ideas out there. I hope to see them – on Facebook.
One more thing. I hope you all enjoy lots of family and food this Thanksgiving.
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