Holidays about family traditions, either reliving old ones or starting new ones. A holiday project I wish I had started years ago is a holiday photo journal. Each year, taking pictures of the holidays; each family member present, trees, food, children, etc.
Then, put the photos in an online journal, set it aside, and bring it out next year, and repeat the whole thing again.
It's a great way to share the holidays, especially with the youngest members. It would be great to see your first Christmas when you're 20 years old.
Lisa
Eric : Gardenfork.tv
· 1 year ago
my sister is taking old Media and making it into new media. she got a simple slide digitizer and is now digitizing selected slides from my parents huge collection of slide photography. we will then show the digitized slides to our parents on the laptop and type in metadata for each slide.
Amie Gillingham
· 1 year ago
Another great use for those holiday photos is to combine them with family and do a book using a service like blurb or lulu.
lawton chiles
· 1 year ago
Great call with the lulu.com idea Amie. I need to try that- my family and friend would love it!
Sharing ideas and memories is what social media is all about :)
Ann Handley
· 1 year ago
Got my brother & his girlfriend a Flip for Christmas... great thought to set them up with a YouTube account.
: )
Thanks!
Scott Monty
· 1 year ago
Chris,
Great suggestions as always. If you'll humor me a little, I've got an additional suggestion. It's a bit of a shameless plug, but what the hey, it's the holidays, right?
If you're separated from family, friends and loved ones across during the holidays, try using ooVoo to connect them as a video chat application. You can get up to 6 people on video at the same time, send files, text chat, etc. You could actually have a virtual Christmas dinner with anyone who has a web cam.
Spare yourself the headaches and family squabbles that come with hosting a houseful of people. Ha, ha!
The PC version is in beta, but the Mac version is in pre-alpha. If you need a Mac invite, let me know.
Full disclosure: ooVoo is a client of crayon, LLC
natasha Wescoat
· 1 year ago
I was thinking about what I always try to remember most about the holidays. The reactions on loved ones faces when they open a present. It would be a fun project to record just a closeup video of their faces when they open something. A fun way to remember how my son reacted when he finds out he got moon boots!
JasonFalls
· 1 year ago
Fantastic suggestions, Chris. I do want to pass on some personal experience to help those who might follow some of the tips, though.
Last year I put together a group blog for my wife and her close-knit group of high school friends. At their annual Christmas get-together, I unveiled it, showed them all how it worked, etc. One of the young ladies is a high school guidance counselor who was very leery of being involved because of the horror stories of principals finding questionable personal information online about teachers and firing them. Unfortunately, she declined to participate and asked to be removed from the pictures, etc.
The lesson I learned is that there will perhaps need to be some educating you'll have to do. Certainly Chris's tips point in that direction, but be prepared for a little tech-tard anxiety from the folks you're giving the gifts too. Even the non-gadget gifts may need some coaching.
For the record, the blog went over famously with the rest and is still going today, connecting everyone with the three friends who now live out of town, and vice-versa.
Happy Holidays all!
Glenn
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the podcast.com mention! Merry Christmas!
karyrogers
· 1 year ago
I would love to get my mom past the disposable cameras and using a digital camera. She'd have a lot of fun with it if she wasn't scared of computers or anything with to do with "digital." I did get her an LCD key chain last year with some pictures on it. Baby steps.
I made a Christmas memories video with my buddy and collaborator. Good times.
When the parents bring out the photo albums. Scan the photos of friends when they were five and who are on Facebook. Tag 'em up and see what they say!
Johan Myrberger
· 1 year ago
So, the Christmas season is over, and I am catching up on some feeds.
Good post, Chris. When you get people over the threshold to start exlporing social media they often get hooked.
I have two suggestions to add to your list:
* As Christmas is very much a family holiday a "genealogy 2.0" site would be of interest. Personally I use geni.com the (and have explored a few others). Get your family to contribute to the family tree. Add pictures and information. Invite your relatives. And encourage them to invite their families (which might not be part of "your" family if you talk about eg your cousin's in-laws etc). It is really fun to see the family social network expand. (and Chris, if you're on Geni.com, feel free to add me as "family friend" if applicable)
* During christmas my wife has worked on a school assignment together with a co-student. This time I managed to get them to explore and use Google Docs instead of sending numerous copies of Word-documents back and forth. Worked well (even if they did teh final editing in word to get all the formatting features). So, for the relatives that are attending school or otherwise do joint writing - point them to Google Docs or a similar service.
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Then, put the photos in an online journal, set it aside, and bring it out next year, and repeat the whole thing again.
It's a great way to share the holidays, especially with the youngest members. It would be great to see your first Christmas when you're 20 years old.
Lisa
Sharing ideas and memories is what social media is all about :)
: )
Thanks!
Great suggestions as always. If you'll humor me a little, I've got an additional suggestion. It's a bit of a shameless plug, but what the hey, it's the holidays, right?
If you're separated from family, friends and loved ones across during the holidays, try using ooVoo to connect them as a video chat application. You can get up to 6 people on video at the same time, send files, text chat, etc. You could actually have a virtual Christmas dinner with anyone who has a web cam.
Spare yourself the headaches and family squabbles that come with hosting a houseful of people. Ha, ha!
The PC version is in beta, but the Mac version is in pre-alpha. If you need a Mac invite, let me know.
Full disclosure: ooVoo is a client of crayon, LLC
Last year I put together a group blog for my wife and her close-knit group of high school friends. At their annual Christmas get-together, I unveiled it, showed them all how it worked, etc. One of the young ladies is a high school guidance counselor who was very leery of being involved because of the horror stories of principals finding questionable personal information online about teachers and firing them. Unfortunately, she declined to participate and asked to be removed from the pictures, etc.
The lesson I learned is that there will perhaps need to be some educating you'll have to do. Certainly Chris's tips point in that direction, but be prepared for a little tech-tard anxiety from the folks you're giving the gifts too. Even the non-gadget gifts may need some coaching.
For the record, the blog went over famously with the rest and is still going today, connecting everyone with the three friends who now live out of town, and vice-versa.
Happy Holidays all!
I made a Christmas memories video with my buddy and collaborator. Good times.
http://www.goodcommitment.tv/2007/12/24/christm...
Happy Holidays!
Good post, Chris. When you get people over the threshold to start exlporing social media they often get hooked.
I have two suggestions to add to your list:
* As Christmas is very much a family holiday a "genealogy 2.0" site would be of interest. Personally I use geni.com the (and have explored a few others). Get your family to contribute to the family tree. Add pictures and information. Invite your relatives. And encourage them to invite their families (which might not be part of "your" family if you talk about eg your cousin's in-laws etc). It is really fun to see the family social network expand. (and Chris, if you're on Geni.com, feel free to add me as "family friend" if applicable)
* During christmas my wife has worked on a school assignment together with a co-student. This time I managed to get them to explore and use Google Docs instead of sending numerous copies of Word-documents back and forth. Worked well (even if they did teh final editing in word to get all the formatting features).
So, for the relatives that are attending school or otherwise do joint writing - point them to Google Docs or a similar service.