peterellis Web Wednesdays – December 1, 2010

Posted on Dec 01, 2010 by Peter Ellis in Social Media, Web Design, Web Wednesdays

Web Wednesdays – each Wednesday we will feature a website that we’ve come across while in our process of searching for inspiration, the latest trends, or learning about anything and everything we can get our hands on that interests us.

Picnik

If you are looking to have some fun with your holiday photos this year – Picnik is the place for you!

Picnik is photo editing online, in your browser. It gives real people photo editing superpowers. It’s fast, easy, and offers tons of powerful tools, artistic effects, stickers, frames, touch-ups, scrapbooking tools and more. And that’s all for free.

The website allows you to upload photos from your computer or get your photos from places like Facebook, Google Picasa, Flickr and other social media website.

Choose your photo, adjust the exposure, color, make it black and white, sepia or some color, crop, rotate, add borders, add effects, add captions and more. At the end you will have yourself a piece of art.

Try it out this week, you will not regret it.

There’s even more available for Picnik Premium members: More tools, advanced effects, seasonal content all year long and more!

Visit Picnic website

peterellis White House and Social Media

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Peter Ellis in Advertising, Social Media

I was doing research on current social media usage trends. Many will say that every business should use social networking (after all its a free tool). The questions is, can any business adopt social networking practices that will return on their investment? In my humble opinion, the answer is simple – it depends on the business. It’s different for everyone.

I was browsing around the internet to find out what type of business utilize social media and networking for their business benefit. News stations – yes, of course, they bring the news, social media is just another medium to deliver it. How about your local mechanic? Tweet, tweet, “Your car is ready!”, tweet, tweet, clank, clank, “You need a new muffler.” I am not sure that this will work. What if the owner of the car is not following them on Twitter, OOPS!

White House and Social Media

This is when I stumbled on an article from the White House’s official blog about Haiti’s relief. Click, click, scroll, scroll and I come to find out that this administration is the first one in history to utilize so many social media networks:

  • Blog
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Flickr
  • MySpace
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo
  • iTunes
  • LinkedIn

This is a huge list. More networks that I belong to. More networks that some social networking gurus belong to. I guess this administration is doing something right (no politics intended)!