Top Ten (+) Online Photo Ideas

With the holiday season rapidly approaching, it may be prime time to think about photos -- what to do with them and ways to share them.

If you have photos and are stuck for ideas, check out the iLibrarian blog post "Top 17+ Things to do with Online Photos" by Ellyssa Kroski to learn ways you can create

--- music videos,
--- blog and social networking slideshows,
--- business cards, stickers, and postcards,
--- trading cards, badges, and posters,
--- online scrapbooks and coffee table books,
--- newsletters and brochures,
--- photo collages,
--- online portfolios,
--- comic strips, and
--- photo widgets.

You'll also find links to tools that will help you
--- edit and caption photos,
--- turn photos into cartoons, and
--- frame photos.

Check it out!

YouTube Offers Online Video Editor

The post "Edit Video in the Cloud with the YouTube Video Editor" on Broadcasting Ourselves recently announced YouTube's launch of its online video editor, which lets users

• Combine multiple uploaded video.
• Trim the beginning and/or ending of videos.
• Add soundtracks using YouTube's AudioSwap song library.
• Create videos and easily publish them to YouTube.

Available in TestTube, the YouTube ideas incubator, the video editor is ready to use. No software downloads required. Yea!

The post also offers videos with tips for using the editor, examples of others' videos and feedback, and links to help center support, as well as asking for feedback. Check it out!

Got a few minutes for Enrichment or Entertainment?

We have been attending some leadership webinars, and while rummaging through the associated reading, I was twice directed to my new fave site. This definitely gets saved in my delicious, and you may find it intriguing as well!

The site is TED.com, and their mission is spreading ideas. This is what they say about themselves:

We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.

They provide 'talks', which may be truly talks, but also may be recitals (Jennifer Lin piano improv), demos (don't miss Photosynth by Blaise Aguera y Arcas), eat to starve cancer, school lunches--around 700 presentations, so far!

Nothing on television? Got a few minutes in the grocery line? Visit my new buddy, TED! (NOT while driving, folks! I saw a 3-car wreck just this morning on the way to work.)