Last Minute Holiday Greeting Card Ideas for Your Community

[Eric Suesz]

Did you forget to send a card this year? As the world becomes more digital every day, it's easy to forget about that old standby of the holiday season: the holiday greeting card. But, as you no doubt know, there are plenty of wonderful online services that let you create a unique, compelling, funny, or heartfelt holiday greeting. 

If you haven't sent anything to your community yet, consider trying these: 

Jibjab.com lets you make funny videos with faces of your friends. It's not free ($1/month), but it's pretty high quality. We made one for you from the Ning Advocacy Team:

• Punchbowl.com are classy, well-designed and thoughtful. Add your own photo for a small fee if you wish.
• Hallmark is pretty much the name in greeting cards. Makes sense that they would (finally) bring that focus to the Internet. Again, not all free, but some are.
• CardsThatGive.org is a thoughtful way to show your support for great causes.
• If you have a biting sense of humor, hipstercards.com will surely fit the bill.
• Someecards is another service that has a cynical take on current events and holidays. Scrooge-worthy!
• Picaboo and Mixbook are fancy services if you're really feeling generous.
• If you just want something free and easy, try American Greetings, eGreetings, or 123 Greetings.
• Our NingBot holiday card maker from last year is still chugging away making cards for communities. 

What do you use? I am betting you have a lot of great ideas. Please share your favorite holiday card making service so that others who may not have sent anything yet can do so this week.

[classic]

Beautiful video
+1

[Writer Chick {Diane}]

Dang...I was hoping for the Chippendales Jib Jab.  LOL  

Cute!

[Ratheesh]

Greetings From my Own site v4orkut

v4orkut.com

[Ratheesh]

Create Your Own card

[the_real_macfly]

Someecards.  Major win.  Thanks, Eric.   :-)

[AnGella]

We have been doing Jib Jab the past two years... sooo much fun!

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

[David Deubelbeiss]

I use Jackie Lawson, great cards.   I sent this one, by message and also its on our main page slider. http://eflclassroom.ning.com  

The nice thing about it - members can email a return greeting. Really cool and I got some great testimonials. 

We also have a flash gift giving page. Members give gifts right on the page and message thank yous...

David 

[Vanessa Moulédous]

Great post, too bad I haven't read it before I thought about making mine...However, this year, I wanted a community-based Xmas card to 1/ be consistent with the spirit of a community website 2/ animate the community 3/ get some more traffic. So I imagined a "Xmas'11 Greetings wall" where all my Members could post their own greetings in the spirit of Xmas.

If you're wondering what it looks like, have a look here.  I hope there will be dozens of cheerings! Let's wait&see, we have a few days left before Xmas...

[Jim Allen III]

Well I use Plaxo http://jimalleniii.myplaxo.com/ eCards online and it is a great contact list updater. http://ecards.plaxo.com/ecard/  Merry Christmas to all

Jim

[Dorothy M Rowatt]

You can find beautiful e-cards at the following website:   http://www.jacquielawson.com/ 

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to all, with Love and Light, Dorothy 

[ASAS AO PEITO]

Merry Christmas to all of you.

Greatings

[Runa Caoille]

Another Cool idea is the app called Ortist Scrapbook... draw Christmas cards for your network and have them draw their own.