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.

[Arnold Burian]

Has anyone tried embedding JibJab on their site? Does it work well? (Curious before I spend the $$$.)

[UPDATE] I did a small test using the free card and it seems to embed just fine.

[Arnold Burian]

[SECOND UPDATE] Embedding works well in some browsers, not in others. I think we'll have to go with the video download feature.

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[Debby Bruck]

I used the NING Greeting Card Maker

CLICK TO SEE HOLIDAY GREETING CARD 
Enjoy another Greeting Card 

Gee. Maybe I should have entered the website in there?

Maybe there is no edit function, either?

Can I add html link?

[Ava Barzvi]

You get REAL good quality custom cards out fast at http://www.sendoutcards.com/43815

Less expensive than going to a store and they even address the envelope and put on the stamp for you!

You can import your contacts and get all your cards out at once! With Pictures too!

Check out the 3 min video and click on the envelope under it for the business opportunity!

I LOVE it!

http://www.sendoutcards.com/43815

[Lana Mack]

I have not sent any cards for Christmas but since that's passed I'd like to wish my members a Happy New year and I think this is a great idea for Holidays in general. Can we somehow personalize this to individual's birthdays?