Share a little sunshine

Florida tourism has taken a hard hit this year from the oil spill and even though most of the beaches were unaffected, people were canceling their trips. VISIT FLORIDA has done a great job posting photo updates along the way but something bigger was needed. And boy, was that achieved!

Residents and visitors participated in an enormous beach walk on Nov 6, photographing nearly the entire 825 miles of Florida beaches. But it doesn’t stop there. The Great VISIT FLORIDA Beach Walk posted these photos on a google map (be still my heart) and is asking the public to vote for their favorite photo / beach. What at outstanding idea!

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A picture is worth a thousand words…especially on twitter

Convention and Visitors Bureaus know that photos are an important part in selling a destination. Compelling photos can also say much more than 140 characters can on twitter. Part of twitter’s appeal is time-sensitive content and photos should enhance this. I can tweet about the beautiful weather in Chicago but sending a twitpic photo would say even more.

There are several photo posting options on twitter but my preference is twitpic. It seems to load photos faster (for the viewer) than TweetPhoto and it’s easier to navigate through a user’s photostream than yfrog.

You can easily upload photos from twitpic.com but I think the best use of twitpic is the ability to upload photos on the go from your phone. Each user has a special “twitpic email address” that they can email their photos to for instant uploading.

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Flickr’s New Design

Flickr rolled out a new design a few weeks ago to 800,000 some users and just made it mainstream today. It’s a lot cleaner and seems to display all the important information “above the fold” on the screen.

Here are my favorite aspects of this new design:

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