August 1st, 2007, 1 Comment »
For reasons which will become clear, I need a photo of a particular Vancouver hot dog stand. It’s the one on the south-east corner (that’d be in front of the London Drugs) of the Georgia-Granville intersection.
I’m not picky about what the photo looks like–be as creative or artful as you like. However, if there happens to be a young woman sitting against a streetlight pole right beside the hot dog stand, please include her in the shot. And try the turkey smokie, it rocks.
I figure somebody’s walking past that corner in the next few days, and might have their camera with them. I’d really appreciate your help if that’s you. Drop me an email if you’re such a person.
I could do it myself next week, but I’m not bringing our camera to Vancouver, so it’ll mean borrowing one and so forth. Plus, sooner is better. Anyhow, if anybody can accommodate my odd request, there’s link-love and good karma in it for you. I may even buy you a hot dog.
I’ll explain why I need this photo in a couple of weeks.
UPDATE: Thanks very much to Andrew for procuring an excellent photo of the aforementioned hot dog stand.
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July 26th, 2007, 7 Comments »
How would you do it?
We’re planning on running one for a client, and we’re thinking of just hosting the thing in a Flickr group. Contestants will add photos to the group to enter the contest.
We were thinking that we’d enable the community to choose the finalists and then have our client pick the winner. I was thinking that we could select the five or ten finalists based on the number of times a photo had been ‘favourited’ (Flickr users can ‘favourite’ photos to give a photo a sort of thumbs-up, and to bookmark it on their Favourites page).
Do you see any flaws in that plan? Here’s one. Users will have to either take new photos, or upload old ones again, because existing Flickr photos may already have accrued some favourites. Do you think that’s a problem?
Flickr does track when people favourite a photo (here’s an example). However, that’s a lot of manual pain on our end in counting the number of favourites during the period of the contest. And it could be confusing for other users if a photo newly added to the group has, like, 15 favourites.
I thought I’d crowd-source this problem to see if anybody had another idea. I’ve also posted to the Flickr forum to see what they think over there.
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July 2nd, 2007, No Comments »
One of our clients is a global warming blog. We do sundry online marketing activities for them, and we’re planning an online photography contest on the site.
We’re looking for a kick-ass prize for the winning submission. We’re exploring some options, but I figured I’d post here and see if anybody had something to offer. Ideally the prize would:
- Be worth at least CAN $500. It can be cash, but it doesn’t have to be.
- Appeal to a broad audience. Or at least to your average Flickr user.
- Not be geography-specific.
- Not be from a company who’s trying to greenwash their organization. ExxonMobil need not apply.
Benefits to the donor company include:
- Associating your company with a particularly popular cause
- Brand exposure to all those tasty online influencer types
- Link love from the photo contest site, and possibly from sites that link to the contest
- Sweet, sweet karma
If you are, belong to or know of such a company, feel free to drop me a line.
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June 18th, 2007, 1 Comment »
I had no idea what that meant until I read Doc’s post this morning. As it turns out, I was a little late:
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April 18th, 2007, 9 Comments »
Internet access permitting, the next post will be from Dublin:
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