I have been wanting to put down my normal photo / video sharing workflow so that I can review from time to time and see if there might be ways to improve the process. Unfortunately, I’ve been so behind in posting our family pictures since the summer that I was a bit embarrassed to do so. Anyways, I’m all caught up now to the day, so here we go:

1. Upload from camera
   this has become more convenient with my new Thinkpad since it has a built-in SD card reader .
2. Process and organize pictures and videos
   mostly just rotating and weeding out any bad pictures, now that there is no cost to taking a lot of pictures except of course for the time it takes to view and delete them.
3. Upload to Flickr and organize into sets
   ever since I’ve been hosting pictures on flickr, they’ve only been improving their service. The new web-based uploader is even easier to use and more stable. I just need to be less lazy in adding descriptions and tags to every picture. Too bad geotagging is still so manual.
4. Process videos in Windows Movie Maker
   before uploading, I cleanup the videos and stitch them together to get the right lengths and then save them as windows media video files, which shrinks them down a bit.
5. Upload to Vimeo
   they have also improved their uploading process, but I’m a little annoyed with some of the security settings that can’t be set as default. Similar to flickr with pictures, I should be making better use of the descriptions and tags.
6. Prepare post image using Picnik
   using an online photo editor, especially one that works as well as Picnik, simplifies the process without having to deal with an offline editor, and Picnik can save the modified pictures straight back to flickr, which eliminates a few steps.
7. Create and publish post on ER-Fans
   using WordPress to organize our family pictures has really worked well, because I can aggregate pictures and videos into a combined post for each event or set. Once the posts are published, wordpress will notify any email subscribers as well as updating the RSS feed to keep everyone up to date.