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Monday December 16, 2013

The holiday high season is approaching, when everyone feels compelled to lavish good cheer and gifts on friends and family.

If you haven't dropped holiday cards in the snail mail yet and don't feel like messing with paper and stamps, you have plenty of options for spreading the holiday cheer online.

One fun one is the Elf Yourself dance video app, which lets you upload photos of yourself and your friends and automatically creates a dance video starring you and whoever else you put in your video. Elf Yourself is available as a Web app and as a mobile app for iOS devices.

There are plenty of traditional e-card sites online, too, and the following list of Christmas Card sites can point you in the right direction. Or if you just want to share a good holiday video, the list of free holiday videos below offers some classics.

Sunday December 15, 2013

Social media books can make a great holiday gift for all those Twitterholics and Facebook addicts you know.

And there's still time to order books and drop-ship them to your distant family and friends for Christmas, but not much. Amazon.com offers free shipping on orders over $35 and guarantees delivery if you place an order by Dec. 17. After that, you can still get items there for Christmas, but you'll pay for a shipping upgrade.

Of course, it helps if you know what books are worth reading and gifting, right? So we've compiled a short list of good social media books, all of which are current and well written:

7 Useful Social Media Books for Holiday Giving

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