Smile and Win a Kodak Digital Frame!
Kodak is helping us learn to use photos and technology to make it easier to cultivate meaningful relationships with the help of Judy Weiser, a psychologist and art therapist, who has been pioneering "Photo Therapy" techniques for the past 30 years.
While many of us are spread apart by the miles, it is easier than ever to reconnect using technology. It is not just text though - photos make it better! Looking at photos gives many of us emotional support by making us smile and laugh, improving our mood, and just making us feel better overall when we are having a bad day. With digital photography we can share our images in easier ways like email, posting to photo sharing sites, posting on social networking sites, and saving to mobile devices. There is always the option to print out our digital photos as well or scan in our traditional photographs to get a digital image of them.
Judy has shared some great PhotoTherapy techniques to use photos everyday to strengthen our relationships.
- Create a Picture-Perfect Environment: Decorate your space with photos with strong positive memories. We have a large collection of framed photos in one corner of our living room that I love to look at and add to.
- Share Your World: Share your photos with people close to you, even small stuff. Taylor spent one day making some found object crafts and decided to mail one to his Great Grandma who lives out of town. I included photos of him making it with the actual item. She couldn't be here in person, but she was able to see the love, care, and concentration he put into the project in the photos.
- Try a Photo Pick Me Up: Find a positive photo and carry it with you. Looking at that photo can help beat the blues when you are having a rough day. I have a picture of my cat, Peaches, on my iPhone that always makes me smile!
The Giveaway: Kodak is providing me with a Kodak EasyShare W1020 Wireless Digital Frame for one winner with a value of $229.95! WOW! This frame offers wireless access to your pictures at your fingertips with a 10" high-quality display, Wi-Fi enabled, Kodak's Quick Touch Border, access the latest news, weather, sports, and more, and automatically send and receive pictures from Kodak Gallery members right on your frame with the Picture Mail feature.
Required Entry: Tell me a way you use photos to help your relationships with family and friends.Extra Entries: The following are all extra things you can do for more entries. Leave an additional comment for each thing you do to earn extra entries.
- Blog about this giveaway on your own blog (please don’t copy my entire post onto your blog though). Leave the direct link to your post in your comment for an extra entry.
- Subscribe via email to my feed and let me know in your comment for an extra entry.
- Follow me on Twitter @RobynsWorld and send a tweet about the giveaway. Leave a direct link to your tweet (instructions here) in your comment for an extra entry. Here is a tweet you can use (or make your own):
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446 COMMENTS:
No one in my family knows how to load them but me, so I get to see everyone when I got to set their frames up.
We use photo's to remind our kids about relatives who live a distance away.
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Photos help our family relive our happy memories.
I'm currently in the process of creating a photobook for my Mom & new hubby. My wedding gift to them :-)
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Thanks for the giveaway. I like to use photos to help remember the good times with family and friends when relationships are strained or when I've lost touch a little.
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Every birthday gives me a chance to give a friend or family member a favorite memory of mine with them.. I take pictures at every event and get together and it's always fun to share them after!
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I email my daughter in North Dakota pictures of the family all the time so she won't feel so left out of the get togethers.
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We use photos to connect with our family that lives far away! We often email pictures to keep each other informed!
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Remember the Presto Printer I got for my grandma? I email her pictures all the time. She loves it. Photos of G give me an excuse to send her a note every other or every third day. :)
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I follow you and Kodak on Facebook.
I take a whole LOT of pictures when I'm out and about, and I capture things people forget or don't even realize. They make for great laughs and jokes among my friends. Laughter and inside jokes are what help strengthen our friendship as the years go by.
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Since my brother moved to Florida, we are always sending photos of the kids and my parents to them so they can keep up with the latest activities and events.
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photos take me back in time to maybe a time i forgot about, and it usually makes me smile! its a great keepsake!! vanitizebaby@yahoo.com
Some of my family is from out of state and we mostly keep in touch via email/networking sites such as Facebook. The pictures I take allow my family members to see what I've been up to and to stay up to date with what I have going on. They make for great conversation starters!
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I used photos just last week to decorate an entire church hall for a family party. I had posters, collages, and single shots...even photos on t-shirts. They all made for great conversation starters!
My kids are growing up and getting ready to leave the nest. I would love to remind them of all the fun we had when they were growing up. Some of the trips we took and family visits were very special family together times. It will be difficult when they are gone (though some ways - I'm ready).
Photos help us revisit some wonderful memories. I love that my kids look at my scrapbooks and frames and talk about what is in the pictures. Thanks!
With friends and family living in other states, sharing photos allows us to stay connected
photos are a great way of keeping up with people who live far away. It's wonderful being able to follow kids from babies to toddlers to teenagers, seeing all the changes.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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We use photos to stay connected! With one half of the family in the US and the other half in the UK, we're apart so much so sharing photos on the internet is a quick way to stay current :)
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would love to put family pics in- old and new- this is sweet
use photos to remember family membors that have gone on or family members the kiddos never new. I also scrapbook and my youngest boy loves to flip through the vacation albums and talk about remember when and he loves to look at his book.
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i use them to keep us closer. any time we have get togethers we usually give out new pictures of everyone.
having pictures around help remind you and think of the people that you love in them and remember that moment from the past
DavidLeavitt at gmail dot com
seeing pictures of good times helps you get over little fights with family & friends
seeing our loved ones again is happy and yet so sad for times gone by
everyone loves pictures especially when they forget a great event. Sending them pictures gives them a piece of the past back.
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I made all my college friends mini-scrapbooks for Christmas presents on the cheap! They all loved them and I had so much fun making them!
I made all my college friends mini-scrapbooks for Christmas presents on the cheap! They all loved them and I had so much fun making them!
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peg42 said what I would say. Most of my family lives 12 or more hours away (driving) and we don't see them often. I use my family photos to help my son 'know' the people (story for almost every pic)so he understands he is part of something much larger and these people love him even if he doesn't know them. I send them pics of him so they will recognize him when they see him, he is growing up so fast! Strangely, I have an almost phobia about having my own picture taken and hate the way I look in all pictures. (Tweet me at tkharmonic)
My family uses photos to remember the times we have shared together.
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I follow on twitter and tweeted: http://twitter.com/Elkaye/status/2399513828
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New baby on the way so I am ready to fill it with new memories all day
We use photos to reminsice with family and friends, especially about vacations and trips we took. I think it makes my family closer when we realize all the fun we've had together.
Blogged http://ceeceeblogger.blogspot.com/2009/06/digital-photo-frame-giveaway.html
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I use photos to keep up with all my family members who live in different states.
I'm an email subscriber.
I send photos through snail mail to family and friends!
We are going to be moving soon and it would be great to have this picture frame! Everyone can send us pics by email and I can download them to the frame so I will be able to keep up with changes
I make scrapbooks out of the pics I take, and give them to family or friends as gifts. I think pictures help to keep us closer. Thanks!
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Digital photos are special to my wife. So when I organize them and put them on the laptop for a photo slideshow screensaver she can't help but stopping to look at it every time she walks by.
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Photos help us preserve memories and keep friends and relatives close in our minds. Thanks.
We use pictures to keep in touch with family both near and far. The camera tends to capture little things that we miss.
my parents live in europe, pictures are a great way for them to see there grand kids doing everydau things.
Pictures are used both to encourage fond memories of past happenings, and to keep each other aware of what is happening in our rather far spread lives right now. This is especially true of the children who might not see some of the more extended family.
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we take photos of our trips together to remind of us the good times we shared and also where we went.
Our family is spread around the country and we don't see each other much. I take pics of our events and send them to family so they feel like they were part of it even if they couldn't be there.
My family is stretched far and wide across the USA. THe only way we can keep in touch with each other, is to send photos via email. It's a great way to keep family together.
May Schultz
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I would love to have this frame in my living room so I can see my family as I walk through the room
I would love to have a frame for all of my pictures of the grandkids.
We live at least 1000 miles from our closest relative. I keep several family photos on display so the kids remember what their cousins, aunts, etc. look like.
We like to use photos to remind ourselves of the good times we've had! Thanks for the contest!
It would be gift for my grandma that isn't able to get out much! i would feel it with pictures of all of her grand and great grand children!
thanks!
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Using photos helps you to stay in touch with family living apart. This makes it a nice way to feel more connected to their lives.
I follow you on Twitter. Tweet Tweet: http://twitter.com/TheAngelForever/status/2405254660
I send pictures to friends and family every week so they can keep up with our growing kids. I use kokdakgallery.com as a matter of fact. I love taking pictures and sharing them.
I also subscribe to your e-mail feed :)
Whenever members of my family get into a fight, I pull out the picture album.
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I follow you on twitter and tweeted.
https://twitter.com/SmallSlice/status/2405286085
I just became a fan of yours on Facebook.
We talk about the good times that we were having when we see a picture.
I send out an email newsletter weekly to friends and family with pictures of the kids so they can watch them grow up even though we live far away.
Photos are very important to us because our family and friends are scattered all over the world! Photos are one of the most important ways how we stay in touch with everyone :)
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I live in Texas and my sons live in VA. I take photos and put them on my blog so the boys can see what I am doing each week. I post pictures of food I have made, in the hopes they will miss mama's home cooking, and I post pictures of the birds and others things I have seen during the week. It gives us something new to talk about and gives me a way to share my life with them even though we are so far away from each other.
Following you on Twitter and Tweeted
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and thank you so much for giving the instructions for leaving the tweet link, I have NEVER known how to do this! That was terrific of you!
Every now and then I get out the photo albums and the kids enjoy remembering things we've done.
I send photos to my parents who live very far away and have never even met their great-grandson.
I use photos and photo collages to help myself and my family remember past events. It is so much fun to look back at how we looked years ago and what were we thinking.....really big hair and stuff like that.
jeanilynne at gmail dot com
I send photos to my mother-in-law through out the year. She lives in Arizona, and we live in Ohio. Because of money issues neither can make the trip to see the other. This way she can see her grandchildren grow up and see how much they love their daddy!
I subscribe via email.
I follow on Twitter, and tweeted.
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blogged this giveaway here:
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Thanks for the giveaway! I use photos to keep our favorite memories alive.
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I send some pictures over the net...but my daughter sends me load of pictures and I take loads when I see them to do scrapping...thanks for the great giveaway
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Everyone loves to take pictures at events and then email them to each other. That way we always get another view point of the day!
Tarah
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I love pictures they are a link to your past. I try and fill my home with pictures of loved ones so make my family feel special and welcomed. I take sooo many pictures of my children they grow so fast and I dont want to miss a thing.
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I use photos to make books for my closest friends and family members. They are always a big hit, and they make fabulous gifts and terrific keepsakes.
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i want to win this
I use photos to make picture books for my parents as well as my parents-in-law. We don't visit as much as I'd like so i think the picture books help me keep everyone updated on my son's achievements. Thanks for the chance.
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My mother, who has Alzheimers, has pictures of the family all over her room, so she remembers us. Thanks!
I take photos of my kids often and send them to my dad who lives miles away and cannot see his grandchildren in person.
This is the best way to see your family's smiles when they are not around. Thanks for the chance to win.
I'm an email subscriber.
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we have them for the memories and my sister lives in Germany so we share w/ her
Requested your friendship on facebook. (Letessha Williams)
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My 3 sisters and 1 brother live really far away from me and we only see them every year or two. I use pictures to show my daughter her family so she does not forget them and when she sees them she is not scared because she remembers them from the pictures and phone calls.
My parents and younger brother live overseas, so we use pictures to keep in touch (they especially love to see new pictures of my kids, since they grow so fast). We also give the other set of grandparents nicely framed pictures as Christmas or Mother's Day gifts.
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I'm a suscriber.
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I live a few hundred miles from my family and the best way we can keep up to date is through photos. Sure, we talk on the phone, but a picture is worth a thousand words.
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There are moments to save,
I see from the corner of my eye, And I take a photo, sometimes inconspicuously,
Of time flying by....
And then I present it,
To a relative or friend,
I call them "surprises",
Sometimes they help to mend...
Relationships are like a stream
Of memories and forgotten moments,
When the little smiles, and holding hands, and pets and ordinary days...
come back to us like hugs,
It's like going to heaven...
On earth,
with photos!
pumpkinlady430@yahoo.com
I use photos to keep relationships strong by posting them on albums on social networking sites, it allows everyone to see them no matter where in the world they are and we can all see what everyone else says about them
I subscribe
I follow on twitter (jessilyn82) and did a tweet https://twitter.com/Jessilyn82/status/2409440548
We live in TX & all of our extended family lives elsewhere from VT to FL, so ever since DS was born, he has his own private blog where I post pics and updates on him. Cuts down the time I have to spend sending emails to everyone! Thanks! thebubbledies(at)gmail(dot)com
http://twitter.com/bluenude3/status/2409534096 I follow you on twitter & I tweeted! bluenude3 Thanks! thebubbledies(at)gmail(dot)com
Pictures help relationships with families because they keep the generations in touch!
I love to have my Children's pictures Everywhere and soon I am going to be a first time GRAMMA and I will be having those pictures EVERYwhere too!!
Thank you so much for the chance to win!!
Leslie
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Leslie Mayorga is a fan of Kodak on Facebook and I requested you as a friend too!
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became a fan of Kodak on Facebook and added you as a friend:)
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our family is very spread out across land and ocean so we use pictures to stay in touch and feel like we aren't missing out on all the kids growing up!
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After a holiday or family get together, I like to send out a collage of pictures email so everyone can share in the memories.
We always have photos around and update them. We love to share our photo albums with family so they can share in our memories.
We use photos to honor those who came before us, as well as those who are with us now. Thanks for the giveaway. God's Blessings to all...
Pictures are also great for bringing back memories
My parents live 2 hours away so I like to send them pictures of the kids as often as i can.
By sharing my pictures with family and friends, it brings us all closer together even if we are miles apart.
I love sharing photo's. if taken care of pictures can last a long time.
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my family doesnt get together much we i have one brother in florida and its hard for us to all get together maybe one time a year. we take lots of pictures through the years and email everyone the pictures that way we still keep in touch when were no togeather. thanks
As we get older, pictures mean more to us and I gave my son and his new wife quite a few to make a montage with. Thank you for the great giveaway!
To help our 7 year old deal with a new baby, we often show him pictures of himself as a baby doing some of the same things that his new baby brother is doing.
coachsusie@bellsouth.net
Photos are a great way for the kids to become familiar with relatives we rarely see before we actually go visit them. It helps the kids feel like they know the people already.
I'm following you on Twitter and tweeted: http://twitter.com/bsw529/status/2413524323
photos are a very large reminder when saying 'do you remember when...'
send pics constantly to grandma to keep her up to date between visits
thanks for sponsoring this.
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My son and I look through old photo albums together. I love showing him pictures of myself and his father as kids. It helps him to realize that we really were just like him once upon a time.
Our extended family lives all over the country. When our son was born, we asked each of our family members to send us a photo of themselves. We put these in a baby-safe photo album and started showing our son all the people who love him from far away!
I follow you on Twitter under April1p and tweeted: http://twitter.com/April1p/status/2414174804
Following on Twitter and tweeted here: http://twitter.com/stlyhu/status/2414210891
I use photos to make collages and mugs for everyone. lol it's a bit corny but people appreciate it and they are fun to create! :)
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Last year for Christmas gifts, I used old photo of my husbands family (when he and his brother and sister were kids) and made each of them a mug. They were a big hit!
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Following you on twitter! How does everyone come up with all of these great giveaways?
following on twitter and tweeted the contest http://twitter.com/annedoggett/statuses/2414646411
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I like to photoshop my family members into weird situations. Like I took a picture of my brother meeting up with the lead singer of Everclear, and turned it into him meeting and hugging barney and gave it to him as a gift one year. (That way he has two celebrity pictures to hang on his wall)
I like to give the little dogota; photo keychain frames loaded with pictures.
i tweeted
http://twitter.com/ravengoth/status/2418173529
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my family shares photos to keep a family history
i make slideshow movies on dvd
Since my mother died last year we especially keep them for the memories for my grandchildren and theres down the line thanks.
We use them to create memories for our children and their children. Thanks for the chance.
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we use photos to reminisce about the good ole days
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We use photos as a way to remember those in our family who have left us in life, but not in spirit. We also use photos of home (Jamaica) to remind our American-born children of their family's heritage and culture.
I use photos to stay current with friends and family. Makes everyone smile.
Some of our family is seperated by distance, so we send photos often to see how we are changing and the kids are growing!
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My grandmother is almost 94 and lives in a nursing home. She is in a wheelchair now so it is hard to get her out places. We gave her a digital photo frame for Christmas to help her still feel connected to family members that live out of state that she no longer gets to see often.
My family and extended family are always e-mailing photos to each other. It's a way to stay involved with people who are important to us who we rarely get to see in person. Thank you for the chance to win.
If they have an email, I try to send them pictures of any family get togethers and other pictures such as birthdays, graduations and ect.
Pictures can bring back so many great memories :-)
i share photos with friends to keep them in the loop since they live out of state. and they in return do the same.
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Photos are great for including family members in events that they were not able to see first-hand.
Photos make a great gift. We've often given my mother a framed photo of the grandchildren for Mother's Day or her birthday. We also send photos to extended family that live out-of-state; it's a great way to keep in touch when we can't see each other.
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I follow on twitter & I tweeted:
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I can verbally describe my grandchildren's ancestors to them, but their eyes only light up when I pull out the photos of them. Makes them real I guess.
I love sending out pics to my family and friends over the internet so we can reminisce together.
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Thank you! :)
surround yourself with photos of your friends and family in order to remind you of the happy times even during the hard times
I take hundreds of pictures of my kids and family. My mother has been wanting one of these frames so she could put some of my pictures in it. I would love to win this and give it to her for her birthday in Sept. - Thanks!
My husband and I both have large families. Unfortunately, they live oceans away from us. Photos and emails are the only way we connect with them and we do that frequently as I want my kids to know and be a part of this. This digital frame will make a great present for their grandparents!
Thanks for this great giveaway!
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follow on twitter and tweeted
http://twitter.com/dahliamomma/status/2441682412
Blogged about the giveaway here
http://fulltimeadventure.blogspot.com/2009/06/kodak-digital-wireless-picture-frame.html
We use them to keep relatives that live far away invloved in the kids growing up by sending them pictures.
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Pictures help my children know how very dear they are to me. Pictures are my keepsakes of them. They love to have their pictures taken and to look at their pictures. I think this makes all feel like part of the family. Pictures capture our family. Displaying pictures that I am proud of and records memories so precious to my heart.
blessings
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follow you on twitter and tweeted id keepsakebaby
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I do in-home healthcare and am away for three consecutive 24-hour shifts each week. Pictures keep me connected to home and family.
Photos help us to remember the good times we have had with each other.
ehhogan@bellsouth.net
I wanted to get one of these for my mother in law so she can see her grandkids even though we are 4 hours away
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I think photos are great because they make relatives that live far away feel like they are part of the family, and know what everyone has been up to. It makes us closer.
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