The Point: To announce another monthly contest on the Flickr Picnikers group. This one was intended to be a little different, in that we translated it into Spanish (our third-biggest country for originating traffic at the time was Mexico and many other Spanish-speaking countries weren’t far behind) to see if it couldn’t drum up some non-English language participation in that group. There are several Picnik-related fan groups on Facebook, several of which are formed by users in Latin America.

A lesson learned here: An international audience really doesn’t catch onto the American habit of referring to the holidays around Christmas as “The Holidays”. The contest got off to a slow start because, even though the group admin’s example was specifically Christmas-related and the contest took place in December, valuable time passed with people entering standard vacation picks and further clarification was necessary.

Read the original post: Flickr Picnikers Group: Holidays Around the World!

And the winners: Flickr Picnikers Group: Winners Around the World!