picturetom ®

picturestom’s ideas generally entail concrete projects. The current projects primarily center around images, photos, the photo sales, marketing, internet, seo, sem and web 2.0. His most significant current project is medicalpicture.de as of 2002.

The idea for medicalpicture® resulted from the negative experiences with medicalpicture home scientific photo material in the area of medicine in the past. The procurement of photos and illustrations from this thematic area proved to be time-consuming not to mention a dissatisfying line of work in terms of quality for photo editors and art buyers prior to the founding of medicalpicture®. medicalpicture® solved these problems by setting up a centralised, web-based photo agency for the health care market.

The medicalpicture image worlds for research, teaching, and private learning. With a didactic picture from Educational Pictures, you gain access to image texts and simultaneously acquire the right to download images free of watermarks (depending on the subscription selected). Above all students and those in pursuit of further education are set to acquire the possibility of learning the fundamentals of human anatomy and physiology using the images.

The photo competition Wissen-Schafft-Bilder selects the most spectacular and stunning images from all categories of medicine, health and science. Professional photo authors (photographers, illustrators, 3D specialists), researchers, medical practitioners, scientists, and ambitious amateurs are called upon to submit their contributions for the medicalpicture® photo competition. Wissen-Schafft-Bilder is the first 100-percent digital, Internet-based competition for images, photos and animations on the topic of medicine, health, and science.

The basis of image sales in the medicalpicture Click and Buy Online-Shop is pixelPay for the pixelised size of the image selected. The price for the download in the online shop increases in proportion to the number of pixels. More pixels - greater image quality! The medicalpicture online shop is also accessible in guest status (registered BtoB customers continue to pay on invoice as always). They have access to the majority of released images in the image databank. The price of the image depends on its size. You can choose between four different image sizes.

Since as early as 2003, medicalpicture GmbH has run a blog with up-to-date information, news, and press releases. Current news is posted in up to four languages. All news can be subscribed to via an rss newsfeed. Registered medicalpicture customers additionally receive all information via the newsletter. Direct links convey the user to the image databank. Registered at the German Naitonal Library ISSN 1866-072X.

The personal weblog of the entrepreneur and publicist Thomas Schmidt. Here, picturetom writes about images while not displaying them. The spectrum ranges from contributions concerning aesthetics and theory of photography to advice for digital photography. In addition, new features and techniques of website marketing are tested. Registered at the German Naitonal Library ISSN 1866-1165.

medicontent is a web application that allows you to submit medical news and websites that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page. When a user submits a news article it will be placed in the “unpublished” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page. The original source for Pligg was authored by Ricardo Galli. He was influenced by the extremely popular English technology site digg.com.

healthdays.eu is a web application that allows you to submit a healthday that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page. When a user submits a new healthday it will be placed in the “unpublished” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page. The original source for Pligg was authored by Ricardo Galli. He was influenced by the extremely popular English technology site digg.com.

bildarchive.org is a web application for the promotion of stockphoto and image libraries. All links will be shown based on popularity, on to the main page. When a user submits a new link it will be placed in the “unpublished” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page. Any user can vote for his ‘best’ image library.

Information and culture blog by Cologne journalists, with Cologne background. Locally relevant topics in culture, art, society and politics are addressed. Communications medium is not only editorial text, but all new media (photos, multimedia, video) and technologies. The website boasts its own community image portal (gallery2).

Development of a medical-scientific community portal highlighting moving pictures (animation and video). Registered users can upload medical videos themselves, evaluate those made by others, and communicate with registered friends and colleagues, as well as exchanging videos with them. Registered at the German National Library ISSN 1866-1157.