NEW YORK—The holiday season means something different for each ECP, and VisionMonday.com has a little something for everyone:

Gift giving. In the latest edition of High Visibility: Last Minute Gifts, Senior Editor Deirdre Carroll features cool products for under the tree from MODO, Oakley, and LensAlert!.

A streamlined busy season. Having trouble keeping up with all your appointments this holiday season? Take a look in Online Trends at Schedgehog, a new web-based application, free for patients, that connects patients desiring same day or same week appointments with recent openings in physicians' offices by making the appointments visible as they become available on both a website and, importantly, on a mobile device like an iPhone, Droid or other smartphone.

Helping those in need. Meet the winners of the World Sight Day Challenge Student Contest in A Greater Vision. These young people were chosen based on proven leadership skills in managing their World Sight Day Challenge campaigns as well as the content of their 500-word written essays describing their interest in helping people in developing countries access quality eye exams and glasses.

A little holiday cheer. This eyewear elf rocks out to holiday classics in frames from the ‘50s through the ‘90s. Watch now on VM WebTV. Happy Holidays!