Before you worry about the 'creativity' or the 'presentation skills', make sure you're actually communicating. Good advice here about getting the basics right.
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For many, the name Steve Jobs is synonymous with inspiration.
Throughout the years, he’s not only changed our lives with innovative products, but also with memorable words. Via Jason Feather 
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Remembering that you're going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. Farewell Steve... we all miss your great mind and spirit!
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Three of Germany’s mobile networks — Telefonica, T-Mobile and Vodafone —
Via Anise Smith
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Scatter/GatherInstagram Beyond the NumbersScatter/GatherMost likely because of the lack of attention on the mobile user experience, their mobile apps aren't laser-focused on sharing photos socially, nor do the Apps make it easy to do so.
Via Jason Feather
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Entertainment morphs a gift into a commodity, while the business world expects drones. Nonetheless, we are conditioned to value creativity. Big problem. (Creativity, What is it Good For?
Via Creativity For Life
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Novel QR Code Postage Stamp: QR Codes on postage stamps are not new (cf. QR Code Valentine’s Day postage stamps ...
Via Anise Smith
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The FIFA World Cup is about to begin in a week and we can sense the football fever that is gonna affect football fans thick and fast all around the world as the tournament progresses.
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In conversation with the novelist David Mitchell, the U2 and Coldplay producer explains the essence of creativity...
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Effective communication is everyone’s job—whether you are trying to sell in a concept or convince a client.
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IENKE KASTELEIN stills life, for a hold-your-breath and click moment, forever caught time. Via Judith Van Praag
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Shoppers who scan the Sacre Bleu matrix code with their smartphone (using the free Paperlinks application for iPhone or any other QR code-reader solution) are transported to a custom mobile landing site complete with brand information, promotions, special offers and even food and wine-pairing tips from chef Brad Sorenson, a finalist on season six of The Next Food Network Star reality series. "We're going to take the consumer down a richer road of discovery," Struwe says. Via Anise Smith
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Beer Pong, a game which was initiated simply to appease someone’s idle interests, has taken over the world by storm. Now, officially a tournament game, the sport pretty much gets summed up with its name itself.
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You wake up in a cold sweat.
You bolt upright and gasp for air.
You’ve just realized that your blog has only one true fan—and it’s your mother.
Your mom is great. She’s always there for you. But if she’s your only true fan, you’re in trouble.
Here are some reasons your mother might be your blog’s only reader... Via Martin Gysler
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Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, journeying through her childhood and family history and into the worlds of physics .. Via wlonline
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Here at WDL we really believe that logos are a great source of inspiration. We already showcased typographic logos, negative space logos and minimalistic logos.
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But an online marketing expert explains how you can make Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon, among others, work for your small business.
If you are like most small businesses, you and your team are stretched thin. If you even have a team. All day long you are servicing customers, delivering products, managing finances and doing whatever it takes to keep your business up and running. The last thing you need is to waste time. But for many small businesses, that’s exactly what they are doing when it comes to marketing with social media.
The typical small business Facebook page is a ghost town. It might have some pictures of the business, a few posts about an event six months ago, and a handful of followers who joined when the page launched. On Twitter, there might be a couple posts a month and none of them are related to any customer question. The same is true for Foursquare. Groupon is like going to the casino: there’s a good chance you’ll come home with empty pockets... Via Martin Gysler
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With the help of these awesome tools you can schedule your tweet for future or any date or anytime. So here are the list of 15 Twitter Tools to Schedule Tweets For Later.
Sometimes back we mention about 110+ Best Twitter Tools and 21 Great Twitter Analytics Tools. So again we are here to tell all our twitter readers about Twitter Tools, which help them to Schedule Tweets For Later. So no need to sit in front of computer all day to post tweets. With the help of these awesome tools you can schedule your tweet for future or any date or anytime... Via Martin Gysler
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1. Test, test, test the readability – Before I upgraded to an iPhone, I struggled with my Blackberry. So first, you test QR codes thoroughly. To ensure they work, just get a bunch of different smart phones and test your QR codes at the right distance from the code and make sure they work on a variety of devices. Many times it is just not large enough when viewed from the vantage point of the user.
2. Curb your creativity – While nobody says the look of a QR code will make you admire the design, putting crazy pictures or text within the code or making it difficult to find like a “where’s Waldo” book is just a bad idea.
3. Test your action – QR codes initiate actions such as driving you to a web page, or installing information into contacts, or mapping out a path. You should test these actions over cell phone networks and not Wi-Fi networks and make sure it points to an optimized mobile site and not to a standard desktop web page.
4. Test for signal across different networks – If you print a QR code on a poster, you should test the signal strength at the locations you are going to use with all the major carriers before you post it.
5. Smart placement – When you put QR codes on posters it should be easily visible and easy to capture. I am not sure how effective QR codes are on billboards on the interstate highways, TV ads, underground subways or on cabs or buses.
6. Motivate a call to action – Taking out your smart phone, finding the app, and snapping the shutter requires work. Therefore, to be successful you need to motivate the action. There are some best practices such as: special offers or discounts, free downloads of apps, access to exclusive content, exclusive video access, and time-sensitive promotions.
7. Track usage – This is the best way to articulate the value. Via Anise Smith
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2d-codeQR Code Motorcycle Helmet2d-codeIn 1991 SHARK based in Marseille, France made the first carbon fiber motorcycle helmet and they have been protecting the heads of world champion racers ever since.
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creativity theme says it all: we have to encourage creativity in kids, but the music-loving child in the Concert video could just as easily be an adult at.
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Before you worry about the 'creativity' or the 'presentation skills', make sure you're actually communicating. Good advice here about getting the basics right.
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Tony Obregon wrote this piece on his blog - tonyobregon.com. It was curated by janlgordon covering her topic "Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond" on Scoopit Tony reminds us that content curators play a role in information overload - they take time to sort, select, comment on good content that helps keeps you current on your topic of interest. Tony says: "With the ever increasing amount of online information from social networks, the need for organizing it has never been greater. Look around and there’s no shortage of aggregation tools to help us filter out the important stuff." Here's what caught my attention: **In this world of information overload, there’s now a new layer in the media ecosystem: the curator. If it wasn’t for that person who retweeted the story in the first place, you probably wouldn’t have seen it. **So naming the retweeters in daily promos is the right course of action. Twitter is like a fire hose and Paper.li is selecting random tweets that would have otherwise been missed. **Yes, they’re randomly chosen but I find a lot of value in them because they praise others for their contributions. **It reminds me that they’re part of my network and I can appreciate their contributions that much more. I know when I’m named in someone’s newspaper it motivates me to continue sharing that type of content. http://www.tonyobregon.com/2011/10/03/content-curators-playing-a-larger-role-online/ Via janlgordon
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