Archive for October, 2008

Worry About What You Say More Than What Others Say About You

Ross | October 20th, 2008

The blogosphere and print media are full of articles about corporations leveraging the Internet, including social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter (among others), to provide customer service and to manage their online reputations. I recently wrote about “personal brands” and whether people are brands. We spend far too much time worrying about what others [...]

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Fun With Typography

Ross | October 16th, 2008

GoSquared posted a short note to Twitter today with a link to a collection of frilly typography images. The work is truly oustanding and well worth a look. You can view it here. Do you have other great sites with outstanding examples of what one can do with typography? Please list them in the comments [...]

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How to Leverage Social Media: Where to Start?

Angeline | October 15th, 2008

“The Conversation Prism” – a social media snapshot by Brian Solis Last week, crowdSPRING’s Director of Marketing Pete Burgeson spoke at a forum sponsored by the Chicago Community Trust regarding how arts organizations can use new media to help promote awareness of their initiatives. The panel also included social media expert Brian Solis, Social Media [...]

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Twitter Link Round Up

Angeline | October 13th, 2008

Every week on the crowdSPRING Twitter account, I post loads and loads of fun links pertaining to logo design, web design, social media, business, online marketing, and more! However, due to the fast-paced nature of microblogging, these links become buried within a few hours. So, I figured that it’d be nice to start the week [...]

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“Personal Brand” – An Exercise In Linguistic Olympics?

Ross | October 13th, 2008

People find reasons to disagree about many things. Sometimes, what appear to be substantive disagreements turn out to be little more than smoke and mirrors. Take for example the subject of “personal brand”. David Armano’s new “Brand U.0 Blog focuses on personal brands. Chris Brogan recently listed 10 articles from his blog about personal branding. [...]

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Twitter Link Round Up

Angeline | October 6th, 2008

Every week on the crowdSPRING Twitter account, I post loads and loads of fun links pertaining to logo design, web design, social media, business, online marketing, and more! However, due to the fast-paced nature of microblogging (if you need proof, just check out Twitter’s Election Feed, which moves at quite the dizzying rate), these links [...]

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