Twitter Link Roundup #27 – Design, Writing, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More Ross | February 11th, 2010
Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account, I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design, web design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files - http://bit.ly/bsTCdu
Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes - http://bit.ly/bxDqWP
eCommerce UI Part 3: Navigation - http://bit.ly/am346e
Showcase of banknote designs from countries around the world – http://bit.ly/dtzxzY
10 Stunning Examples of jQuery Animations - http://bit.ly/9nFUmD
33 New High Quality Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – http://bit.ly/c9yG06
The Difference Between Vector and Raster Graphics – http://bit.ly/a25cIz
The 30 Most Creative and Unusual Free Fonts - http://bit.ly/9j94X3
Effective Visual Communication Using Infographics: 40+ Attractive Examples - http://bit.ly/cWLFAw
Mobile Web Design: Tips and Best Practices - http://bit.ly/d0LlHN
50 Beautifully Blue Designs – http://bit.ly/aVWH6P
A Showcase of Website Navigations with Serious Click Appeal – http://bit.ly/9BXqlD
Showcase of Hotel Website Designs - http://bit.ly/7WUzyE
13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs – http://bit.ly/bHA3Gs
Attractive Forms With jQuery: Uniform - http://bit.ly/9a4Z8s
21 Creative online portfolio sites and applications – http://bit.ly/9mgQqf
Twitter Design News roundup from @speckyboy – http://bit.ly/bumXzD
25 Free Futuristic & Sci-Fi Styled Fonts - http://bit.ly/cTA1bJ
A Collection Of 10 Useful Online CSS Tools - http://bit.ly/9XOyQG
Forget About Photoshop: 5 More Ways to Stop Using Images in Your Designs - http://bit.ly/9MYSzA
CSS Rounded Corners In All Browsers (Without Images) – http://bit.ly/bZple4
10 Things Clients Look For In a Design Portfolio – http://bit.ly/bgzeQx
crowdSPRING designer interview – Lewis Agrell – http://bit.ly/9ZEydq
Designing For The Next Generation Of Devices – Don’t Get Left Behind - http://bit.ly/ck4vJ6
EURO 2012 soccer logo: A wonderful exercise in graphic design excess - http://bit.ly/akCaDf
Smashing Release : Free Computer Part Icon Set – http://bit.ly/9MiOMr
Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – http://bit.ly/1ySfi
Legal Contracts for Graphic Designers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – http://bit.ly/XTLkS
Five Areas to Focus On for Effective SEO Copywriting – http://bit.ly/ccQQ2A
Crowdsourced Writing Projects on crowdSPRING – Now LIVE! – http://bit.ly/writingprojects
The Most Important Element in Copywriting – http://bit.ly/bqBfxF
10 Tips for Copywriters – http://bit.ly/98WtyY
10 Secrets to More Magnetic Copy – http://bit.ly/9yOYoW
Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead – http://bit.ly/dhuN9y
Micro marketing: 5 tips for small business and startups – http://bit.ly/9RcmUL
Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering? – http://bit.ly/clzjV7
Five Collaboration Mistakes Leaders Should Avoid – http://s.hbr.org/d280f1
How Do You Reference Check a VC? Ask Eric Clapton - http://bothsid.es/5BI
Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2) - http://bit.ly/aJSE7H
Getting Funded: An Interview with Graphic.ly Co-Founder, Micah Baldwin – http://tinyurl.com/yd2huo2
Disagreements and Debates Are Good Things – http://ow.ly/143Pq
Immigrants founded 7000 tech co’s from 1995-2006 – http://bit.ly/bBKwEf
Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - http://bit.ly/cRhpPD
Good startup lessons shared by @robjohnson & joshfraser (founders) about EventVue failure - http://bit.ly/b5fih6
“Understanding Freemium – How to Create and Grow Paying Customers” - http://bit.ly/7B8IJf
Four tips for raising capital now - http://bit.ly/90AtZH
The Story Behind My Chicago Start-Up: What Worked and What Didn’t - http://bit.ly/aPTe6J
Don’t Be Afraid to Share Your Ideas – execution is the hard part & people can’t steal that – http://bit.ly/91OONB
Build A Strong Brand, Not Just A Strong Business – http://bit.ly/dApLvD
Micro marketing: 5 tips for small business and startups – http://bit.ly/9RcmUL
How to Grow a Small Business - http://bit.ly/d494Y9
5 Questions You Should Ask Every Customer - http://bit.ly/bepprm
Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2) - http://bit.ly/aJSE7H
“Understanding Freemium – How to Create and Grow Paying Customers” - http://bit.ly/7B8IJf
Why a logo is important to energize a business - http://bit.ly/aXThly
Build A Strong Brand, Not Just A Strong Business – http://bit.ly/dApLvD
Worry Less About Social Media ROI – Worry More About Being Relevant - http://bit.ly/a4KYru
Are You Marketing You or Your Message? - http://bit.ly/cNRYfH
Micro marketing: 5 tips for small business and startups – http://bit.ly/9RcmUL
The Art of Shameless Self-Promotion - http://bit.ly/dkYkDb
Build A Strong Brand, Not Just A Strong Business – http://bit.ly/dApLvD
Smart analysis from @Scobleizer arguing that Google is finally starting to understand social media - http://bit.ly/aVPTfS
Google Making Gmail Social? – http://sto.ly/cdfRmH too little too late?
Content IS king. Tactics & gimmics won’t save a bad product or service - http://bit.ly/9BNUvy
Lessons and thoughts about social media from Brandbowl2010.com My recap – http://bit.ly/dsnWxK
Focus On Conversions, Not Just On Site Traffic – http://bit.ly/dyTQce
Conversations About The Future Of Advertising with@edwardboches - http://marketingpie.risdall.com/?p=1470
Foursquare aggressively signing deals with major media and entertainment brands - http://bit.ly/c9xccC
5 Questions You Should Ask Every Customer - http://bit.ly/bepprm
Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises – Social Media and PR Still Win - http://bit.ly/a9V0dz
No more personal blogs for Forrester Analysts – http://bit.ly/bgzFsO
“Understanding Freemium – How to Create and Grow Paying Customers” - http://bit.ly/7B8IJf
Delta Sky Mag features crowdSPRING - http://bit.ly/dpEaBo (expand)& explains layout design - http://bit.ly/92vkcr
Hidden forces that shape our decisions – http://bit.ly/9EEOOQ
City saves thousands of dollars by leveraging crowdSPRING for its new logo - http://bit.ly/c4qsrI
Excellent post about agile software development & some pitfalls of agility - http://bit.ly/97ey7s
Yelp turned down $700 million from Microsoft. Interesting gamble. I hope they’re right - http://bit.ly/bGdfh2
Ever feel like you’re being watched online? Here’s why – http://tinyurl.com/yjr32wl
Why if you miss @hisiri you’ll miss the future of the Web – http://bit.ly/aR3zva
Reinventing the Luddite: An Interview with Andrew Keen (@ajkeen) at #TheFuturist - http://bit.ly/bdF0KB
Portfolio.com writes about crowdSPRING – The In Crowd – http://bit.ly/cVeIMA
Madison Children’s Museum unveils new logo (designed on crowdSPRING) - http://bit.ly/cxmTGe
Best T-shirt ad ever – http://tinyurl.com/y9usjke
Which Army Recruitment Video Would Borat Prefer? – http://bit.ly/aNsPSM
Mind Blowing Javascript Experiments - http://bit.ly/b6aifw
I hope you enjoy these links! If you can spare a minute, please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
