Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More Ross | April 6th, 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!
2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – http://bit.ly/c9w6CL
Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers – http://bit.ly/9ocTmL
Logo Design: Flowers, Plants and Trees – http://bit.ly/bISlLZ
Advanced WordPress Comment Styles and Tricks – http://j.mp/bmcOgS
50 Beautiful Print Advertisements for Inspiration – http://bit.ly/9KYBS6
UI Design Patterns: Open Source Design Pattern Library – http://bit.ly/a8SRO6
50 New High Quality Icon Sets – http://bit.ly/9cXF0F
30 Inspiring Motion Graphic Reels and Sequences – http://bit.ly/cUqGvi
Experimenting with data visualization – http://bit.ly/djUsfb
Inspiration: Creative Examples of Red Color Usage in Logos – http://bit.ly/bkECr7
Stylize Your Own Checkboxes – http://bit.ly/9sinEk
35 Fresh JavaScript/jQuery Tools and Resources – http://bit.ly/ckDWRN
Analyzing the Design of Websites: Apple, Microsoft & 37 Signals – http://bit.ly/mZbI4
10 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make As A Freelancer – http://bit.ly/cMQjea
How to Dynamically Highlight Content Like Wikipedia Using CSS3 – http://bit.ly/aXb5Ku
Coming soon page with style – How to create and some great examples – http://bit.ly/ahbOcc
Web Designers: A Guide To Using Custom Scrollbars On Your Site – http://cot.ag/bDSS3J
Excellent Shopping Cart Designs: Showcase and Best Practices – http://bit.ly/b6sr3x
8 Rules for Creating Effective Typography – http://bit.ly/9j7NT3
The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop – http://bit.ly/9Ean7W
Purple In Web Design: A New Trend? – http://bit.ly/c2GPz9
Free Adobe Photoshop Floral Brushes – http://bit.ly/d0C8mB
40+ Awesome Grunge Style Photoshop Brush Packs – http://bit.ly/apPSnO
Maps In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Examples – http://bit.ly/bpXkK9
A Showcase of Watercolor in Web Design – http://bit.ly/aa429o
70+ Most Artistic and Creative Resumes Of All Time – http://bit.ly/bnAMKt
Consistency: Key to a Better User Experience – http://bit.ly/brT6x9
Write Better CSS With Best Practices – http://bit.ly/dxZs0H
35 Awesome and Inspiring “Movie-Effect” Photoshop Tutorials – http://bit.ly/9eqOuZ
22 Handy HTML5 & CSS3 Tools, Resources And Guides – http://bit.ly/9Fod7c
Amazing Collection of Photoshop Patterns – http://bit.ly/a7BIE0
Learn Adobe Illustrator: All the Basics for Beginners – http://bit.ly/b3Yk85
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
What makes a great tagline? “JUST (don’t) DO IT” – http://bit.ly/9lKgzT
Why Good Copywriting Goes Bad: You’re Not Stupid. You’re Just Ignorant – http://bit.ly/a0Sm6R
10 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make As A Freelancer – http://bit.ly/cMQjea
The Difference Between Salad and Garbage (for copywriters) – http://bit.ly/alMpyX)
How to Improve Hiring at Startups – http://bit.ly/9FDaGJ
A New Model for Angel Investing – http://bit.ly/cPwK0L
“What if business schools offered an MBA in www?” – http://bit.ly/9LPxpK
Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Lovely Soiree – http://bit.ly/cye4pX
“What if business schools offered an MBA in www?” – http://bit.ly/9LPxpK
Superb. 20 free tools for monitoring social media, by @dirktherabbit – http://bit.ly/cDX4u8
Malleable social graphs & mini-mobs: why @Facebook could destroy @foursquare & @gowalla w/ 1 checkin – http://bit.ly/aHdXCF
“The Yelp transparency mistake.” – http://bit.ly/azD9J4
Finding the balance between human and machine (for engagement in social media) – http://bit.ly/bek9u5
Consistency: Key to a Better User Experience – http://bit.ly/brT6x9
“Who are we? And, where do we come from? (2010 edition)” – http://bit.ly/9ZLVGg
Incredible tale – Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief – http://bit.ly/bbAsqC
@wangle addresses each of MSNBC’s 13 negative iPad review comments – http://bit.ly/cvYZpJ
Interesting analysis by @gruber on the escalating Apple/Google rivalry – http://bit.ly/dlmuwX
Excellent post by @TheLogoFactory about why theft of logo designs is damaging and wrong – http://bit.ly/9r9qJv
The Southwest Airlines Baggage Strategy. Smart – http://bit.ly/bFsD0d
How page speed optimizations could drive 60,000,000 more Firefox downloads a year – http://bit.ly/9LOlYj
12 Questions: Meet Angus Griffin (England) – http://bit.ly/9pkASh
Experimenting with data visualization – http://bit.ly/djUsfb
13% of all adult leisure conversation is swearing – http://sto.ly/cIDnbH
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: “Graduate to LinkedIn” – http://bit.ly/b5hqnx
12 Questions: Meet Anna Nadler (USA) – http://bit.ly/a4zNbv
SXSW vid interview w/ @rosskimbarovsky,by @benkunz – http://bit.ly/9rcAVR
Guy loses job. Guy buys $500 BMW off Craigslist. Guy wins Mexican Rally car race against $400K cars – http://cot.ag/coZtWk
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.
