Twitter Link Roundup #40 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More Ross | May 27th, 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!
Ten Questions You should be Asking to Produce the Killer Design Clients Crave – http://bit.ly/bouMR7
7 Personality Types of Designers Today – http://bit.ly/aS2WNw
Creating consistently great logos – http://bit.ly/biwqII
The Art of Branding Yourself and Your Freelancing Business – http://bit.ly/bRzdAn
10 Hidden Skills of Successful Freelancers – http://bit.ly/bTCkOw
100+ Must Check Tutorials for Creating a Logo in Photoshop – http://bit.ly/a3rh6k
Huge Infographics Design Resources: Overview, Principles, Tips & Examples – http://bit.ly/cEStlQ
23 Lovely Brochure Cover Designs – http://bit.ly/au80Ld
Web Design Trends 2010: Real-Life Metaphors and CSS3 Adaptation – http://bit.ly/do3hNT
Beginners Guide to Using the Power of Color in Web Design – http://bit.ly/aaRkuZ
The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World – http://bit.ly/cCTieP
Creative Uses of Stickers in Advertising – http://bit.ly/bUyvKu
35 Candy Packaging That Will Tickle Your Sweet Tooth – http://bit.ly/asgA8U
Make Your Own Bookmarklets With jQuery – http://bit.ly/ca1Emz
Usability Testing: Don’t Guess, Test – http://bit.ly/bqVGxi
Showcase of Beautiful Textile Designs – http://bit.ly/diKtMe
Negative Space in Webpage Layouts: A Guide - http://bit.ly/9Mt4S0
20 Coolest Web Designs From the Far East – http://bit.ly/bTOWdY
Fresh Web Design Tutorials using Photoshop – http://bit.ly/96jXDw
Ultimate Roundup With Thousands Of Cool Photoshop Brushes – http://bit.ly/aKfgx0
404 Error: 60+ Creative And Well Designed Pages – http://bit.ly/cwfyio
Create Seamless Web Background Textures in Minutes – http://bit.ly/bPfHK0
Google Font API – http://bit.ly/aWe7A0
Top 15 Resources to Download High Quality Free Fonts – http://bit.ly/dhnsdu
The Way Ahead for Web Design in 2010 – http://bit.ly/bQtCFK
7 Keys to a Successful Design Project – http://bit.ly/aCT0fp
Designing for iPhone: The Ultimate Roundup of Resources – http://bit.ly/9zAeIe
There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Client – http://bit.ly/c1sL6j
7 Personality Types of Developers Today – http://bit.ly/cDMZLp
Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style – http://bit.ly/9bzoim
Fabulous Fairy Tales Inspired House Designs – http://bit.ly/adHu98
13 Hand-Picked Web Form Resources for Developers – http://bit.ly/9dMHgP
Storytelling in the age of community media – http://bit.ly/bK7uGe
Geometric Poster Design Inspiration: 35 Radical Designs – http://bit.ly/b3wH5L
20 Awesome jQuery Enhanced CSS Button Techniques – http://bit.ly/dnFu5w
30+ Best PSD to HTML/CSS Conversion Tutorials – http://bit.ly/dnFczO
Legibility And Readability In Typographic Design – http://bit.ly/aWvIQK
30 Hilarious Examples of Celebrity Caricatures – http://bit.ly/ab5oCX
30 Must Have Floral Brushes for Photoshop – http://bit.ly/d9apHv
Colorful & Creative Illustrations by Sam Werczler – http://bit.ly/9sCeDN
Funny Business and the Lack of Humor in Web Design – http://bit.ly/augLzV
13 Best Web Form Design Tutorials and Resources – http://bit.ly/bcKdET
Designing for Senior Citizens | Organizing Your Work Schedule – http://bit.ly/dAPVkz
Sign Up Form Design: Good Practices and Design Review – http://bit.ly/9MHUIy
Classic Absolut Vodka Package & Advertising – http://bit.ly/aMhN7K
HTML 5 Demos and Examples – http://bit.ly/18BOtV
3D Water Text Effect with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 – http://bit.ly/bdjA7Y
60 Funny Cartoon Collection – http://bit.ly/cFJyZj
Interview with a crowdSPRING designer: 12 Questions: Meet Maximilian (USA) – http://bit.ly/bu8LBZ
Dynamic brand identities vs static identities and logos – http://ping.fm/cEncc
Why You Need User Driven Design – http://bit.ly/bXdOKV
20 creative print advertisements for your inspiration – http://bit.ly/asuM0K
So you think you know the Ramones logo? – http://bit.ly/c1iLv6)
The Psychology of Web Design – http://bit.ly/cQjFYd
Showcase of Beautiful Moleskine Art – http://bit.ly/dq6U1U
15 Tips for Designing Terrific Tables – http://bit.ly/9Kw9PG
Fortune asks leading designers to redesign Facebook’s privacy settings – http://j.mp/dagpoO
The History of Web Design Blogs – http://bit.ly/9Hv333
100+ Must Check Tutorials for Creating a Logo in Photoshop – http://bit.ly/a3rh6k
Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.38) )(from @speckyboy) – http://bit.ly/doB0Yn
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
How to Write Your Ass Off – http://bit.ly/9xjmJV
Interview w/ a crowdSPRING creative (writing) – 12 Questions: Meet Constance Semler (Canada) – http://bit.ly/cIu5HP
Storytelling in the age of community media – http://bit.ly/bK7uGe
How to Overcome Your Three Greatest Blogging Challenges – http://bit.ly/drk6Cs
Startup and Small Business Tip: Marketing One-To-One – http://bit.ly/8YttOx
6 tips for startups and small business: Creating your first screencast! – http://bit.ly/cZ8kcB
Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved – http://bit.ly/ciTgwx
Are you a Doer or a Talker? (about entrepreneurs) – http://bit.ly/c1inBt
Explaining the “so what?” factor to investors – http://ow.ly/1NNcW
Twitter’s New Ad Policy And The Dangers Of Tying Your Business To Another – http://bit.ly/instreamads
What Surprising Number Will Change Your Business? – http://s.hbr.org/anuUhj
Where VCs Are Putting Their Money in 2010 – http://bit.ly/anhhg1
Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do – http://bit.ly/br2qe3
Starting-up: Community not just location – http://bit.ly/9LP9dJ
Startup and Small Business Tip: Marketing One-To-One – http://bit.ly/8YttOx
6 tips for startups and small business: Creating your first screencast! – http://bit.ly/cZ8kcB
Online marketing for Startups: back to basics – p+p+p+p – http://bit.ly/cfLPvy
Twitter’s New Ad Policy And The Dangers Of Tying Your Business To Another – http://bit.ly/instreamads
7 Essential SEO Tips for Small Businesses – http://bit.ly/92Siem
What Surprising Number Will Change Your Business? – http://s.hbr.org/anuUhj
A brand isn’t what a brand says. A brand is what a brand does – http://bit.ly/a9DRXJ
Twitter’s New Ad Policy And The Dangers Of Tying Your Business To Another – http://bit.ly/instreamads
Why Social Media Doesn’t Matter Anymore – http://bit.ly/92SG4z
Anatomy of a Successful Email Marketing Newsletter – http://bit.ly/aPyzx0
5 Surprising Social Media Business Success Stories – http://bit.ly/aluD7g
Why Do CPMs still exist – http://bit.ly/bkfJPt
Creative Uses of Stickers in Advertising – http://bit.ly/bUyvKu
Dynamic brand identities vs static identities and logos – http://ping.fm/cEncc
Google puts end to free-for-all editing of businesses on google maps – http://selnd.com/cxO4Bf
Huge Gap Remains Between Mainstream Media and the Social Web [REPORT] – http://bit.ly/9X73aN
Flash versus substance – http://bit.ly/9sSqvr
The Death Of Web Analytics? An Ode To The Threatened Referrer – http://selnd.com/9nvSpe
Good advice from @chrisbrogan for leveraging LinkedIn via its RSS feature – http://bit.ly/cdBI0Q
Twitter’s amended terms of service seem to choke ad.ly & similar companies – http://bit.ly/ceKRyl
Cool Tool Review: Aquent & crowdSPRING – http://bit.ly/8X0EHX)
New Seattle’s Best logo not loved by all – http://yhoo.it/cSMcOa
How To Crowd-Source A Professional Logo You Can Afford – http://bit.ly/c8BLeh
The London Olympic Mascots – http://bit.ly/cOjlJI
Love this quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. about always doing your job well – http://bit.ly/afTu2u
A brief history of social games 3100BC-2010AD – http://post.ly/hJ28
How Pixar built Toy Story 3 – http://bit.ly/c9r62Q
Historical Browser Statistics Visualisation – http://post.ly/gtm5
Why is the design community still arguing about spec? – http://bit.ly/a6XdKL
The Opportunity to Learn – http://bit.ly/9s3oCz
Google gifts $120 million video Codec to the web masses – http://bit.ly/9h25Kf
Scientists have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell – http://bit.ly/ckm4nd
Skype group video conferencing - http://bit.ly/bDCh16
World’s oddest album covers – http://bit.ly/d1mBXl
Umm. This is disturbing and fun on so many levels – http://youtu.be/a2S_cb4z9l4
The Argentinian national team sure have some wacked out demands for their World Cup team – http://yhoo.it/bEdD2M
And THAT’S why you dont’ steal purses in an elevator!! – http://ki.am/ab84wu
How they filmed opening scrolling text in original Star Wars movies – http://post.ly/gdxI
LOST re-enacted by cats in 1 minute – http://youtu.be/G-DShnvNNv0
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.
