Twitter Link Roundup #156 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More Ross | November 30th, 2012
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!
How does a cat manage to always land on their feet when falling from any height? Above is a fun video looking at cats, physics and weightlessness. Did you know that the physics involved in flippings cats also allow us to operate space telescopes? Don’t worry, GiGi (the cat) was not hurt during the filming of the video.
Small Business and Startups: 5 DIY Things To Do For Your Brand! | crowdSPRING Blog – http://crowdspring.co/UN7N0f
How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – http://crowdspring.co/UUb5Pl
How Small Businesses Can Compete with Big Business – http://crowdspring.co/X0LEji
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: mor.sl | crowdSPRING Blog – http://crowdspring.co/X1VcKX
Badges Beware: 80% Of Gamification Apps Will End Up Being Losers, Says Gartner – http://crowdspring.co/WYslXK
Your Brand is What You Do – http://crowdspring.co/WYuAdR
The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – http://crowdspring.co/WX27Fh
How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – http://crowdspring.co/UUb5Pl
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: The ultimate disrupter | Fortune Management – http://crowdspring.co/WX5BHG
A VC: What Has Changed – http://crowdspring.co/WPx1iI
What Hasn’t Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger. | Dave McClure – http://crowdspring.co/WPDR7S
Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – http://crowdspring.co/WYuP8L
The ABCs of MVPs: How to Get the RIGHT Product out Faster – http://crowdspring.co/V16smw
Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – http://crowdspring.co/UVfP7f
Go west, young MBA: Important rules for building wealth in San Francisco – http://crowdspring.co/WGdnpg
Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first – http://crowdspring.co/X1fFPR
Apple’s Problem: Google Is Getting Better At Design | Business Insider – http://crowdspring.co/WGhba9
Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – http://crowdspring.co/V173Vw
An Entrepreneur’s Guide To Patents: How To Determine Whether They Are Right For Your Company | TechCrunch – http://crowdspring.co/WPxcun
The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – http://crowdspring.co/WYp0YP
Economic Impact Of Startup Accelerators: $1.6B+ Raised, 4,800+ Jobs Created, 2,000 Startups Funded | TechCrunch – http://crowdspring.co/UXwbfO
Small Business and Startups: 5 DIY Things To Do For Your Brand! | crowdSPRING Blog – http://crowdspring.co/UN7N0f
Follow The Money: Why Priceline Bought Kayak | TechCrunch – http://crowdspring.co/UxiqUX
Just got acquired? 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co. – http://crowdspring.co/WYqbr7
The danger of waiting to long to find a business model? … Checking In on Foursquare’s Valuation – http://crowdspring.co/WX4BTU
Who says startups are easy | Om Malik – http://crowdspring.co/WPEvCd
Your Brand is What You Do – http://crowdspring.co/WYuAdR
Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it – http://crowdspring.co/UXkXId
In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – http://crowdspring.co/X46zBS
Badges Beware: 80% Of Gamification Apps Will End Up Being Losers, Says Gartner – http://crowdspring.co/WYslXK
The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – http://crowdspring.co/UXqiyY
Five Predictions For The Future Of Social Entrepreneurship | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/V1rf9N
Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – http://crowdspring.co/WYuwKT
A poor effort to defend a P/E ratio of 666 (Salesforce). A turkey is a turkey – http://crowdspring.co/V4Hx1o
Interesting to see Y Combinator revise funding portion of its program … The YC VC Program – http://crowdspring.co/WWZOlm
Convertible Debt: really Bridge Loans and Equity Replacement Debt – http://crowdspring.co/UV1FmB
6 Signs You’re Not Fit to Lead – http://crowdspring.co/X2C4fK
Trending On AngelList: Tactics & Results | Justin’s Blog – http://crowdspring.co/WGgY6T
The Best CEOs Create More Fixers Than Fix Problems – http://crowdspring.co/X1DVBu
Are Startups Recession-Proof? – http://crowdspring.co/V1zthY
AppBot – Lessons Learned Launching A Minimum Viable Product – http://crowdspring.co/WPEnmk
Seth’s Blog: Persuade vs. convince – http://crowdspring.co/UJWxBV
The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – http://crowdspring.co/WVSN4e
What’s the secret to a great team? | Barking Up The Wrong Tree – http://crowdspring.co/WYy7J8
Seth’s Blog: Avoiding “I’ll know it when I see it” – http://crowdspring.co/X18FCP
Want Venture Capital Funding? Here’s How | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/WPxjGq
The Anti-Social Era: Lessons Learned from Vimeo Founder Jake Lodwick – http://crowdspring.co/UK4CX0
Peter Thiel Asks Why Has Innovation Stalled | Collective Intelligence | Big Think – http://crowdspring.co/UVf1iE
Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece – http://crowdspring.co/WLd3Wl
Is the secret to success as simple as just not giving up? | Barking Up The Wrong Tree – http://crowdspring.co/WLdz6I
Venture-Backed Commerce Sites Banking on TV Ads to Lure in Audiences | AllThingsD – http://crowdspring.co/WGfWrj
Brilliant analysis. Must-read for marketers … Reverse Engineering Facebook EdgeRank – http://crowdspring.co/X4gcAH
Facebook’s new matchback tracking finds you at the mall | Thought Gadgets – http://crowdspring.co/UxfQhu
How to fix the sad state of content marketing – http://crowdspring.co/X191ZT
Real-Time Marketing is Upon Us–Here’s How Advertising Needs To Adapt | Co.Create – http://crowdspring.co/WYttL9
The Anti-Social Era: Lessons Learned from Vimeo Founder Jake Lodwick – http://crowdspring.co/UK4CX0
What a pile of crap … Facebook Reveals How Samsung Turned A $10 Million Ad Buy To $129 In Sales | Business Insider – http://crowdspring.co/X1BIWL
Facebook Remains Gaping Hole in Advertising Industry’s Privacy Program | Advertising Age – http://crowdspring.co/UVfr8T
The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – http://crowdspring.co/WVSN4e
Badges Beware: 80% Of Gamification Apps Will End Up Being Losers, Says Gartner – http://crowdspring.co/WYslXK
How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – http://crowdspring.co/WYpPRm
What Marketers Are Getting Wrong About Loyalty | Co.Create – http://crowdspring.co/V4Jxqt
Twitterers: Take responsibility for your reckless claims – http://crowdspring.co/V1vzpe
Ghost Town? Study Says 70 Percent Of Facebook Pages Are Inactive | Marketingland – http://crowdspring.co/UDRyCt
Venture-Backed Commerce Sites Banking on TV Ads to Lure in Audiences | AllThingsD – http://crowdspring.co/WGfWrj
Red All Over: Newspaper Revenues Fall In Q3 – http://crowdspring.co/WGgRYN
Your Brand is What You Do – http://crowdspring.co/WYuAdR
Seth’s Blog: Persuade vs. convince – http://crowdspring.co/UJWxBV
Facebook makes it official — an external advertising network is coming soon | Gigaom – http://crowdspring.co/WLdjVk
25 Illustration Based Business Card Designs – http://crowdspring.co/WRw4pZ
A Collection Of Resources For An Up To Date Web Designer – 30 New Tools – http://crowdspring.co/WRS3Nx
40 Nice Photoshop print Ads | Designrex – http://crowdspring.co/WRwsVt
Andrew Zuckerman’s Extraordinary Portraits of Flowers | Brain Pickings – http://crowdspring.co/WPEDSm
How to Letterpress Your Image | Design Age – http://crowdspring.co/WRxkcL
30 Amazing Robots Illustrations | Speckyboy – http://crowdspring.co/UNazmg
100+ Free Bokeh Brushes For Photoshop – http://crowdspring.co/UN8giS
20 Creative Business Card Designs | Pixel Clouds – http://crowdspring.co/UN62QK
40 Creative Uses of QR Code in Business Card – http://crowdspring.co/WRQuzj
Best of Industrial Design #2 | Inspihive – http://crowdspring.co/UN9Npm
Brushes Grunge Abstract Lines | All4Designer – http://crowdspring.co/UN3vWz
25 Really Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – http://crowdspring.co/WRRIdN
40+ Awesome And Creative Fonts | GraphicsLava – http://crowdspring.co/WRT2xo
27+ Must Have Photoshop Brushes for Designers – http://crowdspring.co/WRRS4U
20 Colorful Examples of Print Design | Inspihive – http://crowdspring.co/UN9db4
Collection of 60 Fabulous 3D Characters | Splashnology – http://crowdspring.co/WRQhMq
40 Modern Alcoholic Package Designs | NaughtyDesigner – http://crowdspring.co/WRPKKq
25 Impressive Examples Of Business Card Designs – http://crowdspring.co/UN4tlP
40+ Epic Brochure Inspiration | AndySowards – http://crowdspring.co/WRP1sK
20 Useful Tools For Designer and Developers – http://crowdspring.co/WRRdAC
70 Free Fonts For Beautiful Big Headlines – http://crowdspring.co/UN44zK
20+ Awesome Photoshop Cartoon Tutorials and Actions – http://crowdspring.co/UN4Mgg
45 Free Abstract Light Effects Photoshop Brushes for Your Design – http://crowdspring.co/UN3mCK
22 Examples Of Typography Design | LuckyWP – http://crowdspring.co/UN3LFh
Paper Textures Pack | PEPSized – http://crowdspring.co/UN2X3c
How to Add Texture to an Illustration in Adobe InDesign | Vectortuts+ http://crowdspring.co/WRMWwV
30 Best Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials | Web Design Inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/WRNm6y
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
Logo Design: Crowns | Abduzeedo – http://crowdspring.co/WRxuAW
22 Elegant and Cool Designs of Retro Logos | MyInkBlog – http://crowdspring.co/UN8rLj
30 Best Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials | Web Design Inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/WRNm6y
40+ Awesome And Creative Fonts | GraphicsLava – http://crowdspring.co/WRT2xo
40+ Best Web UI Interface Framework Kits – http://crowdspring.co/WRqNyS
10 Fresh Tools For Web Designers And Developers – http://crowdspring.co/UMHGX7
70 Free Fonts For Beautiful Big Headlines – http://crowdspring.co/UN44zK
20 Law Firm Websites for Web Design Inspiration | Delta Designz – http://crowdspring.co/WRSPdE
20 Useful Tools For Designer and Developers – http://crowdspring.co/WRRdAC
Retro And Vintage: 44 Classy Examples Of Web Designs – http://crowdspring.co/UMK0gT
40+ Fresh and Free Web UI and Mobile Kits for Developers and Designers | Noupe – http://crowdspring.co/UMzF4A
15 Cool jQuery Modal Plugins | Tripwire Magazine – http://crowdspring.co/WRwCMJ
12 Fresh Tools For Web Designers And Developers | Smashing Spy – http://crowdspring.co/WRN3Zs
A Comprehensive Collection of Free UI Kits & Templates | Front-end Magazine – http://crowdspring.co/WRwVai
In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – http://crowdspring.co/X46zBS
Teachers Embroiled in Test-Taking Fraud http://crowdspring.co/SnyFDi
How can we spot fake savings when we shop? | Thought Gadgets – http://crowdspring.co/WX13k
Interesting to see Amazon tapping bond market while sitting on cash – http://crowdspring.co/WX37t1
Industries evolve and incumbents must evolve too … Simon & Schuster Steps Into Self-Publishing – http://crowdspring.co/RnWYV5
How Martin Odersky rewrote the rules of coding for a mobile world – http://crowdspring.co/V0Y4Ui
A Few Math Questions That US College Students Can’t Answer – http://crowdspring.co/Yso0N9
Good news! US not the fastest in internet speeds but we’re way ahead of Congo, Central African Republic and turtles – http://crowdspring.co/V1ufmj
Cossacks once again patrolling Moscow streets, ‘We’re like Chuck Norris!’ – http://crowdspring.co/UWYOK7
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
