Twitter Link Roundup #255 – Some Lovely resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

It has been freakin cold and snowy here in Chicago the past couple of weeks, so I thought I’d share this beautiful video of our beautiful city in winter. Other places eschew the cold a and frost; this filmmaker with a drone says, bring it on!
Brrr. Now that you know what drives us around here, I present to you our weekly roundup! Great links and articles we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account). We do like to talk about logo design, web design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Enjoy!
5 Things Small Business Owners Should Know About ‘Facebook At Work’| Deborah Sweeney |crowdspring.co/1LB9Vno
Don’t Forget This One Secret to Running a Trade Show Booth crowdspring.co/1yhJBUR
Morning Rituals to Keep You Productive All Day Long crowdspring.co/1Bq8Wke
Forget Resolutions, What’s Your “Beautiful Question” For 2015? | Co.Design | business + designcrowdspring.co/1tdA7OZ
Plans to Prosper: Small Biz Marketing Doesn’t Mean Small Impact crowdspring.co/1BagPro
Elon Musk touts launch of ‘SpaceX Seattle’ | Business & Technology | The Seattle Timescrowdspring.co/1BadR6p
Why Creating Your First Blockbuster Online Product Is Easier Than You Think – Copyblogger – crowdspring.co/1GTTT8n
The Best Digital Business Models Put Evolution Before Revolution – HBR crowdspring.co/1D6Ue1u
8 Ways To Make Working From Home More Efficient | Fast Company | Business + Innovationcrowdspring.co/1D6Uei4
Stop Equating Women In Tech With Engineers – buff.ly/18OzPF9
Startup Podcasters You Need To Follow crowdspring.co/1tdA6un
99% of Networking Is a Waste of Time – HBR crowdspring.co/1zbdv4f
Texas Prison Program Aims to Produce Business-Savvy Inmates crowdspring.co/1C2uwhv
What I am Using Now (5 Free Tools!) | crowdSPRING Blog– crowdspring.co/1uNUuOf
7 Ways Highly Successful People Achieve More | by @jeff_haden – buff.ly/18OFLOG
How to Take Your Pitch From Good to Great crowdspring.co/15Ifz78
How History and Adversity Pushed an Entrepreneur to Shark Tank Success crowdspring.co/1yhJBo7
How To Emulate Some Of The Most Innovative Companies | Fast Company | Business + Innovationcrowdspring.co/1C2uvKE
E-commerce and price flexibility: New evidence | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal crowdspring.co/1BagMfm
Taylor Swift, trademark diva crowdspring.co/18G91qK
Tim Rookes: entrepreneur seized opportunity after spotting gap in the cloud market | Derby Telegraphcrowdspring.co/1AgPp8d
5 Ways to Grow Your Email List With Facebook Contests | Social Media Examiner crowdspring.co/1EYiTGV
Tips for Improving Your Social Media Marketing | Social Media Examiner crowdspring.co/1LB9Vnw
The Unwritten Rules Of Writing Emails | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1HHqzSU
How to boost your personal brand as a designer | Webdesigner Depot crowdspring.co/1wT8BBB
The New Era of the Hybrid Marketer crowdspring.co/1zbayAT
Making Customer Support Part Of Your SEO Program crowdspring.co/1C2r2M3
B2B Influencer Content Marketing Case Study & 18 Resources crowdspring.co/1Dm42V8
How to Network Successfully on Google Plus crowdspring.co/162tows
Three Ways to Grow Your Curated Email Newsletter Faster crowdspring.co/1CTOJ5T
Essential SEO Techniques To Master In 2015 crowdspring.co/1zteKc3Secrets to Improving Engagement on Your Content Using Word Pictures (and I Don’t Mean Wordle) – Moz crowdspring.co/1Ez42Fu
Top 7 Excuses Marketers Make to NOT Build Their List crowdspring.co/162yk4H
How & Why Prototypes Are Mandatory for Good Design | Design Shack crowdspring.co/1Dm63k5
9 stunning winners of this year’s National Geographic photo contest | DesignFaves crowdspring.co/16hRRyQ
@Invercote is using @crowdSPRING to challenge the global design community to improve existing consumer#packaging http://crowdspring.co/1FenkgE
31 Creativity Hacks for Left-Brain Thinkers (Infographic) crowdspring.co/16ii7sX
Design to Inspire (Infographic) crowdspring.co/18G8Zip
Hand Lettering by Ricardo Gonzalez | Abduzeedo Design Inspiration crowdspring.co/1BadRmH
10 designs for the future of space travel crowdspring.co/15IesnY
“Fresh from the SPRING” features a wonderful designer, Feniks | crowdSPRING Blog –crowdspring.co/1vuDFxQ
New Logo project on crowdSPRING! Distinctive logo for a new health care services companycrowdspring.co/1KedQmP
Ecommerce Web Form Design Best Practices: 12 Tricks for Making Your Forms Less Tiresomecrowdspring.co/1CQ1wIT
45 Free Popup, Alert Window, Notification, Photoshop Designs crowdspring.co/1Bq83bi
A Brand New Direction in Web Design | SpyreStudios crowdspring.co/1HGNON1
What Is Usability Testing crowdspring.co/15IetYP
Drag and Drop Interaction Ideas | Codrops crowdspring.co/1LB9VUs
Embrace (in)consistency « Thoughts on users, experience, and design from the folks at InVision.crowdspring.co/1BaeQn5
Free tools and resources for web developers: January 2015 • Inspired Magazine crowdspring.co/1yhI69p
30 Free Stunning Website Templates | InstantShift crowdspring.co/1Bq82UT
Getting Started with Style Guides – Market Blog crowdspring.co/1C2sNZH
Top 10 Tips to Pick Cost-Effective WordPress Hosting – WP Mayor crowdspring.co/1LB98CT
Prototyping Layouts With Velositey for Photoshop – Tuts+ Web Design Article crowdspring.co/1z2abBO
E-Commerce Site Design Mistakes You Need To Avoid At All Costs | InstantShift crowdspring.co/1wwjg4W
Even More Essential Plugins for WordPress Theme Development – Tuts+ Code Article crowdspring.co/1BadOre
15 websites that use white space the right way crowdspring.co/1L8G5Gx
The 6 Steps to Improve Your Website’s Loading Speed | SEJ crowdspring.co/1z25Uyn
Rules To A Great Customer Experience – Usability Geek crowdspring.co/1AgpPjN
40+ essential JavaScript tools for the Web | Developer Drive crowdspring.co/1xUuIc8
How to Add Drop Caps in WordPress Posts crowdspring.co/15IdUOF
How to Use SSL and HTTPS with WordPress – WPMU DEV crowdspring.co/1Co1Yz7
Viewfindr on Web Design Served crowdspring.co/1Dm42Vj
Creating Your Own Widgets Using Various WordPress APIs: Introduction – Tuts+ Code Tutorial – crowdspring.co/1GTUNSh
Dribbble – Basecamp Signup Easter Egg by Mig Reyes crowdspring.co/1wTbKRX
Materialize – A Material Design CSS Framework crowdspring.co/18FYpbs
10 Most Wanted Twitter Hacks and Plugins for WordPress crowdspring.co/1z2ab4O
The 6 Landing Page Mistakes that Kill Conversion Rates – Crazyleaf Design Blog crowdspring.co/1Co2lKj
4 Questions to Ask When Optimizing Your Site for Mobile | UX Magazine crowdspring.co/1Ez42VT
Rules Of App Design, According To Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer | Co.Design | business + designcrowdspring.co/1Dm4uTi
How Apple Flattened Motorola’s Superpowered Dimple | Co.Design | business + design crowdspring.co/16hR9S3
How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S – buff.ly/18Oy3UL
How To Get More Custom Voice Commands Out Of Google Now crowdspring.co/1xUvvdp
Resilient Networking: Planning for Failure crowdspring.co/1LBcpSE
A Short Animation About The Smartphone Apocalypse | Co.Design | business + designcrowdspring.co/1Dm62N7
The iPhone Of Health Insurance Cards | Co.Design | business + design crowdspring.co/1Dm62wD
Snowy Photography | Abduzeedo Design Inspiration crowdspring.co/1CPYYKE
This Desk Knows When You’ve Been Sitting Too Long, And Urges You To Stand Up | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1DuM4Ad
Fascinating: How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft | NYTimes – crowdspring.co/1DfRlLI
See this massive 17 inch Rubik’s cube solved in just 7.5 hours | DesignFaves crowdspring.co/15IesnO
Abnormal Photos That Will Make You Confuse At First! crowdspring.co/1Ez2Stn
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