Twitter Link Roundup #26 – Design, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More
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!
100+ Truly Stunning Skateboard Designs – http://bit.ly/dtmVRZ
Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography – http://j.mp/cQ1ORJ
110+ Resources For Creative Minds – http://j.mp/b7HoEN
10 Great Tips for Using Twitter as a Designer – http://bit.ly/a9OtYh
120+ Creative Advertisements – http://bit.ly/95jJWL
35+ Creative advertising For Creative Peoples – http://bit.ly/9POat4
The Principle of Contrast in Web Design – http://bit.ly/dfvpOR
350+ Grunge Textures – http://bit.ly/cQKQW8
20 Examples of using the Color Orange in Web Design – http://bit.ly/cC6b4n
15 Tips for Designing Terrific Tables – http://bit.ly/9Kw9PG
Showcase Of Web Design In Germany – http://bit.ly/c31YEZ
Writing for the Web: The Right Strategy – http://bit.ly/aEZDKx
100 Years of Movie Title Stills – http://bit.ly/ahWhR6
Everything You Need to Know About Image Compression – http://bit.ly/b1zxwG
50 Inspiring Portfolio Designs – http://bit.ly/asleFb
10 Tips for Better Print Style Sheets – http://bit.ly/cqWjtC
List of Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid – http://bit.ly/5AxgDG
The Differences between Usability and User Experience – http://bit.ly/7HnKwW
Top 12 Logos of 2009 As Voted By You – http://bit.ly/cryH1N
70 Exceptionally Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs For Inspiration – http://bit.ly/90yWmq
Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color – http://bit.ly/9ccA4T
What to Expect in 2010: UX/UI Design Simplicity – http://bit.ly/c1S3nj
Designing Your Header With the Best Practices and Examples – http://bit.ly/bqDw74
Gestalt Principles: How Are Your Designs Perceived? – http://bit.ly/7LGgU4
48 Brilliantly Creative And Demented Vector Characters – http://bit.ly/abiUyB
Fresh Examples of Web 2.0 Design and Interfaces – Designzzz – http://bit.ly/aTqdmi
The 5 Dimensions of Brand Personality – http://tinyurl.com/ykg8vdo
Don’t Touch That Dial — Lessons Web Designers Can Learn From Television Broadcasts – http://bit.ly/d5eWRJ
30 Creative Examples of Using Paper in Web Designs – http://bit.ly/daiRz8
15 Invoicing Tips for Designers and Freelancers – http://bit.ly/9Suo1f
Better User Experience With Storytelling – http://bit.ly/9W6zSz
eCommerce UI Part 2: Footers – http://bit.ly/bTffkv
New Photoshop Tutorials : January 2010 – http://bit.ly/9tmKnL
85+ Excellent Resources & Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover Best Of The Web In Jan. – http://bit.ly/cMreuj
It’s All in Your Header – http://bit.ly/cZo22o
Fantastic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movie Poster Inspiration, 1925 to 2010 – http://bit.ly/8YDGFv
5 Simple Tips for Improving Designer-Client Relationships – http://bit.ly/9ZcCz7
The Ultimate Collection Of Colorful And Inspiring Vector Art – http://bit.ly/ddPr8y
Badass Toy Designs – http://bit.ly/9ohmvb
Web form design guidelines: an eyetracking study – http://bit.ly/kxCGO
Oscar best picture nominations and their logos – http://bit.ly/chzKBM
15 Ways To Improve Freelance Creativity – http://bit.ly/96rRjg
Sending a clear message in logo design – http://bit.ly/b5QfIn
Fresh Uses Of Creative Backgrounds In Website Design – http://bit.ly/ccrhwF
18 Useful WordPress Contact Form Plugins – http://bit.ly/czy1hl
9 Interesting Mootools Examples and Tutorials ready for use – http://bit.ly/9nOTKB
6 Goals to Reach For When Designing Your Next Websitehttp://bit.ly/cGEcwO
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
Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business – http://bit.ly/dc9XWs
Be Better Than You Ever Thought You Could Be – http://bit.ly/8ZbXZ5
“3 Types of Angel Investors and How to Pick the Right One (or Two)” – http://bit.ly/7biQwY
The Value of Design to Startups – http://bit.ly/dCK8UY
“5 Myths That Can Kill a Startup” – http://bit.ly/6wqNav
Five Suggestions About Working With Lawyers – http://bit.ly/bWtI0W
“Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior” – http://bit.ly/dnwARb
The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale – http://bit.ly/aSUMqo
Why you should challenge your customers’ assumptions – http://bit.ly/dzYsQx
How to Encourage Small Innovations – http://bit.ly/96h9qS
How Google sets goals and measures success – http://bit.ly/92F3l9
Apply Agile Thinking To Everything You Do (especially helpful for startups & small businesses) – http://bit.ly/cLtPI5
Sexy time with accounting reconciliation for small business and startups – http://bit.ly/aOG0WU
Be Better Than You Ever Thought You Could Be – http://bit.ly/8ZbXZ5
Why you should challenge your customers’ assumptions – http://bit.ly/dzYsQx
Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business – http://bit.ly/dc9XWs
Five Suggestions About Working With Lawyers – http://bit.ly/bWtI0W
Sexy time with accounting reconciliation for small business and startups – http://bit.ly/aOG0WU
Apply Agile Thinking To Everything You Do (especially helpful for startups & small businesses) – http://bit.ly/cLtPI5
How to Encourage Small Innovations – http://bit.ly/96h9qS
Why you should challenge your customers’ assumptions – http://bit.ly/dzYsQx
Why you should challenge your customers’ assumptions – http://bit.ly/dzYsQx
The 5 Dimensions of Brand Personality – http://tinyurl.com/ykg8vdo
Interesting stats in a recently released social media marketing survey – http://bit.ly/bSVrfl
Infographic: The State of the Internet – http://post.ly/Lu3x
Why you should challenge your customers’ assumptions – http://bit.ly/dzYsQx
Customer Experience More Important than Ever – http://bit.ly/dhqIfz
How to Prevent a Community From Growing On Your Site – http://bit.ly/dlamzJ
New study shows people trust others less – http://bit.ly/duzyUB
Excellent analysis by @Scobleizer about competitive pressure on Foursquare – http://bit.ly/9KIOfP
Be Better Than You Ever Thought You Could Be – http://bit.ly/8ZbXZ5
Lots of great info in this excellent interview by @ducttape with Seth Godin – http://bit.ly/9nkZak
Is Facebook unstoppable? – http://bit.ly/acxnqW
Want to Be a Smarter Marketer? Here’s What’s Worth Learning – http://tinyurl.com/ydvh2an
AT&T wants to get into the location-aware business – http://tinyurl.com/ylkxcxb
Hey Brands, Get Out Of My Social Media Grill – http://bit.ly/agmUxb
How to Face Your Critics – http://bit.ly/cUGxNh
crowdSPRING on the national news – http://bit.ly/c8ZaQZ
Crowdsourcing is Broken: How to Fix It – http://bit.ly/9dcpjb
Excellent post by @LenKendall about lessons learned from the3six5 project – http://bit.ly/a4Lnpw
Garry Kasparov on the Importance of Process – http://bit.ly/caQaHB
Darth Kimbarovsky & Emperor Samson? The spec work debate as you’ve never seen it before – http://bit.ly/bL9XnT
Innovation Teams Lack Data, Structure – http://bit.ly/c29t78
How many companies could be run this way? – Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism – http://bit.ly/c3kphJ
Discovering assumptions you didn’t even know you had (short TED video) – http://post.ly/LBe9
How Google sets goals and measures success – http://bit.ly/92F3l9
Make shit easier and people will use it – http://bit.ly/beKsEb
The end of typing – http://tinyurl.com/yzrxghq
We can’t enjoy rewards without taking risks – http://bit.ly/dm45JY
Spec work isn’t all bad. Trust me – http://bit.ly/9bc1gz
Amazon Said to Buy Touch Start-Up – http://nyti.ms/dfkC8J
Good interview by @scobleizer w/ Light Blue Optics (projects on a surface w/ touchscreen capability) – http://bit.ly/dpbBXz
Sensational visualization of four declining empires – http://bit.ly/8XhC4N
Nice work from Facebook on HipHop (open sourced today) – http://bit.ly/alQejN
Only @benkunz could come up w/ a post about sex, chocolate and Utah. Yeah – UTAH! – http://bit.ly/dnu9Bx
Logo design Schadenfreude: Anti-piracy org HADOPI logo infringes on copyright – http://tinyurl.com/y86l5pv
“Today I’m Selling CROWDSPRING” – http://bit.ly/ck7t5G
Hitler has final say on iPad – http://bit.ly/d6kISi
Wondering where bacon and ham come from? – http://twitpic.com/10kk7j
Bacon is everywhere! – http://twitpic.com/10kts0
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.
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