So it wasn’t until a couple months ago, that I began to hear about the whole concept of “Social Bookmarking”. I’ve even mentioned it to a couple of my friends, and they always pose the question “what ARE you talking about?” Even though I understand how social bookmarking works now (well, not completely, but...
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So I did a couple searches yesterday looking for the technique for putting Google Analytics on my blog. Since I’ve already put their code on the main pages of my portfolio site, I wanted to add it to the blog as well. I found a quick little bullet-point that revealed how it’s done on...
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So I blogged about Donuts the other day on my Tweet Sweet blog. Heaven knows that I love donuts. Thank goodness for a fellow employee that brings them into my work every-other Friday (You rock Joe!). In the blog post, I mentioned Glazies, a donut location paired with several Hogi Yogi/Teriyaki Stix food locations....
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So I’ve been watching my traffic the past couple weeks through my newly installed Google Analytics. I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting a lot of referrals from the Design Directory at Dexigner.com, so I thought I’d check out the site. Their listings have a small picture of your webpage – here’s mine, and contains...
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So I ran across an interesting site tonight called NO!SPEC. The site’s mission is to educate both clients and Visual Communication designers (also known as ‘graphic’ designers) about the nature of speculative, or “spec” work and how it effects us all in the design community. The site also serves as a vehicle to unite...
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Are you being paid what you’re worth? This designer salaries link, sponsored by AIGA (the organization for designers I recently became a part of) and Aquent (a marketing and creative services group) has a link to give you an idea of what your worth. Check it out –>AIGA/AQUENT Survey of Design Salaries 2006
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So there use to be this great site called ampUTate.org that would contain links to all the local Utah advertising agencies, graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, etc. Recently, because of time constraints (and from what I’ve found in message boards around the web) a “hack” to the site, the author has taken the page down....
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Renaming my blog for better search engine recognition Tweet Sweet made it to the top! So I make it an effort to check at least every few days where my search rankings fall in Google and Yahoo. I’ve even started checking MSN, though I don’t get as much traffic generated through them. I’ve been...
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So in my blog the other day I mentioned thisisbroken.com – Mark Hurst’s blog showing broken user experiences sent in by readers of his goodexperience.com newsletter. So today I ran across my own broken experience, something that made me say, hu? In response to my submission to the thisisbroken website, I got an automated...
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I’ve notice a significant increase in the “product reflection” treatment of late, have you? I see them popping up on Verizon Wireless when I go to pay my bill online, or Apple when I go to check out their latest iPod. Here’s an example from Apple’s website: (I take my sample from Apple, noting...
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