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Twitter Brand Pages Becoming More Like Facebook?
Twitter recently announced a redesign of its brand pages, and a few of the changes reflect Facebook features.
Photographic Impressions
Most of the work I do as creative director involves an editorial product. That means finding a way to enhance words with photos and graphics. When veteran photographer Mark Tucker came to Parthenon, he laid out a project that was especially intriguing to an art director. His photographs had to be the focal point. Words were secondary.
YouTube’s Top Ads of 2011
Over the last few years, advertisers have learned a few things on how to truly engage customers. They've started providing consumers the opportunity to become an active participant in campaigns by creating content that we want to share. Ads are earning their way onto screens via votes on YouTube, comments, sharing and liking on various social media platforms. Users are jumping on the bandwagon and creating spoofs or video responses; making campaigns even more successful.
Interviews – 50 Cents
What do your stories mean to you? What if someone offered to hear them for, let's say, 50 cents?Is Google+ Thriving?
When Google+ first arrived, the clammer about how it would forever change the way we communicated and the jeopardy it posed to Facebook seemed pretty ominous. Would Google+ turn out to be the end-all-be-all choice over Facebook or find it's own niche alongside Facebook as another up-and-coming social media outlet?
Facebook for iPad: an Introduction
Have no fear iPad users; Facebook is here, finally. Over a year and an iPad generation later, Facebook has finally released its app for the iPad.Social Gift: Don’t Just Wish Them a Happy Birthday
Facebook birthdays ... they're everywhere. On average I have at least four connections a week with birthdays, so I feel like I see the posts all the time. It’s just part of the Facebook experience, but Mo Govindji, the co-founder of Social Gift, saw this as an opportunity. Instead of adding the same old bland happy birthday message to the pile, you and your friends can work together to purchase a nice gift for your buddy through Social Gift.Creative – To Be, or Not to Be?
Creativity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. When presented with two fresh ideas, it often seems the tried-and-true wins out over the new and inventive, but why? A recent study was conducted by Jack Goncalo, ILR School assistant professor of organizational behavior and co-author of research to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal "Psychological Science", explains his views.
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