November 2010
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Ning - offers the world, gives back a scrap of...
As a frequent user of Ning (I use it for my creative and media diploma), I should be able to tell you about every nook and cranny featured on this social network site. Ning allows users to create their own social networking experience for a fee starting at £2.95 (for the basic experience) up to £50 for a bigger budget network. On Ning you can add members, post pictures and videos, send messages,...
“Buy a product because it’s awesome, not because a brand made it.”
– Me (via stejay)
When Royalty turned Celebrity
As we all know, Prince Will got engaged to Kate Middleton yesterday, and the press the event has received so far is phenomenal. As I was eating my Oat-so-Simple this morning, it was the only thing they were talking about on TV. Clips from an American news show were played: a corny fan fare announcing ‘ROYAL WEDDING’, before an excited looking American journalist told us how ‘The US have just gone...
“Create your own visual style, let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable...”
– Orson Welles
when was the last time you did something for the...
Charlotte Mabbett
Cows made Cool
My online inspiration this week comes from the Ben and Jerry’s site. Talk about ‘engaging with the customer’, this website is literally cram packed with entertainment to encourage procrastination and ice-cream induced joy.
Last night I spent a whole 37 minutes creating my own unique B&J ice-cream flavour complete with packaging; I watched as a dozen of cows led me around their ‘goodness...
What will you do?
We Are What We Do is a global movement that inspires people to use their everyday behaviour to affect big environmental and social issues
http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/actions/categories/
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs
Is Social Media advancing past set platforms?
Over the last ten years technology has become a large part of people’s everyday lives, especially when it comes to Social Networking. With over half a billion people worldwide using a social networking site, the possibilities of enhancing these technologies and adapting them to your needs is incredible.
Now many businesses use sites such as LinkedIn to help reach new clients, Facebook and MySpace...
Has Social Networking killed E-mail?
Today Facebook is announcing an update to its messaging service on their social network. Several sources are claiming that this update will turn its messaging function into an email service, but in this age of social networking is E-mail on its decline?
When social networks first started to appear on the Internet they presented a new way of communicating with people we know and discovering people...
“Retrosexual: A young man with little care for his appearance or one who dresses...”
– Urban Dictionary
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Preparing for a night out in town
The scene: Venue 2 of the night - a student flat!
“Day make up off - outfit 3” - the girls are currently discussing weight they’ve put on since coming back to uni.
Hairspray is being interspersed with casual discussion abouts parties past and upcoming.
Arounds us bags galore and a rancid mix of orangade, vodka and rum!
The girls are currently discussing the negatives of...
“Wendy’s Saturday night checklist - so all glammed up, mobile phone charged...”
– Wendy Hill
Yeo Valley →
Why does this advert always play in the X Factor breaks?
Social tribes - you be the judge!
Until probably the turn of the millennium, social tribes were not recognised as separate entities within society. You either fit in with the rest of your immediate community, or you were ‘different’. Of course, there have always been class divisions, but social tribes are a completely different thing.
Social tribes are groups of people that share a common social relation specific to that...
Crayon flash website →
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“Social Media is about the people! Not about your business. Provide for the...”
– Matt Goulart 