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Social Marketing: Who Has the Power, Consumers or Brands?

Sometimes things are just better left the way they were. Lately, through the thousands of social marketing tools that have entered our world, customers are getting a chance to speak out like never before. Here are a few recent examples of how customers have responded and some questions about what is really going on here.

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Which Company Did the ESPN Site Redesign? I’ll tell you…

One of the beauties of using Google Analytics is seeing what keywords people type into a search engine in order to find their way on to your site. I’m not talking about the practical use of such information, I’m talking about the sheer amusement that comes from some of the keywords/phrases…

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FAIL: How Knot to Use Photoshop

As the site makes very clear, it’s amazing how dangerous Photoshop can be in the wrong hands… the hands of the inept, the perspectively impaired, and the blind…

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Daily Fail: JPEG Images

Here’s a little graphic design humor to brighten your Tuesday…

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Best Logo Design: 81 of the Best Logo Design Resources

From time to time I’ll see a list of ‘logo design resources’ being circulated around social media websites, but more often than not, I’m disappointed at the quality of links. So I’ve searched through my bookmarks, trawled the other ‘resource’ articles, and asked some designers for their input. Here I present a choice selection of logo design resources that I believe are beneficial to serious designers…

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Video: What if Marketers Were to Redesign the Stop Sign?

I saw this video way back in the summer of ’08, but completely forgot about it until Jay H. Heyman posted it as his favorite marketing video of 2008 on All You Need is a Good Idea.

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ESPN is redesigning their website to optimize for advertising

The redesign aims to reduce clutter, slim down text, improve video access, and create more advertising options. Smart move.

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