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September2

download_reportWant to know not just what companies are doing on the social web but how well they’re doing it?

We have brought you just the tool to measure and monitor brand engagement: for the first time ever, ENGAGEMENTdb ranks the world’s most valuable brands based on how they leverage social media to interact with customers.


dorRazorfish’s “digital outlook report 2009″http://www.razorfish.com/img/content/2009DOR.pdf

The following report contains statements that are forwardlooking, including expectations and predictions regarding future industry trends and developments. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations or projections. This report also contains opinions, estimates, and forwardlooking statements by industry leaders. Such statements are the personal opinions of the individuals quoted and should not be attributed to any other entity or individual. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon forward-looking statements, which speak only as to the date of this document. Except as required by law, neither Razorfish, LLC nor any of its affiliated entities undertake any obligation to update any forwardlooking or other statements in this document, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

© Razorfish, LLC. All rights reserved.


fluent1_coverRazorfish’s “Fluent – The Social Influence Marketing Report”http://fluent.razorfish.com/publication/?m=6540&l=1

I’m excited to announce the launch of Fluent, the Social Influence Marketing report from Razorfish. This is the first report of its kind which understands who and what influences consumers at different points in the marketing funnel.

The insights in this report are built on three pillars – a survey with 1,000 North American consumers, six months worth of real conversational data to frame the introduction of a new social index and the experiences of Razorfish Social Media Leads across the world who advise marketers in industry leading companies everyday.

The survey and conversational driven research also busts three myths about Social Influence Marketing.

1. That companies have figured out how to build their brands in social media. They haven’t. For example, six out of 10 consumers don’t bother to seek out opinions of brands via social media.

2. That television is dead. It isn’t. Consumers view TV ads as more trustworthy than ads on social networks. Marketers need to do more in the social realm, but they need to do it in a way that builds trust first. Brands don’t have the trust today.

3. That you cannot measure in the social web. Not only do campaign specific metrics matter and can be measured but we believe a SIM Score for the social web is extremely important. Think of it as the blood pressure for the brand in the social web. In the report, we introduce this index and show the SIM Scores of 5-6 brands in 4 industries. We also compare the online numbers to offline share of voice data to demonstrate how those two worlds are blurring.

Read Fluent, the Social Influence Marketing report and come back to the blog to share your thoughts, comments and criticisms. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be delving into the insights more deeply over here. And if you like the report, please tell others about it!

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30 Essential Tools for Web Designers -Reblog

July6

Original posting – http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tools/design/30-essential-tools-for-web-designers.html

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For designers nothing can be more handy than effective and time saving tools supporting their creative process. Of cause dependent on the specific needs free web-based tools can significantly help you accomplish tasks such as color selecting, color palette, creating own and unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography.

In this article tripwire magazine presents 30 essential Tools that hopefully will be useful for most Designers.

Original posting – http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tools/design/30-essential-tools-for-web-designers.html

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7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design – Reblog

July6

April 20th, 2008 by Jacob Gube – Original posting – http://sixrevisions.com/tools/useful_web_analytics_tools/

leadin-analyticsAn effective web design is one in which your users are able to find information quickly and in a logical fashion.

Do they visit the content you want them to visit? Are they looking in the right places of your web page? Are you able to keep your user’s attention, or do they just leave quickly?

It’s not just about the content either. If your design loads slowly – or if moving from one section to another takes a long time – it affects the user’s experience.

These things can be the make-or-break factors between a user clicking on a link to find more information, or the back button to find it elsewhere.

Some things to consider:

* Are important information being seen by the user?
* Are the navigation and action items intuitive?
* Is the user being directed to sections in a logical manner?
* Does the web page load quickly enough to not turn away the user?

If you’re interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout – here’s some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.

Original posting – http://sixrevisions.com/tools/useful_web_analytics_tools/

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22 Firefox Extensions to Turn Gmail into a Powerhouse of Productivity and Manageability -Reblog

April20

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Read full article – http://speckyboy.com/2009/04/13/22-firefox-extensions-to-turn-gmail-into-a-powerhouse-of-productivity-and-manageability/

Gmail is perhaps the greatest web app ever developed, it is very popular (over 100 million users), has a generous 2GB of free storage (a small percentage of users will ever use more than this), and very, very user friendly. It is certainly powerful, but is it powerful enough? With Firefox Addons you can take your inbox even further…

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Prezi Is The Coolest Online Presentation Tool I’ve Ever Seen -Reblog

April20

by Robin Wauters on April 20, 2009
Read full article – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/prezi-is-the-coolest-online-presentation-tool-ive-ever-seen/

At last week’s The Next Web Conference, I was part of the 4-headed jury that evaluated all presenting startups and ultimately decided My Name Is E should be awarded the top prize. It was an extremely close call, since we ended up having to decide between the young Dutch company and a startup that built a simply amazing web application you’re really going to want to check out. The tool I’m referring to is called Prezi, and it allows you to create amazing presentations on the web.

If you think you’ve heard that too many times, don’t stop reading just yet, because this one is just plain awesome. It’s an entirely Flash-based app that lets you break away from the slide-by-slide approach of most presentations. Instead, it allows you to create non-linear presentations where you can zoom in and out of a visual map containing words, links, images, videos, etc. This is similar to pptPlex, a Microsoft Office Labs project that aims to bring that type of functionality to PowerPoint.

It’s really no use explaining how presentations come out without seeing it for yourself, so it pains me that there’s currently no way to embed the examples that are showcased on the Prezi website. Instead, you will need to jump to examples in another tab or window, but please do it: good examples are ‘AIESEC’ and ‘Technical Investigation ICYA’.

It takes a while to get used to the way Prezi lets you create presentations, although the interface is fairly intuitive once you’ve grown accustomed to using the ‘Zebra’. There are a number of tutorial videos to assist you in creating your first Prezi presentations.

To get started, you can use the free version which brands every presentation with a Prezi logo, offers 100 MB of file storage, comes with an offline player but without the ability to make presentations private. For €39 a year, you get all that but 5x the amount of storage space and the option not to have your presentations made public. A third ‘Pro’ version costs you €119 per year but features a cool desktop application you can use to create and edit Prezi presentations offline. Besides offering paid versions of the software, Prezi also has other revenue streams, like selling DVDs and offering branding services.

Try it out and let us know how your presentations come out!
Read full article – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/prezi-is-the-coolest-online-presentation-tool-ive-ever-seen/

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A Flash designer/developer must see – Kevin Lynch’s Web 2.0 Keynote / Flash Catalyst Demo -Reblog

April16

April 3rd, 2009 by Mike Chambers
See full Article here – http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2009/04/03/kevin-lynchs-web-20-keynote-flash-catalyst-demo/

Here is Kevin Lynch’s Keynote from the Web 2.0 conference where he shows how to build a full application using Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, Flex Builder, Flex and the Facebook ActionScript 3 API.

See full Article here – http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2009/04/03/kevin-lynchs-web-20-keynote-flash-catalyst-demo/

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Sitemap – Search Engine Optimization

March24

Search Engine Optimization

Fundamentals of SEO & Rankings

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Your Host: Stephen Showalter
Mr. Showalter walks you through step by step with actual screen capture learning sequences.
Learn as Steve takes you through proven procedures that will help improve your website rankings. See how to optimize your website rankings in an easy to understand format. You will learn proper techniques for search engine optimization that can greatly improve your rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK and other search engines.
For the complete video visit www.showmehowvideos.com

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30 Useful Web Design Books for 2009 -Reblog

March23

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Read full article – http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/30-useful-web-design-books-for-2009/

To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must seek out self education sources as often as possible, such as books, or you’ll be left behind.

The year 2009 promises to bring us some excellent, and even groundbreaking, new reads. Listed below are 30 web design related books from some of the brightest designers and developers in the industry, that will likely be influential must-reads.

Certainly there can’t be any promise that these books will deliver, but it will be worth your while to check them out.

Each book has either a release date or estimated release date listed, however these dates often change due to publishing and other related issues, so please take these dates as approximations only.

Read full article – http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/30-useful-web-design-books-for-2009/

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