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10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journ. In the ever-evolving world of social media, public relations professionals (PR) and journalists have more opportunities than ever to build strong relationships. It serves each of us well to stay up on social media trends—learning faster, easier ways to share information. With that, here are 10 of the best social media tools for PR professionals and journalists: Help a Report Out (HARO) Help a Reporter Out (HARO) - As a PR professional, this is by far my favorite tool. The brainchild of Peter Shankman, this is the only free resource I am aware of where reporters submit queries directly to PR professionals – no strings attached.

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Inbox - Outlook Web App, light version. Science fiction cityscapes. Business Ethics. First published Wed Apr 16, 2008 In concept, business ethics is the applied ethics discipline that addresses the moral features of commercial activity.

Business Ethics

In practice, however, a dizzying array of projects is pursued under its rubric. Programs of legal compliance, empirical studies into the moral beliefs and attitudes of business people, a panoply of best-practices claims (in the name of their moral merit or their contribution to business success), arguments for (or against) mandatory worker participation in management, and attempts at applying traditional ethical theories, theories of justice, or theories of the state to firms or to the functional areas of business are all advanced as contributions to business ethics—even and especially in its academic literature. These projects vary considerably and often seem to have little in common other than the conviction, held by those who pursue them, that whatever each is pursuing is business ethics. 1. 2. 2.1 Is the corporation a moral agent?

KONY CASE STUDY. Three pearltrees and a tip #42 - Outlook Web App, light version. Mozilla Firefox Start Page. Greene, Michael - Outlook Web App. School of Arts &Sciences - University of Pennsylvania. Google. What Rotten Tomatoes data tell us about the best, worst, and most bizarre Hollywood trajectories. - By Christopher Beam and Jeremy Singer-Vine. Microsoft Outlook Web Access. Frequency Of Use Visualized Keyboard: Pics, Videos, Links, News.

10 Photography Quotes that You Should Know. Visual Thinking & The Writing Process. Make Fake Movie Posters. The most extraordinary movie fan art - Film Salon. How to make the perfect movie montage - Film Salon. 5 Steps Explore Social Media Using Visual Thinking. Passion, Participation and Digital Projects.

Information Searching Using Visualizations - IL 2008. 2010 New and Cool Tools. Films - In Defense of Slow and Boring. How to make the perfect movie montage - Friday Night Seitz. 10 Disturbing Photos Of Masked Monkeys: Pics, Videos, Links, News. Coal Mining Meets Reality TV. Scott McDermott for Spike TVA few of the miners from Cobalt Coal who are featured in Spike’s new series “Coal.”

Coal Mining Meets Reality TV

There are two classic American folktales about coal. The first tells of greedy rednecks who blow virgin mountains to smithereens. Instagram Rises as Social Web Embraces Photo Sharing. Photographs posted to Instagram by these users, clockwise from top left: alligatorgar, imoments, thatoneguyyoulike, zoelcholid, sourcruncher, tsana, reynhornwood and funky_shin.

Instagram Rises as Social Web Embraces Photo Sharing

Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Mike Krieger, left, and Kevin Systrom, the founders of the photo-sharing service Instagram, at their office in San Francisco. The rising star of these is Instagram, a start-up in San Francisco with just four employees. In eight months, the company has attracted close to five million users to its -only service — no doubt earning the envy of its more established rivals. And Instagram is steadily growing, adding about a million users a month. The app emphasizes simplicity. As on Twitter, users can follow others to see what they are posting. Those who study the way people socialize online say cellphone photos are becoming an integral part of sharing and communicating. The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time. Amazing Examples Of Text Art. Missing or Broken Files When you get a 404 error be sure to check the URL that you are attempting to use in your browser.This tells the server what resource it should attempt to request.

Amazing Examples Of Text Art

In this example the file must be in public_html/example/Example/ Notice that the CaSe is important in this example. On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity example and Example are not the same locations. For addon domains, the file must be in public_html/addondomain.com/example/Example/ and the names are case-sensitive. Broken Image When you have a missing image on your site you may see a box on your page with with a red X where the image is missing. This varies by browser, if you do not see a box on your page with a red X try right clicking on the page, then select View Page Info, and goto the Media Tab. In this example the image file must be in public_html/images/ 57 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed. Hello and how are you from Disney World!

57 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

With most of the Mashable staff in Orlando for Mashable Connect, we've had our hands full. However, that hasn't stopped us from turning out another week of digital media tools and resources. Have a look through this megalist for stories on YouTube alternatives, crowdsourcing and global communities, connected TVs and how social media has changed marketing campaigns.

Looking for even more social media resources? This guide appears every weekend, and you can check out all the lists-gone-by here any time. Editors' Picks Celebrities on Twitter: 30 Famous First TweetsFrom Bieber to O'Brien to Obama, we look back at famous figures' first tweets.Why Online Communities Are Redefining the Concept of LocalWhen we talk about community, we talk about places and spaces. 7 Free Typography Ebooks. We would all agree that content is the most important aspect of any website.

7 Free Typography Ebooks

And in most cases content is made up of type. So, as a web designer, it makes sense to have a strong understanding of typography. With that in mind, we rounded up some free ebooks that should help you strengthen your typography skills. Meet Your Type. 35 Great Social Media Infographics. 35 Great Social Media Infographics [Note: I recently updated this compilation to include some more recent visualizations... you can see it here.]

35 Great Social Media Infographics

The 100 Best Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear: Pics, Videos, Links, News. Selection of Animals - Adrik Schmid. 2011 Smoke - Kenneth Ernsbarger. Visual arts. The current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied, decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case.

Visual arts

Before the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' was often restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms.[4] Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of the arts. The increasing tendency to privilege painting, and to a lesser degree sculpture, above other arts has been a feature of Western art as well as East Asian art.

Education and training[edit] Training in the visual arts has generally been through variations of the apprentice and workshop system. Early Visual Media. Celebrating Linotype, 125 Years Since Its Debut - John Hendel - Technology. Around for a century, Linotype machines were made obsolete in the 1970s by changing technologies -- but they have not been forgotten To embark on Linotype was to embark on greatness.

Celebrating Linotype, 125 Years Since Its Debut - John Hendel - Technology

Linotype machines powered newspapers, factories, a whole industry that was as American as any and existed for a century, at least until the tides of technology wiped it out as an occupation in the 1960s and 1970s -- and now, Linotype is nearly extinguished from American memory. Yet Thomas Edison, it's said, called the machine the Eighth Wonder of the World (no faint praise from the man who invented the light bulb). Coal Mining Meets Reality TV. The 24-Hour Movie and Digital Technology. Sci-fi 'gothic' architecture brought to life. Swiss architect has built fantastical form using "subdivision algorithm"Column is composed of 16 million faces generated by computerComputational architecture increasingly key to architectural practice London, England (CNN) -- It looks like an architectural fantasy from a world far in the future, but Michael Hansmeyer's complex column design is so real you can touch it.

Sci-fi 'gothic' architecture brought to life

His work is composed of sixteen million faces and made from 2,700 layers of cardboard. It is the result of a cutting-edge computational process and people's responses to it are just as improbable. "Some people say it looks like a reptile, some people think it looks like an underwater creature and other people bring up the Gothic," said Hansmeyer, an architect and computer scientist based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The 3D Type Book: A One-of-a-Kind Typographic Treasure - Maria Popova - Life. The most comprehensive book of three-dimensional letterforms ever helps us understand the expressive power of objects After months of anticipation, The 3D Type Book by London-based design studio FL@33 is finally here.

Dubbed "the most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written," the book is nothing short of stellar: With more than 1,300 images by over 160 emerging artists and iconic designers alike, it spans an incredible spectrum of eras, styles, and mediums. From icons like Milton Glaser and Alvin Lustig to contemporary Brain Pickings favorites like Stefan Sagmeister, Marian Bantjes, Ji Lee, Stefan G.

Bucher, and Marion Bataille, it's a trove of typographic treasures. The 3D Type Book by FL@33 from Tomi Vollauschek on Vimeo. For a fine companion to The 3D Type Book, don't forget David Sacks's excellent Alphabets. This post also appears on Brain Pickings.Images: FL@33.

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