9 Real-Life Rules For Creating Shareable Content If social media is a cocktail party, then all the great gossip, funny stories and interesting tidbits you hear at that party are the kinds of content we’re all striving to create. People share information online for the same reasons they share in real life. The good news? That makes us all experts in creating content that spreads, just by being human. All it takes to draw some inspiration, then, is a little self-reflection. Here are nine reasons people share in real life, and some tips for using those sharing impulses to create shareable online content.
Personality tests: Can they identify the real you? 6 July 2012Last updated at 02:42 ET By Lucy Ash BBC News The next time you apply for a job, you may well be asked to take a personality test - even though the companies that make the tests often discourage their use for staff selection. The business of personality is big and growing. But do the tests work? A few years back, my niece Andrea was looking for a summer job to pay her way through college. She heard the tips were good on a riverboat restaurant in Chicago, but before the interview, she had to fill out an online application including a psychometric assessment.
original paintings art for sale link to us - subscribe - about - contact us - art links - press room - login original paintings art for sale | Daily Painters Art Gallery The Daily Painters Art Gallery - www.dailypainters.com © 2014 Daily Painters Gallery. All artwork is copyrighted by the individual artists.Images may not be reproduced without the permission of the artist. The 7 Species of Social Commerce Social commerce, sometimes abbreviated as "s-ecommerce," is a term often used to describe new online retail models or marketing strategies that incorporate established social networks and/or peer-to-peer communication to drive sales. Or, as marketing consultant Heidi Cohen more succinctly defines it, it's "social media meets shopping." But several well-known social commerce sites predate the popular rise of social networks by more than half a decade. eBay, a peer-to-peer selling platform founded in 1995, is one of them. Epilogue, a 13-year-old site that allows users to post, discuss and sell their own fantasy and sci-fi art, is another. Today, social commerce denotes a wide range of shopping, recommending and selling behaviors. We've done our best to group them into seven categories, but would love your feedback to improve them in the comments section below.
A Brief History of Children's Picturebooks and the Art of Visual Storytelling by Maria Popova From cave paintings to Maurice Sendak, or what modern ebooks can learn from mid-century design icons. Back in the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci made the following remark about visual storytelling: French feminism is back – with beards For many, the words "French" and "feminism" sound like a hilarious oxymoron. But on 23 May, a few days after Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest in New York, thousands of women gathered in Paris to protest against the sexism expressed by (mostly male) politicians and men of influence in the French media. Women of all ages gathered, overcoming the differences that often opposed generations in the French feminist movement. The scale of the rally was a reflection not only of how big the DSK scandal was but of the force with which French feminism has, over the past few years, risen from the ashes. La Barbe ("The Beard" – which also means "enough!" or "boring!"
List of 120+ websites for artists to build online presence « Moshe Mikanovsky Art List of 120+ websites for artists to build online presence [Updated April 20, 2010] I finally renamed the list to say 120+ instead of 66+. Also added few new sites that was waiting for sometime to be added. Next to each new site is a “New” symbol. Become a Content Curation King Sean Carton | August 29, 2011 | 18 Comments inShare79 Nine ways to make curation work for your brand. "Curation" is a buzzword (even if it isn't technically a word…unless you count the 14th century French definition meaning "to cure") that's smokin' up the interwebs these days. Launching into the blogosphere virtually from nowhere in 2009, it's now one of those terms that's essential to any digital marketer on the cutting edge (or for anyone who wants to sound like one). Curation has now come to mean the act of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a coherent way, organized around a specific topic(s).
Edison’s Cradle? A Kinetic Toy Reinvented with Light As part of his senior thesis exhibition at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, art student Yasutoki Kariya re-imagined the ubiquitous desktop gadget, Newton’s Cradle, using a lovely sequence of light bulbs. Entitled Asobi (which translates roughly as “playing“) the 11-bulb installation creates a visual interpretation of the popular toy named after Sir Isaac Newton demonstrating his third law of motion regarding momentum: that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. However, instead of actual energy created by the kinetic force of steel balls, Kariya devised a method for using programmed light and two surreptitiously placed pistons to create this purely visual experience that’s arguably more mesmerizing than the original concept. As an added super bonus, the team over at the Experiments in Motion blog created the animation above which easily contends for one of the most beautiful animated gifs I’ve ever seen, already racking up over 167,000 shares on Tumblr this weekend.
About There's a whole magazine about painting created every day on the web. Edited by artist Brett Baker, Painters' Table is a daily online magazine for artists, curators, collectors, and art goers specifically interested in painting. Featuring original reviews, artist interviews, and commentary, Painters' Table also highlights online writing about painting from around the web as it is published. Providing an archive of summaries and links to nearly 2500 articles, reviews, and artist interviews, Painters' Table serves as a platform for exploring blogs that focus primarily on the subject of painting. We haven't found every painting blog out there - far from it.
Incorporating Personal Learning Networks into Course Projects Last semester I introduced a brand new project into my social media class which I’ve been meaning to report on for a while now. I decided to set 25% of the final grade aside for an assignment the students were allowed to design themselves (the project is described in detail here). The idea was to help students develop independent learning skills by teaching them how to use social media tools to create a personal learning network (PLN) capable of supporting their project goals. Students were able to tailor the assignment to their own learning needs by:
A step-by-step guide to curate your company's news There's plenty of evidence that business is adopting content curation, but the practice hasn't been around long enough for organizations to innovate more targeted, results-focused uses. Business takes many of its lessons from how everyone else makes use of social tools. To start applying content curation, communicators need to pay attention to how others are using the crop of curation tools that have found acceptance online. There are dozens of free tools, but Storify is the one that has demonstrated one of curation's emerging strengths: Curating news that the media isn't covering can lead to media coverage.