How Job Seekers Are Using Social Media for Real Results The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here. Whether you're looking for your first job, exploring a career change, or just setting yourself up for future success, social media sites have proven themselves as important platforms for facilitating connections, demonstrating passions and interests, and ultimately landing you the job you actually want. We know it's possible to land a job with social media know-how but the bigger question is how? In putting together this post we turned to those with the most knowledge on the subject matter: individuals who have secured jobs thanks to social media. Because of these personal stories we were able to identify common trends and themes contributing to their real results. Taking Risks Risks worth taking: 1. Social Savvy With a Touch of Serendipity
Design and digital culture | Netdiver Mag Articles - Six things to keep in mind when designing a logo | iS So you fancy yourself a Paul Rand or Saul Bass and want to design some logos for iStock? Great! You've come to the right place! Thought and planning are a huge part of Logo design: preparation is key. Please note: The 'good' versions of logo design seen below were each designed by some of our amazing logo contributors. It All Starts With a Great Idea Start by selecting a Business Category or something that inspires you. By clearly visualizing who your client is and with some forethought, research and planning, the end result should be an appropriate symbol that immediately identifies the company, and clearly communicates the product or service. When you have your concept, start sketching it out to quickly come up with ways you can execute the idea. Read more on how to sketch out your ideas here Reproducibility It's extremely important that Logos are created with versatility in mind. Here are some things to watch out for to keep your design from ending up on top of the reject pile:
HOW TO: Maximize Your Content's Reach on the Social Web Bill Flitter is an experienced entrepreneur and expert in online advertising. His newest venture, Dlvr.it, helps publishers easily syndicate, measure and increase the reach of their content. We have all heard that "content is king" — Sumner Redstone deemed it so, then Rupert Murdoch upped the ante, calling it "emperor." But how do we make sure content is delivered to the right places, at the right times? How can we measure the effectiveness of this content and its distribution? The model for publishers is changing due to today's social media growth and the reliance on "stream consumption." Time spent with social networking has surpassed time spent with e-mail (Nielsen).Time spent on social networks and blogging sites is growing at over three times that of the overall Internet (Nielsen).7 out of 10 Americans consume content via the “stream” or news-feed style communications (Pew Internet). Today, content producers have a lot more to keep up with if they want to stay relevant. Measure Grow
Data Tables and Cascading Style Sheets Gallery What is this about? The CSS Table Gallery is a showcase of how CSS and data tables can work together to create usable and pretty results. Every once in a while there are emails on discussion lists asking for nicely designed tables and they are prone to go off-topic and ending in a holy war why tables are bad and why you shouldn't use them. Basically the thread/email that gave me the idea was this request on the evolt list. Well, there are legitimate uses for tables, for tabular data they are the best solution, as - properly marked up - they structure the data for the visual user and make it easy to follow for blind visitors or those using user agents without table rendering. There are some good tutorials on styling tables on the web already, but a showcase site was missing, so here you go. Table and CSS tutorials May the following off-site resources give you wisdom and inspiration: Most blatantly stolen from Laura L.
Adobe InDesign Basics Class - Free Lessons for Learning Adobe In InDesign CS is Adobe page layout program. It was to be a re-write of PageMaker, Adobe's layout program which is now discontinued, but it then became a different layout program on its own. Adobe InDesign is now one of the most powerful layout programs for professional desktop publishers and graphic designers. Although written for CS2/3, many of these basic tools will work much the same in newer editions of InDesign Beginners or Basics Course This is a free Adobe InDesign class for beginners, i.e., people who do not have much experience with InDesign and want to learn how to use this program. Meet the Teacher The bulk of the individual InDesign tutorials in this course are written by Elisabetta Bruno. Two Different WorldsOne thing you may notice is that Elisabetta, uses British spellings such as colours and centre, while Jacci uses the American version of colors and center. Learn the TerminologyIn studying this course make sure you don't pass any word you do not fully understand.
SXSW09: The Future Of Social Networks Facebook Seeps Onto Other Web Sites - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.co With about half of Facebook’s 400 million users checking in daily, the social networking company has established itself as one of the Web’s most popular destinations. Now Facebook is intensifying its efforts to expand its empire beyond its Web site; the company wants to turn scores of sites across the Internet into satellites where users will be able to interact with their Facebook friends, The New York Times’s Miguel Helft writes. Details of Facebook’s plans, which involve a variation on its “Share” button, already prevalent on many sites, are expected to be introduced by Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, on Wednesday during its conference here for third-party developers. But even before Facebook makes its plans public, its aim to become a social networking force across the Web is facing competition. In the meantime, Twitter is also looking to expand its presence across the Web with its @anywhere service, which will allow people to log in to Twitter from other Web sites.