I often write about how amazing my twitter followers are, but I can never say it enough. This time @beachpig came to my rescue when determining today’s writing topic. His recommendation: “How to come on strong when you don’t think you have it in you!”. These 7 tips are motivation, ideas and goals that you must have in mind to become a stronger and more...
Have you ever tried to explain twitter to your real life friends and received a blank stare? Most of us have, and most of us wish we had a way to explain it more efficiently, and share our twitter life with our real life friends. Mark Davidson gave a great way to explain Twitter to me yesterday while at the OC Tweetup: Twitter is like standing...
I love color. I love creating unique color schemes. And I love finding them in random places. I often use adboe’s Kuler when I am stuck on a scheme for a design, but I get bored with it fairly easily. A lot of times, I wish I could take a picture and just pull some true colors out of it…now I can! Using stumbleupon and...
There are hundreds of great graphic design posts – and endless lists of tips and tricks. But, most of those lists are for graphic designers that design for a living, or for people who need advanced tips and ideas. I have found that while helpful, we often forget some of the basic design rules that everyone should know. Regardless if you design for pay or...
I am a member of the #hashtagmafia, if you aren’t a member of the family, and want to learn more, you can read about us. Anyway, one of the members, @magicbartender, icon caught my eye. I clicked on her link on her profile (*reason 1 of why you should have a link in your profile, but that’s another post) and was taken to her artwork....
Thanks to a great post by @hughbriss I found the new twitter counter. It was one of the easiest codes to alter (and even gives visualization as you create yours). You don’t need and CSS/HTML experience and all you need to do is copy and paste the completed code into your sidebar! I have always wondered which tweeple come to visit me, and now I...
I know that everyone has a different reason for reading my blog, or for writing their own. But, after spending the last 6 months working on this one, I have figured out that there is one main point that I have to think about: Am I creative for me or my readers? The answer is, and must be, both! I *try* to write everyday for those...
Just a quick message to my subscribers: I finally switched my feedburner account over to Google (darn them for making this change…I loved that feed wasn’t part of Google!) Anyway, there have been problems in the past with the change over, so I wanted to make sure that everyone who was subscribed to me, didn’t lose their feeds. Please double check that you have the right...
So facebook owns my data. What’s the big deal?I have to say I was a bit surprised by the response to Facebook’s new policy (just search twitter for #tosfb to see what I mean). In an article by Stan Schroeder, he talks about his opinion on the new policy. Yes, I can understand his frustration as they basically own your data now, and did it...
8 hours of Photoshop, graphic design and images = difficulty getting my mind focused on writing. The designs that I created today were great (if i do say so myself…) but I was having a lot of trouble pulling myself a way to write. And even when I did, the most writing I could do was on twitter (and even there was hit or miss). After...
