Weirdest internet moments of 2009 — Sydney Morning Herald
Creative and unusual layouts and navigation designs — Noupe
10 web browsers you probably haven’t heard of — Six Revisions
An introduction to website split testing — Six Revisions
The complete guide to getting the most out of Twitter — Noupe
24 UX articles to start 2010 — The UX Booth
Funny [...]
Charlie Carter is Bluewire Media’s sales coordinator. As part of his role, he’s in charge of using social media outlets (that’s our Facebook & Twitter accounts, for starters) to expand our sales & marketing outreach.
SO, CHARLIE…
You have a history in commercial & industrial real estate. What’s a nice guy like you doing in a digital [...]
Five technologies that will keep shaping the web in 2010 — Six Revisions
Best of CSS design 2009 — Web Designer Wall
Pantone Unveils Color of the Year for 2010 — myPantone
Factors that affect usability — Six Revisions
The weaker side of usability guidelines — The UX Booth
Google browser size helps keep your content above the fold — [...]
Site search trends for e-commerce websites — Vandelay Design
Negative space in logo design — Logo Design Love
Ten commandments of social media — Noupe
Twitter rated 2009 word of the year — Sydney Morning Herald
Complete beginners guide to interaction design — The UX Booth
You can’t innovate like Apple – Pragmatic Marketing
3 Steps for Effectively Using Social Media [...]
Twitter have now finished their staged roll-out of the new ‘Lists’ feature across the social media network. Let’s take a look at where Lists are capable of playing a role in your businesses social media activities.
Monitor Your Market -
With many brands and companies now openly embracing social media as a new business tool, Twitter has [...]
If designing & developing great email marketing templates wasn’t already enough of a challenge, (one we take pride in here at Bluewire Media), Microsoft has decided to use Word to render HTML in the latest version of Outlook 2010.
This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no [...]
I recently came across a terrific example of social media usage in business from a Slideshare presentation by Jonathan Crossfield of the Australian web hosting and domain company, NetRegistry.
One case study particularly stood out which involved an interaction @NetRegistry had had with a fellow Twitter user.
How would you rate this example as a first impression [...]
Here’s a video I’ve seen played a few times lately which to be honest gives me goosebumps.
Just to get you started, here are some mind blowing facts from first 30 seconds:
By 2010, Gen Ys will outnumber Baby Boomers
96% will be on a social network
Social media has taken over porn as the #1 activity on [...]
To RT or not to RT, that is the question.
RT (for those unfamiliar with the abbreviation) stands for retweet and if you’ve ever come across anything interesting, funny or simply worth sharing to your followers you may have ‘retweeted a tweet’ at some point.
A retweet in basic terms is to repeat/cite a message (a tweet) [...]
Here’s a bit of self-indulgent fun for a Tuesday afternoon.
Yahoo! has recently launched this neat little microsite called Know Your Mojo which decodes your Twitter profile and spits out a social ‘mojo’ calculation based on your Tweet history (or “Twi-Chi” as they call it).
It’s been designed to promote their new yahoo.com landing page so [...]
