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Some great SEO tactics from SEOmoz

Posted on October 5, 2010 by david

Rand Fishkin over at SEOmoz.org has some great SEO tactics, with an emphasis on reputation management, that any brand or individual should follow when developing their social SEO strategy .

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Mike Lemanski

Posted on October 5, 2010 by designbeckons

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We’ve been hearing from people in the magazine world about their increasing need for a digital business and marketing strategy which often – in the end - outweighs the print side of things in terms of workload and maintenance.

As it’s London Fashion Week, we decided to have a chat to one of the bloggers at the forefront covering this event, Amelia Gregory – creator of Amelia’s Magazine - about the changes she and her business have undergone since the launch of Amelia’s Magazine to the making of www.ameliasmagazine.com.

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Jose Pulido

Posted on September 10, 2010 by emli

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WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger…

Posted on September 5, 2010 by designbeckons

“Yes, multi-columns look classy-classic but so do heavy black rotary telephones. In practice, multi column article pages are as useful as heavy dial disc cellphones. At half of the size and half of the resolution of a printed page, that is, at one quarter of the granularity of a printed page you have to change your game. Columns for iPad article pages don’t work”

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5MB – 1956

Posted on August 25, 2010 by nina

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The Printspace Weather Photography Competition

Posted on August 16, 2010 by designbeckons

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The New York Times Skimmer

Posted on August 13, 2010 by designbeckons

The New York Times have launched a new way to read its articles online.

The New York Times Skimmer readers can choose from seven different layouts, of which most are based on a grid-based design or ranked according to the recommendations of the New York Times’ editorial team.

We are big fans already and look forward to seeing other publications follow suit…

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The frontpage structure of corporate blogs

Posted on August 9, 2010 by designbeckons

“On corporate blogs, summaries are usually superior to full articles because they let you expose users to a broad selection of topics. Offering more topics increases the likelihood that users will find something that really interests them and thus will click through to read more. (As opposed to leaving.)”

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Photography trends: Hipstamatic

Posted on August 6, 2010 by emli

Everyone has a camera and most of us know how to use it. Photography is no longer exclusive to those who’ve invested time and money; photography belongs to everyone and is used, applied and appreciated in a multitude of formats. We’ve looked at some of the trends in mainstream photography this year so far…

On the digital front, we’ve witnessed the growth of apps such as Hipstamatic for the iPhone and Vignette for Android, which have infiltrated social networks and image sharing sites alike. On the analogue side, we’ve seen the rise of the Impossible Project, Lomography and the return of Polaroid.

We asked two photographers to discuss the popular app, Hipstamatic:

Christa Holka

who works mainly within the digital medium and is thrilled by the prospects and developments in technology.

Rhiannon Adam

who shoots almost exclusively on expired Polaroid and is interested in the pure and uncompromising images created with instant film.

The two talked it out over the course of 48 hours on Google Wave. We’ve had a go at editing their conversation to present to you a condensed version of their heated debate in which no one really managed to convince the other and the conversation went from phone apps and technology to art, education and vinyl but where Christa argues for the use of Hipstamatic and digital imagery as another valid form of expression and art, and where Rhiannon defends the original methodologies and the use of film that is threatened by extinction due to the prevalence of digital…

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Rand Fishkin over at SEOmoz.org has some great SEO tactics, with an emphasis on reputation management, that any brand or individual should follow when developing their social SEO strategy .

We’ve been hearing from people in the magazine world about their increasing need for a digital business and marketing strategy which often – in the end - outweighs the print side of things in terms of workload and maintenance.

The New York Times have launched a new way to read its articles online.

The New York Times Skimmer readers can choose from seven different layouts, of which most are based on a grid-based design or ranked according to the recommendations of the New York Times’ editorial team. We are big fans already and look forward to seeing other publications follow suit…

Christa Holka

Rhiannon Adam

The New York Times Skimmer readers can choose from seven different layouts, of which most are based on a grid-based design or ranked according to the recommendations of the New York Times’ editorial team.

We are big fans already and look forward to seeing other publications follow suit…