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It's good to share.

Attending conferences and working with clients on their social media strategies, gets a girl (OK, woman) thinking about the changes that social media has brought about. More and more, for me, it's that word 'share'. It used to be that if you knew something you kept it close and secret. Now, however, there is far more potential in sharing your knowledge and establishing yourself as a thought-leader. Take a peek at my daily go-tos for everything print, digital and brand.

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Social Media steps up its role in connecting professionals.

If getting a new job is often more about who you know rather than what you know, why not take advantage of your established network of Facebook friends? That’s the idea behind BranchOut, an app that builds on your existing Facebook profile and connections and extends them into a professional network. This also means you don't have to maintain two separate profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn. We’re hearing more and more about BranchOut, so it a LinkedIn killer?

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Stakeholder workshops.

So, you are about to embark on a nice, juicy web project that’s going to take your business to the next level. You’ve got the team sorted, and you know what you want to achieve, and vaguely how you might go about achieving it. Everyone involved has imparted their two cents worth to the project, making sure their goals and objectives are covered. The brief is being written, revised, re-written, tweaked, written… again. And so by now, your nice, juicy web project is turning into a bit...

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We love - Instagram.

Ah yes, the app phenomenon that's taking the world by storm. We really love Instagram. It makes even the most mundane photo so awesome. The guys at mashable.com asked the team behind it to rate their favourite images. Check a few of their favs here. It's amazing to think that these were all taken on a Smartphone.

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The wonderful world of HTML5.

The latest buzz word to hit the Internet is HTML5. It’s been thrown around quite a bit lately, and most developers have a vague idea of what it is and what it actually means to the end user. There are a number of interesting technologies at work here; HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript APIs. We’ll take a look at some of these new features, and how they can be used to enhance your website.

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We love - stop. motion. videos.

If you like guacamole, stop motion video, or just random cool creativity, then check out this vid that we stumbled across.

From the director who goes by the name PES, he transforms familiar objects into a tasty little guacamole treat. The animation is brilliant, but it's the sound effects that really make this come to life. Enjoy!

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istrategy and schmart marketing conference round-up.

I recently attended iStrategy, a global digital media conference, held in North America, the UK and Australia. It's billed as an inspirational, 2 day digital media conference for senior executives who believe that the success of their business requires a sound digital strategy. I also attended the Schmart Marketing Conference, which is aimed at business and marketing professionals who want to challenge the way they approach business. It tackles the art of strategy, creative, social...

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we love - little things.

Good things come in small packages don't you know. And it doesn't come much smaller than the Little Printer. We saw this the other day and it's so cool. It's little enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and can be programmed to print news updates once or twice a day from your preferred news publications, social networks and data-collecting apps. Updates appear in the form of paper strips about the width of an iPhone and up to 10 inches long. Due for release sometime in 2012, we c...

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Google Plussification - get plus happy.

Google are taking the word of mouth style recommendation influence on search results one step further by recently announcing their Search, plus Your World movement. It’s all about delivering personalised search results to you based on your Google+ world and it has big implications for your content strategy. Australia doesn’t see it all just yet but Google plan to launch it internationally and anyone who publishes content on the web should be prepared.

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Responsive web design for mobile, tablet, desktop... and beyond?

We’ve been looking into best ways to approach mobile site design, as well as integrating it with established desktop design and content for some time now. As part of that quest I’ve just read a book called Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte. This book suggests that websites could be independent of a ‘canvas size’ and should flow and adapt to whatever device it is viewed on while maintaining a high level visual and functional experience.

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Responsive web design for mobile, tablet, desktop... and beyond?

interesting bits and bobs about design, web and social media - the useful, the useless and everything in between.