I’ve been playing with the Polarize camera app on my iPhone over summer and have been having a lot of fun with it. It’s a free camera app and does one thing really well: it gives photos that soft, saturated look from days past. You can apply the effect to photos you’ve already taken or you can take the photo directly via the app. You can also ‘tag’ the photo (ie put a caption on it in texta). Check out the Flickr group for examples. One thing to note is that while the photos look good Polarize really drops the image resolution so you may not be able to print them big.
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Hi, you – my future SEO soulmate.
We may not know each other yet but professional life together could be a wonderful thing.
You see, I’m looking for a mastermind SEO brain for McCann Sydney (yes, I know the website isn’t built for search – yet) and I’ve been scouring LinkedIn, Twitter lists and contacting friends to find you. But I thought it was time to get a little public about it.
You probably want to know a few things before you decide if you can ‘complete me’. So, here you go…
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Originally made for the Australian design community at Australian INFront.
Your right brain is a wonderful thing.
Largely misunderstood, it makes conceptual, visual and word connections that people who don’t do what you do for a living often can’t make. And, because of that, it earns you a living.
Thing is, your clients are probably extreme left-brain types. The rational, processes, systems and structure matter to them. And while they admire and understand the value of your right brain, the truth is that it also probably scares them a little.
The chasm between the right and left can often play out in frustrating ways: the right-brained gets frustrated because the left-brained ‘doesn’t get ideas’; the right-brained complains that the left-brained ‘doesn’t understand my business’.
If you’re stuck in this chasm with a client now, try the below.
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This post won’t be for everyone but I feel compelled to write it anyway… mainly because I couldn’t find anything to read when I needed it.
I’m hoping to write one more thing this year so I promise to end up-beat!
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Below is a presentation I put together recently for the Exhibition and Event Association of Australasia industry day. It covers a bit of personal philosophy about what social media is and the ’secret’ behind it, a re-cap of some recent research that looks into the correlation between social commitment and financial performance plus some steps to making it happen.
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