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Well, it’s Christmas time again, and I’m away from home. I made my tree and all, but it’s not quite the same. There’s much lacking: the family, the laughter, the noise and the bustle. The insane quantities of food, the songs, the little quarrels and the cats to confuse the situation completely. Mind you, my parents now have a parrot and a dog as well, so it must be quite entertaining being there at this time of the year.

However, it’s still Christmas to me, still my favourite time of the year. So I just hope you will all have a lovely time, together with the people you love; and enjoy the fuzzy feeling and the satisfaction of having an excuse to eat too much.

I am so very grateful for all your comments, and readership, and support this year, and I look forward to doing it all over again in 2009.

Merry Christmas!

Ema

Since I have uploaded the Follow me on Twitter badges one question I get a lot is “How do I put them on my site/blog?”.

So, this is a brief guide to using the Twitter badges – both for using a single badge or rotating a selection of badges. I hope it will make things a bit easier for tweeps out there.
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I haven’t posted for a while folks – sorry for that, I think I just needed a bit of a break. But now we’re back on track! So here we go, the first of a series of free Christmas Cards, in vector format and ready for print.
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Just noticed this late today – it wasn’t there in the morning. A new tab above my Google Analytics Dashboard – Advanced Segments, new Beta feature. Well, well, well; isn’t this interesting! So what does it look like?
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Do forgive me this brief rant, I just came out of yet another meeting I tried to explain blogging and mcroblogging to corporate types. Exhausting.

For some reason, it seems very difficult for the corporate world to relate to social media. It’s a little like trying to convert a B2B marketer to B2C: whatever they do, they can’t seem to be able to kick the habit of thinking in corporate lingo.

Talking to consumers, to individuals, requires a very different language, a very different tone of voice. Making your message heard in the social media world requires a very similar one, more personal, more genuine. Devoid of ‘framework’ thinking and buzzwords and more genuine. A language which allows the person writing the piece to show through.

The same challenge seems to apply to any effort of converting corporate people to take up Twitter. And I would know, I used to be one of the said corporate crowd. Most of my friends still are.

I think I’ll write a Beginner’s Guide to Twitter one of these days. In an attempt to marry up the two very different worlds. I’ll have to include a few frameworks in there, for the MBA-qualified mob, and a few 140 character pieces of wisdom.

But until I do, I thought I would list a few good resources to get anyone started with writing for social media:

• 5 “New” Social Media Copywriting Rules for Dynamic Social Media Marketing by Nicky Jameson
• Writing for the Social Media Everyman by Copyblogger
• How to Write for the New Media by thepuckwrites.com

And stay tuned for that Twitter Guide, should have something in about a week’s time.

This was my boss’ idea – and what a great idea it was: if you are growing a Mo, don’t waste your time explaining over and over again why you look like a character from Miami Vice! Hand out your Mo Bro business card and get people to sponsor your Mo.

The file is a print-quality, 89 x 53mm size (plus 1mm bleed), CMYK pdf. It follows the current look of the movember.com websites and features the official Movember logo.
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Finally got the time to do these – just some RSS icons in a few different colours and sizes. You can just right-click and save image to your computer. Alternatively there is a link to a zip archive containing all the icons at the bottom of the page.

All the images are transparent png files – they can be used on any background. They do not include a stroke, as you may want to specify one that fits your website in your css file.

As usual, digs would be much appreciated.

Squares

Size: 27px by 27px.

Reflections

Size: 30px by 60px.

Rectangular

Size: 81px by 19px.

Round

Size: 44px by 44px.

Rounded corners

Size: 42px by 42px.

RSS Icon Collection Archive

If saving them one by one doesn’t strike your fancy, you can download all the one hundred rss icons collection here:

If you download, please digg! Just click the button below.

I was searching for a font for a design the other day, and I ended up doing the inevitable: browsing aimlessly through all the fonts on DaFont.com. I came across quite a few cool ones, but I picked 10 new fonts I thought could be quite useful in graphic design.
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