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Various links

mr-mojo-risin — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:19:29 +0000

Web 2.0 Badge Creator
Collection of web 2.0 badges text and video tutorials, plus a neat Web 2.0 graphic generator
Huge list of sites offering Photoshop Rescources and Tutorials
Univers revolved: a 3-D font
“The revolved letters create a new alphabet that recaptures the element of experimentation the Latin alphabet held in its early days. Encountering it for the first time, we re-experience the excitement of learning to form words from letters as children.”
Retro Arcade Museum In Upstate New York
If you can’t get to NYC here’s the blog version: the Retro Thing
fractalsponge.net: 3-D space ship art
This site is seriously cool as it shows highly detailed 3-D views of Star Destroyers, T.I.E. Fighters and a All-Terrain Shock Enforcer (AT-SE) i.e. They alsoprovide download links to the 3ds, maya, max6, lw.8x project files.
Building your own tiny URL with wordpress
CSS Cheat Sheet
The basics. One one view.
Star Wars Fine Art prints
Igarashi Design: Futuristic studies
Radical and freaky studies of a helicopter, motorcycle and high speed snow mobile
Cardboard Endoskeleton T-800
Blogger made a T-800 papercraft from the Teminator films in the scale 1:2, which looks really awesome. Behold of the Judgement Day!

Social marketing ebooks (free download)

mr-mojo-risin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:11:54 +0000

Looking for informations, advices, strategies or hints guiding you on your paths through the social media djungle?
Here you’ll find a composition of free ebooks that might be helpful on your efforts to successfully use social marketing mechanisms for building a brand, attract traffic or gain significance on a certain topic.

So these Links will keep you busy for a while…

Instructions and sum ups

The Art of Listening and Engagement Through Social Media
Brian Solis about new tools and philosophies, how to effectively listen and engage with customers and in turn, cultivate a more significant community, enhance your brand and build relationships.

Social Media and Social Networking Starting Points
Social Media expert Chris Brogan gives you starting points how to inroduce your organization into social media and social networking

What is Social Media?
“a short, sweet summary of the phenomenon called social media”

The Essential Guide to Social Media
A sum up of some essential guidelines, written by Brian Solis

The Art and Science of Social Media and Community Relations
Interesting example of a company entering the realm of social media communities

Social Media Marketing Kit
Tips and tricks for the survival in the social mediasphere, plus a video Webinar

The Zen of Blogging
Really amusing story about a guys efforts to dive into the higher spheres of blogging – with a slight wink of an eye

Learning Web 2.0
Examples of ways in which associations are using new web 2.0 technologies and what possibilities they
may represent for your organization’s professional development

A Primer in Social Media
Advices for approaching social media with their new paradigms and, rules and philosophies

Studies

Blogs & Social Media
This article reports on a three-year-long international survey of public relations
practitioners examining the impact blogs and other social media are having on public
relations practice.

Social Web Analytics
This ebook gives a brief overview of the characteristics of the Social
Web, also known as Social Media.

Research-Based Webdesign & Usabilty Guidelines

Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media
Attempt to propose a new way of calculating an individuals online influence beyond the “traditional” method of analysing a blog’s inbound links to incorporate other social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook.

Search engine optimization (SEO)

SEO for WordPress blogs
How to use WordPress to ensure success for your weblog in the Organic Search Engine Results.

Google Adwords Secrets
Tips for keyword research, choosing a domain name, placing keywords, link building, effectively using SEO tools

We Have a Website. Now What?
This ebook provides straightforward advice for entrepreneurs new to search engine optimization.

Marketing

Get Viral Get Visitors
Trying to give and understanding of what viral marketing is about and how methods of successful campaigns can be adopted

The New Rules of Viral Marketing
Whatever you call it—viral, buzz, word-of-mouse, or word-of-blog marketing—having other people tell your story drives action. An example how it’s done…

Marketing With Case Studies
How to Sell Your Products or Services Using Story-Telling Techniques

Twitter for Business
A compact and dense round up how to use twitter.com to promote your company successfully

Geeks Guide to Promoting Yourself With Twitter
If you use the site properly you can build up another stream of traffic to your website or blog, not to mention developing a brand for yourself as well.

New_Rules_Of_Business_Blogs
How business owners and managers should act in blogosphere if they want to explore this new communication channel.

Masters of Marketing
Cleaning up some hypes and myths of internet marketing and giveing ideas for using social media mechanisms

Podcast Marketing eBook
This guide is intended only to give you a broad overview of some of the basics of podcast marketing.

Effective Internet Presence
How to build up a significant and productive internet identity

How to Write a Marketing Plan
A marketing plan guides a company step-by-step how to market its product or service to a specific target market and it helps a company remain focused on its marketing objectives.

Free-to-use Social Media Icon set

mr-mojo-risin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:13:02 +0000

I searched for free to use web 2.0 icons of social media sites, but I did not find anything nice except some stock icons.

So I’ve made my own ones and I like to share them with you!

Feel free to use, modify and integrate them on your blog or website.
There is no need to link back, if you’d like to do so anyway, it is appreciated.

UPDATE:

I made a new icon set, you can download it here.

Here’s the download for all icons and logos and the .psd containing templates for 256×256 pixel buttons:

social-media-icons

Free Social Media Icons (PSD)

Have fun folks!

New Year, new Layout!

mr-mojo-risin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:21:18 +0000

Back from a long winter nap, in the new year I decided to do some clean up, upgraded that wordpress thingy and got a new face for this blog.
The basic layout was taken from Derek Punsalan from 5thirtyone.com, called “Grid Focus“, just had to edit some graphics and add some SEO stuff like tag display. The categories in the posts are still missing, I’ll add them later. Besides that, it’s a really nice, clean and tidy layout, which is easy and comfortable to modify.

Hope you like it.

Win Ad Space on 10 Blogs!

mr-mojo-risin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:41:48 +0000

Here is an interesting opportunity to get your advertisement displayed on ten differents blogs for free:The AdSpace Contest

The idea is simple: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) before October 15th. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! Shortly after the 15th, they’ll announce the winner.

The prize?

A 125×125 pixel ad spot (above the fold) on at least TEN DIFFERENT BLOGS that will run for one month. That’s at least a $100 value! Last month’s prize grew to be ad spots on 45 blogs!

Who else is co-hosting?

How do you enter to win?

1 Entry – Subscribe to any one of the blogs above via email (if you subscribed last month, you’re already entered again!).
5 Entries – Twitter about the contest with a link to one of the hosts’ contest posts (new!)
10 Entries – Write a post about the contest (must include links to all 10 hosts OR use our suggested text)
25 Entries – Offer up an ad spot on your own blog for one month as part of the prize package (links will be listed above)

Simply put, you could subscribe to all 10 blogs, write a post, twitter about it and offer up your own ad spot for a grand total of 50 entries! Fill out the form on any of the host blogs to report your entries.

Contest ends October 15th. Good Luck!