This is such a sweet, simple story created for a project called Red Blooded by Coudal Partners. The line between “content” and “advertising” is smudged at this point and I feel this line will only become more blurry. Enjoy.
Field Notes: Red Blooded from Coudal Partners on Vimeo.
I could use about a million of these gizmos, so it was the first thing I thought this might be when I spied it in one of my favorite design blogs- Design Happens’ weekly quiz: What the ….? I guess it is the organizer in me that loves order on my desktops.
This year PodCamp WesternMass will be held on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at The Kittredge Center at Holyoke Community College. I’ve been attending PodCamps since 2007 and always find these ‘un-conferences’ to be informative, beneficial and fun.
Here’s a little video I put together to promote PodCamp WesternMass 2012:
I assisted a client to create a customized FaceBook image for her business page. Val Nelson is a career and business coach who makes it easy for her clients to find clarity and confidence so they can follow their hearts…and make a living.
Customizing your FaceBook page visually: attracts the readers’ eyes to your page,
it helps the reader relate to you on a personal level, and it should assist with boosting the Google search engine optimization for Val’s overall online presence.
Of course, having a beautiful image to work with really helps. I was able to use the color element to work into the customized treatment of Val’s FaceBook page and further support her overall branding design.
What do you think of Val’s new FaceBook page? I would love to hear your comments.
There are times in an instructional designer’s life when the game changes and Apple has just changed the game-again. This time it is with their iBook Author. Those who are considering an elearning situation, should consider using this new tool. The ability to interact with the content built in iBooks is amazing for all types of learners. Integrating audio and video right into the iBook allows the learners to integrate with the content.
Anyone who needs a workbook, textbook, manual. job aid, even a magazine, or newsletter should consider this type of learning aid. I will be getting mine soon.
This amazing new [FREE] app iBook Author allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.
This application has the ability to drag and drop text, images, graphics, video, movies and more into the template. Apple’s Widgets add Multi-Touch magic to books with interactive photo galleries that bring images to life, engrossing 3D objects you can’t help interacting with, animations that burst off the page, and more.
Another beautiful thing about iBooks Author, it lets you create books that people with disabilities can read and experience. The table of contents, glossary, widgets, main text, and more are built to automatically take advantage of VoiceOver technology. Add accessibility descriptions to any widget or media — including movies and quizzes — so even those with vision impairments can use them.
And you can publish it to the iBookstore or iTunes U or share it with anyone with an iPad.
I just finished getting my website into a mobile format, so it is can be easily read with smartphones and/or tablet devices. Now, information about my design work is easy to find while on the go.
I have created: easy tap buttons for calling or navigating, accordion menus that expand to reveal more in depth information, videos are available, and I have my free gift ready for folks to download.
If you need your website to be mobile, look me up [on your phone] and give me a call. I can design and create a mobile website for you and your business.
The mobile phone market is growing and you should be growing your business along with that expanding market. According to the 60 Second Marketer, there are 6.8 billion people on the planet, 4 billions of whom own a mobile phone. Do you know how many people own toothbrushes? 3.5 billion. That’s right, more people own a mobile phone than own toothbrushes.
People are using their mobile devices to: locate, learn, communicate, shop, and they respond. It is predicted that by 2013 the primary way people will access the Internet will be via their mobile browsers.
