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17 Tools For Making Awesome Client Presentations

Ask five designers how they handle client design presentations and you’ll get five different answers. Some like to do their presentations in person, accompanying their designs with printouts detailing specific highlights. Others prefer utilizing an online screen sharing experience and talking their clients through their design in real time. And then there are those who simply ship off the jpgs in an email outlining the design’s main points. No matter what your method is for revealing your design, it is important to use tools and resources that can make your presentation successful. Without further ado, here’s a list of some of the best apps and tools for delivering the perfect client presentation. Calls and Screen Sharing Join.me It’s simple, easy, and free. Either join someone’s screen share or share your own. You can invite up to 250 viewers into your screen share and can even let them take control of [...]

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Posted by admin - May 20, 2012 at 8:02 pm

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Facebook’s IPO (Nasdaq: FB) Not As Exciting As It Could Have Been

Facebook (FB) priced its IPO at $ 38 per share on Thursday, at the high end of expectations. The IPO values Facebook higher than Amazon.com and other well-known companies such as Kraft, Disney and McDonald’s. After all the hype, Facebook’s first day as a public company ended where it began. Its stock closed at $ 38.23, up 23 cents, after pricing Thursday night at $ 38 per share, when many analysts had expected at least a jump of 5 to 10%. Facebook offered nearly 20% of its available stock in the IPO, so there was enough to meet demand. In comparison, Google offered just 7.2% of its stock when it went public in 2004 – and rose 18% on day one. “Facebook closed up only a few cents but likely would have fared even worse if not for underwriters’ buying every time the stock touched $ 38,” Jim Krapfel, IPO [...]

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Posted by admin - May 20, 2012 at 8:04 am

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Free Damaged Wood Textures

Wood textures are some of the most commonly used types of textures by graphic designers. You can never have too many different types of wood textures, and this set will help to add to your collection. Here you’ll get 5 free high resolution textures from damaged and worn wood. They’re great when you need a wood texture with a grungy or edgy feel. This set of textures is free for use in your own personal and/or commercial projects. No attribution is required to use the textures. Download the textures (12 MB zip file) Vandelay Design Blog

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Posted by admin - May 20, 2012 at 2:02 am

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Twitter Weekly Email Digests: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Twitter Brings Weekly Email Digest to Your Inbox: You can now “discover the best of Twitter in a weekly email digest delivered to your inbox. This summary features the most relevant tweets and stories shared by the people you’re connected to on Twitter.” "Stories feature a design similar to the recently updated Discover tab, emphasizing who shared each story beneath summaries to help you decide which ones matter most to you." Facebook Initial Public Offering Proves Social is Hot: “Facebook has priced its initial public offering at $ 38 per share, making it the third-largest IPO in U.S. history.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiuX64iHrgM Discussion from our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are [...]

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Posted by admin - May 19, 2012 at 8:03 pm

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6 Ways to Get a Tech Job Without a Tech Degree

Aaron Shapiro is CEO of Huge, a global digital agency based in Brooklyn, and author of Users Not Customers . He has spent more than a decade as a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and management consultant. Jobs in tech are stronger than ever.

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Posted by jim belosic - May 19, 2012 at 7:17 pm

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On Facebook IPO Day, Twitter Sentiment Correlated With Share Price

Twitter users who participated in a crowdsourced prediction for Facebook’s IPO day closing price collectively missed the mark, but another analysis suggests that changes in Twitter sentiment accurately predicted how Facebook’s share price turned throughout the day.

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Posted by admin - May 19, 2012 at 6:10 pm

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7 Hot Startup Tips for Raising a Killer Seed Round

Mashable’s new video series, Behind the Launch , follows Vungle on its startup journey toward a June launch.

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Posted by kristi hines - May 19, 2012 at 5:28 pm

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Why Social Learning Benefits Your Business

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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Posted by james wedmore - May 19, 2012 at 3:12 pm

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Leveraging Internal and External Social Influence [Infographic]

With 90 percent of purchases subject to social influence, it’s no surprise that savvy marketers are looking to leverage social influencers to increase sales and awareness. Influence is the single most effective and most enduring marketing asset. To help shed some light on the subject, our latest white paper, the 3 Keys to Influence: Understanding and Leveraging Social Capital gives marketers a framework for maximizing their social influence strategy by specifically, outlining steps to leverage both internal and external brand advocates. Here’s an infographic we put together to give you some key insights from the white paper.     Socialnomics

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Posted by admin - May 19, 2012 at 2:04 pm

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9 Tips for Staying Focused

Many designers and developers love their work in part because they can work from home or anywhere else that they choose. While not working in a typical office setting can be a nice perk, it also brings its own set of challenges. Possibly the most significant challenge is that there are all kinds of distractions and no one is there to help keep you focused. In this article we’ll take a quick look at 9 things you can do to stay focused and productive. 1. Work from a To-Do List Each Day One of the best ways to stay focused and on task is to have a list of specific things that you need to do each day. Without having a to-do list it is easy to get distracted or to dedicate time to things that aren’t important, but with a to-do list you’ll always know exactly what you need [...]

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Posted by admin - May 19, 2012 at 8:03 am

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