Take just publishing your logo on different social media profiles for example. Consistent branding across your website, print, video, website, and social media accounts is essential in a modern world where consumers are hit with countless advertisements in a single day. It becomes even more difficult when each of those medium’s creative require different sizes, color, software, time, and expertise to produce. You have to design different creative at a wide variety of sizes for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, and Google+. MORE >>

Again, not necessarily something that was inconceivable in the 50s, but something that is hitting us now with the likes of Avatar, or the massive leaps in videogame cinematics over the last 10-20 years. Blogging Digital Publishing Uncategorized Writing books culture futurology great content great writing predicting the futureSometimes the effect that great writing and content can have is almost magical, whether it’s due to what is on the page or screen, or due to the timing of it. There was little work left of a routine, mechanical nature. The robots did the rest&#. MORE >>

It was more of a publishing platform than an engine of marketing. While it's just an avatar, you really do get the sense like you are seeing and interacting with them (even if all you're doing is creeping on their content). publishing. blog cancer communications democamp facebook geekdinner leahshelpers leukemia lightthenight marketing marketingagency marketingblogger marketingindustry michaeloconnorclark onlinecommunity podcamp podcast publishing socialmedia startupcommunity techcommunity thecluetrainmanifesto twitter unconference woodstocksort of. No pressure. MORE >>

2) Avatars, avatars, avatars.   Second Lifers agonized over whether their Shogun warrior or hot chick in leather avatar best reflected their mood on any given day.    Twitter users put similar emphasis on which itsy bitsy square image of their face makes them look smartest, most approachable, funniest, most attractive, weirdest or most like their SL avatar. It lagged, it crashed, it acted as weird as a pink-spotted purple dragon avatar. 2) Avatars, avatars, avatars.   Here are 10 of them.   Immediately.  MORE >>

Avatar : An Avatar is an image or username that represents a person online within forums and social networks. Blogger : Blogger is a free blogging platform owned by Google that allows individuals and companies to host and publish a blog. Collecta : Collecta is a real-time search engine that includes results from from blogs, microblogs, news feeds, and photo sharing services as they are published. It helps publishers understand which type of content promotes sharing on the social Web. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. MORE >>