[Case study] How a home design and plan provider uses Highrise (1)
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Design Connection's Jamison Kissh on how his company uses Highrise. What does your company do? Our company is a home design and plan provider based in Thomaston, Connecticut. We began by providing custom home design services to the local building industry in 1985. Since our inception over 20 years ago, we have grown into a nationally recognized plan service providing house plans and garage plans in a variety of styles and sizes. From the beginning, ...
Disney’s Hawaii DVC Resort Ground “Blessing” (1)
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Disney Resort on O’ahu Scheduled to Open in 2011 Walt Disney Parks and Resorts broke ground for its first family destination resort in Hawai’i today with a traditional Hawaiian blessing ceremony on its 21-acre oceanfront property, located at the Ko Olina Resort & Marina development on the western side of O’ahu. Scheduled to open in 2011, the new family friendly destination will overlook breathtaking crystal blue lagoons and white sand beaches and is planned to ...
“Three Killer Social Media Case Studies from SMC San Francisco” (2)
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On Tuesday night, the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Chapter of the Social Media Club hosted a night of social media marketing and PR case studies. That’s right, six companies pulled together their best campaigns from the last couple months and threw them into PowerPoint presentations. Some might call this a geekfest, we at socialTNT call it heaven. All the presentations were amazing, but we’ve chosen some of our favorites to bring you notes from the front ...
New snowstorm aims at Northern Indiana (1)
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Weather forecasters say another blast of snow is headed to northern Indiana. The National Weather Service has issued a lake effect snow warning for LaPorte and St. Joseph counties through Friday.
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CJ said:
Things I don't miss about Northern Indiana for $500, Alex.
Inside the Activists’ Studio, DC and NY, cosponsored by Jewschool (1)
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Christ on a cracker, I have never seen so many Jewish social justice organizations in one place. These orgs are the answer to the staid and hobbled mainstream, at least in our eyes, and their presence in the Jewish world is all that prevents me from saying “Screw it,” and starting over. A ridiculously just AJWS-Avodah-led partnership including cosponsors NIF-JFREJ-JUFJ-HIAS-JFSJ-6th&I-Zeek-UriL’Tzedek-Jewschool-etcetera excitedly announces these events in DC and NY: Jewschool’s very own Mobius joins distinguished panels ...
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This is going to be great. Join me on Sunday!
Free Puritan Audio Devotions (1)
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With every order over $25.00 (while supplies last) you will receive a free CD of, Puritan Audio Devotionals: Comfort and Strength for the Weary Pilgrims! This MP3-CD contains over 13 hours of choice devotional recordings, valued at $30.00. Some of the many authors included are: Thomas Brooks, Thomas Watson, Charles Spurgeon, J. C. Ryle and Octavius Winslow. In Bonus, a powerful recording of Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of and Angry God. We only ...
Case Study: Ford’s Approach to Social Media (3)
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Great interview of Scott Monty by Amber Cadabra from Altitude Branding. Scott is head of social media at Ford Motor Company and he had some very interesting things to say about how Ford uses social media. Three interesting points that Amber and Scott discussed were: What do you believe is the single biggest mistake companies make when integrating social media into their efforts? Ah - you’re assuming they integrate. In my time working in social ...
La mappa della metropolitana di Londra: una lezione di information design (1)
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La mappa della metropolitana di Londra di Harry Beck costituisce un caso emblematico di information design. Un documentario della BBC ripercorre le tappe della sua genesi.
Banana Juice Box (1)
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Adobe, ARM Team Up on Mobile Web Browsing (1)
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Adobe and ARM are collaborating to bring Web services to popular cell- and smartphones. - Software maker Adobe Systems and chip designer ARM will collaborate to bring better Web services to ARM-powered devices including cellphones from most of the world's biggest handset makers. U.S.-based Adobe, which makes tools for the Internet's most popular video software and made possible the rise...
Make your how cypher slide rule (3)
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On today's episode of Bre Petis' I Make Things, my pal Nick Farr of HacDC demonstrates the Polyalphabetic Substitution Cypher Slide Rule (PASCSR) he made and uploaded to Thingiverse. Thingiverse launches today, too. It's a site, created by Bre and Zach Hoeken, where you can share your digital designs/object files with the world. Cool. I Make Things Thingiverse Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this!
A Social Media Firestorm (3)
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If you need proof that a) Twitter (actually social media in general) is not just for IT geek guys, and b) that it’s a powerful buzz monitoring and customer engagement tool, look here…. There’s a firestorm on Twitter about the advert below from Motrin which seems to have offended a whole bunch of people. Whilst I don’t really get why it’s kicked up so much fuss you can’t ignore the social media powers at work, ...
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There’s what happens when:1. you don’t do your market research right (they should have learned about the bad positioning hurting the back!)2. you don’t understand or know of the revolution that the Net has gone through lately!Way to go J&J!
Sword Arms vs. (Semi) Scientific Advertising | FutureNows GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog (2)
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While most copywriters have avidly studied Claude Hopkins’ Scientific Advertising, very few have even heard of Theodore MacManus, let alone read his book, The Sword Arm of Business. And yet MacManus was, in some ways, a more successful ad man, having: Established his own (very successful) ad agency Launched the Dodge and Chrysler brands Hired and mentored Leo Burnett, creator of the Marlboro Man, Tony the Tiger, Pillsbury Doughboy, and many other advertising icons that ...