Thoughts on Social Media and trends.
Many believe it is just too hard to measure the return of investment of Social Media. Lux Narayan wrote an article earlier this year for Forbes titled Three Reasons Why There’s No Measuring ROI on Social Media. In his article he states that the three primary reasons that ROI can not be measured for Social [...]
Facebook Places is the new geolocation feature released by Facebook this week. Places allows you to share your location and see where your friends are in relation to you so that you can connect with them easily. Places also offers significant functionality to businesses with Facebook profiles. These businesses now have the opportunity to [...]
Twitter has well established its status as an online news source. I use Twitter to find and share links to interesting articles about design, usability, photography, dog training, social media and technology. Owing to the broad range of topics, sometimes I can tweet / share up to 50 or 70 links a day with the [...]
Overseas, many banks have embraced the use of social website to assist with healing the financial industry, develop trust with their customers and to promote their latest deals. Lon S. Cohen described five ways international banks have embraced Web 2.0 technologies which include:
Some incorrectly assume that Enterprise 2.0 is a term used to describe the use of consumer-orientated Web 2.0 tools (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) by businesses to improve their communications internally and externally. Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 do share a similar foundation as highlighted by Andrew McAffee’s SLATES model, however there are significant differences between [...]
Teale Shapcott is a multidisciplinary User Experience expert passionate about making websites, software and intranets easy to use and engaging for people. A recognised thought leader in field of Agile
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Recently I had the pleasure of designing a new logo for Aylwards Dog School to use on their new website to be released later this year. Aylwards Dog School was established 22 years ago by Mike Aylward in Rosewood Queensland. The school specialises in dog obedience, personal protection training and tracking training. Mike & Megan [...]
Over the past six months, I have created a large collection of over 2000 dog photographs with my weekend canine photography hobby. What to do now? Why not create some cool posters using some of my favourite quotes about dogs! Here are some examples! Enjoy!
One of the most common tasks undertaken with Photoshop is that of photo retouching and editing. I recently took a striking photo of a dog that was spoiled green line being in the foreground of the photo. To improve my Photoshop editing skills, I decided to remove the line from the photo and add some [...]
On May 6th & 7th, the full moon was big and bright. The biggest and brightest it has been in 18 years. This is due to the yearly spectacle of Super Moon also known as the Perigee Moon by astrologers.
Boa Constrictors, Albino Wallabies, Baboons, Alpacas, Koala, Red Pandas, Tahr, Lemurs and Sun Bears.. This is just a small group of the 53 species of animals you will find at Alma Park Zoo, 30 minutes north of Brisbane. As a photographer, Alma Park Zoo is a fantastic location that provides you with many opportunities to [...]
To improve my photography skills with my DSLR, I decided to time box a session in an unfamiliar location. I believe that the ability to use the resources around you and think quickly on your feet really helps to capture great photographs.