So You Need a Typeface by Julian Hansen
Groovy poster by Julian Hansen. A flowchart to help you choose the right typeface for the project you are working on: from lots of tables, to invitations, to ‘not afraid to be asked if you live in the nineties’. And it’s cheap as chips too if you want it on your wall.
Slideshare are now offering a free facility to hold webinars, or web meetings. It’s free and allows synchronous slide advancing + chat + video (or audio). For additional features (no ads, private, password protected meetings) there is a paid version.
Zipcast = slides + chat + video
I share an office with James. It was James who alerted me to a fantastic piece of software that even I can understand. Drag the pdf of a paper into papers – it files, sorts, retrieves them with ease. I love it.
Papers Like You’ve Never Seen Before: Papers2.1
Here is their blurby bit:
Papers revolutionizes the way you deal with your research documents. It allows you to search for them, download and organize them together with supplementary material, allows you to read them full screen, highlight and keep notes, sync them to your iPad or iPhone, cite them in your favorite word processor, share them with your colleagues, and much much more.
More great resources from Hubspot. This time a five minute video on how to create a facebook page. Not only that – but once you have created the page, Hubspot gives you an idea of what and how to post AND how to measure what you are doing.
Here are the 5 steps:
1. Choose a Classification
2. Complete Basic Information
3. Fill the Page
4. Take Advantage of Features
5. Play and Track
They also include a freebie ebook – How to use Facebook for business
If you have thought about blogging and wondered where to start you might like to take a look at what Google has to offer in the form of blogger.
And if you are in the health profession you might also like to take a look at Dr Ves’ posts on how to write a medical blog.
For Employers and potential Social Strategists these latest posts from Jeremiah Owyang are very important. Having been asked many times recently whether I know anyone who would be good for a role as a digital strategist, how to interview, what to look for, and also vice versa – who to work for, what to expect – what does the role even look like – it’s worth taking a look at the Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist below and what questions to ask a potential future employer:
Questions to ask a potential employer for a digital strategy position:
1) What level of executive support do we have?
2) Is the company ready to span social beyond one department?
3) Is the company ready to engage in negative conversations in public?
4) What is your future vision of success look like?
5) What resources will I be provided?
Jeremiah expands these points really well and develops them into a scorecard – the score giving an indication as to whether to walk away or what working for the company may feel like
