Jenna Jeske started blogging in the summer of last year after overcoming a series of unexpected expenses including a computer repair after both her computers crashed.   Since then, she has started writing a book and has been blogging with her most recent post published today, 12/12/11. As favorites (in addition to her husband – Andreas) she lists on her blog:  Michael Hyatt,  Ann Voskamp, Dave Ramsey, an...

Elliot Silver  has assembled some domain professional's opinions and insight about domains and digital assets in 2012.  Here are some exerpts from his post, read the full post at Elliot's Blog.   Juan Diego Calle, Founder .CO Registry / Straat Investments – .CO will continue a fast growth trajectory with a booming startup community building websites on .CO domains. The new TLD program will continue full ...

Social Media came on strong in 2011. To demonstrate it's  growth over the past year, here is an interesting infographic designed by Internet marketing firm Dream Systems Media based on the data provided by AdAge. It's impressive to see Facebook's growth to more than 800 million active users, adding more than 200 million (that's one fourth of the total number of users) just in the last year. Twitter now has 100 ...

TMRC Research, an innovative consumer intelligence company, operates all across Asia and impliments tomorrow's science disciplines for today's solutions.  Their approach includes the cutting-edge ZMET - Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique. The human mind - and decision making - is rooted in different layers and the KEY layers are not consciously accessible.  ZMET® is effectively used to interview the “O...

We have a great freebie for readers of SOCIAL3R from our good friends at Webdesigndepot and Grafpedia - perhaps the most interesting graphic resource published on Grafpedia! Balio UI kit is a complete set of 17 different psd files to help web designers to design a web layout or other graphic works.  This very high quality UI pack is unique because of the beautiful blue/grey style and it’s very full too:  lo...

A tribute to the people of Vejle A tribute to the people of Vejle from sidewalktalk.dk on Vimeo. An innovative use of stills and video in street photography.

Mat Siltala  Saw an article on Social Media stats the other day on AdAge by the ever awesome Sarah Evans (awesome list of stats she compiled) and of course, he being who he is, wanted to visualize the data. So enjoy!

With 2012 now well underway, we don’t want to dwell much more on what happened last year. You can click here if you want to see The Next Web’s 2011 Tech: Rewind posts. However, HootSuite, the social media management dashboard, has shared its final top Twitter trends for 2011, following on from its previous part 1 Twitter trends. This one focuses largely on brands and businesses, with a handful of obvious ...

Source:  chrisglass.com  I (Chris Glass)  had a little friend visit my apartment the other week, and for a while there I was ready to make peace with him and co-exist. But after I cleaned up the place and ordered pizza one night, and it crawled up the side of my chair onto the sleeve of my shirt, I knew it was time to bid farewell. Here's how I caught the critter: Get a toilet paper tube and crease two li...

  Matchbook advertisements from the 1940s and 50s recruiting art students.  The schools encouraged men and women to enter their talent tests and submit drawings for chances to win scholarships and earn big money.  (This post was published by "Flushed Left" at Letterology.com.) Before the term "graphic designer" became part of our lexicon, many artist correspondence schools popped up across the co...

Via: Online College Courses Blog Here's a Cool Course from Spring 2012:  Building Mobile Applications This course teaches students how to build mobile apps for Android and iOS, two of today's most popular platforms, and how to deploy them in Android Market and the App Store. Students learn how to write native apps for Android using Eclipse and the Android SDK, how to write native apps for iPhones, iPod ...

Pinterest has become a social media tsunami! The velocity of it's popularity is increasing so rapidly that it has overtaken Google +, Linkedin and Youtube combined in driving referral traffic.   Visual Engagement is becoming a widespread addiction! Via: Monetate.com 

Do you remember ‘Charlie bit my finger’? Charlie’s family certainly does: they made £120,000 in YouTube earnings. Yet, this remains an exception; unless they go incredibly viral, YouTube videos aren’t a reliable source of income. However, it doesn’t mean you can’t monetize your digital content online. Yet you may want to look elsewhere than Google and turn to smaller companies. Several of them are experiment...

    The content sharing platform AddThis is celebrating its fifth birthday.  After 5 years the service reaches 1.2 billion users on 10 million domains and in 70 different languages. To celebrate their success, the service released an interesting infographic about sharing on the Web. Wednesdays are the peak days for sharing!  Check out these other interesting stats: People tend to share the ...

  Every now and then an infographic comes along that isn't just informative, but it gets you to think beyond what you know or think you know.   This is one such infographic...it opens the mind's door to explore possibilities in how a social network can change the world. In a timeline that spans 13 years, we explore interesting milestones that imagine a future where we leave behind the nascence of a ...