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Great Find: $10K College Blogging Scholarship

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Is Your Blog Worthy?

If you’re a college kid with a weblog, read on.

Would $10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs?
$10,000 is given away annually to a college student who blogs.

Great Find: College Scholarships: The Blogging Scholarship
Permalink: http://www.collegescholarships.org/our-scholarships/blogging.htm

Target Audience: US College students who blog
Content:
The founders of College Scholarships.org earn their living as bloggers and they we believe that everyone deserves a shot at a decent education. So naturally, they had to include a blogging scholarship in their offer.

Check the rules and hurry over submission are due October 15-31, 2008. Click the logo to learn more.

Good luck!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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45 Rules of Logo Design

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Great Advice Is Always a Great Find

If you know an outstanding design site, email me a link and tell me why you think it’s important to share. Then I can pass it along. I can’t remember how I came across this one.

Great Find: 45 Rules for Creating a Great Logo DesignPermalink: http://www.tannersite.com/rules-of-logo-design/
Target Audience: Design clients, design students

Content: If you work on the web, you might need a new logo as often as every week. The temptation to make your own gets strong enough when time is tight. When money is tight, it can seem a necessity. My advice is to know what makes a great logo and be aware of the workout a great logo needs to live up to. This article from Tannersite will get you up to speed. Go on and check out.

45 Rules for Creating a Great Logo Design

Then find a great designer to help you. Great logos take time, technique and talent. Most of us only think we have all three.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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kriesi new media design

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More Great Design Ideas

If you know an outstanding design site, email me a link and tell me why you think it’s important to share. Then I can pass it along. This group is another that Lorelle turned me on to.

Great Find: kriesi.at new media design

Permalink: http://www.kriesi.at/

Target Audience: Design clients, design fans

Content: Any web citizen who appreciates great design likes to check in what cool designers are doing. The folks at kriesi are subtle in their use of light and color. Be sure to mouse over their nav bar. Click the screenshot to make a visit.

I don’t know them. I’ve never talked to them or worked with them. I just like what they’re doing visually. Notice how you can see through board to the trees behind the “hut” the shelves are in.

Great design engages imagination ways like that.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Great Graphic Ideas: Nebon Media

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Cool Things Are Happening

If you know an outstanding design site, email me a link and tell me why you think it’s important to share. Then I can pass it along. Lorelle shared this design group with me.

Great Find: Nebon Media

Permalink: http://www.nebonmedia.com/en/inthehut.html

Target Audience: Design clients

Content: Any web citizen who appreciates great design likes to check in what cool designers are doing. The folks at Nebon Media have some great ideas. Take a minute to check them out. Click the screenshot to make a visit.

I don’t know them. I’ve never talked to them or worked with them. I just like what they’re doing visually. Notice how you can see through board to the trees behind the “hut” the shelves are in.

Great design engages imagination ways like that.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Great Find: Stargazer

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Back to School with Stargazer

All across the United States kids are going back to school. This year, thousands of kids will be a little safer, parents will have a little more information, and educators will be able to do a little more. . . . Their schools are becoming Stargazer Schools

Great Find: Stargazer

Permalink: http://www.stargazer.org/

Target Audience: Anyone who wants to use technology for social good

Content:
Stargazer is a new kind of public/private partnership to:
Get Organized Stay In Touch Be Informed Take Control

Possibly the most compelling Stargazer service is SAFETYLINK (80911)
SAFETYLINK (80911) was started in response to disasters such as 9/11.

Be Informed – Send a free public text message to 80911 to let people know you’re safe in an emergency. Then, anyone can go to Stargazer SafetyLink and enter your mobile phone number to read your message. Teach your children, and plan ahead with your friends and colleagues.

Check out Stargazer with your kids.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Old People “Get” Social Media — Woodstock Was Social 3-D

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Grandma Has a Computer

The Living Web

Experience has value.

Every generation thinks they’ve invented the latest deal. I know we did. I know my grandma did too. My dad’s saloon reminds me of what folks do on Twitter everyday.

The value of getting older is that there isn’t much you haven’t seen in some form or other in the years gone by.

Old People Don’t Get Social Media

I caught this statement in a discussion elsewhere. It went something like, “I don’t think people over 40 get social media, whereas kids love it.” Having seen this sentiment mentioned before, I thought I’d express my feelings on the matter.

I’m 50 years old. I get the whole social media gig. It’s like Woodstock on the ‘Net, where people gather together for several minutes, days, weeks, months and years to hang out, talk, share, listen to music, run around naked and slide in the mud.

What social media doesn’t offer people of my generation is face to face communication. It doesn’t let us hold hands, sing or hug. Instead of raising our lighters as a token of respect and homage to those we admire, social media offers voting and “thumbs up” buttons. There’s no thrill there. There’s no rock and roll. Today’s version of social is “read this, read that”, vote on it, follow or unfollow, friend or unfriend, get answers or be completely and utterly ignored even though you know you’re there. . . .

They may never know you showed up. Not only that, to participate, you have to give out personal information and obtain a password. You need to configure settings. Its a lot of work just to hang out with people you don’t even know and annoying as heck when you simply wish to stay in touch with a few you do know. If someone spots you, everybody wants to be your friend.

Pot used to do that too.

— Kim Krause Berg

The entire blog post is a great read.

I know that relationships are where you find them. We’ve talked plenty about that. And I’m not about to give up my social tools, but I think, Kim, has a point about what’s missing from the mix.

They say it takes 10 years to make a VC.
Maybe it takes even longer to make a social media expert.
I wonder where Guy Kawasaki would weigh in on that question.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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