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  • YouTube for business

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Have you ever considered YouTube as part of your digital marketing mix? It’s free, easy to use, and you can customise your channel to compliment your company’s branding. It’s a proven platform that allows you to share videos to existing and new audiences, integrate video content on your website or Facebook page, and can help…

  • Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, named Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ for 2010

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Have you heard that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of the international digital phenomenon social networking site, Facebook was named Time magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year yesterday. The Facebook website (www.facebook.com) currently has more than half a billion users, I am one of them–are you? Time magazine defines their Person of the Year as…

  • Spaces Magazine to help creatives live, work and play in inspired surrounds

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The popular creative design magazine Frankie has now launched a new magazine project named ‘Spaces – Where creative people live, work and play’. Spaces showcases a fantastic global collection of eclectic interiors. This large format magazine explores the favourite space of photographers, graphic designers, vintage collectors and shop owners. Be inspired by the unique living,…

  • Gender Stereotype Advertising

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    [briotube]http://www.youtube.com/v/NIdrloPF0bU[/briotube] Have you ever noticed, every time you turn on the T.V, go into a store, or look at a newspaper, you are accosted by gender stereotypes? There are children’s Toy Commercials, which never show the fathers.  There are household cleaning product commercials where the woman is fretting over her mother in law coming over,…

  • Illustration inspiration!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    One of my resolutions for the New Year is to get back into illustration and painting, so I’ve been having a little look around cyberspace to get some inspiration and see what styles are out there. This week I came across some wonderful caricatures which I thought I’d share with you. It’s incredible to see…

  • World of Warcraft Cataclysm Expansion only 3 more sleeps!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I don’t know how many of you are gamers, but I am sure that most of you are either related to or are friends with a gamer who is just as excited as I am that the Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft is being released next week. World of Warcraft is by far the…

  • Why work doesn’t happen at work

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Jason Fried has a pretty interesting take on why people are not very enthusiastic when at work. I watched this TED talk video the other day and found it very interesting. See for yourself and discuss below!

  • Advertising on social networking sites

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    It seems that brands are popping up everywhere in paid social media advertising spots lately … brands that I’d consider either buying from, or at least aligning myself with (by ‘liking’ their Facebook page for example). I’m interested in yoga, travel and cult TV shows like Mad Men and Dexter – and like magic, local…

  • Microsoft Launches Kinect

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    It’s been a long time in the making, but Microsoft have finally launched Kinect. For those of you unfamiliar with Kinect, it is Microsoft’s brand new controller-less add on for the Xbox 360. Kinect allows the gamer to control not only the menu system of their Xbox 360 simply by moving, but to interact with…