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| Ideas and profiles of success at the intersection of design, technology and global talent |
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Tx:Style C2 |
| This month we focus on different ways of applying collaborative "web 2.0" technologies and social media platforms to effectively engage with your customers and markets.
After launching one of the most successful social media sites that the commercial interiors industry has seen to date, Mannington Commercial decided to continue the tx:style momentum by launching Phase 2. tx:style now includes two additional sections called “Be Inspired”, for posting pictures, and a “Monthly Contest” section. Three lucky designers won a trip to Greenbuild 2009 in the October Contest for their winning answers to the question, “Why do you want to attend Greenbuild 2009?” This month, get in the action by voting for your favorite wall base color at www.txstyle-mannington.com Also, get ready for year two of the Design Challenge which launches on November 30th. |
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Ultron Doc Awards |
| The Ultron Doc Awards has been consistently recognized for outstanding achievement in product and project design in the commercial interior product and design industry since 1988. Users can now vote for the prestigious product and project Doc Awards online. The awarding of this prize has moved over to a social media platform that allows the community to be a part of the process. Voting is now open so select and rate your favorites at www.doc.ultron.com
and become a part of the competition! |
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Award Winning Herodontics Site |
16toads Design has been selected as a winner in the 2009 American Graphic Design Awards for the web site design for www.herodontics.com As a development partner, we worked collaboratively in building this comprehensive, industry specific social media platform which is focused on the dental community. Stay tuned for our next venture in creating an industry specific "facebook" or "linked in" like platform. |
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In honor of “unfriend” winning Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year, we thought a good topic for this month’s tools and tips would be a discussion of social media vocabulary. If you are not a regular participant of social communities, you may be surprised by the choice of this verb, which means “To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.”
You may remember some of the social media driven sites that we’ve featured in the past including Wordpress, tumblr, Gliffy and Elgg. Here are some good words to know that are becoming part of our everyday vocabulary: |
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Apps - an abbreviation for application, which is computer software designed to help the user perform a particular task.
Blog - a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Crowdsourcing - A neologism for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call.
Digg - a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories.
Tweet - A micro-blog post on the Twitter social network site, or the act of posting on it. Each post is referred to as a tweet, and the act of sending a tweet is referred to as tweeting.
Mashup - a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data. An example of a mashup is the use of cartographic data to add location information to real estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct web API that was not originally
Web 2.0 - the term "Web 2.0" (pronounced "Web two point oh") is commonly associated with web applications which facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.
Widget - an element of a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays an information arrangement changeable by the user, such as a window or a text box. The defining characteristic of a widget is to provide a single interaction point for the direct manipulation of a given kind of data.
Wiki - a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, in corporate intranets, and in knowledge management systems provided by either source. |
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In the spirit of collaboration, definitions come from Wikipedia. |
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