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The experts at the Nikon magazine N-Photo explain which camera settings you really need to get to grips with, and which you can manage without…

Via Tiaan Jonker

"One of the most common goals for filmmakers and DP's today is achieving a film look when shooting on video. I'm often asked "which digital camera..."

Via Robin Good

Fancy the new iPhone 5s released earlier by Apple? Then it is that time of the year again where you need to sell your old iPhone, so it is easier on your w

Via Tiaan Jonker

Possible is a state of mind!

You have certainly heard, on numerous occasions, people say, “that’s impossible.” What did you do with that? Here lies the difference between success and failure.

 

If we listen to such people, it is certain that we will abandon. Otherwise, we will continue and put the odds on our side to make things possible.

 

We live in a world where pessimism and lack of courage is part of the lives of many people. It’s what makes me say, that here we see clearly the difference between a leader and a follower.

 

Read more: http://martingysler.com/2012/04/07/leadership-mantra-possible-vs-impossible/

Via Martin Gysler

Some very interesting ways to improve your business in this year. [note mg]

 

Social media is big in business circles and every business is scrambling to implement social media strategies to take advantage of this new opportunity. If your business is not already on the social media bandwagon, you still have time to create a social media strategy and start getting social.

 

Here is a list of the top 30 ways your business should leverage social media this year. The list is by no means exhaustive and any other ideas you may have are welcome.

 

Read more: http://www.instantshift.com/2012/03/28/30-ways-your-business-should-leverage-social-media-this-year/

Via Martin Gysler

If you're using Facebook, you're giving the company a ton of information about yourself which it is selling to advertisers in one form or another.

Via Tiaan Jonker

How you use your camera will depend greatly on what type of shooting you do, but these 6 settings you should definitely by heart!

Via Tiaan Jonker

With Facebook's new TOS laying claim to YOUR photos that you post to them, Pressgram emerges to help you take control over your online photographs.

Via Tiaan Jonker

If the front of your entertainment system looks sharp but the back is a mess of cables, wires, and ports that are all full, you're not alone.

Via Tiaan Jonker

Minimalism is a very subjective concept in the art world. The Webster dictionary defines it as follows: A style or technique that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity. Some love it, others hate it, but no one seems to be indifferent

Via Tiaan Jonker

Robin Good: If you are looking for ways to improve your content curation efforts, Joshua Merritt has published five useful guidelines to follow.

 

These include abandoning high frequency / high-volume practices, integrating your opinion whenever possible, researching deeper, citing sources and treating curation like original content production.

 

Joshua writes: "If two different people curate and distribute the same content (which happens every day times thousands), what makes the experience of your followers more valuable?

The answer doesn’t have to lie in a single piece of content, but it must lie in the story arch of the greater body of work, and the more you treat each item you curate as a diamond in the rough that needs some extra cutting and polishing to be ready for your audience, the better your content will perform and the more loyalty you will drive in your followers."

 

 

Rightful. 7/10

 

Full article: http://www.joshuamerritt.com/2012/09/20/if-curating-content-is-easy-youre-doing-it-wrong-5-tips-for-effective-content-curation/

 

 

Via Robin Good

Getting quoted, giving speeches and writing articles are great ways to market your business.

 

As we measure the degree of damage, or more precisely, reduced revenue and increased costs from the downturn, advertising spending tends to be one of the first cuts owners make. Yet this may be a great time to expand marketing to take a share of the market away from your competitors.

 

The key is marketing without little or no money through efforts like community engagement, referrals or sending a press release to local media. Another method is becoming a recognized expert who is called upon by media and other outlets to speak, write and lend your expertise.

 

Read more: http://bit.ly/HYGw8U

Via Martin Gysler

Soon, you’ll be seeing an all-new version of Convince & Convert.

It’s undergoing a full makeover, led by the amazing Rafal Tomal from Copyblogger Media. We’re of course staying with the Genesis Framework that provides enormous customization capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use. Here’s an almost-ready preview:

 

The design is based on the new Streamline child theme that is successfully being used by Danny Brown of Jugnoo – who has forgotten more about blog optimization than I’ll ever know.

 

The Case for Redesign

 

Even though WordPress (especially with Genesis) is exceptionally easy to work with compared to old skool Web design days, it’s still a major undertaking. Lots of blogs out there rarely if ever change their look and layout. Why bother?

 

Read more: http://www.convinceandconvert.com/convince-convert-news/redesigning-your-blog-to-drive-reader-behavior/

Via Martin Gysler

This question should interest every entrepreneur and someone who is active in one way or another on social media. These different options will give you the necessary support. [note mg]

 

Imagine that you’ve spent years building a business and growing a website. You launch a promotion to email a list of potential customers with exciting new opportunities to save lots of money by doing business with you. Did you email too many people, or did you email the wrong people? Did someone turn you in as a “spammer” to one of the many spammer blacklist organizations out there?

Everyone hates real spammers, and the last thing you want to do is get labeled as one. That’s one kind of blacklist. The other kind is worse – the search engine blacklist. That’s the one that is basically a death sentence for your site because Google and other search engines stop crawling your site or even listing it in search results. No blacklist is good to get, because ISP’s and many content filtering services access Internet blacklists to figure out not only what email to block, but also what websites to block or to mark as potentially dangerous.

 

How do you know you’re on the Google List or any other database of blacklisted sites?

 

Read more: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-ways-find-google-list-blacklisted-sites/

Via Martin Gysler