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• usabilitypost.com | Usability Tip: Use Verbs as Labels on Buttons
  Dmitry Fadeyev eloquently highlights why verbs should be used instead of the ubiquitous 'yes' and 'no' buttons in software dialog boxes, but as one of his commentors also points out, it should be a defacto design standard on website navigation buttons too.
  (tags: internet blog tips design article webdesign apple programming gui mac button buttons interface labels osx usability webdev actions dialog label verb ui)

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• 2Vouch: Online Social Recruiting
  An Australian first, methinks. For serious job recruiting, money can work as a great incentive to grease the social recommendation wheels, and 2Vouch offers between $1400 and $2800 AUD ($1100-$2050) for each successful candidate employed. Hat tip Duncan Riley.
  (tags: 2vouch socialmedia recruiting seek)
• Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere - washingtonpost.com
  Jason Calacanis, Geoff Livingstone and some great case studies on the power of blogging. Fabulous article!
  (tags: Web2.0 socialmedia business blogging blog marketing pr technology blogs communications livingstone casestudy)
• Fuel Watch Map - Petrol Prices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth & Adelaide
  A private effort (not the Government's botched suggestion) that is still in beta (of course! Isn't everything?!) More servo's ('service stations' for non-Australians and other aliens) are being added every week. The site also provides a search tool to get directions to a destination and show petrol stations along the route. Neat.
  (tags: petrol diesel fuel map price)
• NOVELS ONLINE: Links to Free Online Novels and Free Fiction Directories + a free fantasy novel on site.
  Interesting list of places to look for online novels and stuff.
  (tags: literature imported free fiction ebooks directory books english education links list online reference)
• Beauty is in the Eye of Beholder! The Most Startling 3D Female Models! | 3D Models, Website Templates and Illustrations blog | Templates.com
  The title says it all. Stunning! I have used one of the images to illustrate a post on my Second Life blog.
  (tags: 3d female model women graphics photoshop maya 3ds secondlife)
• Space Navigator PE [SpaceNavigatorPE] - $100.00 : TIP, Totally Interesting Products
  The mouse that even Linden Lab reckons is the dog's. The Commercial version is more expensive but not sure if it is worth the extra $ — views, anyone?
  (tags: secondlife 3d mouse spacenavigator technology linden)

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Impact Employee Communications is looking for a mid-weight graphic designer to work with the CreativeImpact team fulltime to cover up to a year’s parental leave. We’d like our new designer to start any time from the last week of August to mid September.

The primary focus is on creative visual communication of our engagement strategies, with lots of print but heaps of scope to play in digital and environment design.

Impact is Australia’s and Asia Pacific’s leading internal communication consultancy, our home is Ogilvy House in Christie Street, St Leonards. Read about our CreativeImpact team at http://impact.com.au/services-and-capabilities/creative/

For more information and a job description, call Sharon Cartwright at Impact on 02 8281 3203 or email:

Creative

Strategic communication needs creative solutions to engage the message with the mind. Delivering memorable messages through the right mediums is the CreativeImpact team’s focus, developing and designing the most appropriate channels or tools to get business messages seen and heard.

Our core design and production offerings include:

• Internal brand and logo design
• Printed materials including newsletters, posters and other internal campaign collateral
• Environments and displays
• Digital and social media
• Video, audio and interactive CD-ROM programs
• Presentation design

While face to face communication remains the most effective channel to reach employees, time-pressures and geographically and demographically diverse workforces have increased the importance of communicating creatively to cut through the daily clutter and information overload.

What sets us apart from a design agency is our 100% focus on the employee. Using Ogilvy PR’s discovery process, the Insights, Ideas and Influence Toolkit™, we combine strategic and creative thinking techniques to develop great ideas and practical solutions that influence employees and drive business objectives.

So, whether you’re looking to:

• connect with Generation X and Y employees using social media;
• reach a remote workforce through our range of video, digital and audio solutions;
• generate a shared sense of pride across the organisation through an emotive video;
• increase the cross-sharing of information through a well-designed intranet;
• bring your values to life with an internal brand identity and interactive toolkits; or
• increase employees’ awareness about your whole business through an electronic or print newsletter

…we always have the employee and required behaviour change at the heart of what we create and deliver.

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Apply now!

I remember Sharon attending a workshop I ran last year for Melcrum — goodness knows what she was doing there - she should have been running it! The lady really knows her Social Media!

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• Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
  Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes
  (tags: advertising art article blog blogging blogs book cloud collaboration communication design fun generator tools typography visualization web2.0 words)

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• How can I find where my menu items in Office 2003 have gone in Office 2007
  (tags: 2007 excel hints menu office powerpoint software tips word)
• Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: July 24, 2008
  Jeremiah Owyang’s gone and created a new feed for his digests. Essential reading.
  (tags: digest jeremiahowyang owyang socialmarketing socialmedia socialnetworking socialnetworks web2.0)
• Retirees jump on board to surf the web - web - Technology - smh.com.au
  The number of people aged 65 to 74 connecting to the internet at home has jumped 40 per cent in two years - the largest increase by any age group - up from 20 per cent in 2004-05 to 28 per cent in 2006-07, according to the ABS. Hat-tip @Steven_Noble
  (tags: australia broadband internet reference research seniors statistics web)
• » HisSpace? Taking it Personal: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but… my version of the truth.
  Says Susan: “A while back I posted on Twitter: “Is it wrong to read your son’s text messages?” ” — now she’s asking if she can demand access to her pre-teen son’s password-protected MySpace page. A parental/professional dilemma - your view?
  (tags: susanscrupski ethics myspace access twitter txt parents parenting pre-teen)
• B.L. Ochman’s weblog: Internet marketing strategy, social media trends, news and commentary.: Social Media Goes to the Dogs
  Social media has gone to the dogs. Their petition to get the Obamas to adopt a shelter dog has already gotten 45,000 signatures, spawned a Flickr group, and a Twitter feed. They’re using Facebook, MySpace and DIGG to spread the word too.
  (tags: obama dog petition campaign socialmedia socialnetwork flickr twitter facebook myspace digg)
• Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering
  Free and pro fonts with comic look to them — brilliant resource for fellow fontaholics like myself. Tip of the akubra to @andrewbarnett
  (tags: art blog comic design download firefox:bookmarks font fonts free typography comics)

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• Aunty puts five new channels online - Articles - Home Entertainment - smh.com.au
  The digital push is designed to increase the ABC’s audience. Its managing director, Mark Scott, said he wants to triple the broadcaster’s number of TV stations and radio services over the next 12 years to increase Australian content
  (tags: abc australia digital iview tv)
• ABC iView | Internet TV Service
  Test your download bandwidth to see if it can handle Aunty’s content
  (tags: abc digital iview streaming tv)
• Microsoft Office Online
  If you’ve just updated to Office2007 and are frustrated about where your menu items have gone, try this handy dynamic tool. There’s versions for Excel and others, too.
  (tags: Conversion guide map microsoft msoffice office office2007 reference software tech tutorial tutorials word)

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• South Australian ROOTS and BLUES
  There’s podcasts, a Facebook group, gig guides, reviews, videos… all because I just happened across a public radio station that was playing some blues today. I love serendipidity!
  (tags: blues adelaide southaustralia sa music podcast video gig)

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"As long as there’s, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll." So said Mick Shrimpton, legendary drummer with the seminal British rock group Spinal Tap.

It turns out that rock drummers on tour are much fitter than those overpaid poncy nancy-boys called professional footballers.

Says the Beeb:

Tests on Clem Burke, the veteran Blondie drummer, revealed that 90 minutes of drumming could raise his heart rate to 190 beats a minute.

Despite rock’s reputation for unhealthy living, Dr Marcus Smith, from Chichester University, said drummers needed "extraordinary stamina".

He found that during a performance, his [Burke] heart averaged between 140 and 150 beats a minute, peaking at 190, levels comparable to other top athletes.

However, Dr Smith said that while top footballers were expected to perform once or twice a week, drummers on tour would be doing it every night at a different venue.

There’s a joke in there somewhere…

And let us not forget that Spinal Tap did for rock music what “The Sound of Music” did for hills.

Or as someone once asked, “What’s the difference between a trampoline and a piano accordion?”

You have to take your boots off to jump on a trampoline.

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