A Non-Designer’s Best Friend

If you need to do design work (web or print), deciding on a color scheme can be a real obstacle. Luckily, I found this online resource called Color Schemer that makes it much easier by providing complementary colors. If you already know the RGB or HEX color codes that...

Public Relations and the Oscar Effect

In the past, I heard that when a movie wins an Oscar for Best Picture it brings in over 20 million dollars in additional revenue. So, I thought I would do some research to see if there has been any studies on this. Here is the best article that I found on the subject....

Name that Tune (or Brand)

To keep things light,  I figured I would dig up some  renditions  of theme songs. Not only are these performances fascinating, they go to show how catchy theme songs can actually be.   Good work guys.

Disclosure

To piggyback on the point I left open ended in my last post, I thought I would write about disclosure. A misconception is that the Internet provides anonymity. This is only true under certain circumstances and usually applies only when you don’t want to leave a...

Monitoring blogs

Do you have someone in your company that looks at industry-influencing blogs and tracks mentions of your company in the blogosphere? I am guessing you don’t.  Most companies still don’t understand how influential blogs can be. RSS feeds and Technorati...