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| Chocolate Festival Trees by Anything but Plain |
This weekend Bristol will be buzzing with activity for the penultimate shopping weekend before Christmas. There are festive markets and seasonal shopping opportunities, from a hand made Christmas gift shop: The Artisans Emporium at The Looking Glass, to The Chocolate Festival, which returns to Bristol this year at Quakers Friars, showcasing chocolate greeting cards and portraits!
This week we've been getting out of the cold and enjoying some festive chocolate gifts. The Bristol Business Network treated us to a wonderful Christmas meal this week and we have had meetings with the stop smoking resources experts GASP and business telephone systems provider Welcome Telecom. We've been working on tablet Apps, building client sites before Christmas and gone live with a new site for Bristol Cleaners GJ Treasure.
Businesses using social media:
It's nearing the end of another year, and with social media marketing continuing to evolve, here's a comprehensive list of social media marketing resources from Heidi Cohen, including links to social media theory as well as specific help with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and more.
For a general round-up of insights into social media growth and usage in 2012, including creative graphs and figures take a look at this blog post which offers an explanation of who uses Pinterest and accesses social media from the bathroom!
Blogging is an on-line phenomenon, but did you know you can go to blogging meet ups, awards, events and festivals in the US to connect face to face and develop as a blogger!
If you're new to blogging and want to increase your blog's following, here are some great tips on how to gain new visitors and keep hold of them, by offering something which has value to readers.
For a general round-up of insights into social media growth and usage in 2012, including creative graphs and figures take a look at this blog post which offers an explanation of who uses Pinterest and accesses social media from the bathroom!
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If you're new to blogging and want to increase your blog's following, here are some great tips on how to gain new visitors and keep hold of them, by offering something which has value to readers.
Thinking about the New Year, there are many ways to improve the effectiveness of content marketing, so here are some bad blogging habits to avoid such as infrequent blogging. An alternative slant on social media mistakes that businesses make, thinks about what to avoid in the year ahead, including box-ticking campaigns.
Finally, if you're looking for some free visuals to use on blogs, this detailed infographic via Mashable explains the rules and regulations relating to the use of Creative Commons' free photos.
If you use Twitter and are a fan of infographics, here's one on the art of getting retweets! And Twitter looks back on their year in 2012, with this video of highlights including #London2012.
If you use Twitter and are a fan of infographics, here's one on the art of getting retweets! And Twitter looks back on their year in 2012, with this video of highlights including #London2012.
Art & Design:
If you're having a catch up coffee, how about sitting around this floppy disk table and reminiscing on computing history! This alphabet designed by Mark Baboon using characters from a popular cartoon series also caught our eye this week.
If you're having a catch up coffee, how about sitting around this floppy disk table and reminiscing on computing history! This alphabet designed by Mark Baboon using characters from a popular cartoon series also caught our eye this week.
As the festive season is now in full swing, we thought we'd feature a few seasonal designs, including these spinning tree tops; a refreshingly simple toy design!
If you're interested in combining technology with crafty Christmas card making, you can use these LEDs to light up your card designs.
Who would have thought that recycling computer memory chips at Christmas could make for some attractive tree decorations! If you're looking for a slightly different style of tree ornaments, how about these owl glass baubles?
It seems the street art season is not over, as many artists take to the streets to create seasonal installations and paintings- take a look at this collection of Guerilla Christmas street art designs!
It's your turn!
As ever, we're interested to hear your comments and links to any interesting posts relating to Christmas design, social media and on-line marketing.
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