Saturday 18 October 2014

Bachelor's Button Cornflower - Happy Anniversary Greeting Card

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Floral series A beautiful greetings card featuring a fluffy purple Bachelor's Button flower. This gorgeous cornflower is positively beaming in the angling sunlight that's kissing its petals.
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Lightning Bolt Decal - Color Spectrum Room Sticker

A gorgeous best-selling design. Click to customize or personalize. How would it look with your name or monogram on it - why not have a look-see right now?


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Wallsplash series Here's a great wall decal in the shape of a bolt of lightning. It uses a graduated fill going thru every color of the spectrum. Very colorful, perfect for adding some zest to a wall!
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Cute Pug Puppy Dog Happy Birthday Greeting Card

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Who can resist the cute face of a pug puppy dog? Let this sweet little pug help you send Happy Birthday Greetings to family and friends. This sweet greeting card features a tan and black Pug doggy on a white background with a pretty purple border.

The verse inside says: May this birthday be just the beginning of a year filled with happy memories, wonderful moments and shining dreams. Happy Birthday!

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Top Five Things to Learn from the Greggs vs Google Twitter Debacle

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This is a guest contribution from Mark Potter.

Greggs is the UK’s largest bakery chain, famed for its sausage rolls and steak bakes. They have always enjoyed a strong social media presence, winning a Digital Impact Award in 2013 for a ‘Sandwich Maker’ Facebook app.

As a relatively low-budget food chain, they are a popular target for online abuse. As a result, they have already developed a robust strategy for dealing with complaints and controversy:

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Things turned particularly sour in August, when the Google algorithm accidentally replaced the official Greggs logo with a highly offensive fake version. The gaffe spread like wildfire across the internet, and the Greggs Twitter account was rapidly inundated with tweets.

However, the social media team kept their cool, and handled the crisis with aplomb. Almost 300 tweets and a new hashtag later, the correct logo was restored – and Greggs had emerged as a Twitter champion.

Here are some tips on handling a crisis on Twitter, as demonstrated by the social media team at Greggs:

Rise Above It

The whole internet is teeming with trolls, but Twitter is a particularly virile breeding ground. Although many people sympathised with the situation, Greggs was also subjected to a fair amount of abuse.

When Twitter catastrophe strikes, never stray from the Golden Rule – DON’T FEED THE TROLLS. Hitting back with an angry retort can only ever backfire, making a bad situation worse. Make like Greggs by responding in a polite, classy manner – or simply don’t reply at all.

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Crack a Joke

Twitter partly revolves around competitive comedy – the accounts with the funniest tweets often have more followers. Therefore, humour can be one of the best ways to divert a Twitter crisis.

However, before making light of a disaster, you should always use discretion. In some situations, comedy is inappropriate – as many brands soon discovered during Hurricane Sandy.

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Hire an Expert

Twitter disasters are occasionally brought about by the company itself – as with McDonald’s ill-conceived #McDStories. However, as Greggs discovered, crises can also be caused by external forces. These unpredictable situations are perhaps the most dangerous, as many companies don’t have the resources in place to deal with them.

If social media forms a large part of your marketing plan, you should hire a professional social media consultant to manage your online image. As many people noted during the Greggs debacle, they’re worth their weight in gold when disaster strikes.

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Ellen’s infamous Oscars selfie is currently the most retweeted message in the history of Twitter. This highlights the importance of imagery on social media. Pictures are far more likely to be shared by followers, and are therefore invaluable to social media marketing campaigns.

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As Greggs demonstrated, pictures can also prove helpful during a disaster. This simple shot cost next to nothing, yet received an incredible 83 retweets and 589 favourites – making it one of the most successful tweets Greggs has ever posted.

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A follow-up tweet, posted when the correct logo had been restored, garnered a similar number of favourites and retweets:

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Monitor for Mentions

It goes without saying that you should reply to direct questions and comments on Twitter. Throughout the crisis, the official Greggs account was inundated with questions and comments – and each one was met with an appropriate response.

However, not every tweet about the situation was directed at Greggs. The social media team was forced to go a step further, proactively ‘butting in’ to other people’s conversations about the debacle.

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If you have an online presence, sign up for a monitoring service such as Google Analytics or Topsy. These automatically scour the web for brand mentions, notifying you when people are discussing your company online. If you see a comment – whether defamatory or positive – about your business, you will be poised to reply and set the record straight.

No two Twitter debacles are the same. However, by studying the reactions of different companies to their own crises, you will be able to respond effectively when disaster comes knocking at your own door.

This article was written by Mark Potter of Namecheap.com, a leading ICANN accredited domain registrar and web host.

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Visible Light: Artist Alexander Harding Reveals Dense Rays of Sunlight Pouring through Windows

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Visible Light: Artist Alexander Harding Reveals Dense Rays of Sunlight Pouring through Windows light

Visible Light: Artist Alexander Harding Reveals Dense Rays of Sunlight Pouring through Windows light

Visible Light: Artist Alexander Harding Reveals Dense Rays of Sunlight Pouring through Windows light

Visible Light: Artist Alexander Harding Reveals Dense Rays of Sunlight Pouring through Windows light

Visible Light: Artist Alexander Harding Reveals Dense Rays of Sunlight Pouring through Windows light

Visible Light: Artist Alexander Harding Reveals Dense Rays of Sunlight Pouring through Windows light

Visible Light: Artist Alexander Harding Reveals Dense Rays of Sunlight Pouring through Windows light

Visible Light: Artist Alexander Harding Reveals Dense Rays of Sunlight Pouring through Windows light

Since 2010, Connecticut-based artist Alexander Harding has worked on a series of photographs titled Visible Light that explores light as a primary subject. His photos reveal dense, ethereal rays of sunshine as it passes through windows, bounces off mirrors, and skews through glass objects, where the light beams are so thick it seems like you could cut it with a knife. Harding says he is inspired in part by artist James Turrell, known for his exceptionally large light installations, and who once stated, “light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.” It would seem Harding has taken those words to heart in his artwork. You can see much more from his Visible Light series here. (via This Isn’t Happiness, I Need a Guide)

 
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Polyphonic Overtone Singing Demonstrated by Anna-Maria Hefele

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This is a great video of polyphonic overtone singing by Anna-Maria Hefele, where she precisely demonstrates the almost inhuman ability to create a harmony of two notes at a time using a single breath. Overtone singing is the same technique used by Tuvan (or Mongolian) throat singers of which there are several other great videos to watch on YouTube. Also check out this demo by Alex Glenfield, or this clip lifted from I’m not sure where. (via Stellar)

 
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