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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.Here's an excerpt:The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. ...

I will take at the event that is going on under the slogan: Think Thank&Design Master Classes. Get INVOLVED!, in Hamburg on June 14th, 2011.It is a gathering for brand managers, designers, and developers. There will be an exchange of strategies and technologies, joint by brand consistency in digital all around us. That's the promise. I'll report what actually happened. Twitter hash-tag is #brandperfect.The whole event will take place at Hotel East Hamburg at Simon-von-Utrecht Straße 3, 20359 Hamburg.Morning sessions for all include:Where the Brand Breaks (English) with Scott Ewings, Geschäftsführer, FjordSchrift & Benutzerfreundlichkeit in den Neuen Medien with Dan Reynolds, Schriftdesigner & typografischer Berater,LinotypeIhre Marke im digitalen Raum, discussion mit Alessio Leonardi (Moderator)One Web: Designing for Mobile and the Desktop (Englisch) with Phillip Clement, Marketingleiter, bemokoIn the afternoon, I applied for theUser Interface Design (English) with Ken Soohoo,...

Well, Halvorson said that if you or your organisation has a website, then you are a publisher but I guess my claim could also hold in this web 2.0 times (or are we already 3.0?). One other thing to keep in mind is that this is not a book about web writing. It’s about content strategy – for the web....

They say that at this event we are going to design, develop and present a brand new service in just 48 hours.My master plan or my big idea is: automatic production of designed business, academic and financial reports. So I'm quite curious what will be the ideas from other members of the GSJ11 in Rotterdam? And what will be the feedback on my idea/problem/plan?I'll report how is it going. Probably on Twitter [@marksavic]. Or even will try to make some kind of a presentation.So, please if interested, join me. I'm heading for Rotterdam from Berlin on Friday, March 11. The event is taking place at:Rotterdam University of Applied SciencesSchool of Communication, Media and Information TechnologyPieter de Hoochweg 1293024 BG RotterdamNetherlandsThe event lasts two full days, till Sunday afternoon, March 13.There are still places available, I...

"Studies have shown that design-oriented firms in all kinds of industries have outperformed their more-traditional peers—that design and innovation go hand-in-hand with financial success."—Design CouncilAt highly driven design companies they have a differentiation strategy where design is at their core. Those kinds of companies are market leaders’ through design innovation. This is reflected in the non-technological innovations that are first-to-market in opposition to so-called me-to innovations where design innovations are copied by followers.—adapted from Kootstra, 2009In these two quotes, you will find the answer. I would like to develop my own company, already a strategic design consultancy, Vizuarna into a design innovations company. That is non-technological innovations. And in that manner, I have an idea of how to help other companies/organizations/students in their reporting efforts. More to follow. Stay tuned. :)Sources:Duarte, Nancy. 2008. slide:0logy. The...

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health:The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 8,100 times in 2010. That's about 19 full 747s.In 2010, there were 35 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 59 posts. There were 38 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 26mb. That's about 3 pictures per month.The busiest day of the year was February 2nd with 180 views. The most popular post that day was How to present the Importance of Design Strategy to your CEO?.Where did they come from?The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, en.search.wordpress.com, twitter.com, lilita-mosca.blogspot.com, and en.wordpress.com.Some visitors came searching, mostly for...