How to Add a Twitter Button to Your Blog: All Possible Options

Twitter is recognized as one of the best viral marketing tools. So if you have a good post you think might go viral  Twitter is your best bet to attract people’s and ‘linkers’ attention to it. One of the most important steps in turning Twitter into an effective viral marketing tool is to make the sharing process “smooth” –...

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Using Pinterest to Grow Your Business

?What is Pinterest Pinterest is a visual bookmarking site. Each pin on the virtual pinboard or corkboard links to an external website. People share, discover, and comment on others Pinterests. You can create boards based on a theme or topic. For me that might be social media news, cooking, and non-fiction books. Followers can choose just to follow my marketing or social media pins without having to get updates on my workout...

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A Million Ways To Say I Love You for St. Valentine’s Day

There are a million ways to say “I love you.” For example …… taking a beautiful shotPhoto by takuya miyamoto*… touching tenderlyPhoto by Martyn @ Negaro… leaving an “I love you” note in the morningPhoto by jessica.diamond… writing a love poemPhoto by Tayrawr Fortune… letting everyone know how deep your love isPhoto by pizzodisevo… lighting...

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Artificial Matters: New Sensations through Texture, Geometry, Coloration, and Finish

Rather than taking the “true” or literal approach to materials, this project designed by Dave Bantz andMichael Gross attempts to adopt techniques mastered by artists and apply them at an architectural scale. Material in art is used as a representational device for effects and a gateway to sensation. The”Artificial Matters” studio, run by SCI-arc professor Elena Manferdini, aims to provoke new sensations through texture, geometry,...

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TMW Technical Museum Entrance Foyer / Querkraft Architects

Querkraft Architects, together with the Technical Museum of Vienna, designed a new entrance foyer and shop for the existing building. Older museum buildings are challenged to expand and modernize whilst remaining attached to their existing historical structures. In the 90s the technical museum faced precisely this difficulty as it tried to gain more space for a larger entrance foyer, a new museum shop and café as well as sufficient...

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Using Photoshop, Photographer Creates Mind-Boggling Buildings

Using Photoshop, Spanish photographer Victor Enrich has manipulated his own images of buildings to create surreal structures that border on the whimsical. Stripping buildings of science and logic, Enrich makes towers unzip, roads go upward, even a “fries” building and other mind-boggling distortions. Yet, the parallel universe...

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