Invasion of the pie charts

I thought it would be fun to revisit your responses to the Friday polls with the help of a few trusty pie charts (based on responses received up to last night). Enjoy these completely unscientific insights into the Forum membership.

Monday link roundup, 12.28.09

Every Monday we'll post a roundup of interesting communications news and articles. What have you been reading, listening to, and watching? Add a comment or suggest a link for next week.

Design

• The Book Cover Archive
  "for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design." I'm especially loving the cover of You Are Not A Gadget (pictured).
  


• The Color of 2010
  Make way for Pantone 15-5519 TCX

Web

• The Content Strategist as Digital Curator
  "In this way, the content-strategist-as-curator is the invaluable human
  presence. They play the role of the guide (docent) by proposing topics
  for discussion."


• There is no page fold
  A subject about which many feel strongly. Duke it out in the comments.

Query: What are you cooking?

No matter your religious or non-religious leanings, chances are there is a lot of food around you lately.

I am not a prolific cook, so to any given event I'll probably bring one of three things I know I'm good at: chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies, black bean dip, or dill and soy burgers.

What are your potluck specialties? Can you share a favorite recipe?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meddygarnet/ / CC BY 2.0

Event Planning Online: 14 Essential Social Media Tools

Here's a cool posting from Mashable about using social media for event planning--from managing the planning of your event to invitations, marketing to enhancing the guests' experience.

Event Planning Online: 14 Essential Social Media Tools
http://mashable.com/2009/12/13/event-planning-tools/

Link Roundup

Every week we post a roundup of interesting articles, links, etc., relating
to communications-focused topics. What have you been reading, listening
to, and watching? Add a comment or suggest a link for next week.

I've had design on the mind lately and here are a few ideas moments of inspiration:

The NY Times Opinionator Allison Arieff's posts are great but infrequent.

The SF Gate's Day in Pictures makes me think about composition.

When I want to try some new fonts, I play around something from: Font Squirrel.

Poll: Do you feel secure in your job?

Link roundup

Every week we post a roundup of interesting articles, links, etc..., relating to communications-focused topics. What have you been reading, listening to, and watching? Add a comment or suggest a link for next week.

 

Here are a few ideas:

E-mail sign-up done right

Brain Traffic's blog talks a lot about content and the Web.

Check out slides from a Mima social media presentation: http://ow.ly/Bd8D.