It started rather innocently. An instant messenger for the world wide web. But it has quickly grown into a phenomenon that took off as a titan of social media networking for the world! In fact, this pop culture forum may soon replace sliced bread as the standard of comparison excellence. Gone will be the days of declaring that an item or event is the ’…greatest thing since sliced bread’, as a new era is ushered in by this massive minimal character movement. Too far, you say. Well would anyone have …

After a couple months of planning, a month and a half of developing and testing, and a couple of anxious days doing some final tweaks, our Directory for Designers is running live! This social media networking hub will hopefully act to consolidate designer information from the various places we gather online and make it easier to find and follow the community through the maze of media networks. A central search point for designers at the cyberspace haunts that we use to share, promote, and inform the community at large.
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Traffic is an important measure of a blog’s success among the community, and helps to set the rates essentially for advertising revenues for the site. But with so many different systems and trackers, not to mention some potentially problematic sources, the numbers might not be quite ‘right’. Now by that, we mean that the numbers may not actually be reflected accurately, and the type of traffic that you are getting may be the wrong kind of traffic. The kind that hurts more than it necessarily helps. There are certain measurements …

An important tool for any designer looking to get started building a following and establishing their presence in the vast sea of cyberspace, is Social Media Networking. It’s role can no longer be denied as the invaluable asset that it has become for the unestablished and established blogger alike. So many ways to connect and share with the websidents that previously may not have had such a direct line to finding your world wide whereabouts. And so many networks are springing up to help bring more connectivity into the community, …

As promised, the Arbenting duo has put together a couple of social media icon sets for our readers, and anyone else who’d like to use them. We made both clean and distressed versions of our first set and we hope you all enjoy them.

Download the Distressed Social Media Icon Set

Download the Clean Social Media Icon Set
And speaking of social media networking, we have another announcement of things to come. There may be an icon in the above sets that you don’t recognize. We are working adamantly on a new project …