DesignBay is a crowdsourcing marketplace for logo design, web design and graphic design. DesignBay helps businesses get 25 to 100+ designs from designers around the world.  Its mission is to give designers opportunities and to provide businesses with risk-free creativity.

DesignBay is one of 12 exhibitors being showcased at the Webciety section this year at CeBIT Australia 2009. DesignBay are holding a crowd sourcing experiment using Twitter during CeBIT which is a great concept that I hope gets a lot traction.

The DesignBay Crowdsourcing Experiment

The Experiment

Task: Invent a tagline (with fewer than 100 characters) for Australia’’s 2018 Soccer World Cup Bid.  Tagline should summarise why Australia should be selected to host the World Cup.  View the taglines submitted so far here.

Prize: $100 and 1 year of good karma

How to submit: send your 100 character tagline to Twitter by writing a Twitter message that starts with @DesignBay_com #webciety #aust-2018-cup.

Deadline: Midnight 14th May 2009

More details on the DesignBay crowdsourcing experiment

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I’m always on the look out for productivity hacks. Twitter has become a part of my daily routine and something that if not managed correctly can hog your time and attention. Using some Web 2.0 applications, I’ve come up with a process to help improve your productivity for tweeting links, without having to leave your browser – I like to call it, “inline tweeting”

This system will improve your Twitter productivity:

• A lot of tweets from the people I’m following contain a link. Using this process you will save time in posting your links without having to open twitter.com or your desktop twitter application. Tagging with delicious will automatically grab the page title and the links saving you time in writing your message & shortening the URL
• By using twitter I find that I use my RSS readers a lot less. This process forces me to keep a good library of bookmarks in delicious which I can then read on my iPhone in Google Reader
• You don’t have to have twitter.com or any twitter app open allowing you to tweet whilst browsing without the distraction from other messages on twitter

Want to begin inline tweeting? Here’s the step-by-step process:

Step 1: Sign-up for Del.icio.us

• Create a delicious account – link to sign up page

Step 2: Install the Delicious Firefox add-on

• During the signup process, if you didnt install the del.icio.us Firefox add-on you can download it here

Step 3: Tagging your bookmarks

• When tagging a bookmark create a unique tag that will be used for posting that bookmark to Twitter – I use tweet as my tag.
  
• Log-in to your delicious account at delicious.com
• Click on your unique tag, in my case the tag “tweet”
• Click on “RSS Feed for these bookmarks”. This will open the RSS feed for all bookmarks tagged “tweet”. The URL of this RSS feed is important and will need to be pasted in to twitterfeed in the next step.
  

Step 4: Setup your Twitterfeed

• Visit twitterfeed.com
• Login using your preferred method
• Go to Create new twitter feed
• Type in your twitter username and password
• In the field, RSS Feed URL: paste in the URL of the RSS feed for your “tweet” tag from Step 3
• Change the update frequency to every 30 minutes, and to pust up to 5 new updates each time.
• On the Include… dropdown menu, change it to “title only”

• Once filled in, click “Create” and it will be setup!

Now that it’s setup, do some tagging in Firefox with the tag “tweet” and confirm they post to your Twitter account (Note: It takes about 1 hour for the first tweet to appear on your twitter profile)

Tips:

• You can automatically post to multiple twitter accounts by having a tag used specifically for each Twitter account. eg: tweetaccount1 & tweetaccount2 both producing their own unique RSS feed which can then be setup in twitterfeed.
• You can have Twitterfeed automatically shorten your URL’s using bit.ly (my preferred URL shortening service) by changing it to “Shorten link through bit.ly”.

Lastly, the guys at twitterfeed deserve a donation for providing such an awesome service – donate via PayPal.

Follow me on Twitter

I’d love to hear your feedback in the comments below. Cheers!

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So I’ve made the big step in my personal career… I’ve decided to move on from the promotional products industry. What are promotional products? Promotional products are merchandise/gift items that can be branded with your company logo and given out to help in marketing your business. 

I worked in a role where I worked in every aspect of the business – sales, management, marketing, web development etc. and got to know the industry inside out. I still have a strong passion for promotional products but I want to explore the online web marketing realm and see what opportunities exist for me to further my skills and build on my hobbies and interests.

Entrepreneurism.net.au is my stomping ground; where my endless thoughts will hopefully find a home. Time permitting, I will be keeping this space up to date with the latest news and developments across a number of areas:

Business

I love challenges and the business world gives me an opportunity to push my abilities to their limits in developing solutions for clients. Expect to see the latest business news accompanied by some commentary and opinion that will hopefully make you stop and think.

Marketing

My marketing strategies are built on Return on Investment (ROI). I will be keeping grounded within the latest happenings and trends and providing some advice for businesses as to what’s hot and what’s not for marketing their business.

Online Marketing

I thoroughly enjoy Search Engine Marketing (SEM). My new job will give me the opportunity to take this hobby to the next level in being able to provide consultation to clients in this area – divising strategies for their Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns and Social Media online marketing campaigns. Expect to see some good tips and insight in to this field.

Productivity

I am a productivity junkie. Being time poor (aren’t we all?) I’m always looking for a way to do things smarter and more quickly. I will be sharing some reviews and tips on productivity tools that I use to make my day easier.

Technology

I love gadgets, gizmos and cool tech. I will cover off the latest desktop and mobile technology with product reviews and technology developments.

The above categories encompass the main reasons why I wanted to create this blog – but do expect the odd random funny or off-beat post here and then!

So there – my intro post finished.. Now to work on some content that is actually worth reading! haha..

I hope you enjoy what this blog has to offer

Cheers!

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