MSDS Insights

Weekly Roundup, February 27, 2012

msdsadmin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:25:44 +0000

It's Monday, which means we've pulled together our top 5 stories uncovered last week in the world of branding, design and marketing. Surefire tips to improve user experience, best practices for nonprofit content, news on Google's personalized search, and Twitter tips for your brand? Read on for more. Want a stream-of-consciousness look at what's got our attention? Follow us daily: @msdsbranding on Twitter.

Maximizing Design Firm Relationships During the Budgeting Process

msdsadmin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:24:38 +0000

Last month I outlined three ways for nonprofits to maximize design firm relationships: Leveraging Simple, actionable strategies to leverage their experience to help with the budgeting process, planning together for stakeholder input, and collaborating on project success metrics. Today I’ll dive a bit deeper into how an experienced design firm provides valuable insights as you’re putting together a budget for your nonprofit’s web redesign project.

Weekly Roundup, February 21, 2012

msdsadmin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:15:30 +0000

We've pulled together our top 5 stories uncovered last week in the world of branding, design and marketing. Surefire tips to improve user experience, best practices for nonprofit content, news on Google's personalized search, and Twitter tips for your brand? Read on for more. Want a stream-of-consciousness look at what's got our attention? Follow us daily: @msdsbranding on Twitter.

Stepping Back From Komen's Brand Disaster

msdsadmin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:44:06 +0000

Now that the dust has settled on the Susan G. Komen Foundation's disastrous and embarrassing handling of their partnership with Planned Parenthood, it's a good time to take a step back and understand how an organization that does so much right could have gotten this one so wrong.

Weekly Roundup, February 13, 2012

msdsadmin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:23:38 +0000

It's Monday, which means of course we've pulled together our top 5 stories uncovered last week in the world of branding, design and marketing. Surefire tips to improve user experience, best practices for nonprofit content, news on Google's personalized search, and Twitter tips for your brand? Read on for more. Want a stream-of-consciousness look at what's got our attention? Follow us daily: @msdsbranding on Twitter.

Weekly Roundup, February 6, 2012

msdsadmin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:13:31 +0000

State of the State of the Union: Power(Point) to the People?

msdsadmin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:31:25 +0000

On January 24th of 2012, President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union address. For the second time, the White House made it available online with a special enhanced broadcast complementing the speech with onscreen presentation graphics.

I know what you're thinking—a Powerpoint from the President? Who does he think he is, Ross Perot? Our founding fathers must be turning in their graves.

Weekly Roundup, January 30, 2012

msdsadmin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:21:02 +0000

6 Great Interactive Data Visualization Tools (Part 2)

msdsadmin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:55:56 +0000

Welcome back for the second part of my series on interactive data visualization (dataviz) tools. In part one, we covered three cool tools for visualizing charts and graphs and many other data types on a webpage. In part two, we take a look at three more tools that are a bit more complex but have some incredible data visualization capabilities.

Weekly Roundup, January 23, 2012

msdsadmin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:33:29 +0000