My latest blog post at Six Revisions came out today, 10 Great Tips for Using Twitter as a Designer. Twitter has taken off in the last few years, with a traffic rate that has overtaken Myspace now. It can be a powerful tool if utilized as a designer or any working professional. Check out my list of tips and helpful hints that will aid you in getting the most out of your online networking possibilities on Twitter.

See full post at Six Revisions.

We started the SEO series last Monday by taking a brief look at Search Engine Rankings and what Search Engine Optimization really means. Today, we’ll talk about Google Analytics, a handy free tool that helps people track users and statistics on their site.

As we discussed before, SEO is way to optimize your site, improving your search rankings and thereby helping users find you more easily on search engines. After implementing SEO techniques on your site, it’s important to track how beneficial your efforts were and what might help you do better.

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More and more people are looking to improve their search engine rankings. They want their company to come up first in their given category, or at least on the first page of results. But in order to improve your rankings, you have to understand how search engines like Google go about ranking sites and what exactly Search Engine Optimization means. We practice clean SEO here at Snoack Studios, and will share some of our tips in increasing your SEO in an honest and fair manner.

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A logo is a piece of art in itself. One small mark represents the whole company. It must tell customers what kind of product or service the company sells, who the company is targeting, and what they stand for. That’s a lot of stuff for one logo to accomplish, but the great ones do just that. Here are some excellent marks to be inspired by.

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Some people don’t enjoy resolutions, they say they are just meaningless wishes that are too easily broken. But I love resolutions. I enjoy the fact that the new year gets everyone thinking about goals, which is what resolutions are to me. It’s a definitive point each year where you have the chance to think about how you can better yourself, your company, your work. I welcome this time each year and I’d like to share 6 resolutions that I think are important for every designer to take to heart this year and every year in the future! We often get too busy working on projects and forget about the important things that will help bring our designs to a new level.

1. Push yourself each and every project. Never be satisfied with your abilities, always strive to grow as a designer with each project, even if it’s a small step each time and you’ll get better and better each year.

2. Design something everyday. Follow a new tutorial, design a project for yourself, or do some free work as a donation. There are tons of ways to get yourself designing everyday. Smashing Magazine has a great article on this one, challenging each of us to spend at least 15-20 minutes per day designing.

3. Never stop learning. Keep finding new things you’d like to learn and new ways to improve your skills. The design world is ever-changing and there’s always a new language to learn and a new tutorial to follow.

4. Find inspiration in new places. Inspiration is all over the place and it’s not only important to look at websites as a website designer but also to look at fun packaging, great photography, and amazing pottery. There are tons of artforms out there that can provide inspiration and a new idea may spark from a different source than you’d think.

5. Get involved by attending a design conference, take a class or find a new way to get inspired and jump start your motivation. Being in a group of people that are excited about their profession is a great way to learn and an awesome way to get excited.

6. Network with other designers. Social media is huge right now and connecting with other designers has never been easier. Follow other designers on Twitter, chat on blogs, find people on Digg, StumbleUpon, or LinkedIn. Networking can bring about tons of new opportunities and resources, stuff that was out of reach before.

Happy New Year to all, I hope you are inspired to set some resolutions for yourself that are worth keeping this year!