Okay, so this isn’t exactly groundbreaking news, but Manifest has just launched it’s own URL shortener at http://mnfst.co
It’s pretty much the same as any other URL shortener (with a nifty bookmarklet) so if you’re bored of your bit.ly and tired of ow.ly then give it a go.
It’s only a small thing, but it means we can customise links and make our tweets and Facebook posts that bit more Manifest. Loads of publishers do it, such as Mashable and Techcrunch, but it’s quite rare for brands to have their own. I’m not really sure why, as it’s a nice, simple and subtle way to keep things consistent. We’ll be building the shortener into our new look Digital Newsroom soon, but that’s as far as I’ll go in terms of giving away the amazing new features. Keep ‘em peeled for the launch.
Anyway, I just thought I’d shed some light on why our links look a little bit different. Go on, give it a try…
Manifest has said a big warm welcome to its newest creative recruit, James Greenway – but fear not, the queue for #ManifestBrews isn’t getting longer as James prefers to hang by the water cooler.
James, a Manchester Met illustration and animation graduate, and a super-cool snowboard instructor, free-styled his way to the Manifest team through his stylistic approach to design and illustration.
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Never afraid to get our hands dirty, us PR girls, had a trip out of the office this week to see the sights of geotechnical specialists Bachy Soletanche’s latest groundworks project in Preston. We like to understand our clients from the ground up and Bachy Soletanche is no exception – especially when it comes to learning about diaphragm wall shafts and secant piled walls.
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In autumn 2009 the Design Council conducted its second comprehensive survey of the UK design industry and has now published its findings.
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Check out this cool interactive map of the world – highlighting the dominant social network in each country. It would be much more useful if it had a ‘leaderboard’ of networks for each country and membership numbers etc, but surely that’s a matter of time (in fact, clicking through to the data set shows it really is embarrassingly top-line – but the possibility for doing all of the above appears to be there).
Unsurprisingly the map is dominated by Facebook, but it’s interesting to see where other networks have a stronghold.
‘Many Eyes’ is something I’m going to check out in a bit more detail too…
10th December 2010
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