We did quite some research when creating a new website for Used Cars and Trucks for our customer Magnetic Transport Surplus in Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao.

Just as with any other website, cars and trucks websites want to achieve certain goals: to attract customers and potential buyers – in other words sell – and to build a reputation on the Internet and brand themselves.

Branding requires a lot of research and development, especially in terms of Logo Design and Icon Design. While there are brilliant and high-paid professionals doing exactly just that – and I have met some of the best – this demands budgets that are far out of reach for new or relatively young companies.

Accordingly, the web designer will often be asked to come up with integrated solutions that work both online and offline.

This is a service our professional Web Design South Africa Team can provide. Please visit our brand-new  SHOWCASE HERE  for the latest Web Design examples.

Before publishing this article, I checked “Cars and Trucks Images” to capture what is currently seen there – right now at 11:55 am:

Why?

People react more to images – visuals – than to text. While our original content remains the main issue in terms of keywords and especially tags, Google picks up our photos and pictures as well as you see on the above screenshot.

As my regular routine test, I will see where my Cars and Trucks Image will land in terms of ranking – and how fast – after I publish right now, at 12:30 pm!

It’s always an interesting exercise… so above we have the ‘before’ image and let’s see how it looks ‘after’ the publication of this article!

Wedding Album Websites are ideal when starting off a new family with a visual bang! and then developing the initial Wedding Website into a very versatile Family Album as is planned on this example here.

Clearly, you want to own your family website – but you may ask… why, if it’s ‘free’ on Social Networks, genre Facebook?

Well – firstly, nothing is free on the Internet, that’s unfortunately an illusion and you risk becoming disillusioned rather fast when you see how your content on social networks serves one major purpose: to build THAT network and taking control over YOUR content, even the most private and precious. If you have no problem with that and you don’t mind being caught in a herd that’s easily manipulated and even sold … fine.

If you rather want to be in control of your own online destiny and that of your future family – think of your wedding album images for instance – then look at this very affordable and elegant wedding album solution.

One investment will set you free – especially as a newly married couple!

Create Your animated 3D Logo Tonight

Let’s have some fun tonight at our relaxed Friday session: create your 3D Logo and make it spin!

For tonight’s participants we have a great logo creator in store which you may want to try out … and keep for future use.

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Bianca Logo

or click on the below to see the animation:

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Bianca 3D Logo

The Download link will be disabled in 3 hours from now!

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Create a Favicon with Photoshop

While you are working on your image or brand, you may want to create your custom favicon which will display in your visitors browser tabs as a small image.

Here is how to create your favicon.

Create your Favicon

Before you start, you need to add a plug-in to your Photoshop to allow saving your image in .ico format.

1. Download the plug-in from here.

2. Unzip and extract the files.

3. Load the file ICOFormat.8bi into your Photoshop plug-ins folder. (This is typically in drive C under Programm Files – Adobe – Photoshop CS4 – Plug-ins)

4. Fire up your Photoshop and create a new image with size 64×64 pixels (the icon will be saved as 16×16 pixels but it’s easier to create on a bigger format).

Favicon Design 64×64

Favicon Design 64x64

Favicon Icon 16×16

Favicon Icon 16x16

When resizing the image from 64 pixels to 16 pixels, resample the image with ‘Bicubic Sharper’.

5. ‘Save as’ and select the .ico format.

6. Place the image as ‘favicon.ico’ into the root folder of your domain and add the link to the header script of your site.

Done.

Join our call tonight at YorgoTalk for further tips.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Student Salon at Create Me Beauty Academy

Create Me Beauty Academy made name in the area for their top quality beauty courses they offers. Now they are proud to announce that they offer a Student Salon in Diaz Beach Mossel Bay.

The Student Salon in Mossel Bay will be open to the public on Wednesdays and during school holidays.

Facials and Eye Treatments in Mossel Bay at the Student Salon, Create Me Beauty Academy

Facials   @ R100

Eyelash tint    @  R15

Brow tint & shape  @  R20

Eyelash, brow tint & Shape @  R30

Massages in Mossel Bay

Back massage  @ R50

Full Body massage   @ R100

Wax in Mossel Bay

1/2 leg wax (Below the knee) @ R50

¾ leg wax (Above the knee) @ R60

Full leg   @ R90

Bikini     @  R60

Underarm   @ R30

Brow/lip    @ R15

Hand and Feet Treatments in Mossel Bay

Manicure    @ R50

Full Pedicure  @  R80

For more information click on visit our website

Create Me Beauty Academy made name in the area for their top quality beauty courses they offers. Now they are proud to announce that they offer a Student Salon in Diaz Beach Mossel Bay.

The Student Salon in Mossel Bay will be open to the public on Wednesdays and during school holidays.

Facials and Eye Treatments in Mossel Bay at the Student Salon, Create Me Beauty Academy

Facials   @ R100
Eyelash tint    @  R15
Brow tint & shape  @  R20
Eyelash, brow tint & Shape @  R30

Massages in Mossel Bay

Back massage  @ R50
Full Body massage   @ R100

Wax in Mossel Bay

1/2 leg wax (Below the knee) @ R50
¾ leg wax (Above the knee) @ R60
Full leg   @ R90
Bikini     @  R60
Underarm   @ R30
Brow/lip    @ R15

Hand and Feet Treatments in Mossel Bay

Manicure    @ R50
Full Pedicure  @  R80

For more information click on visit our website

South Africa Beauty Academy

Mossel Bay Beauty Academy

Create Me Beauty Academy in Mossel Bay,  first opened their doors in June 2012 under the ownership of Danica du Plessis, a qualified beauty therapist, who graduated from the Elizabeth Beauty Academy (Port Elizabeth) in 2004. Here Danica achieved her Cibtac, Itec as well as Seta Diplomas. Opening Create Me Beauty Academy was a dream come true for Danica.

Beauty Treatment in Mossel Bay

Students of Create Me Beauty Academy in Mossel Bay will have a choice of training in the following beauty treatments and techniques; skincare and eye treatments, manicures and pedicures, hair removal, make-up , massages as well as Electronic Face Treatments.

Professional Beauty Therapists in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Create Me Beauty Academy offers those who wish to pursue a career in skincare and excellent not-to-be-missed opportunity to get trained by professional beauty therapists in a scenic and relaxed atmosphere of Diaz Beach, South Africa.

For more information on enrolling for a course at Create Me Beauty Academy

South Africa Beauty Academy

Mossel Bay Beauty Academy

Create Me Beauty Academy in Mossel Bay,  first opened their doors in June 2012 under the ownership of Danica du Plessis, a qualified beauty therapist, who graduated from the Elizabeth Beauty Academy (Port Elizabeth) in 2004. Here Danica achieved her Cibtac, Itec as well as Seta Diplomas. Opening Create Me Beauty Academy was a dream come true for Danica.

Beauty Treatment in Mossel Bay

Students of Create Me Beauty Academy in Mossel Bay will have a choice of training in the following beauty treatments and techniques; skincare and eye treatments, manicures and pedicures, hair removal, make-up , massages as well as Electronic Face Treatments.

Professional Beauty Therapists in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Create Me Beauty Academy offers those who wish to pursue a career in skincare and excellent not-to-be-missed opportunity to get trained by professional beauty therapists in a scenic and relaxed atmosphere of Diaz Beach, South Africa.

For more information on enrolling for a course at Create Me Beauty Academy

South Africa Beauty Academy

Mossel Bay Beauty Academy

Create Me Beauty Academy in Mossel Bay,  first opened their doors in June 2012 under the ownership of Danica du Plessis, a qualified beauty therapist, who graduated from the Elizabeth Beauty Academy (Port Elizabeth) in 2004. Here Danica achieved her Cibtac, Itec as well as Seta Diplomas. Opening Create Me Beauty Academy was a dream come true for Danica.

Beauty Treatment in Mossel Bay

Students of Create Me Beauty Academy in Mossel Bay will have a choice of training in the following beauty treatments and techniques; skincare and eye treatments, manicures and pedicures, hair removal, make-up , massages as well as Electronic Face Treatments.

Professional Beauty Therapists in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Create Me Beauty Academy offers those who wish to pursue a career in skincare and excellent not-to-be-missed opportunity to get trained by professional beauty therapists in a scenic and relaxed atmosphere of Diaz Beach, South Africa.

For more information on enrolling for a course at Create Me Beauty Academy

Mossel Bay Beauty Academy

Create Me Beauty Academy in Mossel Bay,  first opened their doors in June 2012 under the ownership of Danica du Plessis, a qualified beauty therapist, who graduated from the Elizabeth Beauty Academy (Port Elizabeth) in 2004. Here Danica achieved her Cibtac, Itec as well as Seta Diplomas. Opening Create Me Beauty Academy was a dream come true for Danica.

Beauty Treatment in Mossel Bay

Students of Create Me Beauty Academy in Mossel Bay will have a choice of training in the following beauty treatments and techniques; skincare and eye treatments, manicures and pedicures, hair removal, make-up , massages as well as Electronic Face Treatments.

Professional Beauty Therapists in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Create Me Beauty Academy offers those who wish to pursue a career in skincare and excellent not-to-be-missed opportunity to get trained by professional beauty therapists in a scenic and relaxed atmosphere of Diaz Beach, South Africa.

For more information on enrolling for a course at Create Me Beauty Academy

Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave

Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave – I am excited about this future-oriented new Communication and Collaboration tool on the Web – and I thank the friend who invited me. As yes. . .  it needs an invitation… and it’s early days. However,  Google Wave can only be as good as the people who actually have it, set it up, test it, work with it and play with it. People like you and me who firstly create and then ride the Google Wave. . .

The Internet is a pretty wet affair… from surfing to waving. . . we stay in the waters and if I look outside it’s a wave all over, a curtain of a wave of pouring rain, day and night, since a week… where is our sunny, hot and simply stunning South African summer? A summer we love to spend on Noordhoek Beach as the kid below just a month or so ago. . . ?

Let’s quickly look at Google Wave. It has a simple layout consisting of 4 modules:

* Navigation in the left column, top – consider it your Inbox

* Contacts in the left column, bottom – sort of your Addressbook or List of Friends (with pictures)

* List of Active Waves in your Inbox – in the middle column

* New or Open Wave in the right column – here is where things happen, here you can write, comment, add images, respond via audio or video, add gadgets (like games, puzzles, ratings, conferences, Google Earth…)  and robots ( eg. for surveys amongst Wave collaborators).

If you are fortunate enough to get a Google Wave account, do what I did right away and check out the many short yet explicit videos that illustrate the many features – and then play with them!

Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave

As with any Social Network, you want to set up your Profile in a professional and branded way. Besides, Google is the Master of the Internet in a way and has found the many versions of YOU anyway – be it in form of Blogs, Websites and other Links.

My Profile about “Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave” is a reflection of what I set up on my general Bio and Profile HERE. If you wish to have a Profile that you can link to from everywhere on the Internet, register for a free account right there and I teach you how to have your own Google-efficient page. Once done, you never have to worry about it again. . . just do the occasional update. The difference here is that this page is under YOUR control – not that of any Social Network or other Program. Be and stay independent – as far as that’s possible on Web2.0.

What still needs to be added is my Picasa Album, which I will do in the near future – then it’s all about the Wave!

What do you do on Google Wave?

A good question: What do you do on Google Wave?

Google Wave is still in a development stage and I assume that those who are fortunate enough to test it right now will provide lots of feedback and valuable input for improvements and adaptations to common needs.

Once the excitement of the new trend is over, I could imagine a very useful tool to work directly on projects with ones’ collaborators and partners from anywhere in the world. This is the thrilling concept behind it as far as I am concerned. If one can stop the spam before it starts and really work within an open yet private and respected environment – that would be perfect!

Here are just a few Benefits that simply trigger faster Action more often:

* The moment someone comes online, one would know through the green mark. Action!

* The moment a wave is updated or gets a new comment, one would know and be able to check immediately without losing time. Action!

* If something needs commenting – it’s instant, whether in the open or in form of private replies.

* If something needs the direct contact – say a document or article needs to be discussed in real time – voila! Let’s talk or even start a conference! Instant Action!

These are amazing possibilities saving  time and making teamwork faster, smoother and more efficient – not to speak about excluding misunderstandings right away through immediate interaction.
What always amazes me with Google is the amount of foresight and preparation at the highest levels. But then if not them… who else could deliver at that level in the virtual world?

So let’s learn all about the new tool and expect lots more to be coming from Google Wave in the future!

Learn Google Wave at Ycademy Seminars

To learn more about Google Wave at Ycademy Seminars get one of the few privileged tickets for the Ycademy November Seminar on 21 and 22 November 2009, totally online and recorded for Seminar participants! Knowledge is Power – and Ycademy Seminars add Action to it, guiding you forward on your personal “Path to Profitability”.

. . .

Read more…

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• Branding your Website
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Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave

Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave – I am excited about this future-oriented new Communication and Collaboration tool on the Web – and I thank the friend who invited me. As yes. . .  it needs an invitation… and it’s early days. However,  Google Wave can only be as good as the people who actually have it, set it up, test it, work with it and play with it. People like you and me who firstly create and then ride the Google Wave. . .

The Internet is a pretty wet affair… from surfing to waving. . . we stay in the waters and if I look outside it’s a wave all over, a curtain of a wave of pouring rain, day and night, since a week… where is our sunny, hot and simply stunning South African summer? A summer we love to spend on Noordhoek Beach as the kid below just a month or so ago. . . ?

Let’s quickly look at Google Wave. It has a simple layout consisting of 4 modules:

* Navigation in the left column, top – consider it your Inbox

* Contacts in the left column, bottom – sort of your Addressbook or List of Friends (with pictures)

* List of Active Waves in your Inbox – in the middle column

* New or Open Wave in the right column – here is where things happen, here you can write, comment, add images, respond via audio or video, add gadgets (like games, puzzles, ratings, conferences, Google Earth…)  and robots ( eg. for surveys amongst Wave collaborators).

If you are fortunate enough to get a Google Wave account, do what I did right away and check out the many short yet explicit videos that illustrate the many features – and then play with them!

Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave

As with any Social Network, you want to set up your Profile in a professional and branded way. Besides, Google is the Master of the Internet in a way and has found the many versions of YOU anyway – be it in form of Blogs, Websites and other Links.

My Profile about “Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave” is a reflection of what I set up on my general Bio and Profile HERE. If you wish to have a Profile that you can link to from everywhere on the Internet, register for a free account right there and I teach you how to have your own Google-efficient page. Once done, you never have to worry about it again. . . just do the occasional update. The difference here is that this page is under YOUR control – not that of any Social Network or other Program. Be and stay independent – as far as that’s possible on Web2.0.

What still needs to be added is my Picasa Album, which I will do in the near future – then it’s all about the Wave!

What do you do on Google Wave?

A good question: What do you do on Google Wave?

Google Wave is still in a development stage and I assume that those who are fortunate enough to test it right now will provide lots of feedback and valuable input for improvements and adaptations to common needs.

Once the excitement of the new trend is over, I could imagine a very useful tool to work directly on projects with ones’ collaborators and partners from anywhere in the world. This is the thrilling concept behind it as far as I am concerned. If one can stop the spam before it starts and really work within an open yet private and respected environment – that would be perfect!

Here are just a few Benefits that simply trigger faster Action more often:

* The moment someone comes online, one would know through the green mark. Action!

* The moment a wave is updated or gets a new comment, one would know and be able to check immediately without losing time. Action!

* If something needs commenting – it’s instant, whether in the open or in form of private replies.

* If something needs the direct contact – say a document or article needs to be discussed in real time – voila! Let’s talk or even start a conference! Instant Action!

These are amazing possibilities saving  time and making teamwork faster, smoother and more efficient – not to speak about excluding misunderstandings right away through immediate interaction.
What always amazes me with Google is the amount of foresight and preparation at the highest levels. But then if not them… who else could deliver at that level in the virtual world?

So let’s learn all about the new tool and expect lots more to be coming from Google Wave in the future!

Learn Google Wave at Ycademy Seminars

To learn more about Google Wave at Ycademy Seminars get one of the few privileged tickets for the Ycademy November Seminar on 21 and 22 November 2009, totally online and recorded for Seminar participants! Knowledge is Power – and Ycademy Seminars add Action to it, guiding you forward on your personal “Path to Profitability”.

. . .

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• YORGOO Blaster for Online Tax Filing
• Your biggest Capital Online
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Facebook Fanpage

Creating a Facebook Fanpage from our WordPress has become possible and, accordingly, this month’s (current) Ycademy Seminar November 2011 focuses on setting up the Best WP based Facebook Fanpage based on our purpose and online media marketing requirements.

Facebook Fanpage

The question to ask ourselves is: “Who would we like to attract… where… how… and why?” and definitely, we would only want to ‘talk’ to serious people who have an interest in what we are doing, offering or showing them and from where we can expect some interesting ‘conversation’. I am still amazed how this form of terminology is being translated and adapted to a modern online format – but since this is fast becoming the norm, we’ve got to learn the language and be … ‘cool’. LOL

How do we do this – especially if we don’t have the time nor the interest of hanging out on Social Networks all day long as we are busy doing our real business – in my case Web Design and Media related stuff that needs absolute focus, concentration and trips in the ‘real’ world without even a smartphone or any other form of line to attach me … duuuh, which Aquarius likes that anyway???

Talking Facebook Fanpage right now, this is what we are elaborating right now. . . and what you see above is my so-called “Reveal Page”.

What does this mean?

It simply means that only people who have clicked on “Like” get the Inside Story! To others this remains hidden… So while online marketing remains a numbers game at the end of the day, this kind of approach definitely puts quality (meaning the quality of an online relationship…) above quantity.

Having spent some time on Social Networks over the past 2 months or so, and having built some contact of value… I can say, this is what I ‘like’.

Web Design with Passion

My Author Blog Bianca Gubalke stands for “Web Design with Passion” which obviously encompasses many areas of interest… be it Web Development, Web Design, Media Design, Photography, Graphic Design, Editing and Publishing to name the main categories. Once the Facebook Fanpage has been ‘liked’, these categories can be directly accessed and conversation can begin.

The technical setup and implementation will be subject of today’s second day at the Ycademy Seminar. I will be back soon!

Communication with Birds

Communication with Birds is a red thread through my life. . . but this was definitely a Cape White-eye SOS this morning! Panic in my garden!

Social Networks

These tiny birds form large “social networks” outside the breeding season and often visit flowering bushes or berry-bearing plants in large flocks – appearing like shimmering clouds feeding on insects and nectar, berries, fruit and small grains.

As in all Social Networks (in one way or another), Cape White-eyes are very vocal and can easily be distinguished by their soft trilled pee, pree or pirreee callnotes that they use to stay connected, however, what I heard this morning was a highly agitated pitch varying in volume and tempo. . .

Communication with Birds

One doesn’t need a degree in Communication with Birds to understand if something is wrong – and to react accordingly… and fast!

MadMax was with me, so it wasn’t the cat… but it could be a snake, a hawk or a mongoose… to name just a few of many possibilities.

Cape White-eye

Guided by what turned out to be the parents, I discovered a tiny little Cape White-eye (Zosterops pallidus, ‘Glasogie’ in Afrikaans) sitting motionless on the ground – an easy prey for any predator. I had to operate fast to capture the little being and get it into a safe, warm place – while the parents fluttered in great distress around me. . . and MadMax already watched my movements with great interest from my studio. Getting him out there and me inside – the adorable little being warmly covered with my hands – was not an easy operation, however, he also seemed to . . . understand!

Finally, I could check this tiny feather ball without finding any external damage, caress it and get some life back into it… while the parents watched through the windows, cheering with their little voices.

When I was called to my PC to answer a call… the idea of  “Cape White-eye Online” was born!

I took a series of quick – and far from optimal shots photographically speaking – with my Logitech camera, however, you rarely get a Cape White-eye chick this close in front of your lens! And how exciting and touching: you see how it basically ‘woke up’ and then flew onto a window sill – an indication that after all it was well! it could fly!

So I caught it gently and took it to the golden Solandra Maxima tree I told you about in an earlier post – where I know many birds are currently breeding – and let it fly into the air! It was wonderful to see it happy and free… and immediately its parents were around with some tremolo chirps… and life continued as normal!

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Create Me Beauty Academy is located in Mossel Bay, South Africa and offers those who wish to  pursue a career in beauty therapy the chance to make this a reality!

Beauty Academy Courses in South Africa

This Beauty Academy offers courses in facials, waxing, manicures and pedicures as well as make-up, permanent make up and African massages.

Beauty Courses in Facials

Create Me Beauty Academy offers excellent courses in facials. Skin treatments are among the most common treatments performed by beauty therapists. Here at Create me Beauty academy you will be trained by qualified and experienced trainers, and obtain internationally accepted qualifications.

Enroll for 2012 at Create Me Beauty Academy

There is still time left to enroll in a course for 2012 at Create me Beauty Academy in Mossel Bay, South Africa. Make sure to contact us to take the first step in creating a wonderful career for yourself.

Watercolor Online

Watercolor Online – is this possible?

I loved doing watercolors in the good old days before the PC entered my life, and I still admire artists who really know how to create this form of spontaneously controlled Artwork where everything needs to flow to give a satisfactory if not stunning result.

Either it’s good – or it’s for the waste bin… there’s no inbetween!

The question for me now is:

Can one really achieve anything online that gives a result that can be compared in terms of visual appearance to the traditional Watercolor Technique – Wet in Wet, Washing, Glazing and the subtle methods of dropping colors into the wetness, lifting superfluous pigments off and working over it all when completely dry with a dry brush?

Watercolor Online

Watercolor Online may not be everyone’s cup of tea, however, most people are equipped with digital cameras and can capture their favorite motives – in my case Pictures from my Garden.

Honey Bee on a Bottlebrush

To see whether I could get anywhere near the impression of  Watercolor Online, I manipulated a digital image I took of a Honeybee on a Bottlebrush in Photoshop… and while I obviously have a bigger original, here’s a small version of my series on the topic  “Honey Bee on a Bottlebrush”.

Another question was the presentation on something more ’tissue-like’ without distorting the image itself… and as I have a transparent background on my Author Blog here was the next challenge.

I’m working on more . . .

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This page is wiki editable click here to edit this page.

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Malachite Sunbird

The Malachite Sunbird – or so-called Green Sugarbird – is endemic to the Cape Peninsula, right at the tip of Africa. It depends on the many nectar-producing plant species and the insects attracted to them on which they feed  – especially the sugarbush Protea, the Pincushion Protea Leucospermum and Pagodas Mimetes, as well as Eucalyptus trees, Agave americana, and the New Zealand Christmas Tree (Metrosideros excelsa) – all of which I grow in my garden here in Noordhoek.

Malachite Sunbird Stamp

The Malachite Sunbird and its joyful voice is such a typical presence down here in South Africa that I decided to dedicate one of my specially designed stamps to it!

Voila the Malachite Sunbird Stamp!

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Malachite Sunbird

Malachite Sunbirds (Nectarinia famosa, 1766, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa ) are beautiful little emerald jewels on flurry wings. Attracted by the rich colourful proteas and many other flowering species in my garden, I have a couple of them breeding and it’s not rare they even come into my Studio… the event being an absolute highlight for MadMad, my hunter-hearted cat! It really gets the adrenaline up on all sides. . .

Malachite Sunbird

Malachite Sunbirds – also called Green Sugarbirds -  are extremely fast and often mistaken for colibris, who are much smaller though.  I had not yet taken the time to really wait patiently with my Nikon Coolpix P90 to eternalize these adorable little beings, but they come and greet me every morning and evening with their distinctive voices and cascading songs… and yesterday I quickly caught a male on the large Strelitzia Nicolai on my terrace – and this while the storm was roaring and stripes of rain dimmed the light.

Imagine the colours in full sunlight! It’s a photo still to be made… but the rains continue down here at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa – which is totally unusual for this time of the year.

Wildlife Art

From Digital Photography to Wildlife Art – I just love this combination and can lose myself completely in it. I did publish a few of the many artistic versions I created with Photoshop in my Gallery… and these are just some delightful experiments, however, they gave me some ideas for commercialization that I will be investigating and possibly putting into practice. Nothing I haven’t done in my ‘low-tech’ past as an artist. . . sometimes one just needs a hint to remember :)

Exciting!

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Google Wave Communication Tools

Google Wave Communication Tools determine the way we will communicate and interact on Web2.0 in the near future; it is the big OLA! you definitely want to catch and ride with ease the moment you can.

Of course, there are waves and waves… so: what does the “Google Wave” stand for?

About Google Wave

This is what I found directly on wave.google.com – the source so to speak:

Conversation and Document

“A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.”

WOW – this will be saving lots of time and speed up the communication process immensely, also making so many time-consuming extra miles redundant – although they may have their charm and thus their place. It’s gain a matter of choice.

Example: If I send out an invitation for a party, I can do so the noble yet complex low-tech way and expect RSVPs in the same way. Which rarely happens. . .

Alternatively, I can use the Google Wave Communication Tools and everything is in one place and easy to be responded to by anyone, while being open to all. It’s so-to-speak one invitation document bundling a wave of conversation in forms of enthusiastic yesses, apologetic no’s and the usual odd questions. All in a mini-blink of an eye… almost immaterial and certainly less than a laborious mouse click.

Sharing

“A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.”

Actually, we’ve been exercising the “wave principle” already in our Conference Rooms during say Ycademy Seminars. Everyone coming in – even if hours late – can scroll back and follow the conversation (chat) right from the beginning and then add an input… at the end of it.

Mark the difference: at the end… not inbetween. If that’s now going to be possible on Google Wave we’re messing up the concept of linear time – I’m all for it! Perhaps we learn something to apply to our lives… like going back in time and doing things different! Let good old Stephen Hawkins get back to the drawing board and rewrite the History of Time!

Real Time – Live

“A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.”

Faster than fast – past Facebook and Tweets…  that’s where we’re going! Instant. Live. We’ve got to have our act together to avoid ‘doing’ before ‘thinking’ – or is it all about a spontaneous reaction… reflex… almost non-existent, over, forgotten, next… ?

Social Networks watch out!

Google Wave Communication Tools on Google Top 10

“Google Wave Communication Tools” made it speedily to Google Top 10 within just a few hours… ahead of over 3,6 million search returns – here’s the screenshot:

This high performance in terms of Search Engine Optimization just reflects the results achievable when the right Script – in this case a WordPress based Semiomantics Script – is paired with correct Editing and Publishing as taught in the monthly Ycademy Seminars – even on high traffic keywords.

Google Wave Communication Tools on Ycademy Seminar

While such results are not achieved overnight, everybody can acquire the Knowledge and Skills.

If you enjoy doing so within the safe and trusted environment of a bonded Team, join us on the next fully online Ycademy Seminar on 21 and 22 November 2009 which focuses on Social Network Publishing in general and “Google Wave” in particular.

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Google Wave Communication Tools

The brand-new Google Wave Communication Tools are about to create waves and will definitely open new horizons of never before experienced speed in terms of Online Communication.

Now it’s all about catching the “Google Wave” . . . firstly understanding and then implementing this “personal communication and collaboration tool” that merges e-mail, instant messaging, wikis and social networking. . .  and where the sky is the limit!

Google Wave Communication Tools on Ycademy Seminar

Faithful to its philosophy of always being at the edge of technological developments… as well as under the topical umbrella of Social Network Publishing , this month’s Ycademy Seminar on 21 and 22 November 2009 will introduce all Seminar participants to the new Google Wave Communication Tools – the features, possibilities and how to make the best use of this future-oriented and highly interesting new arrival on the Web2.0 sky!

Interested in joining the Ycademy Seminar?

Get your ticket HERE and prepare to take your Online Communication to another level!

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