Color Selector Connect to the power in color to see how different colors can affect your space. Before putting brush to wall, take some time to explore the limitless color options Valspar offers. To get started, pick the space you want to paint. Use My Own Photo To really get a feel for how a color will look in your space, add a photo of the actual room here. Upload FromMy Computer Please use a photo that is greater than 1MB, less than 4MB and is in .jpg format Computer screens and printers vary in how colors are displayed. Browse the Photo Libraries Select an image from the Valspar libraries that resembles the space you'll be painting. Choose From My Projects Pick up where you left off on previously saved projects. Choose FromMy Projects Publications Turning On The "No-Collar" Workforce 03/15 Millennials in the workplace seems to be the topic d’jour in business media right now. And small wonder: around 10,000 millennials turn 21 every day in America right now, and by some estimates there arealready 40 million millennials in the workforce. While much of the media commentary can seem to caricature the Millennial worker as an "entitled” hot house flower, MTV's new "No Collar Workers" study seeks to understand the working experiencethrough Millennial eyes...and to help employers decode how to leverage the abundant creative energies of their cubicle-dwelling populations. What the data and feedback point to a generation primed to give their all, but calling for meaning, mentorship and meritocracy in a workplace that can channel what they bring to the table. Raised by "peer-ents" who encouraged them to constantly learn, grow and self actualize, the quest for meaningful work that makes a difference has become a core Millennial trait. • 76% believe “my boss could learn a lot from me”
Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.gif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Top 10 Social Networking Sites by Market Share of Visits [March 2012] For a detailed view use interactive chart at the bottom of this post. Pinterest is moving sideways and its market share of visits went down a bit from 1.00 in February to 0.94% in March 2012. This is due to the fact that Facebook, Twitter and Youtube moved slightly up. With this result Pinterest is 5th on the list. Two social networking sites that increased their market share in February were Twitter and Google+. Google+ is up, too from 0.47% in February to 0.55% in March. LinkedIn went down from 0.80 percent to 0.77 percent in March 2012. Percentages for the big players in March: Facebook 63.18%Youtube 20.16%Twitter 1.64% Let us know in the comments what will happen with Pinterest and Google+ in 2012. About this chart The chart below is in logarithmic scale so that the smaller sites wouldn’t just a single line around 1% of social network market share. I used an interactive chart making software Tableau Public for this visualization.
A Portrait of the Modern High-Tech Family [INFOGRAPHIC] The average modern family still has two children, two cars and two TVs, but cutting-edge gadgets are moving right on in and making themselves at home. In fact, according to a new study by ABC's popular TV show Modern Family, families now own three mobile devices and three computers — for a total of six devices. The study was conducted on 2,000 British adults in a four-person family. SEE ALSO: Most Parents Keep Kids Calm With Mobile Devices [STUDY] “Technology plays a major part in modern households now with several TVs, computers and mobile phones owned by each family," a spokesperson for Modern Family said in a statement. For a full look at the modern high-tech family, check out the infographic below. Homepage image via iStockphoto, Goodluz
Period Table of Social Media The 50+ Best Ways to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content There’s so much information online just begging to be curated: news, social media, images, video, websites… the list goes on. Reading great content from my favorite blogs and websites is one of my favorite down-time activities. It’s also an important part of my job as an IT Director because I need to stay on top of the latest trends, announcements and tech news. More recently I’ve discovered some great new tools to read and share my favorite content which I’ve included here in this list. Content Gathering and Personalized Newsfeeds Faveous – The place for everything you like.Trapit – Captures personalized content. iPad Curation Flipboard – Your social magazine.News360 – Next-generation news personalization and aggregation.persona/ – Everything you care about There’s more to this article!
The Millennial Consumer Move aside, U.S. baby boomers. The Millennial generation is bigger than you and growing in influence. (See Exhibit 1.) Now numbering 79 million (compared with the boomers’ 76 million), U.S. Millennials’ expectations are different from those of previous generations, and companies will need to rethink their brands, business models, and marketing accordingly. Although the youngest members of the Millennial generation are still economically dependent on Mom and Dad, older Millennials are beginning to enter their peak spending years. To better understand this generation, The Boston Consulting Group, along with Barkley and Service Management Group, surveyed 4,000 Millennials (ages 16 to 34) and 1,000 non-Millennials (ages 35 to 74) in the United States. The first of two reports, this overview of Millennial consumers explores who they are today and what they think of themselves and the world around them.
The Ultimate Guide To Emerging Technologies 5 Reasons We Use Social Media 8.42K Views 0 Likes There are many reasons we use social media. Top 100 Marketing Buzzwords for 2012 - Marketing Jive - Discussions About Online Marketing & Organic Search 2012 marks the sixth anniversary of our annual top 100 marketing buzzwords feature. What are some of the topics that we can expect to hear from marketers in 2012? Buzzword - a phrase or word that entices people to discuss a topic in repetition. Here is our list of the top marketing buzzwords for 2012. Top Marketing Buzzwords for 2012 Labels: marketing buzzwords