Company blogs offer a unique source of inspiration for the creatively minded. I’ve found the feeds give an insight into the character and inner workings of a group as well as interests and motivates them. I’ve put together a selection that shows diversity and varied personality, each all top quality reads.
I regularly visit a forum called YayHooray! Having been there many years I’ve seen the amount of amazing talent pass through the site with no real reference to seeing more of their work. I rounded up some of the members blogs hoping it would coax out some of that talent and it did.
These blogs represent variety, quality and style. I enjoy the way these sites are written and the quality content goes a long way through their archives. I usually save these sites for when I have time to devote reading them properly unlike other daily visits which I skim through to see what’s new.
A select few fun websites that encourage you to be creative, use some skills you might already utilise on a daily basis and make a little cash out of it. I admire the simple ingenuity of these ideas and think it’s worth doing work for the sites if you have a little spare time.
Big Cartel is an elegant, reliable and best of all free service allowing you to setup your own online shop and payment system. Mostly suited to small to medium projects, they link up with your PayPal account and don’t even take a cut of the sales.
You may have come across a cool photo from Flickr and not know who took the photo or have a link to their Flickr profile. Maybe you saved the image to your hard drive for later inspiration or saw it posted on a forum with no link. Whatever the case may be, there is a way to find the page it came from.
