A LinkedIn profile, almost every company has one. Most of the time these company profiles are pretty good setup and the CEO’s have a similar profile. Employees however have a LinkedIn profile also in most cases. Those profiles are personal of course but feature a lot of work related information. And there’s where most company’s need to work on.

Create similarity

When browsing company profiles on LinkedIn I see that most businesses got professional profiles and like I stated earlier their CEO’s got similar information in their profiles. But because of different information in employee profiles the whole picture of that company gets a bit blurry. To solve this, you’ll need to discuss the content with your employees and ask them to use the same company description throughout their profiles. Of course ban all the negative stuff on their too and solve the problems that are at the source of it!

A Social Media policy

It’s a good thing to create a company policy on social media and communicate this to your employees. That way the rules are clear and everyone has the same information in his profile. It makes your company’s image the same throughout the social media that’s used within your company. It’s wise though to protect the freedom employees have on the web, even in their social media!

I found some cool examples of multiplicity photography. That made me wonder, how do they create those cool photo’s. I managed to find a good and clear tutorial on YouTube. Check it out and if you managed to create a cool one, let me know!

A fellow buzzer recently mentioned Justin Maller on one of his Buzzes. Justin Maller is a designer with a style of his own. He creates beautiful compositions and did work for some great companies already, so it might be possible you saw his artwork already. I just couldn’t let you guys miss this. I think illustrators like him are one of a kind. Enough said. Just enjoy his work @ justinmaller.com.

The past few weeks I’ve been very busy figuring out the possibilities jQuery gives us.  I know that there are a lot of things possible with it, but I really like all the small things it can do for a designer. I’ve made a selection from all the jQuery related website I visited last week and here You have the overview.

jQuery Tutorials for Designers

This website gives us designers a really neat list of tutorials You can use on your design. It explains in a nutshell what jQuery is and gives some simple examples with it, like a disappear animation on your content or a nice transition which can be used on buttons for example. Read the whole tutorial at:

• jQuery tutorials for designers

Best Animated Jquery Slideshows

When building websites I’m always using one part to show products or portfolio items. With jQuery You can easily create a clean and professional looking slideshow. On the website below you’ll find a selection of five different slideshows.

• Best animated jQuery slideshows

7 ‘Scroll to Top’ jQuery Solutions

The last website gives seven (oh really?) solutions to implement a go to top button on your website. This will give the user the ability to go straight to the top of the page and presents them a nice slide or animation through jQuery. And there’s a WordPress plugin provided too! Solutions like this are one of my favorites. They are easy to integrate and pretty user friendly. It just adds that little extra!

• 7 scroll to top jQuery solutions

The whole day I was waiting on the livestream of the first wave of new announcement Google would make. And now Google I/O 2010 has finally started and when I post this it’ll probably be ended already. And boy there’s a lot of nice stuff already flooding into Google Buzz and Reader. You can find  a summary about the first day at the official Google Blog here.

Jeremy Chone posted a nice list of the new keynotes already:

Google I/O Great first keynote. Key take away:

1. HTML5 is coming fast, by end 2010 most of the modern browser will have most of HTML5.
2. VP8 Open Source and WebM for full open video.
3. Some cool Adobe CS5 HTML5 support
4. Flash to support VP8 by end of year…. THIS IS HUGE.. Great contribution from Adobe to push open video.
5. Wave Open to everybody
6. Some deep integration of Spring/GWT for enterprise (this one, not a big fan, personally). Spring is the J2EE of the 21st century.

A nice keynote I like myself is the Chrome Web Store Google announced. This is an open market place for developers where they can sell there web apps. On the Chrome blog it’s possible to read the whole announcement.

So far so great in my opinion! What do you think about these new features? I’m already wondering what we’ll see next day. I’ll try to keep up and keep you posted.