Social Media x Distributed Web ≠ Good Design

As a firm believer of learning by doing, I can currently be found here, at another blog, on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. And don’t forget YouTube, MyRagan and LinkedIn.

Social Media Disease
How do you serve up your online proclivities in one spot to access and promote them more easily? Adpulp points to a possible solution – add a widget or badge to your homepage.

"Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges."

This might work for one or two sites. But less really is more in online design. In fact, my old, vanilla blog design is back in style as even the savviest of social media gurus revert to a more minimal design.

Typepad Pages may be the cure for social media disease. It allows you to create dedicated pages off your blog. Rohit at Influential Marketing has already used it to create a social media bio.

As a temporary solution, this makes the most sense. But it's a bit like sweeping the dust beneath the rug from a design perspective. So widget designers aren’t off the hook. They need to make the widget designs simpler to customize and able to blend into a site. Otherwise my slow-loading sidebar will look like a stack of geek merit badges.

tags | marketing | blog | social media | design

Comments

[Colin McKay]

Badgers! We don't need no steenkin badgers!

[Kevin Dugan]

Not golfers, GOPHERS!

[Geoff Livingston]

Yes, it may be better just to have a personal sites list on the blog... sort of a shameless self promo roll.