This SocialWebCafe Twitter Event is about Conference Season: What Is Your Experience?.


It’s conference season. Also, Da Vinci’s The Blog Workshop online conference will have just completed prior to this chat.
Come share your experiences with conferences and your dreams of the next conference you would like to attend. Also, we’d love to hear your wish list for conferences, as well.
This SocialWebCafe Twitter Event is about Are You Pinterested? Using Pinterest Effectively.


Pinterest almost seems like an overnight success story and a social site addiction to many. It is a fun way to interact and enjoy the graphical world online, not to mention new-found friends and community.
With the Pinterest newbies and the experienced pinners, there is a lot to share. Add to that, the newest upgrade at Pinterest, and we have a lot to talk about during this Twitter Chat!
We experienced a Twitter lag this evening. Interestingly, tweets going out of TweetDeck were fine. However, the search mechanism in Twitter (which is what filters for the #SocialCafe and #TBW hashtags), was not quite so fine.
That's ok, we can go with the flow. Please refer to the Twitter Calendar to find out what is coming up, and also the Hangout Calendar.
Also, for kicks, check out an article on Twitter Outage, for ideas on what to do when Twitter goes down.
Visual tension can be defined as asymmetry in a design. This prevents the design from becoming static and attaining a superficial appearance.
Is visual tension improtant?
This is the most important aspect of designing, since the designer would like to convey or communicate some important message or a point to a visitor or the client. If the designer wants to convey a series of messages to his visitors or clients, he needs to stress or create an intense asymmetry in a particular layout.
By doing so, he can create a series of secondary designs in a particular hierarchy of message which he wants to convey. The designer can add visual interest to his art work through asymmetry. He can also evoke energy, vitality, forcefulness, and modernism to his work of art. It adds weight to the visual art work. Tension always attracts attention. It therefore becomes important to learn how to create Visual Tension.
Creating a visual tension:
Since symmetry would be dull and formal, asymmetry is an energetic way of presenting any art work to the target audience or a visitor. Some of the ways to bring asymmetry to design is as follows:
If you want to really associate asymmetry with a wild angle, then the best way is to consider a natural landscape where there are mountains and valleys, streams, springs, basically, all the works of nature. The perfect landscape is further flickered with neatly spruced up trees in different colors depicting the onset of different seasons. In other words, too much of superficiality ends up in chaos, but is also gives way to immense scenic beauty. This is a natural way of thinking asymmetry.
Take a large square box. Place a ball exactly at the center of the box; make sure there is absolutely no stress created and everything seems visually balanced. Now slowly move the ball towards the right wall of the square box. Since there is more space to the left of the box a lot of visual stress is created. It would seem that the ball wants to regain symmetry by moving to the center or perhaps to the right side of the square box. This tension continues till there is no space left between the ball and the right wall of the square box. This stress thus created makes the ball move from the center to the right wall of the box.
Another beautiful way of presenting Visual Tension would be by just going through this simple phrase: “Every DOG has HIS day”. Now by highlighting and underlining two words in this simple sentence there is a visual imbalance, thus conveying a message by the author of a book to the target audience.
Visual asymmetry through colors is another way of conveying a message to the audience. When a painter wants to convey a message or present a setting sun in an ocean, he lays emphasis on the color of the setting sun rather than the ocean itself. Who does not understand the beauty of such a wonderful painting?
Audiences always respond positively to Visual Tension technique whether it is on a web page, in a painting, print media or any other mode of design work. After all, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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This SocialWebCafe Twitter Event is about Diving Into The World Of Instagramming.


In our image series, we covered Infographics and then chatted about Pinterest, and now we are moving on to Instagram. As there are devoted Pinterest luvers, there are also devoted Instagram luvers. What is it that appeals to people about Instagram?
Beyond the fact that both Pinterest and Instagram involve images, they are very different. Are you using Instagram? If so, come share your tips during this Twitter Chat. Are you interested in knowing more about Instagram? Come ask your questions during this Twitter Chat.
This SocialWebCafe Twitter Event is about Facebook: Understanding Personal Profiles versus Fan Pages.


Even after Facebook has been around for awhile, and especially with all of the changes over its lifetime, there remains some level of confusion for people, on the difference between the profile and the fan page. Add in the groups and lists, and it can become interesting.
If you are a Facebook expert and you have a handle on this, please come share. If you are one of those who would like a better understanding of the differences and how to use the profile and page in a more effective manner, join us!
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