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Killer Facebook Cover Images

Death, taxes and Facebook layout changes are immutable facts of life. The new Facebook Timeline is now the standard layout for Facebook brand pages. Perhaps the most important graphic design aspect of the layout change is the “Cover”. That’s the full-width graphic along the top of the otherwise barren page layout. Here are just three …

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Jackie Marcheschi Joins JDM

We’re proud to announce Jackie Marcheschi has joined the JDM team, as part of our summer 2012 Internship Program. During her time at JDM, Jackie will be working as our Office Manager and will be working on ad copy translation.

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White Paper Download Forms

Four ways to incorporate a white paper downloading landing page form into your WordPress website or blog. We’ll try not to get too nerdy…

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JDM Digital Nominated for a 2012 Awwward

Just two months ago, JDM Digital launched our new Brand and our new website (JDM 4.0, if you’re counting). Today, we’re proud to announce we’ve been nominated for an Awwward in the competitive Agency category. The Awwwards recognizes and promotes the best non-flash developers, design and digital agencies in the world on the basis of …

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Jenee Celebrates 5 Years at JDM

Today our Creative Director, Jenee Oxley-Echard, is celebrating 5 years with JDM. It’s been a wild ride and we’re proud she’s still here and kicking butt.

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Inbound VS Outbound Marketing

These days, businesses have two basic choices for attracting and retaining customers. You can invest in acquiring new customers one-by-one, with techniques like cold calling and media buys. These strategies are referred to as “outbound marketing” since you’re “pushing” your message out and hoping it falls on receptive ears. The other (modern) option is “inbound …

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slabText, Web Font Fun

When I first started working professionally in Web design, web-safe fonts were limited to the super-basic Arial, Verdana, Times, etc. How I hated being tied to these boring, over-used fonts. Thankfully, we’ve come a long way since those days. Cufon & Google Fonts have made web-safe fonts a relic and with a little cleaver math, …

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Online Printer Review, Shmoggo

JDM is a digital agency, but we certainly know our way around the print world. Over the years we’ve had a lot of experience with various printers and have even been known to write a review on some of our favorites. So, when Shmoggo, a new online print shop, asked us to review them, we agreed and secretly did a test print run. The results were, well, not good.

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Sit Down, Shut Up & Listen

Social media offers great potential for B2B marketers and PR pros. At the same time, however, social media creates an enormous amount of useless noise. From the conversations simultaneously taking place on any number of social channels, to news sites and blogs — you need a smart filter. A new(er) social media monitoring platform from …

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PayPal’s Website Redesign – Finally!

Just a week ago, PayPal.com got a much needed redesign.

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Engage Your Fans with Facebook “Offers”

Facebook Pages now have a new, free tool to engage and incentivise fans. It’s called Facebook “Offers” and they are intended to be used and redeemed exclusively by your business page fans. The new “Offers” will be as easy to create as Facebook Ads, but they’re free for page Admins. Although this new addition is …

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Is Google going to punish “over-optimization”?

So Google’s Matt Cutts said something at SXSW back in March about Google introducing a filter/penalty change to possibly punish websites that “over-optimize”. That poor choice of words caused something of a digital freak-out over the last few months. Let’s take a look at the reality of what Mr. Cutts was trying to say.

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