100 sources of inspiration
Posted in Inspiration, Personal, Source by Armando Alves on February 20, 2007Since September 2006 i began posting on a quite regular basis so let me share a bit about myself and this blog, celebrating it’s 100th post.
A bit about me … I studied Business and Management at UBI, where the only thing i was fun of was Marketing and Computers, so it kind of makes sense my career twist as a digital marketing professional. In fact, one of the first companies i worked for was named Digital Branding, a dot-com that burst with the bubble. With the trend of integrated/full-service agencies i ended up working in Foote, Cone & Belding, that later became FCB and now is merged as DraftFCB.
Disclaimer: The views expressed on this blog are not necessarily the views of Draftfcb or IPG.
I’m Head Of Interactive, planning and developing interactive solutions and online marketing campaigns, with several technologies (mainly Flash/Actionscript). Searching the blog by “Shameless PromoTion” you’ll find some samples of my work, and also some sites by fellow bloggers and friends from PorTugal (hence the PT … PromoTion). I know it’s a lame copy but i’m not a writer.
The blog … the idea for “A Source of Inspiration” came up in early 2005, when i did more than 200 bookmarks a month, and wanted to share my browsing adventures with friends (later i discovered social bookmarking). The bookmarks were placed on a folder named ASourceOfInspiration, so when it was time to create a blog that was one of my first naming choices. The Source part because it has a bit of programming/interactive stuff and the Inspiration part because it deals with creativity and design.
The numbers … if you’re into metrics here’s a few of my stats until February 2007.
- Technorati Rank: 85,181 (82 links from 44 blogs)
- Feed Subscribers (on Feedburner): 90 (month average)
- User Location: USA(31%) and Portugal (24%)
- Most popular browsers: Firefox (48%) and IE (34%)
- Most Popular Post: Multi touch Driven Computer Screen
So, enough about me and A Source Of Inspiration. To all of the anonymous readers out there, do comment this post and let me know what do you think of this blog and how i can improve it to inspire even further.
And thanks for your great conversations.
Congratulations on your great blog. It’s refreshing to see such a good blog from Portugal!
Many thanks, André.
I’m definitely honored with your support - and great tips from AdvertisingEtc.
As I already told you great blog!
I’ve been reading you via Bloglines and I’ll continue to do it! If I’ll find out tips,videos and so on I’ll send it to you!
bye!
well done!
Parabéns pelo blog!
Preferi escrever em nosso idioma natal, apesar do inglês como padrão do blog, para comemorar o encontro com boas idéias vindas de além mar!
Saudações do coletivo brasileiro Idéia Forte (www.ideiaforte.com.br/blog)!
oi.
Só para dizer que desde há algumas semanas (ok…meses.. ) que sigo o seu (teu?) blog e que é um dos poucos que está na minha lista.
PS - além disso o teu inglês é decente e como tal não custa muit ler.. :)
Carla
Já não é a primeira vez que venho aqui ter, mas desta feita resolvi deixar um comentário.
Parabéns pelo blog, continua, e espero ver-te no offf ;D
Parabéns Armando pelo blog! Sou muito fã. Depois do re-layout ficou ainda melhor. :D
Abraços do outro lado do Atlântico.
FF