Feather Hair Extensions

 

By Creators of Design 18:03 - 08/06/2012

Spotted on young Hollywood stars Selena Gomez, Hilary Duff and Jennifer Love Hewitt, feather hair-extensions are the bohemian trend of this summer.
After the ombre tresses and colored ends, this trend is super easy, cheap and will not damage your hair. Feathers, in all shapes and sizes, are slid around a small strand of hair, just like normal extensions. They come in bright neon colors to match this year’s trends or you can opt for natural with brown, black or green feathers. Our favorites are the long and thin striped ones, perfect for a subtle look. It’s the perfect way to get that summer festival feel or just try something new with your hair. Perfect for that summer breeze in your hair!
Look for a hairdresser who places feather extensions (like Mignon) or try it out yourself.
Here is a link for a handy DIY tutorial, you just need some feathers, a jewelry plier and crimp bead.
So what do you think? Are you going to try this hairtrend for the summer?

Sources: Tattoos and Feathers, Elisa McLaughlin Designs
By Suzanne Stal

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trend alert: feather hair-extensions

By Creators of Design 18:03 - 08/06/2012

Spotted on young Hollywood stars Selena Gomez, Hilary Duff and Jennifer Love Hewitt, feather hair-extensions are the bohemian trend of this summer.
After the ombre tresses and colored ends, this trend is super easy, cheap and will not damage your hair. Feathers, in all shapes and sizes, are slid around a small strand of hair, just like normal extensions. They come in bright neon colors to match this year’s trends or you can opt for natural with brown, black or green feathers. Our favorites are the long and thin striped ones, perfect for a subtle look. It’s the perfect way to get that summer festival feel or just try something new with your hair. Perfect for that summer breeze in your hair!
Look for a hairdresser who places feather extensions (like Mignon) or try it out yourself.
Here is a link for a handy DIY tutorial, you just need some feathers, a jewelry plier and crimp bead.
So what do you think? Are you going to try this hairtrend for the summer?

Sources: Tattoos and Feathers, Elisa McLaughlin Designs
By Suzanne Stal

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4 Spring Trends To Try (In Small Doses, And Not All Together)

By Michele Madhock

With all of last week's fashion buzz focused on Fall trends from New York Fashion Week, it's easy to forget that Spring actually comes first - and we're about ready to banish the Winter blahs by getting a head-start on spring trends. Here are the five styles we think you'll be after this Spring, and how you can get them now.



Peep-Toe Booties

Add a peep-toe to your cold-weather bootie and it's basically ready for spring. Pair these peep-toes with skinny pants or your favorite short dress for a cool counterpoint to Spring's floaty fabrics. We like these cut-out and grommet booties by Boutique 9 ($179.95) for their rock-and-roll quality. Plus, you can wear them with colored tights while it's still cool out.




Feathers

Toned-down feathers are one of our favorite ways to add texture this Spring. You can throw on this breezy feather top from Patterson J. Kincaid ($52) with a pair of sleek skinny jeans and a blazer, or dress it up with a simple miniskirt and pair of sparkly earrings.



Asymmetrical Dresses

Celebrities have been rocking the one shoulder look all over the red carpets, and we're thinking of trading in our standard black dresses for a bright daytime version of this style - this yellow Victoria's Secret number ($68) is sweetly sexy.




Lingerie-Inspired

Spring lines were full of lacy camis, slips and even tap shorts that might make you question whether they belong over or under your clothes. We'd prefer to just hint at the trend with a lace lined tank like this one ($101.99) - wear it under a blazer or with super dark jeans for a night out.
See more of the latest Spring fashion trends on SheFinds, or browse our favorite online sample sales for new deals every day.

About the author: Online Shopping Expert, Michelle Madhok is the Founder of SheFinds.com and MomFinds.com, online publications distributed via e-mail and blogs that help busy women everywhere shop the web for the latest beauty and style finds.

Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation | Video on TED.com

Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation | Video on TED.com

TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness. And for TED, it means the dawn of a whole new chapter ...

Schools using Social Media to Communicate and Educate

When it comes to schools using social media, there are two main areas of discussion.

1. The first is that of communication; where social media is used as a tool for school administrators to communicate with parents, teachers, students and community members. In turn, these new online tools are also used as a way for parents, teachers, students and community members to voice their views and opinions back to school administrators and education officials.
2. The second area of discussion is that of education, where social media is taught and used in the classroom as a platform for sharing, learning, and growing.

The first area of concern (communication) is a no-brainer. Of course your school should be using social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr to keep in touch and communicate with the people in your “tribe”. Social media sites such as these are a great tool for school officials to have. The tools are free, easy to use, can be run by a single person within your organization, and best of all – your parents, teachers and students are already using these services.

The second issue (that of education), however, is a little trickier. It’s trickier because while social media tools like Facebook and Twitter are fairly straightforward when it comes to giving and receiving information, things get a whole lot messier once you start giving students these exact same tools and expecting them to handle them the way adults do.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Discussing the use of social media tools as an education platform, or even as an entirely new subject matter, is an exciting concept. But the first step is to get our schools past the communication phase.

Let me repeat that: The first step is to communicate via social media… and then we can start talking about using these new tools as a platform for education.

My prediction is that over the next year or two, you will see hundreds, if not thousands, of schools take to social media websites like Facebook and Twitter as a means of communication between school administrators and the people in their immediate locale (i.e. parents, teachers, etc.).

The private schools will probably take to social media first, as they are smaller, filled with less bureaucracy, and can move a whole lot faster than the larger public institutions.

After the public schools have been thoroughly convinced that this social media stuff actually works, they’ll start to use to the tools as well, but they’ll be coming in late and playing a nasty game of catchup.

It’s only then, after both public and private schools have adopted these new tools, that we will begin to start seeing a large percentage of schools take to social media in the classroom.

But before any of that can happen, at least on a larger scale, the first step is going to be getting school administrators well versed when it comes to using these new online tools as a means for feedback, support and communication.

 

Source http://socialmediaschools.com/schools-using-social-media-to-communicate-and-educate/2009/06/

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                            The Social Media Shift
 By Adelita McGrath

What do you see when you search for your business on Google?

• If you still don't understand social media or how to use it, you need help!
• Businesses can no longer afford to ignore internet marketing and social media.
• Mariposa Social Media Marketing will help you understand and utilize all social media has to offer.

Top 5 Social Media Stats

1. By 2010, Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network
2. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
3. 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media
4. Years to Reach 50 millions Users:  Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months…iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
5. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia (note that Facebook is now creeping up – recently announced 300 million users)

              Source: Socialnomics by Erik Qualman

How Social Networking Has Changed Business

8:35 AM Thursday December 23, 2010
by Bill George  | Comments (24)

Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year, social networking morphed from a personal communications tool for young people into a new vehicle that business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year.

A year ago, many people poked fun at Facebook as a place where kids shared their latest party news. Today more than 600 million users worldwide are active on the site. The most rapidly growing demographic is people over forty. More than 300 million people spend at least one hour a day on Facebook. Approximately two hundred million people are active on Twitter in spite of — or because of — its 140-character limitation. Another 100 million use LinkedIn. None of these social networks even existed at the beginning of the decade.

Leaders like IBM's Sam Palmisano, PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, Apple's Steve Jobs, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Carlson's Marilyn Nelson, and Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria are all active social network users. Why? Because these social networks are a unique way of broadly communicating real-time messages to the audiences they want to reach. They can write a message anywhere, anytime, and share it with interested parties without any public relations meddling, speech writers, airplane travel, canned videos, or voicemail messages. Now their words are much more authentic and can be remarkably empowering.

Social networking is also flattening organizations by distributing access to information. Everyone is equal on the social network. No hierarchies need get involved.

The biggest threat presented by social networks is to middle managers, who may become obsolete when they are no longer needed to convey messages up and down the organization. The key to success in the social networking era is to empower the people who do the actual work — designing products, manufacturing them, creating marketing innovations, or selling services — to step up and lead without a hierarchy.

Consumer marketing companies are lining up to use these networks to reach their tailored demographics with highly personalized messages. Already they are revolutionizing marketing by shifting dollars from purchased media advertisements to building their own outlets and content. Kraft Foods, for example, is now one of the largest publishers of food-related materials. IBM is launching thought leadership communities. PepsiCo uses social networks to reach millions of social entrepreneurs in lieu of advertising at the Super Bowl. From a leadership perspective, social networking is making authentic leadership a reality and a necessity for 21st century leaders. You can't hide on your social network when you're revealing who you are and what you really believe. Transparency is essential here.

Even more important, this new phenomenon is enabling business leaders to regain the trust and credibility they have lost over the last 10 years. That's why social networking is the most important business development of the year.
Bill George is Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School