Does popularity equal profit?

With all the online venues to communicate (Twitter, Facebook, Dribbble, Instagram, etc.) it’s tempting, as a designer, to feel the need to participate and participate often. The inclination is to spend a lot of time online, building your community of followers. Many people do. It almost feels like we’re expected to maintain a continual online presence. The reason I feel that this is so tempting is that, well, there are folks who are “popular” online and it seems like they’re “successful.”

You’re reading this on a blog, for Pete’s sake, so I’m definitely in the midst of this dilemma, but I have my doubts that it’s true.

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New site, among other things.

So, finally, here’s the new site. I have a difficult time keeping a site for very long because I always seem to get tired of it quickly. Hopefully that won’t happen with this one. I went through many revisions that I thought were final along the way and I’m really happy with what I’ve got now.

Here are a couple of things that have happened recently, just to give you a little taste.

My First Dribbble

So now I’m on Dribbble. If you’re not familiar, Dribbble is an online community where designers can share things that they’re currently working on and get feedback.

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