Entering the social media space can be a daunting task. Twitter gives you a quick and easy way to get your feet wet. Build your following, reputation, and customer’s trust with these simple practices:

1. Share. Share your photos, information about your business, tips and tricks.
2. Listen. Reqularly monitor the comments about your company, brand and products.
3. Respond, don’t React. Respond to comments, complaints and other feedback in real time. Reach out to handle complaints, give thanks and praise for compliments.
4. Ask Questions. Your followers have an interest in you, ask questions and you’ll gain valuable customer insight and show that you are listening.
5. Reward. Tweet updates about special offers, discounts, deals and promotional giveaways.
6. Expertise. Demonstrate leadership in your industry by tweeting reference articles, links and resources.
7. Follow Smart. Do follow your customers and people of interest. Don’t follow every person you encounter. Massive follower counts and a follow-to-follower ratio skewed to heavy to following will hurt your images. Also be aware of spam accounts that follow you and those tweet information you may not wish to be associated with.
8. Resist. Resist the urge to reach out via Direct Messages to new followers with sales/promotional tweets. They are following you because they are interested in you, don’t turn them off immediately with sales/promotional direct messages.

You can follow Corporate 3 Design on Twitter at: @c3design

From Photoshop keyboard commands to hex color charts and Type considerations, SixRevisons.com has the linkup on 28 Cheat Sheets for Designers.

As designers, most of use inherently hate stock photo companies. As budgets decrease and client demands increase, we inevitably have to utilize them at some point. Regardless of your love or hate of them, some stock photo resources provide useful information. Shutterstock provided a nice list of 10 Tricks for Illustrator Users. So Shutterstock, to you, I say “thank you”.

23 High Quality, printable cheat sheets for the web guys available at SixRevisions (inlcuding jquery).

There are two ways to implement this tag:

* On a per-site basis, add a custom HTTP header
X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7

* On a per-page basis, add a special HTML tag to each document, right after the tag
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=7″ />

More info on the IE8 Team Blog, and specifically on this post.

SixRevisions.com has a list of 16 sites users picked for where they go for web design inspiration
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The list of official IAB Ad sizes is available with graphical representation is available on the IAB Web Site.

A comprehensive Javascript date library – Datajs

This site has a list of 30 sites to frequent if you are interested in designing/developing for the web.