Articles by: Hanna Brooks Olsen

[caption id="attachment_9135" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Shawn Ahmed via Flickr[/caption] Whether it's the Facebook account for your small business, your personal brand's Twitter account, or your online dating profile, the fact is that creating an online presence that perfectly encapsulates your brand, your services, your message, your goals, or even just your personality is extremely difficult. We labor over ever word, every description, trying to ensure that a casual observer will be able to immediately identify all of our best qualities.

[caption id="attachment_9087" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Marcin Wichary via Flickr[/caption] For quite some time, employers have been both providers of much more than just work; traditional employment also, in the modern era, comes with additional provisions, like health care and various financial systems. 401k matching, paid time off and sick leave, and even educational credits have helped employees not only make ends meet, but also relieved some of the pressure of money management.

[caption id="attachment_9054" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Photo via etheremoon on Flickr.

[caption id="attachment_8899" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Kate Ter Har via Flickr[/caption] Creative pioneer Adobe recently released a new study confirming, with hard data, what most of us already knew: That encouraging continued education, media literacy, and the overall creative pursuits of workers is good business. Called the Creative Dividend Survey, the partnership with Forrester Consulting was designed to quantify what a lot of people in the creative pursuits had theorized.

[caption id="attachment_8885" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Little Visuals[/caption] Once the purview of teenagers with emotional issues, blogging has long since shed its negative connotations and, most marketing experts agree, is an essential element to any brand who's looking to further their online presence. Even if you're a sole proprietor or a small business, you need a blog.

There's been a whole lot of fun stuff on CreativeLive this Photo Week, from Peter Hurley and Sue Bryce kicking it off to host Russ acting as a model for Brooke Shaden, Lindsay Adler, and Jeff Rojas. But behind the scenes, the producers, crew, and instructors have been having a pretty good time in front of a different camera, thanks to the Slow Motion Booth.

If you were around the CreativeLive office (or even just watching on the stream), you might have noticed some of the crew and instructors rocking some fresh ink, in the form of our really cool Photo Week temporary tattoos. However, a lot of photographers actually go the distance and get real tattoos to demonstrate their love of the art.