Facebook launches new brand pages

Today, at the first Facebook Marketing Talks Live event, Facebook introduced new products and showed case studies from businesses who are finding success through marketing on Facebook.

Facebook's Product Designer, Blaise DiPersia, and Product Manager, Jeff Kanter, spoke about the philosophy behind the new design of Facebook pages and how you can use your page to the fullest.

Sounds of Us: Museum of Broken Relationship commission now live

Last summer Michelle Tsen and I made a film for the Museum of Broken Relationships. We crowd sourced "relationship" sounds from Twitter and Facebook and made a stop motion video of one of the objects donated to the Museum of Broken relationships.

It was shown at the museum in London and has finally gone live online. Have a look for yourself and tell us what you think!

Sounds of Us by Heather Taylor and Michelle Tsen from Laura Kriefman on Vimeo.

Commissioned Film for the Museum of Broken Relationships UK.

Using a donated object and story.

Conceived, and made by Heather Taylor and Michelle Tsen

My (not so) exhastive list of things to do in New York

As I am halfway to completely moving to New York, I thought I'd reach out to you all to see what I should do here (especially as I love crowdsourcing so much). As in, if you were here, what would you go eat or see or do. I originally thought I'd do the top 100 things to do in Timeout but it's all done by season or type of thing to do. I want a real mix.

So this is my to-do list thanks to you. I've put the person's name beside the item they suggested and I'll add a link when I write about my adventure there. I'm also blogging 50 walks of New York so make sure to keep an eye on that as well.

Anything I'm missing? Leave a comment and I'll add it to the list.

My first whoopie pie

I watch a lot of cooking shows and most of those are competitions. Masterchef, Top Chef, The Next Iron Chef. You get my drift. I'd say most of those dishes I've heard of or tried but whenever there is a dessert challenge in the US, there is inevitably a whoopie pie.

Blogging the walks of New York

At my leaving drinks, my lovely friend Alice gave this set of "50 New York walk" cards. Each card has one short tour set in different areas of New York. What genius. You take one card out with you - there's a map, a few points for you to stop at and then you're done.

Alice's charge to me? Blog about them. So I am.

Come dine with Pipsdish

I fully recommend following any hand painted sign (unless it says “Free Candy. Kids only.”) Sophie and I followed one down an alley in Islington and came across the glorious Pipsdish at the Islington Barn, a pop-up restaurant in a converted garage. It’s there in partnership with a farm shop so not only can you eat great food there, you can buy something to take home.

Now I should have written this a week ago. My last post here says I’ll be writing once a day. Guess what? I haven’t. I like to think I can do everything, but packing house to move to another country and trying to see friends, work US hours-ish (and maybe even go on a date) takes its toll. Mostly my blog gets the brunt of this, along with my sleep, and any friends who I’ve meant to see this week but ran out of time. But let's get back to Pipsdish shall we?