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Inside TNW’s new design: A look at our new ‘cover’

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by on May 2, 2015 at 1:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Voice

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If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that we have a new design for The Next Web currently in beta testing. It’s more than just a reskin though, this is a radical rethink of how TNW operates and how we present our stories to you. In a series of articles, we’ll be going into detail about different sections of the new site. First up – the homepage, and in particular, the ‘cover’. The homepage isn’t dead – far from it There has been much talk about ‘the death of the homepage’ in recent years. As increasing amounts of traffic to…

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The state of storytelling in the internet age

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by on May 2, 2015 at 11:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, writing

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This post first appeared on Medium. Podcasts are blowing up, great stories are reaching more people than ever, people are paying for content, and the modern web is giving the world a better platform to tell stories than the world has ever seen. But news divisions are still shrinking, great publications are still failing, local blogs are still shutting down, and journalists are telling our youth to avoid the profession. The age of wisdom We have the entire world’s knowledge bank at our fingertips 24–7. If you ask me who the first American daredevil was, I can pull up Sam…

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The top TNW Deals this week: Get them while you can!

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by on May 2, 2015 at 11:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Offers, TNWDeals

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This has been a great week of deals for prospective programmers, but we’ve also featured a nice phone bundle and some backup power — here is a roundup. 94% off the UI/UX Designer Bundle Design is about more than just a pretty face — it is about making your users smile. The five courses in this bundle show you how that can be achieved, with each course focusing on a different aspect of the craft. Topics include the fundamentals of design, understanding the UX process, building habit-forming products, and optimizing your designs with data and user testing. It is a…

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Why offices need gossip

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by on May 2, 2015 at 8:26 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gossip, Insider, office culture

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Jamie Hodari is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Industrious Is there a figure in the working world more reviled, more often the victim of our eye rolls and disdain than the office gossip? And why not? As conventional wisdom would have it, they cause friends to turn against friends, expose office flings, and make sure to remind you of that Christmas party you’d rather forget. But like a good piece of gossip, there are layers to this story. People are fundamentally social, and companies that try to quash social gossip in the workplace and advocate for a strict separation between our personal and professional lives do so at their own peril. Far from…

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