Have you ever wondered who are the people who have changed the world? What are they like? How do they do it? Where do they find the strength and courage to raise their voice and openly criticize well-established patterns, opinions, and attitudes? One of those people is Nthabi Kamala – an activist, leader, and astuff
Recently, I spoke with a dear friend who showed me her new website and requested honest feedback. Do you like it, she asked, and I cringed. Now, hear me out. My friend is not a professional website designer, on contrary. She built a website for a business she recently started and at a first glance,stuff
Have you ever tried to create an online portfolio? If you have, then you know that it can be a time-consuming and somewhat challenging task. This is especially true if you’re not into coding and similar technicalities. On the other hand, finding a proper ready-made portfolio designed to your liking could easily turn out tostuff
Close your eyes. Imagine your beautifully built, functional website that captures the essence of you or your business. With a simple search, your audience will have an entirely new window into what you can do. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? But before you go on listing all the excuses pertaining to the difficulty of building astuff
Did you know that there are around 6.5 million startups each year, but nearly 90% of them end up in failure? According to the statistics, 21.5% of businesses fall flat in the first year, 30% in the second, 50% in the fifth, and 70% in their tenth year. Admittedly, the failure rate is pretty high.stuff
This article is a part of . MEr’s personal experiences and knowledge sharing. We find it crucial to share our community members’ voices and personal stories. So our readers can learn something new, get inspired, and create unforgettable digital experiences. This month, Luka Zaric, a graphic designer, shares his story about learning about design. Insteadstuff
Marketing is everything – the way you market your business will make or break your enterprise. Having a unique marketing approach is what sets you apart from everybody else. No matter what your product or service is, you need a clever marketing campaign to attract the right customers and to keep them coming back. Youstuff
When you hear the words design agency what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Is it a graphic design? Illustrations? Or merch design, at best? What if we told you that there are design agencies that are willing to take things further. To bring something new to the market. To join photography, paintings,stuff
Last year, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic we devoted the ME day to mental health, as a reminder that while it is important to take care of our physical health, we mustn’t overlook our mental health either. A year later, we’ve been through a lot and the issue of mental health is everstuff
Let’s imagine a world where we all earned our living from jobs we enjoyed doing. Sounds like utopia, right? Well, for some of us, this is a real-life scenario. The successful business we established had been set up on the foundations of a dear hobby. Time spent on activities we’re passionate about fills us withstuff
Remember last December? You know the time when we were getting ready to celebrate holidays over Zoom calls and chant the countdown to 2021 in our PJs with the list of TV shows and movies to watch? Well, back then, we came across a Berlin-based film director and a .MEr who agreed to sit downstuff
One year later, and it seems that “unprecedented times” are here to stay. COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of our lives. It’s not only the way we work, socialize, learn, spend the leisure time that has changed. Also, the way we shop will never be quite the same. Since our society changed sostuff
Are you at the start of your software engineering career and looking for some advice to get things rolling? Or perhaps you are toying with an idea and thinking how to go from idea to startup? One of the members of our .ME community is the person you should definitely talk to. Gianluca Colaianni fromstuff
This article is a part of . MEr’s personal experiences and knowledge sharing. We find it crucial to share our community members’ voices and personal stories. So our readers can learn something new, get inspired, and create unforgettable digital experiences. This month, Gabriel Arreola, a software developer and designer, shares his story about creating hisstuff
Ever since we started creating our digital identities, data privacy has been a notion under the spotlight, often alluded to but rarely fully guaranteed. As data volumes continue to grow, information manipulation, misuse, or loss are the problems we face on a daily basis. Hackers, fraudsters, governments, businesses, and organizations tend to violate our rightstuff
The power of social media is undeniable, and we are the witnesses of it each day. But at times, regardless of whether you are a social media newbie or a well-known veteran, the right course of action is not always clear. With frequent algorithm updates, new features, and marketing trends, social networks are ever-changing media.stuff
Saying that businesses worldwide have been going through a rough patch due to COVID-19, would be an understatement. And rightly so. After more than a year of fighting the pandemic, businesses are realizing that they need to change their approach and find a better virus management solution. Around the world, manufacturing and service industries arestuff
Finding the optimal business model is an uneasy task. Although there are many directions our company strategy can take, there is one thing we all have to agree upon: the business must endure. Thinking smart and implementing business sustainability practices can aid your company in three focal points: environmental, social, and financial. The world hasstuff
Children are often asked what they want to be when they grow up. While their answers range depending on the main influences in their lives, it is clear their “career choices” are rarely guided by economical gain. In our youth, we often imagined our professional lives in more simplified terms. During our academic years, manystuff
Looking back, the past year has taught us how fast we can adjust to newfound circumstances by heavily relying on digital technologies. Across the globe, while some businesses flourished as they seized the moment and offered their consumers just what they needed, others weren’t as lucky. But as the first vaccines are developed, and westuff