Hey guys. Just wanted to share a great example of someone using our Tumblrsite theme for business:

Check out Big or Bigger. Big or Bigger puts together creative projects and events for public health causes. Looks like they’re doing some great stuff!

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Sidenote: Today is the last day to take advantage of our New Years Deal!: Install a Premium theme or Tumblrsite for only $19 (marked down from $59). Don’t miss out!

Is the Apple App Store just too impersonal for you? Then maybe OpenSpace - a brick-and-mortar app store located in Boulder, CO is the place for you!

At OpenSpace, you can browse apps and get recommendations from the store’s “app guru” staff.

Watch a video about OpenSpace on Mashable here.

Announcing another new theme: Impress - now available in the Tumblr Theme Garden.

The thing about Impress is that it’s more than a theme - it’s a website hosted on Tumblr.

Built on our innovative ‘Tumblrsite’ platform, Impress includes the following features that allow you to promote your business or services:

• Stunning home page slideshow with text overlay to give an eye-catching first impression
• Portfolio page to display your recent artwork or new arrivals
• Carousel page to display your products, photography - you name it!
• Built-in widgets: Facebook, Twitter and Flickr - and other cool features
• Tons of customization options to make your site as personally/brand relevant as possible

Install Impress here!

Or, check our live demo here.

Blog to impress with Tumblrsite’s Portfolio Page

With the launch of Tumblrsite - a Tumblelog that looks and feels like a professional website - we’re covering some of the unique features that are included.

The Portfolio Page provides a place for you to show off your work or business services. By simply tagging your photo uploads with a “portfolio” tag, you can include some of your best artwork, photos - or even menu items! - in a three-section Portfolio page.

Clicking an image in your Portfolio will open up a new page with your image in its original size - along with notes, tags and date of post.

Since this is all hosted through Tumblr, you can edit your Portfolio photos and captions as often as you like!

Check out our two demo sites to see the slideshow in action:

• Sutton Photography
• Fork+Plate Restaurant

Read more about Tumblrsite here.

Drop some jaws with Tumblrsite’s home page slideshow

With the launch of Tumblrsite - a Tumblelog that looks and feels like a professional website - we’re going to go over some of the unique features that are included.

The home page slideshow provides an eye-catching first impression. By simply tagging your photo uploads with “slideshow,” you can include some of your best photos in a rotating slideshow.

You can also add a headline and sub-headline in an opaque photo overlay. Here you can summarize your brand, your photo skills or post a promotion.

Since this is all hosted through Tumblr, you can edit your photos and headline text as often as you like!

Check out our two demo sites to see the slideshow in action:

• Sutton Photography
• Fork+Plate Restaurant

Read more about Tumblrsite here.

Google+ just announced brand pages! Have you created one for your business yet?

- Read the full article, “Google+ Launches Branded Pages” via Mashable here.

Turn your Tumblelog into a full featured website

We’re really excited to introduce… Tumblrsite!

Tumblrsite is a blog that looks, feels and functions like a website - all hosted on the super easy Tumblr platform.

[Check out a Tumblrsite right now]

Unlike an ordinary Tumblelog, Tumblrsite comes with a variety of unique page layouts to help you show off your stuff.

What’s included:

• Stunning home page slideshow to give an eye-catching first impression
• Portfolio page to display your recent artwork or new arrivals
• Carousel page to display your products, photography - you name it!
• Built-in widgets: Facebook, Twitter and Flickr - not to mention Google maps and other cool features

Sound good to you?

Install Tumblrsite now!

Or, check out our demo sites.

A new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation found that Women-Led Startups Are The Key To New Job Creation.

Read the full article via Fast Company here.

- By Rob Gemmell, co-founder of Addwater

I worked as Industrial Designer and later Creative Director at Apple between 1981 and 1989. At times I worked with - and learned a ton from - Steve Jobs. Some lessons I learned that I’ll never forget are:

1. Learn as much as you can before you’re 30. We were in our twenties at the time, so this idea came up a lot. Steve strongly believed that it gets increasingly hard to learn after age 30 because you acquire responsibilities, your head gets filled with other peoples’ ideas and you succumb to pressures to avoid risk. Now, far beyond age 30 I can safely say: he was right.
2. Don’t worry about consistency. Trying to be consistent for consistency’s sake will obstruct innovation and waste time. —Ever notice how ruthlessly Apple obsoletes cables and connectors?
3. Don’t waste time with Bozos. Even with great people, it’s tough and time-consuming to develop truly great products. So, don’t even bother trying with Bozos.
4. Don’t tolerate disloyalty. One thing Steve hated the most were people who’d share (what he believed was) private information with outsiders. Steve wanted to trust those around him like family, because this fostered honesty and allowed openness. Unfortunately, I found this out the hard way after talking to a guy writing a book about Apple, without prior approval. I think he’s still pissed about it.
5. Ask, “What is this shit?” In other words, be honest. Great people really appreciate the truth and those who don’t probably aren’t great. But boy did this philosophy stir things up in practice. One time I heard Steve say to a world renowned and patronly industrial designer, “Your work really isn’t that good, is it?” Thing is, he wasn’t trying to be rude - he was trying to get to the core of the designer’s unconventional vision without wasting time on small talk. And if the response he got enlightened him, he was completely open to changing his opinion.
6. Experiment with mind-altering experiences, especially when you’re young. Steve often asked job candidates about experiences they had while traveling or doing drugs. The reason? He was sincerely interested in how their perspectives and creativity had changed.
7. Defy rationality in remarkable ways. Steve was amazed and inspired by people who had done something that defied rational and practical norms —and succeeded in spite of them. He loved ideas that had little linear rationale behind them, but still made a hell of a lot of sense in their final form. He said once that the Beatles song, “A Day in the Life,” which is a collection of newspaper headlines turned into a song, was “insanely great.”
8. If you really want to get something done with someone, call them NOW. If Steve needed to solve a problem or hire someone, he’d call him or her immediately. He had this “why wait?” sort of attitude. Acting while the issue is hot helps you get quick results so you can move on to something else.
9. Nothing beats walking and talking if you want fresh thinking. At least daily – and sometimes many times a day —you’d spot Steve pacing and talking with another Apple exec or engineer outside the Apple buildings. For him, sitting in a conference room or office sucked the energy out of a meeting or creative discussion. Since the Apple days, I’ve seen research indicating that people do indeed think better standing up.
10. Look at things really close. I noticed Steve looking as specs for a stereo system one time in Germany. The sheet was inches away from his eyes and I realized I’d seen him do this many times, so I finally asked him about it. He said he looked at things closely because “most people don’t, and it shows.”

These were all things Steve said or lived by before he was 30 years old.

Thanks Steve. Live on.

We’ve released two more new Tumblr themes!

The one on the left, 5th Avenue, is another theme optimized for businesses & entrepreneurs. The theme on the right, Brickway, is our first ever personal theme. We hope you like them!

Read more about Addwater’s themes here.

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Woot! Passed the 200-installs mark on our #Tumblr theme, Mainstreet. It has Google maps, social media links & a cool brick background. Check it out at http://ow.ly/5ZigF

Welcome to Addwater Agency’s Tumbelog!

As we create new Tumblr themes, we’ll be sharing them & discussing them here.

Like the cool brick background? You’re viewing our first Tumblr theme, Main Street. You can install it here: http://www.tumblr.com/theme/31335

ABOUT MAINSTREET

Main Street was designed with small businesses in mind, but can be used by any independent professional - or person, for that matter! 

We’re fans of informative simplicity, which is why we’ve included cool widgets like the Google map at the bottom of the page and the hours of operation box over there —>

If you don’t want any of these boxes, just delete ‘em! If you want to change the logo at the top of the page or the background, please be our guest. Main Street is very customizable, and we hope you enjoy it.

Check out the Mainstreet Theme page for more info.

Have you installed Mainstreet theme? Let us know what you think and we will let you have one of our upcoming premium themes for free.

Do you have questions/comments? We are always looking forward hearing from you! Let us know!

Photo via aestheticcartel.