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Reading the contributions of various authors in Seth Godin’s new e-book one thought kept overwhelming me. “I appreciate the permission to rest.”

The last few months have been a blast here at magntize. We were featured in mashable, grew to over 3,000 users, handled hundreds of support requests, and in the midst of the craziness we kept smiling. Not bad.

There is a reality we often don’t like to acknowledge. It’s that the time it takes us to accomplish something is often determined by how long we’re given to complete it. It’s almost like some sort of mental jujitsu our brain does to us.

We’ve seen a tremendous response to magntize over the last week with over 800 active users now! Thanks to everyone for the RT’s, blog reviews, and word of mouth recommendations to get the word out. Below are links to a few fantastic reviews we’ve received. If you’re left off the list please drop us a comment, we’d love to tweet about you’re review.

There’s lots of talk now days about brands. We’re told that organizations and even people have brands and that if you’re not building your brand then you’re so 1998. With all the hubbub surrounding the concept you may be wondering what exactly a brand is?

If you’ve spent any length of time in the technology industry you know one of our biggest quirks is the use of technical jargon. If you see our mouths moving it’s a safe bet that we’re spouting off the following…

We couldn’t be more pumped about the monster update we’ve released today. Among other things it includes the ability to change tastes whenever you want, a more intuitive back-end interface, and the addition of free and premium pricing plans.

Every great company is founded on a few guiding principles or ideals. If you’re lucky those will lead you to some level of success in your industry. One day large amounts of money will be offered to you that will require you to go back on those ideals. It will seem like an innocent thing. “Who will notice?” you’ll mumble to yourself. Here’s one piece of advice: don’t do it. At that moment you’re not in your right mind. What you’re not taking stock of is that those ideals contain the soul of your company. They’re what set you apart and compel people to do business with you.

I recently logged on to twitter to find a strange @reply message. It simply said, “@bretttilford check this out http://jzyky9.com” I didn’t recognize the name so I clicked on the profile. It was another dreaded spam account. Argh.

Organizational charts, contracts, HR policy manuals, and sales projections don’t normally strike us as something to get excited about. These tend to be labeled the boring and messy details of business. The non-creative part that is less important than the stuff the client interacts with. No one would ever describe them as beautiful. Let’s take a forward thinking industrial design firm as an example.