Seventh Sanctum New Logo Design – Which Do You Like?

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OK I’ve got work going on to develop a new logo for Seventh Sanctum – courtesy of the awesome Megami Studios who did the MuseHack logo.  So which one do you like?

Click below to see full sized!

First Logo

Candidate-1A

Second Logo

Candidate-1C

Third Logo

Candidate-1D

What do you think?

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Workable Drops Free, CEO Nikos Moraitakis Discusses it At Medium

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Workable apparently dropped their free membership, and their CEO Nikos Moraitakis explains why at Medium in a must-read essay.

Two things stood out for me:

Limiting design choices to things that can scale infinitely at near-zero cost is a recipe for making mediocre products.

He’s got a point.  When free is baked into your model you are automatically facing a series of constraints.  You can see this in most any model, but when your constraint is “limit what we charge” for that is one freakin’ huge constraint.

When someone tweets “this product sucks” readers can’t tell if this is coming from someone who got the good version of the product or the bad, unsupported one. Oh, and for every paid user you probably have 10 or 100 free ones. They will be louder, by sheer numbers alone.

He’s right.  Trust me.  Been there.  Also he notes people who get “free” are oddly hard to please.

Worth reading.  Think I need to interview this guy.

– Steven Savage

Seventh Sanctum Thought: Community

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Just a shout-out to the regular Seventh Sanctum users – got one of the old guard from years back who wants to revive the message boards. I’d like to see what people think.

Sure there’s a Facebook page, but it’d be good to have something completely “ours.”

So what do you guys think would help?

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.