There’s always one thing that always surprises me when it comes to this world, and that’s the power and influence of fans. I always have soft heart when I see a celebrity perform on stage and I see a shot of all the fans cheering or singing along. I guess it shows that sense of togetherness and everyone is united as one. All the fans are brought together as one to do one thing, and that’s to cheer on their idol(s) and see them.

The concept stays the same on the web. Recently I’ve been seeing tweets on Soshified this and Soshified that, and I was wondering what was up. Through a little browsing and searching, it turns out Soshified was remodeling their forum skin powered by Invisionboard. It was expected to launch on May 9th, and so I can definitely understand how they feel when you’re waiting for something to come up, especially a forum or community where you spend a lot of time socializing, learning, and talking about your favorite topic.

One of Soshified’s goals was to become a trending topic on twitter. Now, knowing me, I didn’t really know what a trending topic on twitter was. I assumed it was randomly generated depending on what’s been talking at the moment, but in the end I was close in that it was just the most talked about topic on twitter. In other words, spamming the word or hashtag (well, I’m sure twitter has some logic behind it). It was pretty crazy, because when I was searching for the “Soshified” term, twitter would notify me that there were 40+ more tweets since I’ve searched, and I’m like….I’ve just loaded this search page ><.

Now that's what I call dedication from fans and loyal subscribers. They eventually reached Trending Topic (TT) status and even beat out a topic such as Iron Man 2 which surprised me the most because considering Iron Man 2 is a bit more global than what Soshified is since it was a movie that started showing since Friday.

In the end, Soshified released their new layout, which is actually stunning to me that it was a forum skin. Check out my article on skinning vs designing in the near future. In the meantime, as always, keep dedicated to something/someone and you’ll reach your goals. As with Soshified, they had their loyal group of fans, they all united together because of their love for a famous girl group named SNSD, and because of that, they’ve grown into a massive community where they can enjoy and share their thoughts on what they like.

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted, and I have good reasons. As my last post said, I recently went to Las Vegas with Intothedarkroom to attend the WPPI convention, but I also went there as a company trip to see and explore Las Vegas as well as hanging out with the company.

One of the highlights of the trip was attending a Cirque du Soleil show at the MGM Hotel with my employer’s family, and it turned out to be an inspirational show and time I couldn’t forget.

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I apologize for being late a day, as most beginning bloggers, it’s quite a task to get everything updated. However, I’m not going to skip over my weekly inspiration. I shortened the title a bit to just MM (Mundane Monday) so it’ll be less prominent in the title. The content is what you’re looking for.

For this week, I want to share 5 blogs that I usually visit everyday for tips, inspiration, resources, and sometimes I even get sidetracked to even more leads for inspiration and more.

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