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Design Rangers has the pleasure of posting this article written for us by Tammy Oler – our dear friend and awesome wordslinging partner. Enjoy!

Between blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, there are more ways than ever to connect with your customers.  But direct marketing still works – and email newsletters can be a powerful way to reach out.  The key to success with an e-newsletter is cutting through the clutter of your customers’ inboxes, and giving them good reasons to click through to your content.

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• Do you have a great Camp Tip you can share for our newsletter? Tips for camping, hiking, biking, etc…. http://ow.ly/1LbHq #
• At the Coheed and Cambria @Coheed show in Denver with Dalton. Just got to meet the band and now we're in the front row waiting to rock! #
• RT @woothemes: If you're after some awesome, sketchy social media icons try these by @chrisspooner http://bit.ly/cbVMYn #
• RT @OurLittleAshley: This is worst website I've EVER SEEN EVER. http://www.postroadrecreationcenter.com/ #
• I think we've said this before – everything cool in this world is from Brooklyn. http://ow.ly/1JBOg #

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• Our Bearski Bath & Body logo is being judged at the National ADDY competition in D.C. today. Break a leg little bear! http://ow.ly/1Ie0l #
• RT @bearskibath: New for WOOOHOOO!!! beautiful lightweight spring/summer scarves by Viya Style for a limited time http://bit.ly/boxDFf #
• Awesome work Denver!! http://www.bcycle.com/ #
• RT @noimpactproject Go Outside and Play! http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/green-exercise-good-for-mood.php #
• RT @tara_wagner Don't Be A Debbie Downer: http://wp.me/pEqTF-3 #
• RT @SkateBoardPark iShred? Turning an iPad into a skateboard http://bit.ly/afkH56 #
• RT @knockknock "The details are not the details. They make the design." —Charles Eames #
• Awesome: In case you missed earlier. Happy Star Wars Day! -a great day to debut the new ads we did http://post.ly/emjp (via @willgay) #
• Twitter Tools plugin for Wordpress allows you to automatically tweet your blog posts and more. Pretty slick tool. http://ow.ly/1GUIZ #
• Chop wood, carry water. Our Friday link Round-up is here! http://ow.ly/1FlRe #

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Those of you that read our blog with any frequency or are fans of Design Rangers on Facebook know that I frequently post links from Design*Sponge. I pretty much love every thing they post, but here are a few favorites that have popped up this week.

1. These twig push pins are super cute and it’s a great way to re-use twigs and branches that have fallen off of your neighborhood trees. Seems like a must have in the new Design Ranger office!
2. I’m pretty much convinced that everything cool in this world comes from Brooklyn. My dad was from Brooklyn – which I believe makes me 1/2 cool. Our completely awesome friends Tammy and Ehren are from Brooklyn – when ever they come to visit they always bring us awesome gifts from some fantastic little shop in Brooklyn. Okay – they main point is… I love this letterpress bear card, it has die-cut arms so the bear can hold a little something, too! And yes, you guessed it. Brooklyn made.

On a much more serious note – did you know there are 884 million without access to safe drinking water? A very sad WOW came out of my mouth when I came across that fact on www.waterforpeople.org’s home page. Water For People is a “Denver-based international development organization supports sustainable safe drinking water and sanitation projects in developing countries”. The organization worked with Duffy & Partners to launch their new re-branding campaign, Joe Duffy is an amazing designer that I have always admired and he has done it again with the Water For People brand. A happy WOW this time.