TikTokkers reportedly no longer says ‘sick’ or ‘legen-dary’ or ‘the cat’s pajamas’. They say sheesh, but what does this sheesh mean?
Slang words come and go – and may suddenly change meaning, but at least for now you can feel good about contributing to the conversation like this:
– Good evening, Terry! – Good evening, good sire. – By the way, I ordered a custom logo online.
– Sheeeesh!
What does sheesh mean in English?
Sheesh, or sheeeeeesh (pronounced /ʃiiiiiiiiiiʃ’) is an expression of positive surprise. It encourages the speaker and comments on what was said before.
succeeded in something, perhaps better than expected
experienced something unique
The key is a relaxed and enthusiastic sheesh. So don’t hesitate to raise your pitch and lengthen your vowel. Life is too short for short sheeshes.
What is the etymology of sheesh?
Sheesh as a word has been around since the 1950s. Its meaning has changed in a more positive direction. The word was originally derived from the words geez and Jesus. Instead of naming Jesus, the voiced euphemism geez has been used, which has evolved into the voiceless sheesh.
At lot is happening at Twitter. Of course, there’s always something happening at (and on) Twitter. Especially now that Elon Musk has set is eye on it (and stubbed his toe, perhaps).
If you’re looking for an alternative channel for your 280 character thoughts, here are some ideas. Maybe one of these could be your new social media service.
Twitter’s replacement: Mastodon
One new service that is clearly attracting Twitter users is Mastodon, which defines itself as a decentralised social media.
Instead of a single central provider, Mastodon is a collection of different servers, each with its own rules and subject areas. The Finnish mastodontti.fi is one of the Finnish servers, or instances. You can find servers for your country quite easily, too.
The user experience is very close to Twitter
The user has a better chance of curating their own kind of feed
An alternative to Twitter according to what you want to do with it
What do you usually do on Twitter? There are many other places online and even in the real world where you can do the same things.
Free-for-all:if you treat low blood pressure by keyboard fighting on Twitter, you could try, for example, discussion forums or newspaper comment sections. There are also Facebook groups to start something at.
Branding: you can also create a personal brand on LinkedIn or Instagram.
Information: The Finnish national broadcast service YLE has a concise teletext service in English.
Your interests: Maybe you’ve already curated a Twitter feed according to your taste. The Discord chat app brings together a wide range of channels on different topics, so you might find the ones you’re interested in right there.
Comedy: Does your brain produce an endless flow of snappy oneliners? I think your family, friends or relatives will appreciate it if you send messages directly to their Whatsapp.
What else can replace Twitter?
If it happens that Twitter goes bust, don’t worry. On the horizon, there is always the next wave of social media candidates.
You can also feel free to go without social media for a while and then choose to tag along if others find a platform worth using.
Binaural beats are sometimes touted as a substitute or addition to meditation. Benefits of these brain hum sounds include better concentration, relaxation or reduced anxiety.
In this article, we list where you can listen to these binaural rhythms and what the scientific basis is.
Binaural sounds have many names in this context, including:
Binaural rhythms
Binaural beats
Binaural beat tones
We use them synonymously in this article.
What are binaural beats?
Binaural means something that is sensed with two ears.
Binaural beats are rhythmic sounds created by the difference in frequency of two sounds applied to the ears. For example, the brain interprets a 440 hertz sound in the left ear and a 444 hertz sound in the right ear as a new sound that beats at 4 hertz (or four times per second).
The listener’s brain can attune to the same rhythm as this binaural rhythm, so by listening to different binaural beats, different parts of the brain can be stimulated.
Research evidence on binaural beats is mixed. They may not have the desired effect – and if they do, it may well be a placebo effect. Binaural beats can also have unwanted side effects, such as increased anxiety.
Where can you listen to binaural beats?
If you want to try out what these binaural rhythms sound like at this stage, put on some headphones and try them out.
Binaural beats on YouTube
A quick, easy and cheap way to test how these sounds affect you is the good old familiar YouTube. Search for “binaural beats” and the frequency you want.
Beta waves for concentration
This video has no other music or effects and is long enough for long sessions.
Delta waves for sleep and relaxation
Similar video to the one above, but with delta waves.
Binaural rhythms on Spotify
You can also find binaural recordings on Spotify. The problem with these is usually their short duration, because artists want to get more plays for their songs.
A better place to start is the podcast side, where recordings are usually much longer.
Here are some to try:
Apps and services
If you’re really into binaural rhythms, and you want them to support what you’re doing, here are some apps and services.
Brain.fm
A US-based service with a wide range of brain hums for different situations, such as concentration and falling asleep.
With the code ALLGOODGREAT you get -20% off the price of your order.
For binaural sounds, you need headphones so that the sound can reach both ears. You can’t listen to them through speakers – or at least the mechanism of action is not the same. You can also listen to monaural recordings without headphones.
You will need:
Headphones
A comfortable position
A place of peace and quiet
Time
Bodily peace
Is there scientific evidence for the effects of binaural beats?
According to this literature review, studies on binaural rhythms are partly contradictory and partly incomplete. Various studies have reported, for example, that binaural rhythms alleviate anxiety and can improve concentration.
The inconsistency of the results may be due to the fact that binaural beats can be used in different ways, so the desired effect may come from something other than the sound itself.
There is no clear indication as to:
Which sounds are the most efficient
How long to listen to the sounds
Does white noise in the background help
How much does the situation otherwise (quieting down, calming down, standing still) affect the results?
What effects can binaural rhythms have?
Positive effects of binaural rhythms, according to the industry, include.
Improved concentration
Relaxation
Reduction of anxiety
The effect can come partly from the placebo effect and partly from the fact that you are doing something purposefully. For example, putting on headphones for a task that requires concentration can in itself help you to concentrate.
To try out binaural sounds, below is a list of different frequencies that are said to have different effects.
The logo is the most fundamental piece of visual identity for a company. It’s printed on products, brochures, websites, business cards… everywhere your company puts its best face forward. But where to get the logos?
In this article, we present the companies, tools and pricing guidelines for logo design and brand identity building in Finland. First, let’s look at the definitions of the words related to logos. Companies, projects, social media channels and even grandma’s knitting patterns can have logos.
Logo type: company name in written text
Logomark: graphic element, icon or symbol of a company, such as the Pepsi ball, Nike woosh or Audi circles.
Logo: the previous two combined, i.e. icon and text together. It can also be just text with no pictorial mark.
Affordable logo for a new company
When a new company is commissioning a logo and starting from scratch, they’ll often need more than just the logo.
Usually they’ll need:
Logotype
Logomark
Brand colors
Brand font
In this case, we are already talking about designing the visual identity of the brand. If you’re looking for an inexpensive logo – just a logo – then this is where your wallet starts to feel some shortness of breath.
On the other hand, there is not much of a budget at the beginning. So if the choice is between not having a business at all and having one, then you should go with your budget and order the logo from where you can get it.
Cheap logo design services online
The internet is full of cheap or free logo design apps and services. You can find them by searching Google for ‘logo maker’ or ‘logo generator ai’. Examples include BrandCrowd or Brandmark.
Cheap online design services such as Fiverr can also be very useful ways to get your own unique logo. You can also use crowd-sourcing, for example, with 99designs, where several designers make logo suggestions for you to choose from.
The good things about these services are:
Cheap
Fast
Easy to try
At best, you can hit gold and get a really useful logo
The bad thing about these are:
Logos can be generic
Logos are not unique
Experimentation and testing takes a lot of time (money)
At worst, you could end up with some copied logo on which to build your business.
Logos with artificial intelligence?
AI is already doing a lot of creative marketing content. At its best, AI can create really good and unique starting points for logomarks, for example. The cover image of the article is an example of a logomark produced by Midjourney.
The biggest challenge in AI and logo design today is that logos are usually very deliberate, precise and geometric. The images produced by AI are sketches and fairly asymmetrical – at least as of now.
One approach would be to use AI to create the ideas, which you then convert to vectors in Adobe Illustrator. This, on the other hand, requires design skills, time and a visual eye, so it does not necessarily solve the original problem.
In most cases, the easiest way is to hire a real professional.
How much does it cost to design a logo?
The prices of logos bought in Finland range from hundreds to a few hundred thousand euros. The bigger the project, the bigger the bill. A logo designed by a logo design professional for a normal company or organisation costs approx. 2 000 – 5 000 €.
Freelancers, gog workers, smaller agencies and designers sympathetic to your cause can make a logo for under a grand. Most of the time, you pay for what you get. If you are a small business and your budget is tight, you can let the designer know when you ask for a quote.
If you’re running a business with over a million in turnover but you don’t feel like investing in a brand, then you’re not on a tight budget.
With logo design, you pay for these things:
A professional’s point-of-view
Uniqueness
Longevity
Suitability for you and your business
For larger projects, you pay for these:
Image
Story
Saving your own ass
Research and data-driven design
There is no right or wrong way. There are mainly ways that are appropriate or inappropriate for your situation.
Logo design in Oulu, Finland
Here are some of the companies offering logo design in Oulu, Finland. As a rule of thumb, operators selling logo design are cheaper than those selling brand identity building, brand design or other similarly branded services.
Pay attention to these things:
What kind of logos has the designer made before?
What is involved in the process?
Graphic design Muotkava
Logo design for small (and bigger, too) projects from Muotkava.
Once your logo is fresh out of the oven, you know your brand colours in your sleep and your company mission statement is tattooed on the inside of your lower lip, it’s time to start living.
This site – allgoodgreat.com – is a lifestyle site run by Aalho Media. Our goal is to help companies tell the world how they’re making life better. The purpose of this article, as an example, was to help you find a logo designer for your business or project.
After you have your brand identity all set up, reach out to us for a brand collaboration. Tell us, and the world, what you do and why. Our search engine optimized pages are easily found on Google, so you can get an immediate influx of visitors to your website.
What’s the best way to learn English? How to increase your vocabulary and confidence? In this article we say no worries and explore the best ways to learn English.
English is the most widely spoken language in the world. It is spoken as a first language mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. However, as a foreign language it is the most popular language in the world and in many ways the most useful also in non-English speaking countries.
Want to learn English better? Let’s get going!
Different countries. Different starting points for English.
In Finland, we are in a good position to learn English. We are so few that, for example, television programmes are not dubbed but subtitled. This way, every series or film you watch is a little exercise in listening and understanding English.
We also have to (or have the opportunity to) search for information in languages other than Finnish – mostly English. So we already have the most important prerequisite for learning a language: motivation.
Add to this passive stimuli from the environment and we can say that we are in an excellent position to learn English. The situation may be different in your country, but seeing that you here, it seems you have the motivation too.
The best way to learn English
The best ways to learn English are strongly linked to what you want to do in English. In that sense, it is like any other tool. If you have a saw, learning how to use it depends on your goals. The best ways to learn are different depending on whether you want to play folk songs on a musical saw or saw boards.
As a rule of thumb:
You learn to talk by talking
You learn to read by reading
You learn to write by writing
And to sum up: you learn English by using it. I myself studied English Philology at university and graduated with a Master’s degree. I have come to realize that more important than grammar and pronunciation is communication – especially when English is used as a common language of communication between non-natives.
If you can get your point across and meet your objectives, your English language skills have been just about perfect.
The science-backed best way to learn a language
Language learning has been studied for several decades. However, there’s no clear answer as to what is the best way to learn a new language. Many of the studies referred to are also very old, although the phenomenon itself has certainly not changed.
A few comments:
In this study, immigrants before puberty (age 15) had a much better chance of achieving native speaker-like proficiency
Even after puberty, it was possible to learn to speak very fluently
Motivation plays a very important role
According to this study, effective language learning strategies included:
Paying attention to the use of language (metacognition)
Use of time: less and more often rather than a lot at once and infrequently
Reading texts aloud
Learning English with an app: the Duolingo app
Apps and gamification of learning are familiar from the computer classes of the nineties. New language learning apps such as Duolingo are popular ways to learn a new language. What’s new compared to the old is handling large amounts of data, optimizing retention and making it easier to combine reading, talking and listening (because the phone is such a handy multimedia device).
Duolingo itself has studied and marketed learning outcomes that show clear progress in language learning. Of course, they have their own cow in the ditch, so it’s good to be critical. On the other hand, Duolingo’s success depends on the success of language learning, so market forces are pushing both in the same direction.
Based on my own experience, Duolingo is good because:
Collecting streaks is an addictive way to study at least a little bit every day
Has exercises in reading, speaking and writing
The exercises are short and can be squeezed in between anything you’re doing
The bad things are the annoyingly repetitive ads (in the free version) and sometimes repetitive tasks.
There are also a number of online services aimed directly at children. For example, the Sweden-based Hi Albert is aimed at children aged 3–9 and older childer between 10 and 16. You can currently study on the service:
We all have our own lives, in the flow of which we learn, experience and change. Here are a collection of tips for learning English. I’m sure you’ll find some practical ways that are just right for you.
Emotions
Keep a diary of your thoughts and feelings about your language learning
Examine your own attitude to making mistakes
Write down one success a day
Speaking
Speak English to your pet or houseplant
Repeat phrases you hear in TV shows, on social media or in films, for example
Practise using gestures to support your speech
Comprehension
Listen to podcasts in English
Change the subtitles of your favourite series to English
Read a familiar book in English
Vocabulary
Collect interesting words in a notebook or on your phone
Form mental images of new words
Learning English by doing
If you’ve made it this far, you’re clearly motivated to either learn English yourself or help someone else to do so.
Learning English can be compared to rehearsing with a small band. One day you practice singing (speaking), the next day bass (syntax), the third day drums (pronunciation)… Learning a language takes time and practice, but if you’re motivated enough and learning is fun, you’ll soon realize that wow this band sounds great together.
Oulu, the capital of northern Scandinavia, the white pearl of the North, the shitty city… Some of Oulu’s names were born on the streers, others at the long tables of advertising agencies. In this article, we will find out which are the best advertising agencies in Oulu for your specific needs.
I’ve been in the business since the early noughties, when the wildest days of the advertising agency scene were behind us and the digital revolution was very much on the horizon. These reviews are based on my own experience and the advertising agencies’ own branding.
What is the best advertising agency/creative agency/agency/marketing agency in Oulu, Finland?
Looking for the best advertising agency is like looking for the best kitchen utensil. If you’re going to eat soup, a spoon is better than a knife. That’s why we’ve broken down the best agencies by category, as each agency has its own areas of strength.
We are looking for the best agencies in these areas:
Best brand agency
Best jack of all trades
Best video production
Best coaching
Best effective content production
Best digital services
Best technical solutions
The best brand agency in Oulu, Finland
Many of Oulu’s most visible brand campaigns and rebrandings are the work of Luova Työmaa. From Työmaa, we’re used to seeing good creative ideas and even visionary graphic designs in line with the latest trends.
So the golden spoon for the best brand agency goes to Työmaa thanks to its reputation (some would even say brand).
The one-stop tactic is to find a partner who can do it all. Or at least someone who knows someone who can do it all.
Oulu’s Avidly is mainly composed of the former Pakkahuone team, long-standing Oulu advertising professionals. Avidly’s organisation manages a network of collaborators from many different fields, and Avidly has succeeded in the hardest part: simple collaboration in a glocal way.
Once a year, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg decides to go big in video. Advertisers and marketers around the world rush to make more videos, because that’s what you do.
Fortunately, Oulu has a lot of good video production partners:
Jussi Finnilä’s Sky High Pictures: bulletproof professionalism and an eye for detail
Kuulu: modern video production for businesses of all sizes
Best marketing coaching in Oulu
Kuulu is in many ways the most modern advertising agency in Oulu. Kuulu receives a gold spoon for its coaching and overall aspirations to promote the role marketing in business.
Best creative and effective content production in Oulu
This is where I look in the mirror and hand myself the prize. Aalho Media (the company behind this site) is the creative partner for content that generates results.
Aalho Media provides content in Finnish and English for your own channels as well as for example for this allgoodgreat.com website (or hyviaasioita.fi).
Now that we have started to give out prizes towards the mirror, let’s continue along the same lines. Aalho Media, mainly myself Jukka Aalho, has years of experience with successful startups, including Oura Health’s growth years.
A startup will need more partners, so Aalho Media alone will not yet help you conquer Silicon Valley. However, we can provide you with content in English and show the way to international growth. And what’s more, some good contacts for international expansion.
Best digital advertising services in Oulu
Running PPC campaigns is a bit of a dichotomy in marketing. In a nutshell, good partners get campaigns up and running quickly and leave them to their own devices. More mediocre partners will quickly get campaigns up and running and leave them to their own devices.
This is why this golden spoon is a free-for-all spoon. I can’t pick a single winner, so you can suggest a winning agency or even a freelancer in the comments.
The best technical solutions for marketing
If you only have a spoon in your hand, everything starts to look like a soup. Today’s marketer’s Cannes-blue dreams involve an agency partner with great front-end skills but also an unerring eye for great brand executions.
Once a company gets to the point where the basics are in place, results, growth and success are found through new content and technical solutions.
I believe that in such cases the best solutions would be found through larger agencies such as Avidly, Työmaa or Kuulu, or through individual freelancers.
Kudos also to the other best agencies in Oulu
Oulu has an advertising agency for all purposes – in a positive sense.
My own experiences with all the agencies have been good, even if they are not mentioned by name in this article. Time and time again, I have been impressed by the know-how, the visuals and the inventive ideas.
So take whichever catches your fancy. As long as you take someone.
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