Sorry folks for the delay in post. I am very much busy now a days with some geeky stuffs. The second interview of an extremely successful entrepreneur is ready, will publish it very soon. :)
I prepared a list of 100 blog tips, I have learnt in 2008. These tips actually work. Using the basic tip of blogging "Post shouldn't be too long" I am going to post this list in two parts, 50 tips in each post. Here are first top 50 tips:-
1. Final year of your Engineering, start blogging today
2. Write about something that you love a lot, I like internet surfing
3. If you are serious about blogging buy your own domain
4. Make sure your domain name resembles with blog topic
5. Use short and easy to remember domain name
6. Use BlogSpot
7. Use BlogSpot widget
8. Use simple and attractive template
9. Customize your blog template
10. Choose a specific topic for blog
11. Content is king
12. Blog with consistency
13. Write at least 3-5 posts a week
14. Proof read
15. Interact with other bloggers
16. leave meaningful comments
17. Backup your blog
18. Participate in online forums and communities
19. Put a link of blog on your signature (:P)
20. Use trackbacks
21. Use social bookmarks
22. Join various type of blog networks. Eg. I am the member of Mumbai Bloggers group
23. Use all type of social networking websites to publicize your blog
24. Put URL of your recent post as your IM’s status
25. Write “Top 10″ lists
26. Use Shout box
27. Write “How to” articles
28. Write about Startups
29. Write interviews of successful entrepreneurs
30. list your blog on directories
31. Ask questions to your readers
32. Use Feedburner
33. Use sense of humor
34. Encourage readers to subscribe
35. Link exchange with other bloggers
36. Have some spare posts for emergencies
37. Encourage readers to digg your posts
38. Stumble your post
39. Put an RSS subscription icon on every single page
40. Use “series” of posts
41. Return comments
42. Write about how to increase blog traffic
43. Write about How to blog
44. Use readable fonts
45. Break long posts in more parts
46. Experiment with different revenue sources like adsence, bidvertiser, chitika
47. Use Google Analytics
48. Have an "About Me" page
49. Create your own "Advertise with me" page
50. Read as many blogs as possible
Remaining 50 tips will be coming in next post. Write your views and suggestions. It encourages me. :)
Ok, this is the latest buzz from every one’s favorite gmail. Google announced another very useful feature for gmail. Gmail Labs added a new Multiple Inboxes feature. This feature will help us to keep an eye on multiple buckets once while we are viewing our Inbox.
How to add Multiple Inboxes feature? Its very easy, go to gmail’s settings -> labs and enable multiple inboxes feature.
Here's how my inbox looks like after enabling multiple inboxes feature:
The new lists of threads can be lebels, your starred messages, draft or any search you want, configurable under Settings.
The only question that remains ..... When is Gmail coming out of Beta ?? I think google doesn't want to take any responsibility or risk. That's why gmail is still in Beta version. Use gmail on your own risk. So, google wont release final version of gmail. What do you think about it? Write your views as comment to this post.
It was the mid of 2007 when the genie of RECESSION came out of the ‘Chiraag’. Originated from US, the plague has rapidly gone global. Nowadays, recession is the most horrible word for Students, Employees, Companies and Countries as a whole. India is one of the major sufferers. Consequently, Geekonnet team is also suffering from this word. But still its recession only which made us learn a lot about how to survive in this era. Geekonnet team is going to tell you some tips to save your career and your family from recession.So, here we have some tips.
1)Make a specific plan: I’m not talking about making a wish list which, like New Year’s resolutions, will be forgotten by the third week of January. You want a plan that has specific goals for your job (what’s the best role for you next?) and your income (exactly how much would you like to be making by the end of 2009?). Writing down your plans makes them concrete, and it's more likely you will attain them.
2)SWOT yourself: Be honest with yourself. Review your strengths -- like what you’ve got that can move you ahead; weaknesses like those things you have or do that are holding you back; opportunities -- things you can pursue at the company or in the industry; and threats -- things that can derail you or sabotage your efforts to move ahead.
3)Update your skills: Keep on updating your career skills. Be a fast learner and adopt new technology. Just learn whatever you can learn. Don’t stick with old technology or old business strategy. Increase your productivity and efficiency.
4)Update your Resume: Too many job cuts have taken place in last 6 months. So, freshers now have to compete with experienced guys. If you are applying for any job be sure your resume should be according to the job profile. As I mentioned above keep on learning new technology, sharpen your skill, increase your productivity and efficiency.
5)Be honest with your company: If you don’t want to get fired from your job then please be honest with your company and with your job.
6)Money: Start spending money smartly. Always have some cash money with you as your savings. Improve your personal balance sheet.
7)Self promote: It’s not only important to do your job these days. It’s important to do and show your job. The decision makers should know you and what you are doing. Have regular meetings with your boss or send regular e-mails to update those in charge about your contributions. Even if they don’t want to.
8)Stay hungry, Don’t stay foolish: Once Mr. Steve Jobs said “Stay hungry, stay foolish”. But we (Geekonnet team) modified it a little bit for current situation. Now it is “Stay hungry, Don’t stay foolish”.
9)Patience: Have patience and don’t loose your nerves in the last overs. The match is between your job and global market liquidity. Give it a nail biting finish with you coming out as a winner.
10)Look after your loved ones: In this era you may get yourself over involved in protecting your career. As 2009 ends you still will be here and you are going to want to be with your near and dear ones. DON’T NEGLECT those who make life more worthwhile.
Can you sacrifice 10 friends for a hamburger? You must be thinking that what a stupid question I m asking. How can any one relate friends with hamburger? Now this is quite hot topic on facebook.
Facebook, world’s most famous social network, is being used by several companies to advertise their product. But the trick used by burger king is totally different and the most effective campaign used ever. Fast-food chain Burger King has created "Whopper Sacrifice," a Facebook app that will give you a coupon for a free hamburger if you delete 10 people from your friends list.
Lets talk about how it is the most effective campaign. All users have some unknown friends. They can easily delete 10 friends from their list. It is a smart move by Burger King to tap this pre-existing desire that many Facebook users have to get rid of a few (non) friends, and get a free burger in the process. This advertisement grows exponentially. If you get a free coupon after deleting 10 friends, all deleted friends will be notified. The "sacrifices" show up in your activity feed. So it'll say, for example, "Ranjeet sacrificed Deepak Mishra for a free Whopper." Now just imagine with what speed this campaign is growing?
Its not surprising that till now 164355 friends have been sacrificed for a free hamburger and this number is increasing exponentially.
I think its not difficult to delete 10 friends from a list of 500 friends. I may delete 10 friends from my friend list but I can’t do it for some ethical reason. How many friends you sacrificed for a free hamburger?
Blog is the hottest web 2.0 currently for it's simplicity and capabilities to implement critical features easily. It is good source of knowledge and information. That’s why every organization has its own separate blog integrated with it's main webpage.
Many of my readers asked me which blogging platform is the best?Is Wordpress better than Blogger?? etc. So in this post I will closely look each and every feature of blogger and wordpress. I will compare their features and finally I will give my opinion, which one we should use.
Background: On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs. On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, code named "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and included some new features. In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers. In October 2008, Turkey blocked access to Blogger. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.
Background:WordPress is an open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg. WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a fork of b2. In 2004 the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were changed by Six Apart, and many of its users migrated to WordPress – causing a marked and continuing growth in WordPress's popularity. In 2007 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS Award.
Comparison of blogger and wordpress:
Features
Blogger
Wordpress
Upload
video
YES
NO (Must be hosted by 3rd party)
Upload
Audio
NO
NO (Must be hosted by 3rd party)
Password
protect your blog
YES
Requires an upgrade to share the password with more than 35 people.
Complete
integration with Feedburner
YES
NO
Customize
layouts and design
YES
Requires a $15 per year per blog upgrade to customize CSS
Add JavaScript
YES
NO
Customize
HTML
YES
NO
Spam
fighting service
NO
YES
Monetize
your blog
YES
Requires “VIP” blog upgrade for
$500 per month + $600 setup fee
Choose
to display ads or not
YES
NO (Requires $30 per month)
Add affiliate
links
YES
NO
Add Money
Making Widget
YES
NO
Professional
support from real people
NO
YES
A self service knowledge
base
YES
YES
Conclusion: So, According to the above mentioned table, Blogger is more flexible in comparison to Wordpress. I use blogger. But in some cases wordpress is more useful. Also, wordpress has more number of users than blogger and has a huge community of bloggers.
