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Threaded Comments for Blogger With Awesome Style !

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A month ago, Blogger released threaded comment system which is greatest feature so far. It allow users to reply to certain comment and make thread like structure of comment. But Threaded Commenting feature came up with some certain bugs like users directly landing up to the comment section after once complete load of a page.

Some people might have noticed that the 'Reply' button of threaded comment is not working. For that, revert widgets temples to default and re follow the given instructions in this post.

Playing with CSS and making your blog cool is hard task to do. Considering this, I have created CSS specially designed for threaded comment system of Blogger. You can watch the demo yourself in this blog (in the comment section). If you like that comment section style the follow the following instructions to use it in your Blogger blog.

Threaded Comment with Cool Layout Style


First you need to enabled threaded comment system. (If you already enabled, then please ignore this step).

Go to Edit HTML page and find the following line of code:


<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>

Replace the above code with the following:

<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
<b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
<b:else/>
<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if>

Please note: If you found 2 codes lines of given spinet, then you have to replace both.

Now search for ]]></b:skin> and just above that paste the following CSS codes:

.comments {
  clear: both;
  margin-top: 10px;
  margin-bottom: 0px;
  line-height: 1em;
}
.comments .comments-content {
  font-size: 12px;
  margin-bottom: 16px;
font-family: Verdana;
font-weight: normal;
text-align:left;
line-height: 1.4em;
}
.comments .continue a, .comments .comment .comment-actions a {
display:inline;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
padding: 2px 5px;
text-decoration: none;
text-shadow:0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
color:#FFF;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
margin-right: 10px;

border: 1px solid #3079ED;
background: #0066FF;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#0099FF), to(#009999));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #0099FF, #009999);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=&#39;#0099FF&#39;, endColorstr=&#39;#009999&#39;);

}
.comments .continue a:hover, .comments .comment .comment-actions a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
background:#0099FF;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#009999), to(#0099FF));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #009999, #0099FF);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=&#39;#009999&#39;, endColorstr=&#39;#0099FF&#39;);
}

.comments .continue a:active, .comments .comment .comment-actions a:active {
position: relative;
top:1px;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#0066FF), to(#0099CC));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #0066FF, #0099CC);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=&#39;#0066FF&#39;, endColorstr=&#39;#0099CC&#39;);
}

.comments .comments-content .comment-thread ol {
  list-style-type: none;
  padding: 0;
  text-align: none;
}
.comments .comments-content .inline-thread {
  padding: 0.5em 1em 0 1em;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-thread {
  margin: 8px 0px 0px 0px;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-thread:empty {
  display: none;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-replies {
  margin-top: 1em;
  margin-left: 40px;   font-size:12px;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment {
  padding-bottom:8px;
  margin-bottom: 0px
}
.comments .comments-content .comment:first-child {
  padding-top:16px;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment:last-child {
  border-bottom:0;
  padding-bottom:0;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-body {
  position:relative;
}
.comments .comments-content .user {
  font-style:normal;
  font-weight:bold;
}

.comments .comments-content .user a {
  color: #444;
}

.comments .comments-content .user a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
color: #555;
}

.comments .comments-content .icon.blog-author {
  width: 18px;
  height: 18px;
  display: inline-block;
  margin: 0 0 -4px 6px;
}
.comments .comments-content .datetime {
  margin-left:6px;
color: #999;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 11px;
float: right;
}

.comments .comments-content .comment-content {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12.5px;
line-height: 19px;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-content {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12.5px;
line-height: 19px;
  text-align:none;
margin: 15px 0 15px;
}
.comments .comments-content .owner-actions {
  position:absolute;
  right:0;
  top:0;
}
.comments .comments-replybox {
  border: none;
  height: 250px;
  width: 100%;
}
.comments .comment-replybox-single {
  margin-top: 5px;
  margin-left: 48px;
}
.comments .comment-replybox-thread {
  margin-top: 5px;
}
.comments .comments-content .loadmore a {
  display: block;
  padding: 10px 16px;
  text-align: center;
}
.comments .thread-toggle {
  cursor: pointer;
  display: inline-block;
}

.comments .comments-content .loadmore {
  cursor: pointer;
  max-height: 3em;
  margin-top: 3em;
}
.comments .comments-content .loadmore.loaded {
  max-height: 0px;
  opacity: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.comments .thread-chrome.thread-collapsed {
  display: none;
}
.comments .thread-toggle {
  display: inline-block;
}
.comments .thread-toggle .thread-arrow {
  display: inline-block;
  height: 6px;
  width: 7px;
  overflow: visible;
  margin: 0.3em;
  padding-right: 4px;
}
.comments .thread-expanded .thread-arrow {
  background: url(&quot;data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAc AAAAHCAYAAADEUlfTAAAAG0lEQVR42mNgwAfKy8v/48I4FeA0AacVDFQBAP9wJkE/KhUMAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC&quot;) no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}
.comments .thread-collapsed .thread-arrow {
  background: url(&quot;data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAA AcAAAAHCAYAAADEUlfTAAAAJUlEQVR42mNgAILy8vL/DLgASBKnApgkVgXIkhgKiNKJ005s4gDLbCZBiSxfygAAAAB JRU5ErkJggg==&quot;) no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}
.comments .avatar-image-container {
  float: left;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.comments .avatar-image-container img {
  width: 36px;
}
.comments .comment-block {
  margin-left: 48px;
  position: relative;
padding: 15px 20px 15px 20px;
background: #F7F7F7;
border: 1px solid #E4E4E4;
overflow: hidden;
border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
border-image: initial;
}

Now save the template and your are done!

Go to one of your page which have comment and see if it works. Enjoy using cool threaded comment system.

Top Commentators Cloud Widget For Blogger !

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By adding top commentators cloud widget you can reward your top commentators.It will increase number of commentators on your blog.This widget works in increasing order.If any readers commented most then his/her name will display in large letters with link to his/her profile.This gadget was developed by Greenlava by using yahoo pipes.Comments are sourced from comments feed and processed via Yahoo Pipe.Now lets see how to add this gadget to your blog.


How To Add Top Commentators Cloud Widget To Blogger?

  1. Login to your Blogger account.
  2. Go to Design > Page Elements.
  3. Click Add A Gadget.
  4. In Add A Gadget window, select HTML/Javascript .
  5. Enter the title of your widget e.g. Commentators Cloud.
  6. Copy the code below and paste it inside the content box.
  7. Click Save
<!-- Top Commentators Cloud Start
(c) 2010 Blogger codes. Original code by http://www.bloggercodes.com/.
Please do not remove this credit and the “Get this commentators widget” link at the
 bottom of the code.-->
<div style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.2;">
<script type="text/javascript">
function cCloud(feed) {
max = 0;
min = 10000;
//finding highest and lowest count
for (i=0;i<feed.count;i++)
{
ccCount = feed.value.items[i].commentcount * 1;
if (ccCount > max)
{
 max = ccCount;
}
if (ccCount < min)
{
 min = ccCount;
}
}
ccCountD = "";
display = "";
for (j=0;j<feed.count;j++)
{
ccdiff = feed.value.items[j].commentcount - min;
ccFontsize = 80 + (ccdiff * 100) / (max - min) + "%";
ccUrl = "'" + feed.value.items[j].authorurl + "'";
ccCountD = "(" + feed.value.items[j].commentcount + ")";//comment count
ccName = feed.value.items[j].title + ccCountD;
ccLName = "<a style='font-size:" + ccFontsize + "' href=" + ccUrl + " target='_blank'>" +
ccName + "</a>";//clickable commentator name
display = display + ccLName + " ";
}
document.write(display);
}
</script>
 <script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?
 YourBlogUrl=http://www.bloggercodes.com
 &Exclusions=Naguakkina
 &ShowHowMany=20
 &Order=alphabet
 &_callback=cCloud
 &_id=cfa196644e1d6159c9183548c4b5e2f5
 &_render=json"
type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>
<span style="font-size: 80%; float:right;;margin-top:5px;">Get this
<a href="http://www.bloggercodes.com/2012/06/top-commentators-cloud-widget-for.html" target="_blank">
commentators</a> <a href="http://www.bloggercodes.com/" target="_blank">widget</a></span>
<!-- Top Commentators Cloud End -->

2. Customizing Commentators Cloud
Notice the highlighted items in the code? 
That’s where you need to enter your own inputs:

1.YourBlogUrl (Highlighted in Red color) 
This is your blog URL, replace http://www.bloggercodes.com with yours. 
Make sure you omit the slash at the end of the URL (as in .com/). 
 
2.Exclusions  (Highlighted in Lime color)  
List the commentator names you want to exclude from the cloud. 
Separate  each name with a comma, and don’t put space between them. 
  
3.ShowHowMany  (Highlighted in Yellow color)   
Specify how many top commentators you want to appear in the cloud. 

4.Order  (Highlighted in Faint Green color)  
 Enter alphabet if you want to arrange the names alphabetically. 
Enter frequency if you want to arrange them by frequency 
(with the most frequent commentators on top). 
 
5.Comment count  (Highlighted in Faint Blue color)  
Comment count (in bracket) is displayed by default. 
To remove it, just delete this line of code.   

6.Use our HTML Editor to make changes easily....

6 Tips To Become A Pro-Blogger and Make Money !

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Most of my readers are bloggers and while monitoring the comments, I have come across questions and queries that although some bloggers work really serious to make money with their blogs but still, opting this way to become rich is not turning out to be a big one. However, I have seen people turning into bloggers and getting rich in no time and the only ingredient they put in their strategies will be discussed today.
There is no doubt about the fact that there is a long list of successful bloggers that are making huge amounts on monthly basis just with this talent. Each day about 100s of newbie are looking forward to meet up their earnings with it too.
Today we will discuss some tips that are a “must have ingredient” in a blogger. This article reveals some undeniable facts about why you can’t make money with effective blogging.

1. Focusing on the goal intensively:

The more you focus on the goal, the more you are to drift away from it. focus on goalStaying focused is not bad but trying too hard might be harmful for your goal. Earning money should not be the sole aim of your blog. Earning profit is indeed one of the aims but it should not over rule your enthusiasm to achieve your goal. Your primary focus should be on building a successful blog rather than gaining profits. Once you will master all the process of successful blog building, you will surely be a hit!

2. Making money overnight:

when people talk about getting results quickly, the only thing I land up with is the following qoute:
“I often hear people say that the Rich Dad Company is an overnight success and I think it is a fact; but it took us ten years to get there.- Robert Kiyosaki
Making money overnight is not tough. You can always opt for lotteries! The toughest part is to maintain that big hit position for long which can only be achieved through hard work and some patience. If you take a closer look at the pro-bloggers with an average of $5000 and above monthly, you will realize what it took them to be what they are today.

3. Discipline:

To succeed in blogging, you need to be disciplined. You have to set your priorities and stick to them. Everyday bloggers keep changing their monetization policies or they keep increasing their work load rather than increasing the quality of their work. Don’t go for shortcuts! Bring about some discipline if you want to succeed.

4. Laziness kills:

laziness
Most bloggers, these days, are simply lazy. They would rather surf the internet for money making schemes than writing good stuff for their blogs. They just dream about becoming the next pro-bloggers but will rarely take the pain to write up articles. So get rid of the laziness and lame excuses and start working!

5. You are spending money wrongly:

moneyOne of the main problems bloggers face is that of budget allocation. Most bloggers spend money on frivolous things; rather than the important things. If a tool is not going to increase your profit or efficiency in the short or long run; forget about it and invest in the little things that matter. Stop spending money on frivolous things!

6. Being a pro-blogger is beyond your reality:

If you can’t see yourself a pro-blogger, you will never become one. No matter how hard you work, firstly you have to believe that you can. You are what you think you are. So, to be a pro-blogger, you will have to think like one!
this was all for now, just reading such articles are simply a waste of time IF you don’t follow and apply these really worth adopting tips in your blogging career Smile
stay blessed!

Freelancing Do’s and Don’ts that you Must Know !

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It is immensely important the you should know the realities of the freelancing world before you plan to opt it as a business It’s a business where your good work will never be encouraged but you one single mistake can take away your contract-and-your potential clients miles away from you. As a freelancer myself, working with many clients recently, I realized that freelancing is certainly not what it seems to be. Although, Freelancing has been the best rated method after blogging according to the universal rankings, you must understand that it’s NOT related to entrepreneurship through any mean. Being a freelancer demands certain things from you and the response you give to these requirements then calculates your earning. While getting paid for one apparent task, you need to put in everything, done by different departments in an organization, alone. How about Knowing the do’s and Don’ts in your freelancing career and keeping yourself focused, both pleasing the client as well as making your life easier too?

After researching and actually experiencing the realities of the freelancing world and studying the expectations of the clients, here we present you the most common issues along with the most authentic Do’s and Don’ts that will definitely help you out in rephrasing the nature of job as a freelancer for you.clip_image001

Planning to Start a contract?

starting a freelancing planWhen you get registered to the freelancing sites, you get notified. You chose to bid with a proposal when the right contracts clicks to you. It’s important to understand the actual domain you are planning to work for. The description given by the client is always 20% of the real story. Go through the terms and conditions mentioned in the job description, calculate orally, mentally, discuss it with a senior (if have any) and then analyze yourself whether it would be comfortable for you to work with the snap shot you are just having. The enthusiasm for the new contract always tells you an affirmative feeling. True that. But you need to keep feelings a side at the very first site because a wrong judgment here, will take you nowhere!
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO:
Although keeping all the following things in mind every time might sound unrealistic, yet, they are the key to success.
1) Be Honest to yourself in judging your capabilities
2) Contact your Client Confidently
3) Show him humbly that you deserve to have this contract
4) Verify your Nature of Job if Client contacts you
5) Tell Your Limitations straightforwardly
6) Make sure about payment structure.
7) Be simple
8) Ensure client about the best quality of work would be provided from your side.
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO:
The first step of anything is the most crucial one. If you agree with this point, then always try to play a safe game when interacting with your clients for the first time. This goes out not for Freelancing only but for other interviews in the real world too. Your clients judge you more for the things you SHOULD NOT do rather than judging for your capabilities. Here is a basic list of things you need avoid to be accurate with your freelancing career:
1) Never self boost about your abilities
2) Don’t be over confident- you are an employee not an employer!
3) Never say yes to the things that are out of your range
4) Never agree for more work once the client describes your job nature
5) Don’t tell your weaknesses
6) Don’t give an emotional touch to your proposal
7) Don’t lose hope if the contract doesn’t comes to you.

Time of Delivery

TimesavingWhy to restrict it to freelancers only, time is an important factor that every person should consider the most. It’s the key of door that opens up the way to success. Coming back to Freelancing, a major point of clause, that arouse even in my freelancing career, despite being a regular worker is the time management. Your client expects you to work like a robot or an angel and deliver his work on the stated time. Professional enough! Then you should and should not do the following things as well.
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO:
1) Make a schedule of your daily activities
2) Follow the schedule too
3) Take limited work on daily basis, keeping a track of your other possible activities.
4) Work on Durations, not on days.
5) Set your clocks 1 hour ahead.
6) Deliver work 1 hour before.
7) Ask your client to tell you about the work at least 3 hours before.
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO:
1) Never accept work on 11th hour to place a good impression. Remember you are not a permanent employee
2) Never misjudge the minimum time you need to do a work
3) Never sacrifice your sleeping hours to meet up the target
4) Never give false impression to the client when the real situations are too bad.

Is Your Work= Required Product?

The clients are too busy to explain you what they want. In fact, they just tell. The final product that comes out after your endless hard works, are often a victim of severe criticism by the client. It happened with me once, client never tell about the lacking, there is no room to improve visible in the employee. In severe cases, the evil clients might stop your payments too. How to get rid of such conditions?
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO:
1) Ask the client again and again(not bringing him to the verge of irritation)
2) Give a sample piece of work if possible
3) Tell him about your vision
4) Wait for the client feedback on your sample.
5) Be ready to accept criticism
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO:
1) Don’t give a false impression that you have understood the instructions, if you haven’t.
2) Don’t Guess things on your own
3) Don’t make it too complicated for the client.
4) Don’t come under pressure

Maintaining your financial assets

managing finance in freelancingFreelancers must have a good know how about management at least. We all work for money; therefore one should know how to manage it too. As a freelancer you earn for the work you do for your clients. Most of the clients are foreigners and the only way to contact them is through emails. Being a major clause of working for someone you don’t know often creates a sense of insecurity. To ensure you get paid for the work you do, here are some tips that you need to follow,
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO:
1) Always decide the method of payment with the client
2) Confirm the period in which payments are expected
3) Ask for some advance payments that will keep both the parties committed.
4) Wait for the payment agreement to be fulfilled before working again for the same client
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO:
1) Never trust your client
2) Never deliver complete work to the client without getting paid for the 50% of the total contract.
3) Do not misjudge the worth of your task.
Working as a freelancer is an interesting job, where your boss changes periodically, giving you a new experience and a new hope to explore your capabilities.However, you should learn the basic principles of freelancing before coming in to this field so that you may protect yourself from all the possible  frauds. More to come on Freelancing this Week, keep your fingers crossed.

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10 Colleges Most Creatively Using Mobile Technology !

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seeing as how mobile devices and related technologies have completely overtaken a good chunk of society already, naturally the education sector has followed suit. Oddly enough, though, smartphones, social media, tablet computers, and other hallmarks of the mobile technology revolution still have yet to fully creep onto campus, with many schools somewhat puzzled over exactly what to do with the exciting new toys the kids are into these days. Others, however, saw innovation as opportunity, and went about drawing up innovative strategies for letting these digital developments enhance lessons, streamline college life, open up new possibilities, or some combination thereof. Get inspired by some of the seriously cool, creative ways the following schools have harnessed mobile media for current and future students.
  1. Abilene Christian University:

    This tech-savvy Texas school hosts numerous open houses, conferences, and other events centered around incorporating iPads, iPod Touches, laptops, and other portable computing devices into classroom settings. Apple even rewarded Abilene Christian University with its Distinguished Program moniker for its efforts in leading the education sector’s general movement towards digital integration. In the 2010-11 Mobile Learning Report, it highlights innovative breakthroughs such as the Optimist’s status as the first college newspaper with its very own iPad app and the efforts of chemistry professors Dr. Cynthia Powell and Dr. Autumn Sutherlin to podcast and comprehensively research student engagement with technology. Powell is also the founder of Mobile Enhanced Inquiry-Based Learning, a “blended learning strategy” focusing on mobile usage in the STEM fields.
  2. Stanford University:

    Stanford University’s partnership with Bling made it easier for Palo Alto residents and students alike to pay at local vendors, helping reduce their risk of identity theft. Through the use of an application and tiny tag, users purchase items via PayPal accounts as opposed to the traditional credit and debit cards, and the alliance draws praise from both Cardinals and the businesses they patronize for its ease. Along with this creative little time-saving measure, the school also hosted Mobile Persuasion in 2009. The Nokia-sponsored event, organized by Stanford’s Persuasive Tech Lab, to converse about all the ins and outs of mobile learning and draw up some strategies to explore — extending the department’s own overarching goals.
  3. Bangladesh Open University:

    Seeing as how Bangladesh Open University’s entire modus operandi revolves around distance learning, it makes perfect sense that it would embrace what mobile technology has to offer higher education. One method utilized in its classrooms blends SMS with TV and/or radio for a multimedia experience encouraging digital discussion while soaking up recorded lessons. BOU hopes their developments taking advantage of the country’s fondness for wireless will nurture education in more remote areas where resources remain difficult to acquire.
  4. Northeast Community College:

    Journalism students at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Neb., received a thorough glimpse into the intimate inner workings of television studio KTIV — in Sioux City, Iowa. Webcameras allowed the two buildings to connect with one another, giving learners a tour of the facilities and putting them face-to-face with professionals eager to answer their questions. Most of the discussion revolved around KTIV’s transition from analog to digital media and succeeding in an Internet-driven market.
  5. Purdue University:

    Developers at Purdue University created Hotseat so tech-loving teachers could encourage running commentary during lectures. Students connect via Facebook, Twitter, or SMS to discuss the lectures and presentations at hand, with their messages relayed on a screen in real time. Professors use this for a few different reasons, including more richly detailed class talks with fewer interruptions and garnering immediate feedback. The application is available on web-based browsers and mobile devices and its “backchannel” structure has earned it a plethora of praise.
  6. Griffith University:

    Because Twitter manages to influence everything from the latest musical trends to serious social upheaval (as was the case in Egypt and Libya), journalism majors at this Australian college are now required to take a course in the ubiquitous social media outlet. Reactions to this new devotion to mobile technology have proven mixed, and course content blends both history and practicums in how to go about navigating the 140-character limit. Griffith University educators think thoroughly comprehending all the ins and outs of emerging technologies such as Twitter is an absolutely essential skill in the news outlets of the future.
  7. Emerson College:

    Learning Twitter is also mandatory in David Gerzof’s Emerson College classroom, where students partner up with real companies and design online marketing campaigns around them. Which, of course, includes incorporating common and not-so-common social media strategies. He arranged sponsorship with Sprint Nextel, who donated 10 EVO phones for student use, which included digital video and blogging in addition to the expected Facebooking and tweeting. Another creative project involved a social media scavenger hunt around Boston and utilizing it as a way to promote the cellular provider’s services.
  8. University of Michigan:

    As with even some of the most humbly connected institutes of higher learning, University of Michigan does boast its very own personal mobile app used by students, faculty, and staff. But it also plays host to the Mobile Apps Center, a department entirely devoted to developing these handy little bits and bytes. It hosts an annual Hackathon challenging students to spend 48 hours drawing up their own apps for use on and off campus, as well as contests and conferences challenging young and old thinkers alike to test the limits of where the technology can go.
  9. Seton Hall University:

    Seton Hall University marked a significant turning point in mobile integration when it became the very first institute of higher learning to assign every full-time student and faculty member an iPad back in 2010. Also an Apple Distinguished Program, its Griffin Technology Advantage homepage features an impressive archive of news stories regarding professors, staff members, and their creative approaches to the available devices. Reeves Library, for example, integrated holdings with iPads via the Polaris app. And chemistry professor Dr. Demetra Czegan loves how the devices allow her students to go paperless, downloading lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations and lightening their loads.

Pre-requisites for Entrepreneurship: Blogging & Students !

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Business is all about planning and making that plan work. The better you plan; the faster you grow. We have seen how to make a plan for your blog and track its productivity in the post describing our aim. We have also discussed some details about blogging stages and your targets. Today, we will find out what is the step before you become an entrepreneur? We are not sharing any future dreams now; we will find out what do you need to do right now? Your present will make your future, thinking and planning too much about future makes you forget your present; and we do not want you to waste any of these precious moments. So all the future entrepreneurs! Are you ready to make up your today’s plan?


Learn and Research:

Start learning from today! Keep researching on and read the latest articles in your field of interest. Just dreaming to become an entrepreneur would not work. It requires a little hard work (yeah a bit more than little :p). Those who dream big, start working at an early age. If you are a student, take some time out for your passion. Spend at least one hour daily to learn more. This learning can be acquired by conversation with a person who is already in there. Seek knowledge from experienced people; do share your opinion and ask for their advices.
Being a blogger, you can start with rewriting the articles you find interesting. Read the comments on articles and find out what people are thinking? Are you tuned with the markets’ demand and criteria? Read the same topic from multiple sources, and make comparisons.  DO NOT BECOME A FAN!!! You may admire someone but do not replicate any one; maintain your own identity. We would also strongly recommend going through the e-books because they cover much wider area without letting you surf here and there, for one topic and the other. Also, I personally feel books as more authentic and sometimes I read an entire book to compose a single article!

Gain Experience:

It is always a good idea to go to the actual workplace and see what’s going on inside the market or industry. What tricks are being played and how are they handled by the skilled professionals? You should not think about the money at this early stage, this experience worth much more. So if you are getting a chance to engage yourself with any big organization or a successful, reputed name; do not miss the opportunity. Do not forget to do networking there. Build healthy relationships and repute with people so that you will enter the market with confidence. Enjoy this confidence and you’re hardly earned contacts.
Being a blogger, you can gain experience by associating yourself with a well established blog. Communicate with the authors to clarify your reservations and try to write some guest posts there. Well, we are asking you to write your guest posts for “Well Established” blogs because they have strict criteria and high quality content. You will receive a true analysis of your post if it gets qualified or not. You will work hard to meet their standard. Just imagine yourself, taking first step with a great quality…what will be your quality after six months?  

Be Meticulous:

The purpose of learning and working with the professionals is to observe their ways. Analyze their practices, examine yourself; what is missing and how can you improve yourself. Keep a track of who’s leading the field; what is his/her style of handling matters? Go through his/her biography. Gain inspiration from his/her work. But, I repeat, analyze his/her ways. Make sure that these ways are in accordance with your moral values and are not confiscating anyone’s right.
Now the question arises, what do you need to observe being a blogger? Observe every action! The way tutorials are explained, the way readers are convinced and the way comments are catered. Observe keenly how the blog is optimized for search engines? How a post is tagged with different labels? What are the descriptions given and what keyword density is used? You may also need to observe the post frequency and the publishing timings. How many guest posts are allowed and what schedule is followed every week i.e. how many posts of a particular category are published and in what order?

Finance Management:

Hey wait; you are not an entrepreneur yet? But it will be a good idea to keep managing your finance on your own, isn’t it? If you are getting a job which can give you basic salary, go for it. Try establishing yourself with jobs other than your entrepreneurship idea. Accumulate some money so that you can start your own business. It will be highly helpful if you can handle yourself with some business management courses, because they will give you an insight and will broaden your vision about marketing strategies and managing your finance.
Once again, how do you manage your finance when you are a newbie and do not have an earning blog? Well, we would recommend starting yourself with a freelancing career along with your blogging thirst. Am I unclear? Okay, let me explain again; if you are a blogger, you will definitely be a writer or you would be having some web or graphic designing skills. Since you are in a learning process and could not run a set up of your own yet. So take advantage of the existing set ups and work as a freelancer for sometime but do not opt it as a career. Becoming a blogger is a harder goal; do not deviate from your target. Your freelancing will be a temporary job to equip you with experience, knowledge and little amount of money to satisfy your basic needs.

Apply Your Knowledge:

This was all your homework…pre-requisite to become an entrepreneur. Some training to let you enter the i-marketing world with confidence and exposing you to minimum harm. You are now fully aware of the common practices; you are acquainted with the tips and tricks used as well as the marketing strategies followed. You know seo optimization and you have improved skills. Now, you can apply all your knowledge and skills to start up your business. Start with a smaller scale and increase it gradually. Note down, we are saying “Start” with a smaller scale but you need to target “High”. Take smaller, stable steps; do not jump high directly (unless you can really bear the loss).

Wrapping Up:

This post is written especially for students who wish to maintain their blogging passion along with their studies. It needs consistency and one to two hours per day is enough to make a start. Add up to this time when your mates are enjoying vacations; and you would enjoy the reward when your mates are worried about getting into the industry. Whatever we have said above, is all a kind of safe entrepreneurship. Although, entrepreneurship is all about taking risks but, we believe, you can have some safe risks.
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Five Tools For Managing Your Social Media Accounts !

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Social Media ToolsManaging all your social media accounts is something which can be pretty time consuming – if you’re not doing it properly. Updating regular posts is something which takes time to adjust to and work at - but something that your blog or business can really benefit from greatly. Investing your time and effort in social media is something totally worthwhile – and something much easier once you’re using the right tools and equipment to help you out.

Don’t feel scared or intimidated about using online tools to help manage your social media – it can help save you time and it can also mean you efforts are being recorded properly too. After all, time and effort saved in one part of your marketing efforts – is time and effort you can use somewhere else.

So here are 5 great tools you can easily sign up to online – they are easily to navigate too, so you don’t need to worry about being overwhelmed by new technology. Let us know what you think of these tools, and feel free to comment below is there are any you’d like to add.

1)Shortstack (www.shortstack.com) This is a great service that aids businesses to design and build a better looking Facebook page and customise it with various things such as videos and contests. The service is mainly free (they won’t charge for pages that have up to 2,000 likes). Beyond that, a tiered pricing system kicks in, but it’s very reasonable.

2)Buffer (www.bufferapp.com) is a brilliant way to schedule your social media activity and tweets. The website and tools lets you distribute you’re statuses and tweets throughout the day (at times you can choose and coordinate). The basic package is free – but if you want to add more accounts or schedule tweets for longer periods of time, you’ll need to upgrade. The tool is great as it lets you be sure that fresh social content is getting to your audience daily.

3)Postling (www.postling.com) was intended for small business users in mind and delivers easy-to-use tools, alerts and understandings that will help you get the most out of social media marketing and let you make the most out of your business. Postling lets you publish to all of the major social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, Tumblr and Flickr and schedule your posts in advance. It also pulls comments from all of your social media sites into one place which saves a lot of time and effort for responding.

4)TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com), This tool is now owned by twitter and is a fantastic way to manage multiple twitter accounts. It takes the form of a “dashboard” from which you can manage a variety of social media accounts all together in one place. It allows you to monitor and manage unlimited accounts, schedule tweets to suit your audience and filter content to focus on what matters to you the most – it’s the kind of thing you’ll wonder how you ever lived without.

5)HootSuite (www.hootsuite.com) This website and tool is very similar to TweetDeck and lets you manage all of your social media accounts on a single dashboard. This is a good solution if more than one person at your business posts to your social media accounts.

How to Protect Online Content from Theft ?

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How to prevent online content theft? Writing content is not as easy as someone thinks, especially those who only know how to copy the content. You’ve to work hard to find a topic, spend hours to research on it, think to organize the thoughts and then you start writing. After writing the content, the SEO of your website works to promote it on article directories and social media Websites.
The other part of this hard work is plagiarism, i.e., stealing others content without prior permission. It is not new on the World Wide Web and hurts a lot when a content thief gets benefits from search engine rankings/preference. The situation becomes worse when search engine alleges you to have duplicate content even if you’re its original creator/author. Is there any way to protect your content? Yes, there are and we’ll discuss the ways to protect your online content in this write up.

File a Copyright

You should file a copyright of your online content published on your Website(s) in your Country. If you search on Google with keywords ‘take copyright of content’ then you’ll get dozens of URL asking to offer Government-authorized copyrights online quickly and easily. Please remember that taking a copyright is neither quick nor easy, it depends on a country’s policies and procedures, and most of the times Governments do not approve such online copyright filings from third-parties. We suggest you filing the copyright by visiting Copyright Offices physically or do an e-filing on their Website. Following are few URLs of copyright Websites for different countries: -
  1. United States of America – http://www.copyright.gov
  2. India – http://copyright.gov.in
  3. United Kingdom – http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy.htm
  4. Australia – http://www.copyright.org.au
You can also search to find the copyright Website of your country, but prefer to visit .GOV domain names. If no such authenticated domain is there in your results then contact your friends or find Copyright Office in your country. Visit the office directly to file the copyright. Few countries also allows e-filing from their websites only.

Take a License

Most of us do not have enough time to physically visit the Government’s premises for filing the copyright of online content. In addition, the new startups always try to avoid legal proceedings like registering their company and filing copyright until they earn some money.
In such cases, you can take Creative Commons (CC) License from Creative Commons Organization. This organization offers six different licenses allowing you either to share your work or to protect it. Follow below steps to take a Creative Commons License,
  1. Visit their Website – creativecommons.org
  2. Click on ‘Choose License’ button in right side
  3. Fill a form and select the appropriate options
  4. This will register your Website’s content in free and generate a script
  5. Affix this script in your Website to show you’re protected.
It is noteworthy to mention that you can also take a Creative Commons License even if you’ve already obtained a copyright in your own country. The Creative Commons License gives you an additional protection. If you want to distribute your work free with your permission only then you can go for GNU Free Documentation License. After taking GNU License, others have to take your permission before publishing your content.

DMCA Protection Kit

DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Online service provider companies including search engines, Web Hosting Providers, Internet Service Providers, and Websites follow this act to protect the copyrights. As per Wikipedia article on DMCA,
“DMCA Title II, the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (“OCILLA”), creates a safe harbor for online service providers (OSPs, including ISPs) against copyright liability if they adhere to and qualify for certain prescribed safe harbor guidelines and promptly block access to allegedly infringing material (or remove such material from their systems) if they receive a notification claiming infringement from a copyright holder or the copyright holder’s agent. OCILLA also includes a counter notification provision that offers OSPs a safe harbor from liability to their users upon notice from such users claiming that the material in question is not, in fact, infringing. OCILLA also provides for subpoenas to OSPs to provide their users’ identity.” ( source: Wikipedia)
You can take benefit of this act to show your Website and its content’s copyright is protected by DMCA. Visit DMCA Website, sign up, get a DMCA badge, and add it to your Website. If you think that your content is stolen or its copyright is infringed then you can purchase a DMCA Toolkit. This toolkit (Website Protection Pro) helps you to identify the content theft, prove its ownership and in claiming online service providers to take action against the alleged Websites/Publishers.

Prove Content is Yours

Yes, you’ve written the content from scratch on your own even without taking help of online resources. Still, you’re required to prove that your content is original and only created by you. How can you do this? You can check your content at following plagiarism-checking Websites and obtain their badges of protection: -
  1. Copyscape
  2. DupliChecker
  3. Plagiarisma
  4. Plagium
These services check whether your content has been copied from anywhere on Internet or not. In addition, they provide you badges to show on your Website that your content is protected and free from plagiarism.
Copyscape offers a nice paid service and you’ve to pay only 5 cents per search. You can check 2000 words per search as per Copyscape’s standards. If you’re writing for monetization then it is a very small amount to save you from legal proceedings. You can also signup with its alerting service, which notifies when someone copies your original content.

Conclusion

If there are ways to copy someone’s content and use it, then there are ways to protect your online content from theft. You can take Copyright in your country, get an online Creative Commons License or GNU Free Documentation License, protection from DMCA toolkit, and use Copyscape/Plagiarisma to prove you’ve original content.

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