Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Emergence of Media in Different Decades

In 60’s

Radio, Newspaper, Magazine, Cinema, Theater, Poster, TV, Long Play


In 70’s

Radio, Newspaper, Magazine, Cinema, Theater, Poster, TV, Long Play, Tape, Satellite


In 80’s

Radio, Newspaper, Magazine, Cinema, Theater, Poster, TV, Long Play, Tape, Satellite, CD, Walkman, Video Game, Personal Computer, Videocassette, Recorder, Mobile Phones, Laserdisc


In 90’s

Radio, Newspaper, Magazine, Cinema, Theater, Poster, TV, Long Play, Tape, Satellite, CD, Walkman, Video Game, Personal Computer, Videocassette, Recorder, Mobile Phones, Laserdisc, DVD, QuickTime, Internet, Email, Webcam, Tivo, PDA, Smartphone


In 2000

Radio, Newspaper, Magazine, Cinema, Theater, Poster, TV, Long Play, Tape, Satellite, CD, Walkman, Video Game, Personal Computer, Videocassette, Recorder, Mobile Phones, Laserdisc, DVD, QuickTime, Internet, Email, Webcam, Tivo, PDA, Smartphone, Satellite Radio, HDTV, Blue Ray, iTunes, Podcasting, Blog, RSS, Flickr, BitTorrent, YouTube, Wikipedia, Joost

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Article Review: 7 Tips for Writing Engaging Content

While reading through the social media today forum, I found this article with pretty ordinary title. But when I start reading the article, I found it is challenging the ongoing school of thoughts about blogs and their content.

This article is providing “7 tips for writing engaging content”, but it is actually focusing on what to avoid while writing content for a blog. In the first tip the author is advising to not clutter your articles/content with lot of sharing buttons, widgets and so on. It will only distract the attention of the reader and make it difficult to focus on the content.

Secondly, he talks about the banner blindness that how side rail distract the visitor attention from the content.

Thirdly, he advices to avoid putting your big smiling picture on the blog.

In the fourth advice, he emphasizes to avoid slang words and bad language.

Fifth advice is about the comments on the posts. Author says, not to pull unnecessary comments from the social media. Let the relevant people participate in a neutral manner instead.

Second last advice is about moderation of comments and importance of their replies.

Finally, he advices to avoid unnecessary posts for just filling up the space. Write only when there is something really important, and spread it through RSS and social media.

Read the full article at http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/162838