Purchasing Magazines as a form of Retail Therapy---a trend?

...I have been going through the motions since I lost it all- am I loosing my marbles or am I simply a lonely duckling sitting on the fence? I have no idea; but I do know this fact- I am now officially a magazine junkie and somewhere inside these magazines- what do i search for? Apps. What is this? Am I closely moving out of fashion and back into the arms of ICT? I am in need of a Summly increase- I need an App developed to make me feel better and yes, I do need the money. My mind bugles and all I want to do is become a rich billionaire that has it all and in the process- keep my calender rich as well. I am not aiming to be a Robert Kardashian impersonator- but it would be nice to meet the guy someday and bond. Male bonding----I knew it- I am losing it altogether- and the only way to get a cure is to embrace retail therapy and shop till I drop on my knees weeping. Am joking- I am not loosing sleep over anything- I am just restless and bored- I need to be ignited to do something spectacular...I will embrace it all inside- I will not just become a magazine addict- I will have my own glossy pages sooner than I know it.

Dubai World Cup...and the effect of SEAL!

....Pressed off NSInc.... ...The first thing that caught my attention is the fact that SEAL will be performing. Funny! I swore I would never be caught dead in a suit and yes; I have seen the impact it has had on my life in general. I have lost a lot of promising jobs because I wear a jean and teeshirt like a cowboy on a high. Am sorry; don't mean to sound condiscendal or is that a word? You know what I mean- i hate to say this- but I will wear a suit and a damn effing good one at that to go and see SEAL at the Dubai World Cup. Who knows maybe this migth be the next big leap for me...Dubai- oh my- That's so Dubai to host a mega event and invite a MEGA STAR..... ....Will you be there? Let see who wears what...sounds like fashion police and I am Joan Rivers!

Social life at Black Iris Publishing

Pressed right off my digital ad agency NSInc. .....If I ever wanted to have a wonderful social life;which I do- then Black Iris Publishing is the best place to live it. I picked up a copy of their youthful magazine- one8one at Make Business Hub and found it very nourishing. In a matter of hours; I had digested the whole read in a social sitting over itzza pizza and a large coke zero. OMG- amazing what people can do with a little support. So I decided to give it a try- call the name I saw on the MAKE card at the Big Start event- MARIA! WOW- what a conversation- One phone call over and some days later- I am living the social life. You know this is not a prank text for socialism- it is a very honest and respectful note of understanding a workspace dedicated to creatives. My hats are off to the creative individuals behind Black Iris Publishing- the print house behind one8one magazine- empowering youths for youths.

Tuface wedding in Dubai...

...Happy Married Life!!!

The Big Talk is The Big Start!

...Ever wanted to own your own business? Are you a young entrepreneur living in Dubai? This is the right moment to make that move from un-employment to self employment. Go on; you know you have what it takes to change the future. You know you can achieve that dream inside. You know that someday soon; you will be your own BOSS! It all sound so simple; I know- that is why I am here to inform you of the Big Talk tonight. ....When you get there- be open MINDED and absorb it all inside!

The Easiest Way to Make Money From Social Media....

....Do you find it super challenging to make money from social media? Yeah, everyone does.
There are actually many ways to make money from social media. However, most of them require an established business before they can work. If you have a product or service you’re selling, then you can make use of social media to market it and get it in front of potential people who might be interested in it.
             I don’t have any existing business, how can social media make me money?
....With the exploding demand for social media service providers, it’s becoming a no-brainer for many people, especially who want to establish themselves in this market to start offering their services to potential clients. According to a study published on WantedAnalytics.com, there have been about 13.000 social media related jobs posted on the web in January 2012 alone. This is an 87% increase in demand comparing to January 2011.
....For instance a social friend of mine- +Richard Branson is a multi billionaire; but nevertheless anything he puts on the world wide web still makes a buck or two- if not thousands of Dollars.
>I for one have started carving a niche for myself as a social entrepreneurs and a social speaker- I have even spoken on subjects like "Social Business" and "Social Events."

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The easiest way to make money as a social media service provider
There are actually many social media services that thousands of thirsty clients are searching for. However, many of them require some experience as well as education. Although services like social media consulting could land you as much as $500 an hour (if you’re just a decent social media consultant), they mostly require a person who have been in the field for some time. On the other side, social media management doesn’t require a lot of education or experience as you may already have the skills to start doing it right now.
They say that if you know how to posts status updates on Facebook and tweets on Twitter, then you can consider yourself a social media manager. While a part of this statement is true, there is a little more to social media management that most people miss.
A social media manager is the person responsible for managing a company’s social media presence. This is in the case of a fixed job. In case you’re doing it in a freelancing basis (which is even better), you’ll be managing your clients social presence across all the social platforms that they intend to use like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest…etc.

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So what social media managers do?
Social media managers could have many duties that go from simple management to strategic social media marketing planning. However, what most of them do is:
1- Posting engaging status updates on Facebook.
2- Tweeting interesting stuff.
3- Managing Twitter inbox.
4- Replying.
5- Interacting and building audience.
6- Deleting spam.
7- Reply to comments.
8- Follow/Unfollow, Accept/Decline requests…etc
...Some of the other duties that you’ll be able to offer when you have some more experience and which they will offer you a free pass to luxury are:
1- Quality/Viral content creation and distribution.
2- Creating an effective social media marketing plan.
3- Doing consulting for clients.
4- Conducting contests and PPC campaigns…etc
As you’ve seen, I bet that you already know how to do most of the tasks listed above, and that’s what makes you a potential social media manager. The question is: would you join the bandwagon and establish yourself in this lucrative market, or get left behind struggling with the competition that will arise?

Social Journalism On The Move

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Woody Lewis is a Social Media Strategist and Web Architect. He authors a blog at woodylewis.com about social media strategy for newspapers.
Social media has changed journalism. The Web is now the sole distribution channel for newspapers that can no longer afford to publish hardcopy, and those that don’t follow the best practices of social media may see their brands marginalized in cyberspace as well. Social journalism, an extension of those practices, is now an essential component of any news organization’s strategy.
Citizen journalists post photos of fast-breaking events, and cover stories from a different angle than legacy news organizations, but it’s the premeditated watchdog or advocacy role that defines a social journalist. Another factor is the network effect: people using social media to communicate and collaboratively produce content. Editors are still important, but the pieces are shaped by crowd dynamics and the velocity of information.
Here’s a look at the past, present, and future of social journalism:

The Past

As Mark Glaser of the PBS site Mediashift points out in his summary of Dan Gillmor’s “We the Media,” a book about grassroots media, the people who recorded the Los Angeles police beating of Rodney King nearly thirty years later did so out of a sense of social duty: they could have turned off their cameras, but kept them rolling, and contacted mainstream media with the results. This was a crowd of social journalists who broke the story before any editor could slow it down.
The Independent Media Center, formed in 1999 to cover the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, was an early aggregator of social journalism. Run by a collective of alternative journalists and activists who provided minimal editing, the IMC allowed individuals to upload their own coverage of political events. Today, Indymedia hosts a network of IMCs serving cities around the world.
In 2005, social journalists responded to Hurricane Katrina by filing coverage from the field that was more detailed, and often more accurate, than that seen on mainstream media. Sites like the Interdictor, self-described as “A small pocket of New Orleans web guys blogging, running off a generator, with a web cam,” provided a firsthand account of the disaster. One person even declared a Katrina Blog Relief Day in an attempt to start a groundswell movement.

The Present

The Huffington Post might not be the first organization that comes to mind when talking about today’s social journalism, but it’s actually a leader in this area. Last year, it co-sponsored OffTheBus, described by director Amanda Michel as a “citizen-powered campaign news site.” The idea was to offer alternative coverage of the presidential election by ordinary people, but the process uncovered a market that Michel describes:

“Our market was defined by our access to on-the-ground information that other news outlets lacked, and collaborative, crowd-powered methods of newsgathering that made some traditional journalists uncomfortable. Private fundraisers, official campaign conference calls, volunteer meetings, and rallies—where mainstream reporters found themselves stuck in pens—were our specialty. We wanted to tell stories inaccessible to the national press. This required replacing objectivity with an ethic of transparency…”

Recently, HuffPost announced The Huffington Post Investigative Fund, a nonprofit that will produce investigative journalism created by staff reporters and freelance writers. One of the Fund’s advisers is Jay Rosen, who directs NewAssignment.Net, the NYU research project that co-sponsored OffTheBus.

The Future

Rosen’s Flying Seminar in the Future of News cites Dan Conover’s piece “2020 vision: What’s next for news” as a definitive source for predictions. Conover, a reporter turned blogger, offers a number of observations about the next decade of journalism. He talks about the continued demise of newspapers: the metro dailies in major cities, not the “web/print nationals” (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal), or local papers serving communities of up to 30,000 readers. His assertion that the Semantic Web and open-source technologies will drive revenue from sources other than advertising and paid subscriptions anticipates data-mining and machine-readable news feeds, and he even mentions the trend of newspapers opening up their APIs, correctly pointing out this won’t mean much unless developers and end-users are given more freedom.
Conover offers a cautionary statement about crowdfunding, citing Spot.us,  a Bay area site where writers and individual donors can collaborate to fund stories. He says that “volunteers” who are paid neither directly nor substantially will produce much of the next decade’s writing, editing and producing.
The future of social journalism will be driven by disintermediation, the replacement or removal of middlemen in the supply chain. This has already happened on the revenue side, with Craigslist- Craigslist reviews and other online resources taking classified ads from newspapers. As the newspaper industry consolidates, and social media matures, journalists will increasingly work as independents, forming transient relationships with multiple publishers. A handful of national brands will survive, and hundreds, perhaps thousands of new microbrands will flourish. The public good will be preserved, and society will be more transparent.

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