cher’s Day At AIC

Teacher’s Day at AIC

College Activity

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

Biography

Adobe Products

Article: Ashish Shrestha

Windows Shortcuts

Article: Sabin Maharjan

What’s Blogging????

Article: Ashok Adhikari

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Contents

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Celebrating Teacher’s Day

IC celebrated Teacher’s Day on 22nd July 2013 in the

college premises. Students of 2nd and 4th semester jointly organized the program to celebrate Guru Purnima. “Teachers are among the many factors that keep children in educational sector and influence learning. They help students think critically, process information from several sources, work co-operatively, tackle problems and make reasonable choices.” this was the motto with which the program was conducted.

The presence of the AIC

chairperson Mr. Rajesh

Prasad Shrestha, along with

Mr. Chandra Kamal Adhikari,

Mrs. Sarala Subedi, Mrs.

Rabita Nakarmi and Ms.

Rabita Maharjan, had

glorified the program.

Expressing his views on the

teacher’s day, Mr. Shrestha

thanked the students for

organizing the program. He

also encouraged the

students to carry out such

programs in the coming days.

Similarly, Mr. Adhikari also

expressed his gratitude

towards the organizer for

celebrating teacher’s day. He

reminded Vyas, the writer of

Vedas, the guru of gurus, in

the program. He shared the

knowledge that the festival

of Guru Purnima was

dedicated to Vyas and it is

also known as Vyas

Purnima, for it is the day

believed to be both his

birthday and the day he

divided the Vedas. According

to him it is hard to see

students celebrating

teacher’s day in higher level.

But when AIC celebrated its

first teacher’s day he

appreciated this initiation.

A short tika program was

organized after the speech

and the students received

tika and blessings from the

teachers. Similarly, the

students also provided tika

to the teachers as the

emblem of the tribute to the

gurus.

During the program Miss.

Suruchi Maharjan from

second semester delivered a

short speech expressing her

views about the importance

of teachers in students’ life.

Also Miss. Diya Laxmi Joshi

from 4th semester read out a

poem by Abraham Lincoln

entitled “the Lincoln’s letter

to his son’s teacher.”

The theme of the whole

program was to devote holy

respect to all the teachers in

the very auspicious day of

the Teacher’s Day.

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Teacher’s Day At AIC

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ho does not

know Google?

All over the

world people who have used

internet knows Google. If we

have to answer difficult

questions then we would be

looking in Google and that

makes our heart happy.

Google has become the

essence of the internet,

without it internet doesn’t

complete its meaning. But do

you know who he is behind

the success of Google? They

are Sergey Brin and

Lawrence (Larry) Page.

Sergey Mikhaylovich

Brin was born in

Moscow, August 21, 1973.

His father’s name was

Michael Brin and his

mother’s name is Eugenia

Brin. His father is a

mathematics professor at

the University of Maryland,

and his mother, a researcher

at NASA's Goddard Space

Flight Center.

In 1979, Brin immigrated to

the United States with his

family from the Soviet

Union at the age of six. Brin

attended grade school at

Paint Branch Montessori

School in Adelphi, Maryland,

but he received further

education at home; his

father, a professor in the

department of mathematics

at the University of

Maryland, encouraged him

to learn mathematics and his

family helped him retain his

Russian-language skills. In

September 1990 Brin

enrolled in the University of

Maryland to study computer

science and mathematics,

where he received

his Bachelor of Science in

May 1993 with honors. Brin

continued his education and

continued computer science

at the Stanford University

from National Science

Foundation. He received his

master's degree in August

1995.

Lawrence (Larry) Page

Lawrence (Larry) Page was

born in East Lansing,

Michigan, United States

(U.S.). His father‘s name is

Carl Page who has earned

Ph.D. in computer science in

1965(when computer

science field was being

established and is considered

a "pioneer in computer

science and artificial

intelligence”). Both he and

Page's mother Gloria were

computer science professors

at Michigan State University.

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Sergey Brin and Larry Page

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Page attended the

Okemos Montessori School

(now called Montessori

Radmoor) in Okemos,

Michigan from 1975 to 1979,

and graduated from East

Lansing High School in 1991.

He holds a Bachelor of

Science in computer

engineering from

the University of

Michigan with honors and

a Master of Science in

computer science from

Stanford University. While at

the University of Michigan,

Page created "an inkjet

printer made of LEGO bricks"

(actually a line plotter). It

served as the president of

the Beta Epsilon. After

enrolling in a computer

science Ph.D. program at

Stanford University, Page

was in search of a

dissertation theme and

considered exploring the

mathematical properties of

the World Wide Web,

understanding its link

structure as a huge graph.

His supervisor Terry

Winograd encouraged him to

pursue this idea, which Page

later recalled as the best

advice he ever got. Page

then focused on the problem

of finding out which web

pages link to a given page,

considering the number and

nature of such back links to

be valuable

information about that page,

with the role

of citations in academic

publishing in mind. In his

research project, nicknamed

"BackRub", he was soon

joined by Sergey Brin, a

fellow Stanford Ph.D.

student.

Brin and Page originally met

in March 1995 during a

spring orientation of new

Ph.D. candidates. Brin, who

had already been in the

program for two years, was

assigned to show some

students, including Page,

around campus, and they

later became friends.

To convert the back link data

gathered by Backrub’s web

crawler into a measure of

importance for a given web

page, Brin and Page

developed

the PageRank algorithm, and

realized that it could be used

to build a search engine far

superior to existing ones. It

relied on a new kind of

technology that analyzed the

relevance of the back links

that connected one Web

page to another. In August

1996, the initial version of

Google was made available.

Google's office working

atmosphere is very relaxed,

they do not have to wear a

tie with a pair of cloth but

the employees will be free

only with pants wearing

Jeans. We will very rarely see

people in the office of

Google using clothes and

jackets. This is all aimed to

create a relaxed working

atmosphere, but seriously it

is aimed to boost up

innovative and creative

power of the employee of

Google.

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Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics, visual effects and compositing software package published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production.

Its main uses are the origination of 2D and 2.5D animation, visual effects compositing and finishing (image adjustment, color correction etc.). After Effects can also be used as a basic non-linear editor and a media transcoder. After Effects allows users to animate, alter and composite media in 2D and 3D space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation. After Effects shares many features with other Adobe programs, such as creating circles, squares and free form shapes that are defined by bezier curves.

Like Photoshop and Illustrator, After Effects can import and manipulate many image formats, and filters and adjustments can be added. After Effects integrates with other Adobe software titles such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Encore, Flash, and third-party 3D programs like Cinema 4D and Autodesk 3ds Max.

Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2.

Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop. It is accessible from all other components of the Creative Suite (except for the standalone version of

Adobe Acrobat 8).Adobe Bridge is also included with the stand-alone Photoshop application, and can perform certain Photoshop processing functions separately (and simultaneously). A plug-in for Photoshop called Mini Bridge provides an alternate to the native file open function that uses the Operating System's "File open" dialog box. Mini Bridge can be used only if bridge is running in the background. After the transition to Creative Cloud moniker, Bridge is not installed with Photoshop. It is available for download using the creative cloud desktop application without the need to install Photoshop or any other adobe application.

Bridge has many functions such as batch rename and other utilities to help with organization, and supports editing of digital images in Camera Raw format. Organizational features include assigning colored labels or star ratings to images, the ability to edit the XMP and IPTC Information Interchange Model metadata embedded within an image

Adobe’s Products Ashish Shrestha

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file, and the ability to work with different versions and alternates of a file that is part of an Adobe Version Cue project.

Image files can be shown in different sized thumbnails, slide shows or lists. Each folder, which can be bookmarked, has a cache file for speeding up rendering time of images when viewing a thumbnail. The cache can be in one central location or in individual folders.

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat is a set of

application software

developed by Adobe Systems

to view, create, manipulate,

print and manage files in

Portable Document Format

(PDF files). All parts of the

set, except Adobe Reader

(formerly Acrobat Reader,

and also referred to by the

program name acroread),

are proprietary commercial

programs, while the latter is

available as freeware and

can be downloaded from

Adobe's website.

Adobe Reader enables users

to view and print PDF files

but has negligible PDF

creation capabilities. Acrobat

and Reader are widely used

as a method of presenting

information with a fixed

layout similar to a paper

publication.

Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development application developed by Adobe Systems. Dreamweaver was originally developed by Macromedia in 1997, and was maintained by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.

Adobe Dreamweaver is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems.

Following Adobe's acquisition of the Macromedia product suite, releases of Dreamweaver subsequent to version 8.0 have been more compliant with W3C standards. Recent versions have improved

support for Web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, and ASP.NET VB), ColdFusion, Scriptlet, and PHP.

On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that Fireworks would be phased out. Adobe will continue to provide security updates and perhaps bug fixes for the current version, but does not plan to add any new features beyond what is in Fireworks CS6.

Adobe Encore

Adobe Encore (previously Adobe Encore DVD) is a DVD authoring software tool produced by Adobe Systems and targeted at professional video producers. Video and audio resources may be used in their current format for development, allowing the user to transcode them to MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital audio upon project

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completion. DVD menus can be created and edited in Adobe Photoshop using special layering techniques. It is bundled with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Adobe Encore does not support writing to a Blu-ray Disc using AVCHD 2.0.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Suite, a suite of graphic design, video editing and web development programs.

Premiere Pro is the redesigned successor to Adobe Premiere, and was launched in 2003. Premiere Pro refers to versions released in 2003 and later, whereas Premiere refers to the earlier releases. Premiere was one of the first computer-based NLEs (non-linear editing system), with its first release on Mac in 1991. Up until version Premiere Pro 2.0 (CS2), the software packaging featured a galloping horse, in a nod to Eadweard Muybridge's work, "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop".

Premiere Pro is used by broadcasters such as the BBC and The Tonight Show. It has been used in feature films, such as The Social Network,

Captain Abu Raed, and Monsters, and other venues such as Madonna's Confessions Tour. It is not a file browser like Adobe Bridge, but rather an image management application database which helps in viewing, editing, and managing digital photos. Lightroom's closest competitor is Apple's Aperture program which similarly provides photo management and non-destructive editing capabilities.

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. The latest version, Illustrator CC, is the seventeenth generation in the product line.

Adobe Illustrator was first developed for the Apple Macintosh in December 1986 (shipping in January 1987) as a commercialization of

Adobe's in-house font development software and PostScript file format. Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is primarily geared toward digital photo manipulation and photorealistic styles of computer illustration, while Illustrator provides results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design. Early magazine advertisements (featured in graphic design trade magazines such as Communication Arts) referred to the product as "the Adobe Illustrator". Illustrator 88, the product name for version 1.7, was released in 1988 and introduced many new tools and features. As of 2011, the Adobe Illustrator '88 file format is used in the MATLAB programming language as an option to save figures.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems.

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Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS6 is the 13th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra 3D image creation, motion graphics editing, and advanced image analysis features. Adobe Photoshop Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings except Design Standard, which includes the Adobe Photoshop edition.

Alongside Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called "The Adobe Photoshop Family". In 2008, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editing tool to edit photos directly on blogs and social networking sites; in 2011 a version was released for the Android operating system and the iOS operating system.

Adobe distributes Photoshop in Windows and Macintosh versions.

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash Professional is a multimedia authoring program used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform, such as web applications, games and movies, and content for mobile phones and other embedded devices.

Adobe Flash Professional is the successor of a software product known as FutureSplash Animator, a vector graphics and vector animations program released in May 1996. FutureSplash Animator was developed by FutureWave Software, a small software company whose first product, SmartSketch, was a vector-based drawing program for pen-based computers. In 1995, the company decided to add animation capabilities to their product and to create a vector-based animation platform for the World Wide Web; hence FutureSplash Animator was created. Initially, the only

way to deploy such animations on the web was through the use of Java platform; however, the Java platform was later replaced with the Netscape's plug-in architecture. The FutureSplash animation technology was used on several notable websites such as MSN, the official The Simpsons website and Disney Daily Blast of The Walt Disney Company.

In December 1996, Macromedia bought FutureWave and so re-branded and released FutureSplash Animator as Macromedia Flash v1.0. In 2005, Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia; subsequently, in 2007, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, the next version of Macromedia Flash was released.

Adobe Audition

Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro) is a digital audio workstation from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view.

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Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks) is a bitmap and vector graphics editor. It was originally developed using parts of Macromedia xRes, which Adobe acquired in 2005. Fireworks is made for web designers for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces. Its features include slices and the ability to add hotspots. It is designed to integrate with other Adobe products such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash. It is available as either a standalone product or bundled with Adobe Creative Suite. Previous versions were bundled with Macromedia Studio.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a photography software program developed by Adobe Systems for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, designed to assist

users in managing large quantities of digital images and doing post production work. Lightroom combines photo management and editing in one interface.

It is not a file browser like Adobe Bridge, but rather an image management application database which helps in viewing, editing, and managing digital photos. Lightroom's closest competitor is Apple's Aperture program which similarly provides photo management and non-destructive editing capabilities.

Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. It also supports

export to EPUB and SWF formats to create digital publications, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. The Adobe InCopy word processor uses the same formatting engine as InDesign.

Technology Adoption of

Adobe

98% of internet enabled desktops run Flash.

70% of web games are built using Flash

95% of internet enabled desktops run Flash Player 10.

75% of all video on the web is Flash.

Adobe enterprise solutions are in use at:

8 of the 10 global bank holding companies.

More than half of ten top global insurance companies.

9 of the top 10 global manufacturing companies

19 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies globally

7 of the world’s leading national governments.

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1. CTRL+C: Copy.

2. CTRL+X: Cut.

3. CTRL+V: Paste.

4. CTRL+Z: Undo.

5. DELETE: Delete.

6. SHIFT+DELETE: Delete the

selected item permanently

without placing the item in

the Recycle Bin.

7. CTRL while dragging an

item: Copy the selected item.

8. CTRL+SHIFT while

dragging an item: Create a

shortcut to the selected

item.

9. F2 key: Rename the

selected item.

10. CTRL+RIGHT ARROW:

Move the insertion point to

the beginning of the next

word.

11. CTRL+LEFT ARROW:

Move the insertion point to

the beginning of the previous

word.

12. CTRL+DOWN ARROW:

Move the insertion point to

the beginning of the next

paragraph.

13. CTRL+UP ARROW: Move

the insertion point to the

beginning of the previous

paragraph.

14. CTRL+SHIFT with any of

the arrow keys: Highlight a

block of text.

15. CTRL+A: Select all.

16. F3 key: Search for a file

or a folder.

17. ALT+ENTER: View the

properties for the selected

item.

18. ALT+F4: Close the active

item, or quit the active

program.

19. ALT+ENTER: Display the

properties of the selected

object.

20. ALT+SPACEBAR: Open

the shortcut menu for the

active window.

21. CTRL+F4: Close the active

document in programs that

enable you to have multiple

documents open

simultaneously.

22. ALT+TAB: Switch

between the open items.

23. ALT+ESC: Cycle through

items in the order that they

had been opened.

24. F6 key: Cycle through the

screen elements in a window

or on the desktop.

25. F4 key: Display the

Address bar list in My

Computer or Windows

Explorer.

26. SHIFT+F10: Display the

shortcut menu for the

selected item.

27. ALT+SPACEBAR: Display

the System menu for the

active window.

28. CTRL+ESC: Display the

Start menu.

29. ALT + Underlined letter

in a menu name: Display the

corresponding menu.

Underlined letter in a

command name on an open

menu: Perform the

corresponding command.

30. F10 key: Activate the

menu bar in the active

program.

31. RIGHT ARROW: Open the

next menu to the right, or

open a submenu.

32. LEFT ARROW: Open the

next menu to the left, or

close a submenu.

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33. F5 key: Update the active

window.

34. BACKSPACE: View the

folder one level up in My

Computer or Windows

Explorer.

35. ESC: Cancel the current

task.

36. SHIFT when you insert a

CD-ROM into the CD-ROM

drive: Prevent the CD-ROM

from automatically playing.

Dialog Box - Keyboard

Shortcuts

1. CTRL + TAB: Move forward

through the tabs.

2. CTRL + SHIFT + TAB: Move

backward through the tabs.

3. TAB: Move forward

through the options.

4. SHIFT+TAB: Move

backward through the

options.

5. ALT + Underlined letter:

Perform the corresponding

command or select the

corresponding option.

6. ENTER: Perform the

command for the active

option or button.

7. SPACEBAR: Select or clear

the check box if the active

option is a check box.

8. Arrow keys: Select a

button if the active option is

a group of option buttons

9. F1 key: Display Help.

10. F4 key: Display the items

in the active list.

11. BACKSPACE: Open a

folder one level up if a folder

is selected in the Save As or

Open dialog box.

Microsoft Natural

Keyboard Shortcuts

1. Windows Logo: Display or

hide the Start menu.

2. Windows Logo + BREAK:

Display the System

Properties dialog box

3. Windows Logo + D:

Display the desktop.

4. Windows Logo + M:

Minimize all of the windows.

5. Windows Logo + SHIFT +

M: Restore the minimized

windows.

6. Windows Logo + E: Open

My Computer.

7. Windows Logo + F: Search

for a file or a folder.

8. CTRL + Windows Logo + F:

Search for computers.

9. Windows Logo + F1:

Display Windows Help.

10. Windows Logo + L: Log

off the Window.

11. Windows Logo + R: Open

the Run dialog box.

12. Windows Logo + U: Open

Utility Manager.

Accessibility Keyboard

Shortcuts

1. Right SHIFT for eight

seconds: Switch Filter Keys

either on or off.

2. Left ALT + left

SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Switch

High Contrast either on or

off.

3. Left ALT + left SHIFT+NUM

LOCK: Switch the MouseKeys

either on or off.

4. SHIFT five times: Switch

the Sticky Keys either on or

off.

5. NUM LOCK for five

seconds: Switch the

ToggleKeys either on or off.

6. Windows Logo +U: Open

Utility Manager.

Windows Explorer Keyboard

Shortcuts

1. END: Display the bottom

of the active window.

2. HOME: Display the top of

the active window.

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3. NUM LOCK + Asterisk sign

(*): Display all of the

subfolders that are under the

selected folder.

4. NUM LOCK + Plus sign (+):

Display the contents of the

selected folder.

MMC Console Windows

Shortcut keys

1. SHIFT+F10: Display the

Action shortcut menu for the

selected item.

2. F1 key: Open the Help

topic, if any, for the selected

item.

3. F5 key: Update the

content of all console

windows.

4. CTRL+F10: Maximize the

active console window.

5. CTRL+F5: Restore the

active console window.

6. ALT+ENTER: Display the

Properties dialog box, if any,

for the selected item.

7. F2 key: Rename the

selected item.

8. CTRL+F4: Close the active

console window. When a

console has only one console

window, this shortcut closes

the console.

Remote Desktop

Connection Navigation

1. CTRL+ALT+END: Open the

Microsoft Windows NT

Security dialog box.

2. ALT+PAGE UP: Switch

between programs from left

to right.

3. ALT+PAGE DOWN: Switch

between programs from

right to left.

4. ALT+INSERT: Cycle

through the programs in

most recently used order.

5. ALT+HOME: Display the

Start menu.

6. CTRL+ALT+BREAK: Switch

the client computer between

a window and a full screen.

7. ALT+DELETE: Display the

Windows menu.

8. CTRL + ALT + Minus sign (-

): Place a snapshot of the

active window in the client

on the Terminal server

clipboard and provide the

same functionality as

pressing PRINT SCREEN on a

local computer.

9. CTRL + ALT + Plus sign (+):

Place a snapshot of the

entire client window area on

the Terminal server clip

board and provide the same

functionality as pressing

ALT+PRINT SCREEN on a local

computer.

Microsoft Internet

Explorer Keyboard

Shortcuts

1. CTRL+B: Open the

Organize Favorites dialog

box.

2. CTRL+E: Open the Search

bar.

3. CTRL+F: Start the Find

utility.

4. CTRL+H: Open the History

bar.

5. CTRL+I: Open the

Favorites bar.

6. CTRL+L: Open the Open

dialog box.

7. CTRL+N: Start another

instance of the browser with

the same Web address.

8. CTRL+O: Open the Open

dialog box, the same as

CTRL+L.

9. CTRL+P: Open the Print

dialog box.

10. CTRL+R: Update the

current Web.

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Blogging

eople are spending

more and more time

on the internet.

Their activities vary from

person to person, but one

among the most popular is

certainly blogging. “Blog” is

the shortened version of

word “weblog”, that is, a

personal website meant to

be like a diary or journal. So

“blogging” essentially means

creating and updating a blog,

with the purpose of sharing

information and experience

on a particular subject. Blogs

are designed to be very easy

to add new entries to, so the

information on blogs is

updated much more

frequently in comparison

with a traditional site. As the

blogger adds the entries to

the blog, the viewers can add

comments to entries, so the

blog becomes an interactive

site.

The personal blog, an

ongoing diary or

commentary by an

individual, is the traditional,

most common blog. Personal

bloggers usually take pride in

their blog posts, and blogs

often become more than a

way to just communicate:

they provide an opportunity

to reflect on life, or works of

art. There are different types

of blogs, depending on the

subject they focus on. So

there are political blogs,

travel blogs (also known as

travelogs), fashion blogs,

education blogs, art blogs,

music blogs and legal blogs

(often referred to as blawgs).

A blog featuring discussion

especially about home and

family is often called a mom

blog. Vlogs are blogs

including videos, while the

ones comprising photos are

called photologs.

Blogging should first be

approached with a sense of

passion. The voice of any

ones that desires to be heard

or a skill you desire to share.

Blogging is a means of

communication with each

post being a gift to the

readers. A gift that informs,

inspires, encourages,

teaches, and causes laughter

or even tears. The heart

comes before the niche or

the technical questions on

statistics. And fame is never

to be whispered from lips.

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How to Write an

Effective Blog Post?

Evergreen Content:

Evergreen is content that

stays fresh unlike milk a

week past the due date.

Providing evergreen content

keeps the blog fresh and

makes it a resource. User will

get more consistent traffic

throughout their blog.

Removing the dates from the

blog is another way to keep

content appearing updated.

Clean and Uncluttered Blog

Design: Users blog design

matters. It should be easy on

the eye, clean, with

uncluttered sidebars. More

professional looking blogs

will on average be offered

more opportunities. Colors

are great but keep post

backgrounds white with dark

type. There is a reason more

blogs, sites, and such have

white backgrounds and dark

type. It is pleasing to the eye.

If blog is not easy to read or

navigate then the readers

avoid visiting that blog.

Link within your blog: When

user post and refer to

another topic which have

written on the link to it.

Blogger will keep readers on

their blog and it helps get

high blog rankings.

Blog Groups: Banning

together is one way to gain

an edge and secure a large

following. It is like marrying

from two kingdoms of

readers. Blog reader base

will be like minded and

therefore grouping with

likeminded bloggers will

increase readership fast. Get

serious about finding a group

of bloggers for support.

Keep it Short: Blog posts

should be no more than 700

words. Paragraphs and

sentences should be short

yet effective. This makes it

easy on the eyes so people

scanning through posts and

internet will be more likely to

read the post. Long never

ending paragraphs and blog

posts are often not read or

even skimmed.

Highlight: A few ways to

draw the eye to the

important points of posts are

with bullet points, italics, or

bold text. For listing items

and ideas or advice, it is

appropriate to use bullet

point or bold text to highlight

main point. It is also

appropriate to use italics to

place emphasis on a word or

idea.

Images: Using images is good

idea to make more blog

viewers. The images should

be clear, relevant, interesting

and bold. Remember

internet users are scanning

to find something of interest

and often the right image will

make a reader stop and stay

for a while. Just be certain

you have the right

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permissions for any photos

or images you use in your

posts.

Relevant Material: To be a

good blogger and to make

popular blog post , post must

be relevant to the topic , It

means the understanding of

topic and theme of the post

should not be differ , it will

diverts the readers thinking

about the that blog.

Top blogging sites

Blogging is growing day by

day and there are many

platforms which allow

people to blog without

spending a penny. Passionate

person about blogging and

want to start a blog for no

charges, they can take help

from these top free blog

service providers.

Here are some of the top

blogging sites. Among these

ones can choose any one or

several of these according to

passionate and interest.

Blogger

Blogger is a blog publishing

service that allows private or

multi-user blogs with time-

stamped entries. It was

created by Pyra Labs, which

was bought by Google in

2003. Generally, the blogs

are hosted by Google at sub

domains of blogspot.com. Up

until May 1, 2010 Blogger

allowed users to publish

blogs on other hosts, via ftp.

WordPress

WordPress.com is a weblog

hosting provider owned by

Automatics which opened to

beta testers on August 8,

2005 and opened to the

public on November 21,

2005. It is powered by the

open source WordPress

software. It is financially

supported via paid upgrades,

“VIP” services and limited

Google Adsense advertising.

Livejournal

LiveJournal (LJ) is a virtual

community where Internet

users can keep a blog,

journal or diary. LiveJournal

is also the name of the free

and open source server

software that was designed

to run the LiveJournal virtual

community. LiveJournal’s

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blogging features include

those found in similar

blogging sites (multiple

authors, commenting,

calendars, and polls).

However, LiveJournal

differentiates itself from

other blogging sites by its

WELL-like features of a self-

contained community and

some social networking

features similar to other

social networking sites.

Blogetery

Blogetery.com offers free

blog hosting powered by

latest WordPress version. We

can easily publish text,

podcasts, pictures, media

files and more with just a

single mouse click.

Edublogs

Edublogs is the World’s most

popular education blogging

service. Edublogs offers to

create & manage student &

teacher blogs, quickly

customize designs and

include videos, photos &

podcasts – it’s safe, easy and

secure.

Blog

Blog.com provides a fully-

featured publishing platform

for free. Blog by our self or

establish a writing

community, all under an

address that looks like:

you.blog.com. It also offers

free blog hosting with

unlimited bandwidth for

their free package, more

benefits for paid members.

Tumblr

Tumblr is a micro blogging

platform that allows users to

post text, images, videos,

links, quotes and audio to

their tumblelog, a short-form

blog. Users can follow other

users, or choose to make

their tumblelog private. The

service emphasizes ease of

use.

Weebly

Weebly started in 2006 has

been providing very

extensive well managed

solutions for newbie’s. To

create a blog website in

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Weebly users can simple log

on with their Facebook

account as well. With 100′s

of professional designed

templates and superb

website building experience.

Typepad

TypePad is a blogging service

from company Six Apart Ltd.

Originally launched in

October 2003, TypePad is

based on Six Apart’s Movable

Type platform, and shares

technology with Movable

Type such as templates and

APIs, but is marketed to non-

technical users and includes

additional features like

multiple author support,

photo albums and mobile

blogging.

Blogging for money

In the present context,

making money from blogging

isn't particularly difficult. It is

not necessary to be famous

or even have huge traffic

(although how much money

we make from our blog will

depend on both of these

factors to some extent). We

can make money from

blogging by using one or

more of these seven ideas.

1. Blogging for money using

advertising programs.

These are more advertising

program options for blogging

for money than ever before.

Here are just four of the

ever-expanding possibilities

for making money from our

blog by putting ads on our

pages:

Google'sAdSense

BlogAds

ChitikaeMiniMalls

Text Link Ads

Besides placing ads on our

blog pages themselves, there

are also programs for RSS

advertising such as Pheedo.

2. Blogging for money using

affiliate programs.

With affiliate marketing, a

company agrees to pay

bloggers a commission for

helping to sell their products.

Visitors see the company's

ad on bloggers Web pages

and, if they click through to

the company's Website and

do a particular thing,

bloggers will get paid. The

particular thing the visitor

has to do vary; some affiliate

programs pay per click while

others pay per lead or even

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per sale. These are four of

the biggest (and most

established) affiliate

programs on the 'Net that

we can use for blogging for

money:

Amazon

Linkshare

ClickBank

Commission Junction

3. Blogging for money via a

company sponsorship.

Blog sponsorship is a growing

trend as more businesses

realize the popularity of

blogging and the potential

marketing reach of bloggers.

Company sponsorship deals

appear to range from

obvious "advertising" blogs

that are squarely focused on

a company's product(s)

through adding a company's

name, logo and brand to an

existing blog ("sponsored

by...").

The main problem with this

way of blogging for money is

that we have to be known

already (and have enough

traffic) to attract

sponsorship.

4. Get hired by a company to

be blogging for money.

Many businesses would love

to have blogs, but just don't

have anyone currently on

staff who has the time and

the talent to put a blog

together and keep it going.

Anyone among us could be

the answer and make money

from a blog in the process.

The trick to landing such a

gig is finding the businesses

that want/need the services

and persuading them that

we're the blogger they need;

diligent research and

some cold calling will

probably be needed unless

we already have a high

profile and a track record

that will bring the businesses

calling.

5. Freelance blogging for

money.

Networks of blogs appear to

be springing up all over the

'Net, some of which are

looking for people to write

blogs and are willing to pay

for it. Payment models vary

but a fixed monthly payment

in exchange for a specified

number of blog posts seems

to be most common.

BloggerJobs.biz is one of the

examples of a website that

specializes in posting

blogging for money

opportunities.

About.com's Freelance

Writing site is a great place

to look for freelance writing

opportunities of all kinds,

including blogging gigs.

6. Create a blog to advertise

a specific product/service.

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Blogs are fast becoming the

trendy alternative to the

classic sales letter site. In this

case, the format is the only

real change; the message is

the same. Typically, the pitch

is woven into as many blog

entries as possible - or even

used a tagline to every blog

entry.

7. Blogging for money by

selling intellectual property

such as eBooks, tele courses

or consulting services,

through your blog.

This idea is closely related to

the previous way of blogging

for money. The difference is

that in this case the

intellectual property you're

selling is just part of or

incidental to the blog you're

writing; it's not the raison

d'etre for the blog. For

instance, you might have a

blog about beekeeping and

be selling an eBooks about

how to build a mason bee

house on your pages.

The Secret to Blogging for

Money

No matter which blogging for

money model we choose, or

even if we choose a

combination of ways to make

money from our blog, there's

still one secret to success; we

need to be able to write well

and engage our readers.

That's how we build an

audience, and of course, the

bigger our audience, the

bigger our chances to make

some serious money

blogging.