SHOCKED BY THE SHOCK TV??

"You may be sure when a man begins to call himself a REALIST, he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing."-SYDNEY .H .ARRIS

So that is what they are...realists. Facing the worst truths of their lives with a lie detector thrusted on to their beings...isn’t it just sending thrills down your spine??But the parliament isn’t exactly as thrilled about it as you and me."THEY FEEL THAT A PERSON REVEALING GRIMMY SECRETS OF HIS OR HER PRIVATE LIFE TO WIN BIG MONEY ON REALITY T.V IS AGAINST INDIAN VALUES AND MORALITY".-mail today,Saturday,July 25,2009.

Apt??Or unacceptable? Does, not revealing secrets form a part of Indian values and morality finds it really awkward. How can we keep on relating issues and happenings which are either new to us or away from the league or which creates ripples on the surface of society...to our Indian values? If we really want something to be stopped or if we desperately need to keep something away from the society, can’t we think of better excuses? If women work or become more independent...it goes against our morality and values. If an amendment is passed over an article of our constitution which has been long untouched...it goes against our morality and values, if we think of educating youth and implementing them with the knowledge of tools to prevent AIDS and STDs and other such similar problems..It goes against our Indian values and morality. Can’t we people and specially our leaders advocate on something more relevant and worth discussing? Like fake encounters and disrespect of women in public and gunda raj of state governments? Why on earth do we people need to waste our valuable time on mere entertainment TV programmes where people are not dragged to the show by their collars but they actually ASSENT to such adventures??THINK AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELVES.

ANKEITA BHARADWAJ

Content coordinator is human too

Let’s start it from a story. There was a king who wanted to create history by constructing a “Milk Pond”. Means, he wanted a pond where milk is available instead of water. Royal order was passed to all the people of the state to bring a glass of water in the evening before the date of opening of the pond and to pour it there. Everyone thought other guys are bringing milk and my one glass of water does not make any difference. And, the result----there was no milk pond….

I realized the morale of the story when I was entrusted with handling a team of freelancers in the last company. There were times when we had to deliver the client in next one hour and all communication with the assigned writer happened to cease. Mobiles switched off and not available online. That situation prompted me to write a blog that will make life of both freelancers and freelance writing coordinators somehow easier. We as writers know it is our bread and butter. So can not we streamline the whole process for a better end?

Flatly say no

As with every human being, freelance writers have personal life too. One of the writers with whom I was dealing told me one day---“I like flexible time schedule, that’s why I am freelancing and not in a regular job”. No doubt…she was right… but is not it our moral and professional responsibility that our flexibility does not hamper any organization’s growth? Only you know your personal conditions better. Hence, please say a flat NO if you feel that you can not complete the assignment within time. The work can be assigned to others.

Double checking costs few minutes

For writers, there write up is like own kid. If I am not sounding so traditional, it is really hard to find mistakes in own write up. But this creates whole lot of mess for the coordinator. To avoid it, please spare some minutes for revising the write up before sending it to the coordinator.

Divide your time and task

If available, take work from different niches. Believe me; it helps a lot in faster writing and adding variety to your write up. I have heard many people complaining writing on the same keywords again and again makes the whole process less interesting and invites unwarranted copyscape issues. If this is the case, you can devote 20 minutes daily to search and read different write ups on the same topic. After 10 days you will find, you have enough fresh ideas for at least next three months.

Read assignment mails properly

Before starting the work, writers should read the mail properly and immediately contact the coordinator. This helps a lot to avoid any sort of rewriting and reduces the chances of a fumbling client.

These are my personal observations…. Pardon me if you do not agree

- Parambrahma Tripathy

Love or Infatuation??

As I don't know what love is so I cant come out with deeper meanings,but till now wt life has taught me by knowing various incidences I feel tat love is left far behind, its just infatuation which has strengthen his position in today's world. These days relationships are on fake terms are we can say temporary basis that is have a crush on somebody for a sometime ,use that person and just finished it off…which is often termed as infatuation at the end.

The most easiest part is to get in to these kinds of relationships but must difficult part is to deal with the consequences of such relationships, People once heart broken,becomes too hard,cold,,there perspective changes and be cum numb. And when this situation arises the situation of depression takes his seat..which is dangerous.

If we see are environment,every then and now are friend's comes up with the prob that ,we broke off,,and we are upset ,that person did this and all..and we give them a simple advice of move onn,,and we flash sum beautiful dialogues and finally we are done with the,,formality of being friend's ,,and we feel that its sufficient,,we are done with are job..

But the person who's suffering knows,,how it feels wen heart breaks,,and how long time will b taken to recover from such a brutal hurt,. and at that time person feels there's no love only pain and whatever was it was a mistake ,,a infatuation.

Here also persons thinking doesn't end up,,he started gettin pulled off from relationships..,starts making boundaries and at and end love theory is vanished and rude,selfish world theory is activated.

I know there would be people who are in serious relationships, and they must have a strong believe in this love part and I really wish loads f good look for there future and God Bless them with same love and tender care in there relationships, but these days majority is of heart broken people n its increasing day by day an finally it is resulting in creating a mind set of infatuation and hatred among people..and discouraging people to get into any kind of relationships.. which will,, at the end not result in a healthy outcome..

So we people should be bit genuine for others and help them not to form such opinions by taking a very first step from yourself only that if we genuinely like someone,,then only we should approach that person to get into any relationships and should try and carry out it till the end with full trust,loyalty,care and a genuine love..:-) so we can have a better world tomorrow and healthy perspectives tomorrow.:-)

- Gauri Mathur

Unpredictable Life

Promising PURITY…or is it so?

Virginity Pledges, simply put are promises made by the young people to not indulge in sexual activities till they officially tie the knot. But with statics quoting effectiveness in single digited figures(which btw, are more for the males than females,quite surprisingly), the issue common in so many social movements, raises its head here also, “Do these pledges actually serve any purpose, or are they a mere social movement, hollow in their substance and disciples??”

The general opinion though, supports the latter fact. The concept dates back to 1993, the first one being called “true love awaits”, the name itself explaining its core message. In the past sixteen years, many pledges have been carried out and as many studies about the topic.

Point that comes up is people can’t practically refrain themselves, just because of having made a virginity pledge. Most of them fool themselves, more than the world, by putting up things like denying they had sex, or more funnily, denying they made the pledge in the first place only!!! A major part indulges more in oral and anal sex, having the opinion that they’ll be abiding by the pledge having things this way. But for instance take the statement of the pledge as:

"Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate, and my future children to a lifetime of purity including sexual abstinence from this day until the day I enter a biblical marriage relationship."

Now pick for instance the future mate, will s/he consider you any more pure and loyal coz you didn’t indulge in vaginal sex before marriage?

Besides some other not so goody-goody results, one is that people who had pledged, take LESSER birth-control measures that the ones who hadn’t!!!

Plan back-firing… eh?

In fact, those who don’t take any formal pledge to refrain from making out, just promising things to themselves stick more to it, than the ones who take a proper pledge.

Though such pledges are most common in the United States, the scenario can be conveniently compared to that in India, as far as the aspect of psychology of teenagers is concerned about abstaining from sex. Though in India the masses are ignorant enough to not talk about sex or anything related to it in public(explains perhaps why there’s no sex education in schools,worsening everything) but the society in general makes one take a virginity pledge,without once pronouncing it. And the results are pretty obvious. Those who want to do it do it and those who don’t want to, don’t do it, Pledge or no pledge.

Still, to save the cause, these vowing programmes should be vigor-ed up, made more active, spent more brains on, for eg. the members as it is said should be a critical number, so that an individual doesn’t feel too insignificant or too out of the crowd, regular meetings and proper counseling of the members about the whys and whats of their cause can do the trick of increasing their effectiveness. To cut the long story short, proper fuel should be kept on adding to the fire, the fire of not being too “ferocious” before marriage!!! - Tamanna K.

How to publish unique content!

The Internet is loaded with information and people are continuously looking for information on the web. Sometimes the content is written by real duds and is not worth reading. The need for good content becomes very critical and essential.

People look for good content on the Internet. They do not always get good content online. So what is unique content? Unique content should have real content that interests the readers. Giving unique content to the reader is one of the most difficult perhaps most time consuming. Why is it so? Let us look at some examples. A wood working expert writes on building clocks. The reader who is going through the content should find something new about building clocks not the usual stuff.

Does that mean each content should have something new? How do you go about giving new content to your customer? The main draw is to put something compelling in your book or article that would draw your customer or reader towards your article.

Any product or article that is new should have something unique and compelling only then the reader would be drawn towards it. The other most important factor is not to make any mistakes in the content. Some mistakes can be glaring; they can make you notice the mistakes rather than the content.

The best way to make your book very attractive and compelling is to first list down all the things that a reader expects out of the article.

You need to do this while editing your book. If you cannot give good ideas your article is sure not to last long in the market. Try to write content that is good content and pull the audience towards your website. It helps you to stand longer in the market.

Special Skills required for content writing

The internet is growing day by day. You can see that the websites gives information on almost anything right from tinted glasses to laparoscopic surgery. These websites are developed by entrepreneurs who want to make money from their websites.

These websites require new content. Without this content it would not be possible for the entrepreneurs to make money. For producing new content you need writers. So the need for writers is continuous. Freelance writers have a lot of job with so many websites regularly requiring content.

The opportunities are enormous for content writers. They need to be very careful while choosing assignments. Make sure you do not choose assignments that pay very low. You may end up doing work for a pittance.

What is content writing?

Content writing need not always be fulfilling. Content writers are hired to write articles like gadgets. The only comfort in writing these assignments is that they can be written without any research or interviews. This makes it easy to write the articles.

The pay is very low you may get only $1 for 400 words. This is pathetically low and will wear out the content writer very soon.

How to find good content writing assignments?

Don’t be depressed you can surely find websites where you can make solid extra money. You need to be cautious while choosing assignments. Choose the correct assignment which will pay you considerably well.

The key to write good content is to choose topics which you are already aware of. Such content writing is easy as it is not time consuming. You can earn money very easily.

The next step is to determine the lowest amount for which the writer would write. Never accept assignments lower than this threshold limit. There are various websites which publish content writing jobs and help you get good assignments.

How to write good online content

Online content is created to cater to audiences who have very different reading habits. These reading habits differ from those in the print media. There are several factors to be kept in mind while creating a good online content some of them are listed below.

The online content requires being simple. The words sued should be simple with short sentences. The main criteria of good online content are simple, easy to follow content. Jargons and complex words should be completely avoided. These terms are not likely to be understood by online readers.

The main shortcoming of an online content is lack of personal touch. You need to talk to your audience in such a way that they do not feel the lack of personal touch.

Normally online surfers are searching for some information of product or service on the offer. Your website should have all the relevant and appropriate information about the coming back looking for the same. In case they do not find what they are looking for they are not likely to come back.

Write for the target audience and not for the search engines. Any content that is liked by search engines are likely to be popular and will get a good ranking in your search engine.

Use of keywords in your content should e monitored. Never stuff your content with keywords to make them search engine friendly. Ensure appropriate keywords and keep the content crisp do that your audience comes back.

By following the simple tips it is easy to make good online content that is liked by not only your target audience but by everyone.

Practice of making the online content good and interesting helps an online content writer. You can slowly and surely achieve success at content writing.