In the age of social networking do you really want to be a one among a million or one in a million? Choice is between professional profile in linkedIn, brijji  + personal profile in orkut, facebook, friendster or One website for yourself?  Having a profile in Social networking site is not a crime, Doing things differently has more charm, It can add juice to your Social Networking profile.

Being different by means of web address is termed as PERSONAL PR. Individual identified with his own web sites, having information about who you are, what you do, What you like and dislike is the Next generation mode of Internet interaction. Big Corporates now mandate a personal websites for top level leaders in the organization, This helps you to spread information about your company to a larger audience. Gone are the days were individual distribute business cards with information like contact phone number and email address, A simple web search with your name should reveal e very information. This WWW generation is not ready to call you, and wait for your email reply, Information wealth.

Do a search by yourself and understand, Are you ready for this fundamental change in the way people interact?  An ideal web identity should reveal your public profile, professional associations, links to your Social Networking sites profile pages and most importantly to contact you.

How to Create your WEB IDENTIY? – Do by yourself It is not a rocket science

• A Domain name for yourself to reveal who you are, Ideally your name in your country TLD. Look for latest  seasonal domain name deals.
• A simple web hosting account - Simple web blog platform (like WordPress) with multiple pages
• Email ID from your own domain name

Will it cost so much? – Domain name $4 to $10 Max, Web Hosting $12 per year

Book your domain name fast, This is not a IPV6 to have 132 trillion numbers. We love to represent ourself in a more decent name book yours before some one take it.

Happy To be Internet!

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Blogs pave the path to share and to express your ideas. Blog needs a  fuel called readership. Social media helps you to increase readership and hence adding a social dimension becomes an important aspect of blogging. People love to share useful information. Your fresh short posts should have ways to share and express. Comments in your blog is one part of it, presence in sharing platforms like facebook, twitter, Yahoo buzz, digg, delicious, stumble upon helps to attract external readers. This is also termed as organic readership growth. Power of social media is well know. One classic example is the story of Time Warner cable and it’s increased use of tweets as main medium to solve customer issues, and information exchange.

How to add social dimension to Blog?

Comments etiquette – Comments are compulsory in blog posts. Allow readers to express their opinion. Respect freedom of expression, anchor to any blog.

Twitter - Having a twitter account against your domain name or blog motto is  must. Create auto tweets using plugins. A tweet in url, if useful will get re tweeted by others and sharing will provide exponential traffic to your blogs. Read more about how to get engaged in twitter. Plugins you must have in your blog.

Social Bookmarking – Bookmarking websites helps you to create incoming links, and link sharing. Most of the bookmarking websites allow you to give abstract of your actual content. Some the famous plug-ins for social bookmarking sites are Sociable (WordPress) helps you to share contents in close to 199 social bookmarking sites.

Web profiles – Let your web profiles have link to your blogs and blogs to your social profile. Blogs are not just  a way to create a posts, It is a way to “LET THE WORLD KNOW WHO YOU ARE“

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Social networking sites are integral part of any online activity. Interestingly social networking sites are responsible for spam, email phishing, virus spread in recent times. Due to their core function of URL sharing social networking sites are the base for many threats. Following are the safe ways to use social networking sites,

1. Virus spreading through Blogs

A research report reveals in a month an average blog generates 8000 to 10,000 link in WWW. Most of the blog titles and contents are used to attract traffic and redirect to unwanted web sites. Short urls creates like bit.ly, tiny url makes situation even worst. More number of bloggers without even knowing the actuals behind the post copy and paste content from other sites in their post. Malfunction url present in the post, content in the post affects not only your regular visitors and also your site reputation. Be careful when you create BUZZ in your Blog post, read the content once or twice and decide your post. Interestingly more number of blogs are used by internet marketers, and eavesdropper to redirect user to unwanted sites.

2. Link posts in Facebook/orkut/friendster etc

Social networking sites are the main traffic source for most blogs and websites. We love to share what we find useful, but every available links in your wall, pet, scrap book, friends links don’t have to be genuine. Be careful even if the links are from your own friends. Having a tool bar from reputed antivirus providers helps a lot. Links in Social networking sites are another know way of spreading virus, web scripts. Be careful when you add people to your buddy list.

3. Email Phishing

phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public.  Some of the phishing techniques are, Social engineering, link manipulation, website forgery etc. Do not follow links in email unless until the sender is known to you, content is relevant to you.

4. IM – Instant Messenger

A very upcoming and easily deceivable medium is IM, people use more of IM than email system. It is fast user friendly, instantaneous, leads to conversation people like conversation. But an attachment coming through IM may not be secured. Scan for known infection and use it. A compromised email account can be the spreading source. Virus spreading through IM is a known technique, Do not ever leak passwords, bank details in IM.

5. TinyURL, Bit.ly and Snurl

TinyURL, Bit.ly and Snurl are the popular ways to shorten lengthy url and use it in micro blogging platforms like twitter, plurk etc.  They poses another level of threat cos you don’t even know where are our redirected to. Some sites are available to convert them to original URL. Use on of them and understand where are you heading to. http://www.untiny.com/ is one such service

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