Job Hunting? Improve Your Social Profile First!

If you are keeping with hiring trends, then you will know that current recruitment practices involve the use of social networks to test for skills and for talent hunt. Popularity scores are rounded up to determine a candidate’s suitability. And if you haven’t considered Facebook as a job recruitment option, do so now. Because hundreds or thousands of eyes, including your supervisor/s, have sifted through your profile on social networks already and discovered such aspects of your personality that you may be unaware of. Especially if you have not bothered to control your content nor privacy settings.

This does take the fun out of socializing on networks such as Facebook. After all, the main reason was to enjoy yourself with a careless freedom, to say what you want to whomsoever you pleased. But this very freedom has cost many their jobs. Ask those who have expressed with vehemence against their ex-employers. Look at it this way: What kind of people would you seek – whether employees or business partners – were it your own company?

Social content posted by users has a great impact and the impression you leave can impede job prospects. So get a hold of the reins, starting now. Some cautionary notes to bear in mind are:

• With Facebook Timeline, you can wipe out your past and while there’s nothing you can do about wiping previous viewers’ memories, at least the future ones will see a more refined and more mature you.
• On the other hand, if you go to another extreme and pose as a workaholic, the façade won’t serve the purpose either. There has to be a healthy blend of your personal and professional side. A balanced personality is a prime quality employers seek in their candidates.
• Select your network carefully. If you can, avoid adding your boss and co-workers you are uncomfortable with as ‘friends’ on Facebook. Instead, join formal and informal groups that are relevant to your line of work.
• Actively participate in discussions on forums and blogs. That way you will stay informed about latest developments in the field and showing (not showing off) your knowledge will increase chances for employers to approach you directly with a job offer.
• Showcase extracurricular through Facebook apps embedded on your page. This should include a variety ranging from e-books to game apps, minus the adult- oriented ones such as gambling. Your selection reflects your lifestyle and habits. Generally, employers seek those people who will impact positively in the work environment.
• Finally, control not just your posts, but your temperament. No matter how frustrating your present job situation is, make as graceful an exit as possible. Social networks have made background checking far easier than was previously possible. To find out about your bout of temper in the workplace will bring your chances of being hired down to zero.

Bonne chance with your new job!

Originally Posted By Avenuesocial.Com

Crime Coverage on Social Media

The faster the news travels, the more successful the source. In this case, social media has defeated all other forms of media as moments are shared in real time.

The recent shooting in Denver, Colorado where 12 people died and several injured by a seemingly ‘normal’ person, has left not just the victims’ families in a state of despair and shock, but the entire world. People are now questioning, discussing, debating over social media more than ever before.

This time around, news organizations have taken a backseat and provided the larger part of the room for public discourse. As comments stream in from everywhere, it is a reaffirmation of just how social networks have transformed news reporting. And it’s not just the witnesses posting updates on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Even the local police and fire officials are online. The Red Cross has advised those present at the scene to inform their families they are alright. Government officials also admit to tracking for the same reason, except not so much for information as much ‘clues ’ for criminal activity on posts and blogs.

 

 

The Canadian Newspaper Association justifies mainstream media in their selective reporting because they are running a business. Consequently, there is an absence of or underreporting of crime. Where surveys fail to quantify the crimes, social media has provided it. Although dissemination does not guarantee authenticity, it certainly provides a volume that determines the existence of crimes. There are images, video and articles providing details and angles that conventional media is unable to do.

Not everyone agrees. As one media expert put it, when it comes to crime coverage, it can lead to a lot of biased opinion. As opposed to authentic reports which are more objective. Except that this objectivity, although more reliable is not as popular. Rather than being delivered a cold-cut narrative, audience is looking for compassion and more humanitarian reporting as far as heinous crimes are concerned. NBC has gone so far as to say that the most “compelling accounts” of the recent Denver incident came from a social media contributor and people such as these are the “professional journalists of tomorrow.”

Originally Posted By Avenuesocial

Android App Development

Android Apps Inventor emerging the need of Application Developers!

Despite the popularity of the iPhone in the present market, there is a growing fascination surrounding Android Application. Undoubtedly Apple’s iPhone is reliable enough but there is something enticing about Android that is clearly replenishing the market needs. In simple terms, Android is the operating system for the mobile application. It is the Linux based operating system that embeds the Java applications and runs over the Linux kernel. Google’s Android Application however contains 12 million lines of codes that include XML, C and none other than Java.

Apart from this, Android application is configured for performing endless personalization. Thus, Google has made it easy to set your phone as per your consent. Do you feel personalization is everything that you were always needed? If your response is somewhat negative then, to meet your expectations, Google has introduced Android Application Inventor. The name clearly depicts its usage; the Android Inventor is used to create simple applications. No matter whether you have any programming knowledge or not but this app has been introduced by Google to develop apps by a non-developer.
It might sound interesting that now, anyone can operate the OS and can utilize various functionalities to create new tunes, or creative background but, every coin has two sides! One can create simple apps definitely but what about creating complex business apps? While the question arises related to business applications then, there comes the need of the programmer or the developer! Business applications need the technical touch which can be accommodated by the programmers to meet the accuracy. Where comes the accuracy factor, we at Openxcell Technolabs always stand by our client’s side, understand our client’s needs and do the needful to meet the perfection.  Our best trained professionals offer their professionalism in channelized directions to turn our client’s dreams into reality.

Originally Posted By Weebly

BlueStacks Opens The Way To Run Android Applications On Windows Desktop

Have anyone heard about BlueStacks? This revolutionary app company and  is  proving to be boon for the windows userbase. Bluestack will help supporting Android applications on your windows desktop. It’s one of recent update for windows users.Since, Microsoft, plans to make it more difficult to dual boot OS on windows 8 system and make it possible to switch operating system on Windows RT tablets and phones. The extreme invention BlueStacks will be looking one and only way to run Android applications on Windows 8 tablets, smartphones and PC’s. As PC-giant ASUS has signed deal with BlueStacks to include it’s own Android App player on the company’s next generation PC.

As we all know that Wine is one of most popular emulator so, BlueStacks really works like wine because of it doesn’t emulate the actual hardware of a device. Instead, BlueStacks just emulates Android Davlik to server as a bridge between the application and Windows API’s (Application Programming Interface). BlueStacks can easily access the system’s graphics hardware to accelerate the program’s graphic processing.

As BlueStacks has also the related Application which one is Cloud Connect, this one lets you sync Android Apps from your smartphone or your tablet to your PC running BlueStacks App Player. As BlueStacks has its own Application Store, but as usual people really like to find a way to install other applications. Cloud Connect is very useful but this one is easy road for malware and in the same case, if you haven’t been paying attention, there is lots of Android Malware on the loose. So, it proves that BlueStacks is one of the great featured options for the windows users to use Android Applications.

BlueStacks is really one of stunning and risk free way for the careful Android downloads. It’s really one of most elegant way to use Android Applications in Windows desktop, PC, tablets, and phones. As the same company plans to bring it’s technology to Mac OS X as well.

OpenXcell Technolabs is a premier android app development company. It has a talented team of expert android app developers having expertise in developing custom android applications.

Originally Posted By Weebly

Marrisa Mayer Hired By Yahoo For $129m!

Marrisa Mayer comes with buzzing track record of achievement. Mayer is extremely known for being one of the pioneers in Google joining the company in its infancy which would later become a search giant. Mayer joined as employee number 20 and was the company’s first female engineer at that time. Mayer has played so many roles like, designer, product manager and executive during her 13 years career in Google. This included her active participation in various projects viz. Google Search, Google News, Google Map, Google Images, Google Books, Google Product Search, iGoogle, Google Gmail and Google Toolbar, just to name a few. She has also played major role behind the famous Google’s layout(Search Home Page)and has also worked as a Vice President of Local Maps and location services, in her final years with Google.

She is really honored from many boards. She is currently the member of the board of directors of National Design Museum, San Fransisco Musuem of Modern Art and Walmart. Her name is existing top 50 powerful women in business in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 for America.

She has remained as an avid spokesperson for Google and has now decided to take on a leading role as a CEO for Yahoo. Yahoo which has already had 4 prior attempts to stabilize the company is now betting on Mayer and offering her a package of $129m for a period of 5 years which dwarfs the pay package of Meg Whitman. On addition to her massive salary, Mayer owns 26.2 million shares of google as well.

Google had never disclose Mayer’s salary because of She was not highest paid executive of Company, although she was the most visible personality of company.

According to Scott Thomson(Former Yahoo SEO), The offered compensation to Mayer is really exceptional! The same company offered Thomson a $1 million base salary and stock grants about $22.5 million. He left four months into the Job, without severance. Yahoo has average one CEO a year for last five years. So, Marissa Mayer is new one!

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Originally Posted By Weebly

Cloud Gaming Gets Smart

To say the experience will be enriching is an understatement because live streaming of mobile gaming via cloud are the present– not the future of gaming.

While businesses are still hesitant about sharing data via cloud storage over doubtful security management, cloud gaming is perhaps a safer bet. Despite its recent beginnings in the mobile industry, gaming on demand has become the most utilized among all other cloud services.

 

What makes cloud gaming highly popular is mainly their capability to access games through offsite, remote servers on any platform or device. There is no need for physical gadgets such as consoles and discs. However, some guides do recommend using a physical control device for smartphone screens because of the large estate they occupy for game controls on touch screens.

Virtual streaming of these games provides limitless choices on 3G and 4G smartphones. Some OSs are already running them as cloud game applications on their stores. OnLive, a cloud gaming application was launched for Android earlier this year and received a tremendously positive response. Android was their first choice among smartphone platforms for the same reason that cloud sharing is based on: an open source server for an open source platform.

And there’s more to come. Google announced the launch of ‘Google Compute Engine’ cloud service at their recent I/O conference that will allow app developers to create any kind of application with the use of raw virtual machines, such as JVM (Java Virtual Machine). This means multiple systems can coexist within a single device.

Apple’s iOS had had to wait awhile, but with box.net already a successful app plus cloud storage project, they will soon be joining forces in the cloud gaming zone. Last week’s news about Gaikai, an open cloud gaming platform, being bought by Sony has pretty much paved the way for them as well as other smartphones and tablets. There has been no direct reference, but the high price paid (USD 380 million) shows just how important cloud gaming has become for the once popular console manufacturers. It is not too hard to believe either when reviewers predict how this will spur Xbox and Playstation games to be streamed through into smartphone devices.
Originally Posted By SocialJitney

The Socio-Mobile Axis, not Access

There is cause for complaint. And it can be hard for marketers to digest the fact that direct marketing is highly dependent on users’ own network — not the advertisers’ and certainly not social media staffs’. As was noted by Forbes last month when Facebook’s COO requested users to ‘click on a few ads.’ This mild ‘joke’ was asking for trouble. Interpreted for desperation, the statement mirrors a general concern shared by social media: that financial returns for their free services are negligible.

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted to mobile incorporation as being a challenge for Facebook. What is worrying for social media is whether monetization will increase on mobile, because so far, it hasn’t had much luck on the PC platform. Greenlight, a marketing company survey reported 44 per cent of Facebook users “never click on sponsored ads,” and a bare 3 per cent did so regularly. Depressing
as these figures are, advertisers and marketers seem to forget the complexity of the primary need for a user, which is to be social.
There is a dual-pronged expectation at play here accompanied with a sense of urgency:  i) providing full access of social media on mobile and ii) to gain revenue from mobile advertisements. The first point is not too far from achieving. Facebook Timeline has been recently launched on mobile platforms and users are already waiting for third party applications to be included. Speaking of apps, Facebook’s integration with mobile is going to get deeper. Developers can now download the new SDK for iOS to create Facebook applications which comes complete with a tutorial, links to native apps and ‘Reference Docs’ for coding.
Advertisers need to start thinking like users. When a user is ‘highly engaged,’ advertisements in any form can be interruptive, or the user barely notices them because of his/her sole focus on the content. So the tactic of placing ads with great content is not a guarantee for revenue either, no matter how ‘engaging’ the content. A complete renovation is required for marketers to target their ads if they want to see success on the mobile platform via social media.
If it was really up to the users, a majority would simply do away with ads entirely. Unless they were to be incorporated into user content. Complicated as it sounds, what is required is a high level of creativity to use the users in a way that will benefit content plus promote the product simultaneously, not separately, as is the case with PC ads.
Whatever forms of advertisement on social platforms, whether notifications, Sponsored Stories and incentives, limitations can be turned to advantages on mobile adaptation and the experience will be far richer for all parties–first, second and third. Then there won’t be much cause for complaint.

This Blog originally appeared on Avenuesocial

Perspective on China’s Anti-Facebook Stance

The world’s largest population comprising 1.4 billion is disconnected from the world’s largest social network site. While other countries block Facebook on and off, China is the only country that has remained persistent in its ban. But it seems Facebook is as persistent as the Chinese government.  That is why Mark Zuckerberg scampered off once again to China to attempt to gain ground. Attempts have been fruitless so far, but Zuckerberg is on a mission of making the world ‘connected’ regardless of the fact he is now the 28th richest man in the world.

But knowing that the online Chinese population is over 5 million, which is twice the population of U.S. according to a Forbes report and 38 per cent of these are mobile-only would make anyone in the technical industry drool.

Incidentally, Facebook is just one from over thousands of banned sites in China, most are major international social and sharing networks and incidentally, very few are censored for adult content. It’s ironic to observe humanitarian organizations’ websites included in the list, especially Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an NGO that defends freedom of expression. This is self-explanatory of the extent of suppression still pervading in this day and age.

Despite China’s self-sufficiency in the global market, their people are deprived of the right to choose. Whether there will be revolt as dramatic as in Egypt and Syria is not the point. The country’s young are reportedly happy with substitute networks such as Weibo and RenRen. Given the country’s technical manpower, we can be assured of their having a sound network, excellent software capabilities and as great, if not more app developers as Facebook.

It is the impact of such restrictions that are contributing to the suffering of 128 million Chinese who live below poverty line. Because this ‘shield’ is hampering business growth in the country. By not allowing international social networks, they are also deterring business growth. E-commerce and trade have reached customers in every corner of the globe. Business through personal interaction has proven far more successful than the traditional and formal process conduct. While competition is higher and more open, services and product improvement is now based on understanding users’ interests at the individual level. And China is missing out not because social networks will affect negatively or positively, but simply because they are absent. The fact remains, it is one country against the world. It is hoped the government would understand they are not ‘giving in’ by lifting such bans, but that they will be ‘giving’ their people, who are old enough, in the literal sense (majority Chinese population is ageing), their basic right to decide for themselves.

 

This post originally appeared on  Avenuesocial.

7 Tips For Effective Social Photos For Your Business

Today, anyone can be a celebrity. Thanks to social media that has silenced the perpetual and often boring debate of picture versus the written word, to an agreement that one complements the other. Facebook’s Timeline may seem to have sparked the discussions again, with their demand for large photos to be posted on the profile. But even article writers will have to admit that the 399 wide pixels cover image has replaced a thousand words. But unlike other social media that are either too photo-oriented or too text-oriented, Facebook is well-balanced, retaining the apps functionalities, links and text that make for a complete ‘story,’ a word that is now commonly associated with the site.

It is inspiring to see what individuals and companies have done with this Timeline. But don’t feel overwhelmed by brands. As long as you have made yours look unique and conveyed what your company serves through the image, consider the job well done, no matter what size or how new your business.

To handle the medium, Facebook has sage advice: “Covers must not be false, deceptive or misleading, and must not infringe on third parties’ intellectual property.” This and more do’s and don’ts on the Facebook website must be appreciated for providing quality and standards to marketing that had become increasingly lagging in the business world.

But there is a downside of putting pictorial content on social websites, which is that they are open to criticism. To avoid embarrassment of your picture categorized under ‘top 20 weird photos’, it is a good idea to take the opinions of trustworthy sources prior to posting the photo. While at it, here are useful tips to ensure your pictures are as good as your business, or even better:

• If you lack imagination, just put up your company’s logo and slogan. Play around with their placement, the fonts and colors.
• To be able to elicit positive emotions through images is very effective, taking into consideration to not cross the limits of professional boundaries. These may be in the form of an amusing picture to humor, or scenic visuals to enchant.
• Bring the photo to life by making a colorful collage.
• Utilize features from within the site. Facebook has also been generous in providing photo apps. One distinct app that includes the voice functionality is the Fotobabble.
• Use the flexibility provided by the medium. Change as often as you like, and edit as much as you wish.

Assess the photos before posting, immediately after posting, and continue to monitor its popularity through feedback.

This post originally appeared on  Avenuesocial.

Facebook’s New Ways for News Updates

News is no longer the well-written article or a controversial headline by reporters. The way news is disseminated within a new social medium seems to have made users into journalists, where the user can exercise a wide variety of information of what they consider as newsworthy and through the source of their choice.

It is interesting to note the way users select and absorb information, i.e. through indirect contacts simply because of diversity in interests. This in turn leads to more learning, compared with the immediate circle which generally shares common interests. The updates one receives from their immediate circle can be a waste of time and page space. Therefore, social media has offered ways to tunnel the information directly from indirect sources onto the user page.

Subscribe

A few months earlier, Facebook introduced the ‘Subscribe’ button as a choice for users to ‘Allow Subscriber’, in addition to the ‘like’ and ‘comment’ option. It may be set as private or public, where users will receive updates transmitted to their page. The choice is not simply limited to user selection. The quantity and quality of information can also be controlled after selecting the subscribe button, by specifying whether the user requires ‘all’, ‘most’ or ‘only important t’ updates and also tick marking on ‘life events,’ ‘status updates,’ ‘photos and videos’ and ‘games.’

News Feed

Following this, while Twitter has previously provided the ‘Twitter Lists’ option for users to choose the kind of information, Facebook will allow the user to specify and organize the information by other users by adding them on their ‘interest list.’ The purpose is similar to the way a user organizes his or her friends’ lists. Major advantages to this tunneling of information are that users will not require researching news sites, because they will already have received updates within their own page and will even be able to keep information out from within their won contacts.

How companies can avail the opportunity through apps

The news feed has paved the way for social media to not just be people-focused’ but more information-focused. Recently, media companies such as Huffington Post, MSNBC.com and Pixable have incorporated media apps onto their Timeline page as a way of relaying specific news. Consequently, new users have added the Facebook apps which has thereby increased traffic to their sites. So what you have to say will catch the attention of readers rather than who you are. By creating interesting and relevant news, companies can post updates and link them to blogs and videos to inform people about their products.

 

This post originally appeared on  Avenuesocial.