What does real beauty mean to you? - Real beauty is self-confidence

Real beauty means self-confidence. Everyone is beautiful in his/her own ways. Beauty is a feeling that creates self esteem. Nature itself makes everyone beautiful. Looks doesn’t really matter if you are really beautiful in mind. The beauty definition changes from person to person but we all are beautiful in our own ways. If you have self-confidence, you can achieve anything and face any troubles in life. Facing the troubles of life in a successful manner is the beauty of living. The beauty of living is real beauty. If you can lead a successful life then you are surely a beautiful example to all the people who know you. Real beauty is not created with cosmetics or skin care products. The skin care products and cosmetics can only boost your self-confidence. I am beautiful in my own ways and I do adore myself for my beauty because I am confident about my life. 

Beauty is a word used by all irrespective of gender,race,age and nation. Everyone have there own definition about real beauty but real beauty doesn’t have limitations. We all look into the mirror daily. We all dress in the best clothes and we all look others who look beautiful. Real beauty is the love for others we develop from the self-confidence we have. I do believe that everyone is beautiful. Everyone needs to have the self-confidence that makes them the unique personality they are. They should all set an example to others to learn how beautiful is life when you are confident about yourself. Self-confidence is a thing most people lag. We need to believe in ourselves, then only others will see the beauty in you. You should look deep inside you so you can become self-confident. Your self-confidence will make others look deep in you as well. 

“Only as deep as I look can I see” - Karen Ravns 

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LinkedIn - The new professional advertising medium

LinkedIn is the new professional advertising medium. The medium can give you good reach. In today’s post we are going to discuss LinkedIn Ads - The easiest way to reach professionals.

LinkedIn DirectAds, a service LinkedIn launched in July 2008 and which was in beta testing for more than 2 years has been officially launched recently and is now known as “LinkedIn Ads”.  LinkedIn Ads help you to target customers by geography, job title, job category, company size, company category, age, gender or LinkedIn Group.

According the company’s press release they say

“LinkedIn Ads are just one of the many ways businesses can market to the high-caliber audience of more than ninety million professionals on LinkedIn. “

Why choose LinkedIn Ads ?

*The ads will be shown to users with rich profile data
* LinkedIn Ads can generate maximum ROI out of the set budget
* LinkedIn the most trusted professional network
* LinkedIn Ads help you to easily reach out to decision makers’

The above reasons make LinkedIn Ads an inevitable adverting option for B2B. If you are planning to advertise on LinkedIn make sure you target LinkedIn groups.  LinkedIn groups attract a lot of likeminded professional who do spend a lot of time interacting with each other. Focusing industry specific LinkedIn groups is a great way to reach targeted individuals.

LinkedIn and other real-time content sites could now become a potential competitor to search giant Google. LinkedIn might just become the leader in targeted ads service as they are having 90 million worldwide users and 40 million U.S users. You also get the choice to pay per clicks or pay per 1000 impressions.

LinkedIn classify advertisers into two groups. The larger budget advertisers and smaller budget advertisers. It is better to try out the platform with a smaller budget in initial stage.

There are 4 types of placements available for LinkedIn Ads

* Wide Skyscraper – 160×600
* Leaderboard – 728×90
* Medium Rectangle – 300×250
* Text Link – 60 characters

The new ads feature offers free clicks from your contacts. The default option in Setting under Account Setting you would find a message that says “Send network updates to my connections or company followers (and get free clicks) when I create a new campaign”. Do you really want to turn this feature on ? If not just uncheck the box and save the settings so your contacts wouldn’t know if you are advertising using Linkedin Ads.

You can create ad on LinkedIn by visiting https://www.linkedin.com/ads/create

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Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco is the first Indian to have one million followers on Twitter

The Cheif Technology Officer(CTO) of Cisco Padmasree Warrior, is the first Indian to have one million followers on Twitter. She has passed the one million follower mark in September 2009. She is much ahead of any other Indian on Twitter. The second Indian to have one million followers will be Cricket master blaster Sachin Tendulkar. We can also see Shashi Tharoor with more than 9.85 lakh followers and Shahrukh Khan with over 8.60 lakhs just behind Padmasree Warrior and Sachin Tendulkar. The twitter handle of Padmasree Warrior is http://twitter.com/Padmasree

Professional News Goes Social - LinkedIn Today

LinkedIn launches its social news product for professionals LinkedIn Today. The main objective of this product is to make professionals know top stories from their network and industry.

The Linkedin Today webpage has different categories to meet the professional interests of Linkedin users. P

rofessionals from different industry can get the latest trending topics and news. The professional social news webpage of Linkedin is going to be preferred by iPhone users and they have an iPhone application for the same.

Below is the screen-shot of Linkedin Today.

Linkedin Today is just like an industry newspaper available online and via LinkedIn’s iPhone application. The headlines and links to the popular stories makes it look more similar to a newspaper.

It also offers a unique feature through which you can see what others in your profession network is reading and saving. The feature to “save” articles to read later is a handy feature. The most helpful thing is that you can get industry news, tailored to your professional interest.  The webpage also allows you to see who is sharing information along with any comments they might have included when posting.

Using Linkedin Today will help to learn three major social view aspects. One is what your network (connections and co-works are sharing), then what your industry peers are sharing and finally all the stories which are interesting to a wider audience, outside of your industry.

If you haven’t checked Linkedin Today then it is high time that you check it out. You can get the latest trends among professionals through Linkedin Today website at http://www.linkedin.com/today/

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Social Media for Social Good

It is highly important that every human beings understands the value of supporting society. Every person must take the responsibility in showing examples on how to build good human values. It is easy to spread the word online but it is really hard to come out offline and work for a cause. The young, vibrant and energetic tweeps of Kerala have now joined together to support a noble cause through Twitter Festival which is officially know as Twestival. It is nice to see flocks from all parts of the state come to one single venue to support the cause. The event is happening worldwide and I am happy to be a volunteer for the event in Cochin. Twestival spreads the message “Social Media for Social Good”. Come join the tweeps working for noble cause. It is time we all head onto the same platform and help out the needy people.