As technology continues to improve and innovation is much apparent, social media has made its way to be a part of communication.  In fact, through social media, you can easily access anything you want and do whatever you want.  Through Internet, you can easily talk to a loved one, keep in touch with someone, update people around you, watch a movie, listen to music, play a game, and buy anything through online shopping.  As what they say, nothing is impossible with Internet.  As social media continues to evolve, change is unending.

I say this because I am a witness of how things changed from way back then to present.  One example is related to education.  Before, I used to go to school every day because I had to be physically present in class discussions.  That’s how it goes.  I need to be physically present because of the surprise quizzes, graded recitations, activities and seat works.  I had to be physically present to submit personally my home works and projects.  I had to be physically present to talk to my classmates, to ask questions to my teachers, and to explain my side when something is wrong.  But now, everything has changed.  Through Internet, I can answer my quizzes, submit my home works, activities and even communicate with my teachers and classmates.  Nowadays, teachers doesn’t have to go to school as they can just email their students in the same sense that we don’t have to go to school as we can just wait for announcements through email.  What I’m trying to say here is the value of going to school physically is slowly losing its essence because of the changes in our world, particularly in technology and social media.  And the sad thing is, future generation might not experience the things people in the past had experienced.  Soon, maybe there’ll be no more schools since everything can be learned from the Internet and kids have to stay at home in front of their computers or gadgets.  Kids might not have a healthy and fit lifestyle as computers and gadgets will take them away from exercise and physical activities.  You see, all these and more are because of innovation, technology, and social media.

Another example is the usual advertisements we see on televisions or posters.  Before, we can only see advertisements when our television is on, or when we walk along streets and roads.  Because of changes mentioned above, advertisements are everywhere, even on Internet.  What’s worse is: before, we can only view a certain advertisement when we click it, but now, we are forced to see it even we don’t want or need to.  Through YouTube, this is possible.  How?   When we click a certain video, an advertisement will play first and you cannot skip it until a portion of the ad was played already.  This is a smart strategy I must say.  Whoever thought of it was genius, seriously.  In 2013, the most successful ads were the ones played in YouTube.  Now, advertisers may spend less as they can just do this and not pay for airing fee for televisions and radios.

Much has changed already because of innovation and technology, and I know that more changes are about to happen.  As a student, I hope that these changes although most are for convenience, would preserve the practices I’ve had long time ago as nothing could be better than going to school and experience how is it like to be a real student.  As a future media practitioner, I hope that innovation and technology will be used not just for convenience, but to share and spread truth and fairness.  I hope these changes would help the country and the world become better by being united.

About the Contributor:  This post is submitted to adD TransWrite by an audio transcriptionist applicant.  She is an intern in one of media network in the Philippines and has an experience transcribing a lot of interviews.  At the time of this written essay, she is a college student looking for an online job that doesn't require much time.

In this article we will discuss few forerunners that’ll work excellent for developers to create a website for bloggers on Magento platform.

• Paying attention to each and every element is important when it comes to programming. You miss one thing and all your effort goes into the waste. All programmers don’t have a vision of the future, and how well their program will perform after development. As a Magento developer, a good memory is crucial as you have to remember a lot of classes, objects, and variables to be used in a program. These elements are mandatory so remembering them is also essential. A small mistake can lead to bigger ones so it’s better you do not miss out on anything.

• There are no boundaries for web developers when it comes to creativity. Every Magento developer has to come up with innovative thoughts and the incredible idea at some points, because these are the factors that will set their websites apart. E-Commerce website as of today are becoming hot favorites for bloggers. And keeping this in mind, developers has to introduce some ‘Never-seen’ elements in their website. It should be done to meet the customer’s expectations.

• Flexibility in a developer is a must have attribute as following the rules do not work in Magento web development. Break the rules and never constraint yourself to one particular thing as go for different languages instead of sticking to one. However, this requires developer to be good at every language to execute it well. To become a professional developer, learning the techniques of coding in various languages and platform is essential.

• A Magento developer works as a craftsman whole day to get you what you want. There is no time when he/she is not available when you come across an issue. A Magento developer is summoned immediately as a client encounter an app failure at any time of the day. They are asked to go beyond their limits and stretch hard to live up to expectations. So, these craftsmen are reliable people helping you achieve your goal with on-time project delivery with highest quality.

• The form of bugs is the major factor behind the delay encountered by almost every developer. Though, developing an app or code without bugs is difficult. Conduct the development process by reducing bugs to create a perfect and clean website. To make a clean development process, there are tools and software available that helps in bug tracking of all types of bugs. With the help of advanced tools, you do not have to worry about anything as developers can implement a website this way with no or minimal bugs.

Having said these indicators to keep Magento developers in creating excellent eCommerce website, bloggers now have a clear understanding about website development and design. It is therefore imperative that a blogger may need to get quality eCommerce website for monetizing his blogging activities.

About the Contributor:  Mark Anderson is a satisfied husband and father living an fruitful life in Texas, U.S.A. He is a business consultant and website developer on a full time basis at Studioxcess.net.

1.       AccuWeather

AccuWeather is one of the free apps that are made available for iPad. This app has proven to be decent in nature among other weather apps. Its interface is odd but offer fun to the users. There is a presence of lifestyle page which helps in determining the fact that how your recent local conditions may affect through 20 activities that includes stargazing and dog-walking. If you're a travel blogger and planning a trip, this AccuWeather is suitable for you to learn which place to avoid for a bad weather.

2.       Air Video Free

In spite of pessimists complaining about the screen of iPad which has an aspect ratio of 4:3, it is one of the decent devices for playing videos but this device does not support the storage of large video collections. But Air Video Free lets you to stream video from a PC or Mac. There is a limitation behind free version it is that it is capable of displaying only a few items that are randomly selected from each playlist or folder. Using this iPad app, you can have your latest video blog watched on streaming.

3.       Facebook

Facebook is one of the social networking sites that have gone out back and forth for all the mobile versions especially for iPad, have features such as native and smart implementation. With Facebook's free version for iPad, you do not want to use relatively chunky website repeatedly for watching that which of your friends should not have access to the Internet after midnight in reality. Well, obviously you can share whatever blog post you have with this app.

4.       Comics

Comics are one of the innovative apps for iPhones but there is a need of zooming every panel of the screen in a constant manner. Nevertheless, in a similar way, the screen of iPad is large enough for displaying a whole page, with no need of making it scroll or zoom. This app is available in a number of free comics through the bundled store. Comics app is specifically for entertainment blogger who are into action super heroes.

5.       Dropbox

Dropbox is a countless facility that helps in the syncing of documents or files among multiple devices. The client of iPad works in a similar way as the iPhone. This app is a universal app, which enables you to promo many different types of files or documents, and also you can store these marked files in the form of favorites. With Dropbox, you can store your large media files that you attach on your blog posts.

6.       YouTube

YouTube is one of the other apps that have designed for the Apple operating system. The interface is specially meant for iPad and this allows you to play videos on Apple TV. You can able to stream videos of large size with this app free of cost. For video bloggers, you can instantly upload your creations while on the go.

7.       Evernote

Evernote is similar to Dropbox app. This online facility is made available to you free of cost for saving images, documents and web clips with having access from a number of devices. It works in a similar way as it works on the iPhone. It is more beneficial because of large screen of iPad that allows you to watch and navigate your snippets, which are stored earlier in an easy and fast manner. You can use this as an alternative for storing your blog images and other media stuff.

About the Contributor: Sonika has been working with an IT firm where she has attained tremendous knowledge about technology. She started writing articles about buy real twitter followers to help people.

There are a lot of things to test for when creating a website, and there are lots of different tools out there. Lots of them are not very reliable, and many of the good ones must be paid for.

Have a look over the tools on this list to see if any may suit you and your website. As a warning, be careful when you enter your personal details into sites like these, as you have no idea who you are passing this information on to.

1. W3C markup validation service

This is a validator that checks the markup validity of your Web documents in HTML, XHTML, MathML, SMIL, etc. Whatever you may think of validators, it is always good to have the extra pair of eyes on your website, even if the eyes are software. Yes, it is true that is will miss glaring mistakes and at times it will give you bad advice, but can anyone say this is a terrible thing? After all, the spell-checker on word processors has the same faults and few people complain about that. At least the validator can pull you up on things that you missed by accident such as forgetting to close a line of code.

2. Links Validator

Grit your teeth as you read, as this is not really a “test everything” tool as promised in the title, but it is very useful and should be an addition to your current set of tools. There are other link validators that may be attached to bigger software, but this is a good one to have on its own. It will analyze your hyperlinks in your HTML/XHTML document. It is great for showing you your broken links, but the easy to use options means that you can check linked documents recursively, or hide redirects, or show a summary only, and a number of other options too.

3. Gomez

This is a tool that will test your website for 30 techniques relating to mobile website design. Each test will be rated from one to five. The poor results will show you where you need to improve and the good results will show you where you are doing well. The results are pretty self explanatory, and it also comes with a number of tips to help you improve your website once the tests have been run. You can improve your site and how compatible it is with other browsers.

4. WebAIM Wave 

This will test the accessibility of your website and will test it on technical levels. The details are then displayed back to you so that you can see where you are going right and wrong. It may easily reveal the accessibility of your page.

5. Pingdom Tools

This is a tool that is a few improvements away from genius. It tests your website on things such as speed and does it by testing how long it takes for certain website elements to load. Using this tool you can see which website elements are slowing down your website the most. You can then remove or improve your heavier and slower web elements.

6. Ahrefs Site Explorer & Backlink Checker

This is a very good tool that you can use for free a little before you pay them any money. It is fantastic for pulling up information relating to your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and your backlinks. The great thing about this program is that it deals in statistics that it also puts into very easy-to-understand graphics/visualizations. It is not just an SEO checker that is dedicated to an Alexa Rank or a Google PageRank. It gives you a lot of statistics so that you can analyze and evaluate them as you wish.

7. DotMobi Emulator

This one is a bit of a kicker because it requires you to download that stupid Java browser plugin that so many hackers love to exploit us with. Still, if you have the stomach for it then you can use this emulator to have a look at how your website looks on mobile devices. It is very good for testing your website on very old devices as well as newer devices. It means that you may avoid quite a number of problems with regards to compatibility and bugs that present on other browsers or screen sizes.

About the Contributor: Kate Funk is a self-employed writer at getanycontent.com. She primarily focus to write on topics about technology, gadgets and all the latest SEO trends which are attention-grabbing for networking aficionados.

 Social media has outgrown as a wide platform for promoting your brand. The increasing dependence on internet has made way for the birth of social sharing websites that allow you to reach out to the consumers who’re looking for top-quality products and services.

If you’re running a WordPress blog then it is absolutely essential to manipulate your blog posts so as to make them look great on various social networks. I’ve written this blog to make you familiar with some tips that will work wonders for showcasing your WordPress blogs on social networking websites such as Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn etc.

Tip No.1- Add Open Graph tags to your blog posts .

Tip No.2- Opt for implementing Twitter Cards for rich media tweets from your WordPress site/blog .

Tip No.3- Pay attention to effective optimization of website text.

Tip No.4- Get your content linked to your Google+ Profile 

Google+ has come up as an effective platform for sharing personal as well as company details. In order to make your WordPress blog stand out from the crowd, you must link all your web content to your Google+ profile. This will result in effective optimization of your website as your name, photo and your Google+ profile link will be available next to every content that’s displayed in the Google search results. Tip No.5- Watch out for the WordPress blog posts that are shared the most.

By getting an idea about the pieces of content that are shared the most, you can continue to create content that your readers love. Moreover, you can even opt for installing and activating a premium WordPress plugin called Social Metrics Pro that measures the content that’s been shared on social networks. You are able to view the detailed statistics within our WordPress dashboard. Moreover, this WordPress plugin also allows you to filter blog posts based on date, category and author name. 

Tip No.6- Take complete control of Facebook sharing of your blog posts via Open Graph Protocol.

Facebook has become a prime social network for sharing personal as well as business information. While sharing a blog post on your Facebook profile, you have the flexibility of editing the link’s title, description and default preview image. When visitors click on your blog post, they receive everything that Facebook choose to showcase for your post. This can actually turn out to be a disadvantage as Facebook might choose to display something that purely doesn’t suit your profile. By implementing Facebook Open Graph protocol, you can actually take complete control of what all is being posted on Facebook via your link. Your visitors will hence get the chance to share your post with their friends, thereby increasing your visitor count. Facebook’s official plugin named Open Graph Protocol lets you learn a lot about your audience and people who share your content via Facebook insights. 

Tip No.7- Install social sharing buttons from top networks.

Last but definitely not the least, an effective means of drawing people towards your WordPress blog/site is by installing the official sharing buttons in your content pages. You can either choose to add social sharing button buttons using the coding technique or opt for a plugin like Digg that will make the task much more simpler and convenient. You can choose to add the social sharing buttons towards the right, left, top or bottom of your web content.

Wrapping Up

So these were the tips, which if followed seriously can aid you in making your WordPress blog posts popular with social media websites. Hope you’d have loved the collection and would definitely follow these tips the next time you’re publishing content for the social networks.

Please don’t forget to share your feedback/suggestions on the above post, using the comments box below.

About the Contributor:  Liza Williams is a web developer by profession and a writer by hobby and works for OSSMedia Ltd company. She loves sharing information regarding WordPress, Magento, Drupal and Joomla development tips & tricks. If you are looking for WordPress Development Services then just get in touch with her.