Getting Social

You have a new community or startup or a product, whose social media you are supposed to take care of. Here is what you need to get started. 

• Create Twitter Handle, Facebook Page, Google+ Page and if any other social media you want to be on. There can be more to YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr and a long list. 
• To make handling the three basic accounts easy, create an account on Hootsuite or Buffer. There are other products too that can do this for you.

The basic rule of getting started is "Post at least 10-15 times, when you are new. Get attention."

Twitter : 

• Weekends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) have seen most active participation. Stats say 17% higher engagement.
• Images are twice more engaging than just words. 
• Tweets with less than 100 characters, catch more attention.
• Tweets with links, catch attention.
• Use Hashtags. Keep it to maximum 3.
• #Too #many #hashtags #are #risky
• If you need or want to get retweets, mention that. 
• Writing RT gets RTs. Writing "Retweet" gets even more RTs. 
• Avoid tweeting during office hours. Use commute hours, general lunch hours or post dinner. 

Facebook : 

• Images in general get a lot of attention. 
• Use short posts to get your posts to be read. 
• Emoticons makes things personal.
• Ask questions to involve the audience. 
• Questions asked be like, effectiveness in decreasing order :
• Should
• Would
• Which
• Who
• When 
• What
• Where
• Why
• How
• In case of Facebook, Thursday and Friday see a good activity. 
• Contests and incentives based on contests get the users to interact. 

If you plan to learn more about using Social Media, a personal recommendation would be to follow the Hootsuite and Buffer blog.

Also Tumblr is a very good platform

Me? I am most social @DhatriMisra

Will this get me "Taken" in a job I apply for?

That's how a desperate fresher (here Liam Neeson) would ask for a job. 

I know who you are. I know what you want. 

If you're looking for an expert, I can tell you I'm not 
but what I have a very particular set of skills. 

Skills I have required over a very short career. 

Skills that make me a mentee for people like you.

If you let my CV be accepted now, that will not be the end.

I will not ask you again, I will not pursue you. 

But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and 
I will pitch myself again before you.

PS - Please don't kill me for the idiocy this post splashed on you. 

Being Curious

People are not exploiting the web enough and better. 

Those on web today, most of them if not all, need to understand that "Web is NOT just Facebook"

I have come across such ignorant bunch of engineering students, it makes me feel sad about their situation. Though I had been lucky enough to be associated with something, which provided me with a strong network and good exposure, but without curious attempts from my side, I would not have possibly done as much as I did (though it is minuscule, before where I see myself as).

You need no special talent (if you have it, that's an advantage) to be successful, 

Curiosity can do wonders for you too!

Why be Curious? 

• You find out so many things around you. 
• You are living in the age of internet, there is so much information to be consumed, how can you let it pass by without noticing it. 
• What you are being shown by the media is not all true, you need to explore very deep, very far to know the truth, or perhaps the other perspective. 
• When you know more, you can discuss more, and not sit like a mannequin when it comes to group discussions.
• YOU WON'T MAKE A FOOL OUT OF YOURSELF, WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH.
• Start being curious, you'll find more points to put in here :)

The unfortunate truth is that You Were Curious Once Upon A Time. That was the first and a very natural emotion you had as a baby. You were Curious about anything and everything, even things which could be dangerous, but that's how you realized they were dangerous. 

There is so much to learn, it would sound like an endorsement, but go make a Twitter account, follow some good handles there, consume information. 

Join Medium, read great stuff. Don't just watch songs, spoofs, trailers on YouTube, there are channels providing some very interesting videos. 

Yes, games like Flappy Bird, Candy Crush are very addictive, but try QuizUp once. 

Soon, you'll get the feeling of having more information to be consumed but lesser time. That, IMHO is a positive sign. But be careful, to be spending all that time in productive reading, listening or watching, else many have also been exploited by the web in curiosity of exploiting the web.

Feel free to reach out to me, I would love to share what I know from my little pool of experience. :) 

Not knowing is Not Bad, but Not Being Curious to Know What You Don't Know Is! 

The List!

I keep finding stuff on Internet everyday. Technical or Not. Some travel destinations, some historical summaries, something very creative crafts I would like to try someday and so many other awesome stuff.

Bookmarks have become so mundane for me,  keeping it in Twitter favorites or just as Facebook posts might stand as a possibility of them getting lost in so many favorites and posts, trying this way to make it more interesting. :)

Tech : 

• This itself is a list of resources. Treat for Designers!

• Front End Developers' Tools

Travel :

• Checklist : Experiencing India


• 100 Beautiful Places in India (Part 2 inside it)


• The photos in here are so alluring

Entrepreneurial : 

• You should be working right?

Career :

• According to Google

Random :

• This collection will Inform, Inspire & Entertain


• Happened and Happens


• Just Stop!


• A unique perspective on what it takes to succeed in life

• List of 300 awesome free things on internet

PS - Though this post will keep sending you to other pages, but keep checking this space for updates :) Happy Reading!