Karthik Blogs

2016 is now a thing of the past. We are now into First January 2017. Happy New Year to everyone. May the world prosper, Let peace prevail, Let there be prosperity and all round growth. Let us not be envious of each others growth but find meaningful happiness in serving others. Let us find ways and means of contributing towards the welfare of all the living beings on this planet. Having said that I wish to take upon a new challenge in an area that I love to drown myself into, The world of Writing. its called the 365 day challenge of continuous blogging. Its going to be tough and mean because each day is never going to be like the previous one, bound to be challenges, There will be days when I do not feel like writing at all, those are the days when I have to pick myself up to get into that creative flow. There is a lot to be done. Personally 2016 was a gratifying one for me. Life yet again presented me the opportunity to travel places in the North East. As a part of the Sri Sat...

On a daily basis I keep seeing a number of blogs online and have been impressed by a vast majority of them while a few leave that sour feeling . If you search on Google with the keywords " How To Blog" you will come across a huge number of links that will give you access to a plenty of literature on how you could blog and how you can actually make a fortune by blogging. My take on blogging is that it is a very simple art from with no rocket science behind it. It is so simple that even a novice can take to it without any training . However there are a few prerequisites for blogging. You would need a good command over the language that you are blogging in. Here I am not talking about rich vocabulary but simple sentences without any grammatical/spelling errors. No Flowery language is required, rather easy to understand and comprehend language will do. You would need lots of patience to get to the top. Blogging is not a reach the summit types with your first blog. It i...

I have been in the social media arena for more than 10 years now and have a fair bit of understanding as to how social media works and what it takes to gain more traction in Social Media. Having said that I was a compulsive Facebook person before I adopted myself to Twitter. As a beginner I never really understood what Twitter was all about and the concept of Hashtag. It took me a while to understand how it really works on Twitter. I must admit here that I was all at sea for quite some time.  TIP 1- 140 Character Limit   As a beginner, I would post just about anything sometimes exceeding 140 characters which is the prescribed limit on Twitter only to be rejected. If you have been good at Precis writing at school, you can understand what Twitter is about. Easiest Thing to do would be, write a tweet one that exceeds even 140 characters and then remove words that are not really required. Ensure that your English is correct and spelling mistakes avoided. TIP 2 - ...