ITList Information Technology Blog » Distractions http://itlist.com Current IT field related information Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:45:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Why Should you Choose Online Career Counseling? http://itlist.com/why-should-you-choose-online-career-counseling/ http://itlist.com/why-should-you-choose-online-career-counseling/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:02:44 +0000 bikram http://itlist.com/why-should-you-choose-online-career-counseling/ Career counseling itself is a specialized profession seeking special skills, efforts. But with passing days and busy schedules people do not get much time to visit a career counselor and get counseling done. But, since Internet has entered human lives with a buzz, people look forward to Internet for all problem solutions. Students seek personal career counseling where they can open up, share their concerns and queries and get helped by genuine guidance. Students are benefited by this for many reasons. Here are some of them.

Anonymity

Best part of online counseling is that you need not unearth your identity, you can remain anonymous and keep your identity hidden. You need not convey your true identity, you may choose not to share personal details. You may take help of career counselor with different identities every time. You may find out different guidances, different views when you approach the counselor with different identities. Anonymousness may help you to get genuine help from the counselor.

You can choose anyone, anywhere

If you choose a career counselor for guidance, you may end up with limited numbers of choices in your city, locality or country at the best. As a result, you may deprive yourself from the guidance of best counselor. But when you are opting for online career counselors, you have lots of options open. You may choose a counselor from anywhere in this world. You need not worry about geographical boundaries. You will have access to best quality counselor from all across the world.

You may choose multiple ways

f you are opting for online counseling you may have multiple options. You may interact with the online counselor via voice chat, talking on the microphone and even choosing webcam for viewing. On the other hand if you wish not to talk, you may simply choose text chat. So you have multiple options before you.

Less distractions, shoot listed questions

Online counseling is equipped with less distracting elements. There are no physical distracting elements around to confuse the student. In online counseling the student can remain focused and shoot all questions to the counselor while referring to the questions already listed beforehand.

Online counseling is picking up fast. Make the best use of it.

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Why You Should Hire A Professional Web Content Writer? http://itlist.com/why-you-should-hire-a-professional-web-content-writer/ http://itlist.com/why-you-should-hire-a-professional-web-content-writer/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:11:08 +0000 bikram http://itlist.com/?p=3057 Web content writing is not just another commercial writing. It is something unique, requires specialized skills, knowledge and understanding of the media. Never rope in any casual writer for your web content, as you can’t afford to mess up your website; it is your identity before the entire world. Here are some reasons, why you should hire a professional web content writer.

Understanding of Internet, Websites

Most importantly, why you should rope in a professional web content writer is because of his or her understanding of the Internet medium, websites and what people look forward to from a website. Internet works very differently from other forms of media. Attention span on Internet is limited, cluttered by too many websites around and plenty of distractions. Websites need not only stand out from designing point of view, but also from content’s context. Flawless grammar, crispy writing style, excellent vocabulary, and power packed message should be integral part of your web content. A professional web content writer also knows how a reader reads on Internet, how long one can read and at what point one needs to break the ice. A web content writer knows how websites vary in style and what makes a good site stand out from the rest.

Beyond just writing

A good web content writer can be of immense help, besides just writing. A good web content writer knows tricks of web writing, how many words should be there in a paragraph, how long people can read at a stretch on a page, what kind of messages or web content work well with the target audience, how eyes move through a website, where images need to be placed in a web page, which topic needs how much write up etc. A professional web content writer comes with years of experience in working with other websites or seeing many other good websites. He may also help you in conceptualizing some new ideas for your website.

Flawless work

When you choose a random writer and do not look for a specialized web content writer, there are always chances of errors, confusion and lot of tension. Why would you settle for an average work or hire another proof reader to keep a check on your website, just for the sake of saving few bucks? Instead hire a professional writer who can deliver flawless work, has good writing style, has good command on language and grammar and can deliver good work seeking no further supervision.

Prompt delivery of work

Prompt delivery of work is very essential to every project. There are times, when a project requires very prompt delivery and only a skilled professional web content writer can work good even under time constraints since he has years of experience and need not do much effort for the same.

So don’t make the mistake of hiring an average random writer. Go for a specialized web content writer only.

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5 More Ways to Improve Your Writing Part-II http://itlist.com/5-more-ways-to-improve-your-writing-part-ii/ http://itlist.com/5-more-ways-to-improve-your-writing-part-ii/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:28:38 +0000 bikram http://itlist.com/5-more-ways-to-improve-your-writing-part-ii/ This is the third article in the series that shares tips on writing. I believe there are small, mini steps that you can take every day to make a big change in your writing.

A word a day

Words and sentences are the pillars on which the structures of even gigantic epics are erected. From poems to stories, from drama to prose, from essays to articles, from fictions to non-fictions; everything is constructed from words. I hope I do not need to write more about the importance of words. The more you will learn the better will be your expression. Which word have you learned today?

Practice, practice, and practice

I know it sounds like some NBA or baseball coach shouting at you, but believe me nothing required more practice than writing. Leave writing for a month or two and you will see the significant drop in not only the quality of your work, but also in the way you use words and form sentences. Therefore, it is required of you to practice this craft daily, and keep your pen running and fingers moving on the keyboard.

Brush your Grammar

You must be wondering, why I am donning so many roles today; first I shouted like a sports coach, now I am advising you to read grammar with a stern face known to a school teacher. Let me put it other way. We need to practice grammar to keep ourselves aware of the rules, and grammar rules are nothing just a condensation of best writing practices that has been made standard. A common grammar rule book helps all of us remain on the same plane.

Remove distractions

Writing is not a social activity. It is a lonely journey through the highs of mountains and lows of valleys. This is the journey you have to take alone, and as soon as you get a company your journey is terminated then and there. Remove everything from the place that you are going to use to write. Remove all distractions.

Try different forms of writing

If you write just blog post then try writing press releases or sales letter and vice versa. If you are a fiction writer then write nonfiction. If you write poems, write stories. Change your genre and try your limit.

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Can You Work From Home? http://itlist.com/can-you-work-from-home/ http://itlist.com/can-you-work-from-home/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:43:52 +0000 SamElli http://itlist.com/?p=1690 Thinking about pursuing a work at home opportunity?  Don’t really know where to start?  Well before you think about where you could go on the internet or otherwise to find jobs, consider if you’re even the work at home type.  Working from home you’re really your own boss, and so you have to  be able to manage your time as such.   Which means the first thing to consider is whether or not you’re a procrastinator.

If you find yourself waiting till the last minute to accomplish tasks, working from home may not be for you.  You need to effectively manage your time.  The last thing you’d want is to be up against a deadline that looms ever closer, that you shouldn’t have to worry about.   If you don’t think you’ll be able to manage your time without a boss checking in every once in a while, this may not be the career for you.

Make sure that you have the space in your home to create an adequate working environment.  You don’t want to be converting an area like your living room, or bedroom.  Both are full of distractions and can lead you to unintentionally losing focus when working.  You  have to ensure that you have the room to make your own office.  A place where you can be free from non-work related distractions.  A sanctuary of at home production to where you can always accomplish your goals.

Also, you need to be a very self motivated person.  You have to make a lot of decisions for yourself when you work at home.  You only have yourself to fall back on, which means you have to keep yourself positive and goal focused.  Part of that is avoiding the temptation to get personal tasks done when you’re supposed to be working.  Try to avoid household chores or things you wanted to get done while you’re working.  This will lead to longer term distractions which can lead to major procrastination on your part.  That is absolutely always bad.

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