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WHY JAVASCRIPT AS YOUR PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?
By: Debojit Basak
Tags: Javascript Development, Javascript Tips, JavaScript, Javascript Frameworks

If you are new to programming and wondering which language to learn then JavaScript is the language for you. If you go to Google and search the most popular programming language. You will find JavaScript at the top.

If you ask me, why JavaScript, then the answer is simple. It’s powerful, easy, and widely used.

You will find JavaScript in almost every big companies. Microsoft , Google, Facebook, Paypal, Netflix, Uber, Linkedin, Walmart and other companies you can name. it is so widely used that you can find it in almost every platform

JavaScript is simple to learn and very powerful. You don’t need to set up any environment to start. You just open your browser, go to console and just write console.log(“Hello world”); and there you go. You just wrote the first line of your JavaScript code.

If you are planning to become a web developer or app developer then you need to learn at least one framework like React, angular, Vue.js. These kinds of frameworks use JavaScript to develop web or mobile applications.

JavaScript is the future of web of mobile applications. If you want to become a developer then just go for it.
Fixing WhatsApp link for Linux desktop
By: Joana Borges Late
Tags: Javascript Tips, Html5, JavaScript, Javascript Development, Css3

How to make the WhatsApp link accessible for Linux desktop

Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash

In this article we will see how make the links for WhatsApp work for Linux desktop. Also we will see CSS code to animate the WhatsApp icon.

Disclaimer

This article was written in December/2020. It may be obsolete now.

According to WhatsApp

According to WhatsApp, the right link to WhatsApp in your web page has an href attribute like this:

You must replace XXXXXXXXXXX by the full phone number in international format. Omit any zeros, brackets, or dashes when adding the phone number in international format.

The Problem

This method is OK when the user is at smartphone or Windows desktop. And is broken when the user is at a Linux desktop. Clicking on the WhatsApp link (in case of Linux desktop) makes the browser ask your authorization to access some application. Many people would not allow it. Even when you allow it. Things don’t work (never worked for me).

And what people think? “WhatsApp is broken!”? No. They think your webpage is poorly done, maybe was hacked.

WhatsApp In Desktop

In case you don’t know, it is possible, convenient and VERY easy to access your WhatsApp at the browser in desktop.

I use this way to send and receive files easily.

The Solution

The solution is use one href attribute when the user’s device is smartphone and another one when it is desktop. This is also good for Windows desktop users because they jump the offer to install the WhatsApp application, which is not necessary.

# href model for smartphone

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=XXXXXXXXXXX&text=Hello # href model for desktop

https://web.whatsapp.com/send?phone=XXXXXXXXXXX&text=Hello

Of course, the web page needs a way to know if it is in a smartphone or a desktop. I use the function below but I suppose there is a better method somewhere.

function isMobileDevice() {

if (typeof window.orientation != "undefined") { return true }

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("IEMobile") != -1) { return true }

return false

}

Now we need a function that searches links to WhatsApp in the Html code and edit them according to the device. The classic way to do this is create a special class for these links. You set the phone number and the message in Html, so the JavaScript code is always the same, very portable.

function processWhatsAppLinks() {

var href = "https://"

href += isMobileDevice() ? "api" : "web"

href += ".whatsapp.com/send?"



var anchors = document.getElementsByClassName("whatsapp-link")

for (var a of anchors) { a.href = href + a.href }

}

And a simple link in Html would be like this:

<a class=”whatsapp-link” href=”phone=XXXXXXXXXXX&text=Hello”>WhatsApp</a>

I made a complete model, with embedded WhatsApp icon and animation.

You can test it here.

You can get the code in GitHub:
Migrating away from moment.js
By: Panayiotis Georgiou
Tags: Date, Javascript Tips, JavaScript

Moment.js was built for the previous era of the JavaScript ecosystem. The modern web looks much different these days. Moment’s usage is so widespread that it’s impossible to deprecate the current version over time. Check out this post on alternative options Migrating away from moment.js

And in alternative corner…

We started with recommendations from the moment deprecation guide and tossed in some fan favorites to make sure we made the best choice we could. Keep in mind that there was a time constraint, so we couldn’t examine every option. Here’s the list we compiled:

How to choose the correct one ?

It will always go down to project size 😉

moment — 327KB, but also needs moment-timezone (185KB)

— 327KB, but also needs moment-timezone (185KB) Total: 513KB 😮

date-fns — 37.3 KB, but also needs date-fns-timezone (2KB), and all locales (26 KB)

— 37.3 KB, but also needs date-fns-timezone (2KB), and all locales (26 KB) Total: ~64KB

Eliminated due to lack of pre-built bundle. We need a single source of truth for IWA, and did not want to have to maintain a build process.

day.js — 2KB, but also needs the utc and timezone plugins (4KB), and all locales (26 KB)

— 2KB, but also needs the utc and timezone plugins (4KB), and all locales (26 KB) Total: ~32KB

spacetime — Zero Dependencies comment in the readme.

— Zero Dependencies comment in the readme. Total: ~43KB

luxon — 71KB, Everything is included, and it relies on the INTL api for locales.

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15 Tips To Become A Better JavaScript Programmer
Tags: Learn Javascript, Javascript Tips, JavaScript, Web Developer, Web Development

By — HtmlCssMonk

JavaScript has quickly become an important language used in many aspects of website development. Whether you are involved in creating websites, or simply improving user experience on existing ones, JavaScript is the boon (and bane, sometimes) of your existence. It is a very sought-after skill in the technical and web development sector, and thousands of graduates or about-to-graduate students can be seen working hard on improving their JavaScript skills.

Although it may look very simple and straightforward to new programmers, it has several features and “gotchas” that may leave you scratching your head, wondering why your code doesn’t work.

Don’t worry! We are here to help you improve your JavaScript skills from scratch. This Article tells you how you can be one step ahead than your fellow web developers and polish your JavaScript better.

Tips to become Better in JavaScript

Many times it so happens that you are applying the logic with coding but forget that there is an already built-in function for that like slicing an array. Sometimes, you get an error while running the JavaScript code and due to it, many other functionalities are also not working. Just a small colon or inverted commas can cause this.

These things happen due to unclear basics.

A simple loop like for, which or do while is used many times in a single program. Loops are very basic things inside programming. If you are not clear with the looping and other basics, it is really very hard to code and even get a chance to get hired for a company.

It is very important to brush up your basics as they give you a strong base on top of which you can build the complex logic of a solution and strong reputation.

So, Learn and practice the basics !

Learn JavaScript Basics here.
How To Cancel An Async Promise with AbortController
By: Malik Elgabroun
Tags: Javascript Tips, JavaScript, Web Development, Programming, Fetch Api

How To Cancel An Async Promise with AbortController

Photo by Joshua Aragon

In this post, we will be looking into AbortController and how can we use it to cancel network requests.

We know that fetch is a method that sends a network request and returns a promise, but what if we wanted to cancel this ongoing request.
How I Generated 1 Million+ Views on Quora in 2020
By: Anuj Narang
Tags: Writing Tips, Content, Writing, Marketing, 2020

Just like every other soul on this planet, I’d always wanted to be a millionaire as well. Little did I know that I’d earn my first millionaire status on an online writing platform. That too during one of the worst recorded years in the history of this century (for now at least).

A lot of people did a lot of things in 2020. A few friends of mine got axed. Many of them learned new skills. Some got married to start their “new lives”. And a few got into depression.

When the pandemic started, I knew little of how the rest of the year would turn out to be. I’d never imagined that i would eventually be able to use the year to my advantage and generate a million content views on an online community I’ve been writing on since 5 years now.

And what good is a millionaire if he cannot help others become millionaires too? So here’s a list of 7 Things I did, and you can too, in order to achievea “millionaire status” on Quora.
Content Consumption, a Plague in the New World.
By: Diana Ufuah
Tags: Plague, Content, Writing, Lifestyle, Internet

The more intentional we become to the content we choose to consume, the more we would connect with the world around us. The internet isn’t the world we live in, it is only a fragment of it.

These days we are swimming in the lake of content. You open Instagram in the morning and you gradually start drowning in the overwhelming tides of people’s perspective.

Everybody has an opinion about something and everybody has learned the art of grabbing your attention with impeccable graphical illustrations.

Yesterday, I read that comparing myself to another person is dangerous, today I saw that it is an ingredient for growth. Excuse me, I am a little confused. What is the truth and what is the lie?

It is almost as if people no longer care about what they say but they are so captivated by the ideology of saying something and the desire to be heard.

Long ago, publishing your reasoning and thought took a lot of processes but now we are all publishers and we can write stories according to our views and values at any time.

It’s exhausting. Consuming content is exhausting because we are evolving to the stage where it is beyond choice. You don’t choose what you see on the internet, you just see it.

Even if you tailor your page to follow specific people, you would still be bombarded by ads and content shared by people in your community. Oh! I didn’t forget the explore page.

I used to think that creating content was hard work, but man! Consuming content is stressful. The fact that you are constantly being exposed to the world’s opinion makes it a little complicated to hear your own thoughts.

And yes! I feel like a hypocrite for typing this because this is content as well. I am most likely going to post this and maybe right now you are feeling overwhelmed reading it. So how can you and I consume content feeling less overwhelmed?

I sorta paused while typing this, expecting to hear your response. I will go right away and drop my opinion on the matter. I definitely would like to read yours.

1. Be intentional about the content you consume. This is pretty hard in our world but it is still possible. I think the key is to focus on what is relevant to you and spend your time there.

2. You don’t have to consume all the content on the internet, you can't don’t bother trying. You cant consume everything. You cant be active everywhere. Choose your castle and build your fort there. Simply put, pick a struggle.

3. Schedule time for the internet. The internet is your friend and it can also be your enemy. It all depends on whether you choose to be a master or a slave. Even if you work on the internet, there is something called closing hours. Find a time daily to be active online and create ample time to be completely inactive. You need time to consume the content generated by your mind.

The more intentional we become to the content we choose to consume, the more we would connect with the world around us. The internet isn’t the world we live in, it is only a fragment of it.
Thanks for being an active reader. That makes me feel like I’m producing worthy content.
Tags: Fans, Comment, Content, Readers, Popular

Thanks for being an active reader. That makes me feel like I’m producing worthy content.

😎👉🏽👉🏽
Don’t Make Your Content Boring.
By: Tochukwu Okoro E.
Tags: Content Creation, Growth, Content Writing, Creativity, Content

Why do we all feel connected with some people, and how’s it possible that we can feel like we’ve known someone our whole lives when we have never even met them? Why do you feel so connected to them that whenever you see them pop-up on the internet, you quickly jump on their content?

How come they’re so special?

The answer is pretty basic, they showed you a part of them through their art, and you got hooked — almost like you fell in love with them.

As content creators, this is the aim. To be remembered and have people who are actively ready to listen to us.

How can you get to this level?
The Secret Sauce to Scheduling a Week’s Worth of Social Media Content
Tags: Content Creation, Social Media Management, Content, Entrepreneurship, Social Media

The Secret Sauce to Scheduling a Week’s Worth of Social Media Content

Document, Don’t Create

Half the problem is usually trying to figure WHAT to post, right?? Well, here’s a quick way to ensure you never run out of content. Document don’t create!

What do we mean by that? Document your daily life as if everything is content. Your breakfast, your morning routine, your daily walk, everything. Use it as a window to your life for your friends, family, and tribe to see it.

As you get better at documenting every day, you’ll realize how much content you're collecting. The bonus? The content is true and authentic!

Systems and Processes

Create a system with processes that provide the results you want. Kaid and I want 33 pieces of content being posted every day for 3 different Instagram accounts, so we’ve created the system that supports that and the processes that help us make it happen.

Make sure your setup is something realistic and one that you can duplicate on a regular basis. If you want to be posting daily like us, then make sure it’s a process you can follow every single day.

Outsource What You Can

This was a huge learning point for me. You should NOT be the one doing everything. Find contractors, freelancers, etc. to help with pieces of the project or system. Outsource what takes you too much time, what you cannot do and don’t want to learn or don’t have time to master, as well as simple tasks that can be done by just about anybody.

Save the pieces that are unique to you or that only you could do, like coordinating all the different agents or adding your own unique touch to the content and captions. Outsourcing will give you the time you need to focus on bigger and more important content.

Carve Out Productivity Time

For the processes that you do have to do, make specific time for them, so it’s not overwhelming or hard to fit into your busy day. There is nothing worse than getting to the end of your day, knowing that you have a big piece of your day left to do.

Or maybe that’s your workflow! The point is, choose a time that works specifically for your needs and work style. If mornings are great for content work, then make sure you have your steps done before going to lunch!

We hope this was helpful for you in finding out how to create content on a large scale..

Wishing you all the best!

Olivia & Kaid, the OK in @okworldtravel
เพิ่มยอด Reach บน Organic Post ให้ปังด้วยการใช้ #Hashtags บน Facebook
By: Jinnapirat Asava-Vanit
Tags: Reach, Facebook, Content, Facebook Marketing

Learned in Economics and Politics, but passion in Digital Marketing.
7 Free Content Writing Tools
By: Rohit Nimbekar
Tags: Content, Content Writing, Content Marketing

Are you looking for Content Writing Tools to help you improve the quality of your articles and blogs?

Not just quality, these Content Writing Tools help Content Writers rank their blogs and articles easily in Google Search Result Page.

If you are a beginner Content Writer or even and intermediate or an experienced Content Writer you must take a look at this tools.

Hemingway App

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors. (www.hemingwayapp.com)

2. Grammarly

Grammarly is an affordable writing tool that belongs in your toolbox. It’ll help you fix errors in your writing fast and is easy to use.

With the help of Grammarly Check Your Emails, Documents, Essays, and More.

3. Headline Analyzer by Coschedule

The Headline Analyzer that will score your overall headline quality and rate its ability to result in social shares, increased traffic, and SEO value.

Write Headlines That Drive Traffic, Shares, And Search Results.

4. Quetext

Quetext is a web-based plagiarism detection tool and citation assistant for education, content creation, blogging and other professions.

5. Answer The Public

Answer The Public is a keyword tool that visualizes search questions and suggested autocomplete searches in an image called a search cloud.

6. Buzzsumo

Buzzsumo is powerful online tool that allows any user to find out what content is popular by topic or on any website.

7. Rank Math

Rank Math is the new best free SEO WordPress plugin for anyone that is building out their website.
CLLCTVE Creators Demonstrate Diverse Creative Workflows
By: Kaila Mathis
Tags: Gen Z, Workflow, Content, Creative, Creators

CLLCTVE is home to creatives with diverse talents across mediums and skillsets.

CLLCTVE is the premier talent marketplace connecting the nation’s top Gen Z creators with brands for paid work. Our beta platform currently houses 100 creators hand-selected from a waitlist of 2,000+ completing brand challenges, building diverse portfolios and gaining access to exclusive connections with industry leaders. This means we have a lot of really talented people consistently creating incredibly impressive content.

Our goal is to make that same content creation level accessible for Gen Z creators across the country — regardless of resources, connections or location. So we asked our top talent to showcase their creative workflows and give up-and-coming creators an idea of replicating it in their own content creation.

Here’s what we got back

Photography

Christina showed us how she completes her car shoots — part of which includes her shooting from a moving vehicle to capture the perfect action shot.

Axel moved home for the semester, but that didn’t stop him from completing shoots and catching his bag. Here, he demonstrates how he conducts Facetime photo shoots.

With just a camera, some flowers and a ladder, Saachi put together a professional-level portrait shoot right in her backyard. This is how she did it.

Graphic Design

Jewel showed us her design process when completing brand work, from her initial thought process to the final product.

Rachel highlighted the key aspects of finding beauty in the unexpected through a captivating illustration.

Catherine ironically captured her steps in unblocking her graphic design workflow in an illustration that most creators can relate to.

Mallory gave a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a sticker design using Adobe.

Writing

Tyler visualized her writing process for drafting a short script in a way that takes viewers through finding an idea, drafting it and editing it to produce a final deliverable.

Building the Future of Work

CLLCTVE imagines a future where every human — all creators by design — has access to the network, resources, and tools needed to create the life they want. By fostering a community built on mutual growth and knowledge sharing, we’re hoping to upskill Gen Z creators and democratize the future of work — making paid work opportunities accessible to all.
One step opens a wide road to Learnings!
Tags: Learning, Content, Success, Struggle, Change

I strongly believe that you are always a step away from your success but that single step pushes you to the verge of everything to assess how much risk you can indeed take, then its either All or nothing.

Image source: ResearchGate

Likewise, I had taken this one step to enroll to contentvidhya.com to polish my blunt skills of writing. No matter in what age bracket you fall, learning is ageless, what keeps you going is your strong Will to not to be complacent and open the wide window of learnings.

One-week workshop assisted me to have a bird’s eye view of the magnanimous horizon writing offers to the young buds to open their wings and soar high.

Everyday we were given knowledge and guidance about a new leaf on writing and how we can inculcate these numerous techniques to make our readers pleased and overwhelmed by the platter of contents served to them. A gift may be beautiful but the wrapping is quintessential.

Besides knowledge, it is of utmost importance to implement your learnings and cherry picks from the lesson by working on the assignments given. In the midst of job and family, you might struggle with time to complete the tasks but until knowledge gained is not applied, it is in vain.

The assignments gave me another opportunity to showcase my hidden writer and visualize my dream to be a content writer and being reviewed by the Mentor Uma Madhavi is a gateway towards further improvements in your work.

I strongly recommend all the young buds who wish to be a full-time or freelancer content writer to once sign-up for the workshop and learn the nitty gritties of writing before you set to sail in the ocean.
How to Hire a Blog Writer?
Tags: Content Writing, Content, Blog Writing, Blog, Content Marketing

Serious about promoting your blog and gaining traction from it? Then you know how important it is to create new, useful, and relevant content for your audience. Good blog content is catchy, interesting, revisited, and increases readership, followers, and customers.

Read more >> https://blog.narrato.io/how-to-hire-a-blog-writer/
THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE ART OF CONVERSATION!
Tags: Conversations, Content, Social Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Storytelling

A few days ago I realised that the art of conversation was under a massive threat, a target of a very different kind of worldwide conspiracy!

The HOW has been under attack for a while now, social media has destroyed its very foundations and ancestral principles, asking us to adapt or become outsiders.

The WHAT is next in line. After a year of only reading, hearing and speaking about the pandemic, isolated in our bubbles, with zoom or SM as the only alternatives for human interactions, one can ask if we will ever be able to talk about anything else?

Sure we can still elaborate on our online professional development or transferable skills, but surely one may want to aim at something a little bit higher, more inspiring, cultural, or spiritual maybe. Although to be honest, at this stage of the year, I would settle for small talk! A relevant one though!

Curiosity leads to creativity, which we should then direct to having meaningful conversations and interactions.

I will take it to the streets if it helps protect the fundamental reason behind the art of conversation that is we are and should remain social animals that converse.

I am determined. Are you?
Conversations
By: Euri Giles
Tags: Conversations, Creativity, Content, Writing, Short Story

Conversations

Image credit — Euri Giles

We're not good at having real conversations.



Asking important questions.



We are the problem, and we are the solution



The answers aren’t in the pages of a book, on a screen, etc… They are in the actions that we take

#Short-form
Welcome to the Medium profile of Tom Fenske
By: Tom Fenske
Tags: Navigation, Content, Life, About Me, Personality

I’m Tom, a full-time engineer and proud dad from Germany who just discovered online writing. It already has given me so much and I am very curious about where my writing journey will lead me.

Start here if you want to know more about me as a person and my Medium story:
Why I am moving to Substack
By: Shakti Shetty
Tags: Substack, Content, Writing, Platform, Goodbye

But, in the coming days, things are bound to change.

I am leaving Medium for Substack.

I moved to Medium from Blogger in the first month of 2017 and over the past four years now, I’ve gathered over 6,200 readers (‘followers’ is best left to Twitter) here, and I am very grateful to each one of them for tolerating me. Yes, Medium has been a fabulous platform for me. There have been so many highs and few lows for me. Oh, for the record, a post on my interview of Shah Rukh Khan is still my most read blog post of all time.

Insofar, no matter how lousy a writer you are, with time, if you keep writing, you will get better. That’s the single-most important lesson blank pages teach you. They create something out of you without you even realizing it. In that respect, the 2017 move was a brilliant decision.

In the same vein, I wish that my move to Substack proves well in the near future. Why? Because in the past, I consciously didn’t care about others. I always felt that I can’t allow my readers that sort of control over me. If they like my work, well and good. If they don’t, not a big deal. In all sincerity, I actually followed the I-write-for-myself tripe.

At Substack, I wish to tweak this perception a bit. Given the subscription nature prevalent there, as readers can pay to read, I will have to be more involved. Can’t stick with my long-held privilege of distance.

Yes, the core of my writing won’t change: continue to expect random blog posts filled with random observations about random topics. But if people bother to subscribe by paying a definite monthly/annual amount, then I’ll be obliged to deliver. And I truly want to test myself there. It’s time to see how I perform with the sword of expectation dangling over my typing fingers. It’s one thing to churn out 3-5 free blog posts per week on Medium and quite another to do the same on a paid-for platform.

Besides, I’ve been on social media long enough to acknowledge the fact that castles made of words don’t last in the wind. All these years, I’ve garnered more than enough adulation from my readers belonging to varied geographies and time zones. The tragic beauty of free content. But until and unless, I put my content in the market, I won’t know where I stand. After all, my ultimate goal is to write for a living — I do write for a living in the startup world — without a boss. My voice might sound young but I am less than 6 months away from turning 35; better late than never. And Substack is going to be my first move towards that long-term destination of independent writing gainfully.

Let’s see what happens.

PS. I’d request you to subscribe here so that you don’t miss out on the free blog posts.

PPS. I’ll put up the paywall when the time is right.

PPPS. The time is always right.

PPPPS. See you all on the other side.
How People Use Social Media Platforms Differently
By: Rick Govic
Tags: Snapchat, Content, Instagram, YouTube, Social Media

How People Use Social Media Platforms Differently

Source: Unsplash Kal Visuals

Social media platforms continue to change rapidly as they evolve to include new formats, driven by how people consume content.

Ten years ago, most businesses did not think they needed to create a Social media profile. Skip to today, and one of the first things businesses want to know is what social channels they should be using.
How to gain TikTok followers and go viral
By: Kate Irwin
Tags: Tiktok App, Content, Technology, Social Media Marketing, Social Media

How I gained 20K+ TikTok followers in 2 weeks

Photo by Franck on Unsplash

TikTok is a place for incredible viral growth for both brands and influencers. But it’s sporadic, and won’t happen for everyone. Success on TikTok depends on numerous factors and the algorithm is always changing.

I started on TikTok in June of 2020. I named my account after my favorite Pokemon because it was available. Vulpix. I was trying to grow a platform on Twitch, and someone messaged me with the idea:

On TikTok, it’s way easier to get discovered. The app WANTS people to find you. I have a friend with 2,000 followers that she got in just a few months.

Wow, I thought. 2,000 in two months? I was impressed.

Little did I know that on my account, there would be an extra zero.

I never planned to go viral.

But that’s how TikTok works. You keep making content, and one day, the video you least expect to go viral just will. It’ll feel like a fluke. It will make you laugh and surprise you.

When I was first starting out on TikTok, my now-ex boyfriend, who is, technically, an Instagram influencer himself, recommended I check out a friend of his, Quigley, who was offering courses on social media growth. She’s a lifestyle influencer who had recently blown up on TikTok (138K followers) and was offering a free group Zoom call on how to be successful on the app.

Her biggest piece of advice? Delete your account if you haven’t blown up within your first five posts or if you have less than 5,000 followers and start over. TikTok wants to categorize you as a “ghost” account, a “small” account, a “medium” account, or a “viral” account. Once you get assigned after your first few posts, it’s quite difficult to get out of that rut.

This news shocked me. I had already gained 2,000 followers organically on my own. One of my TikToks had 14K views.

How could I just delete my account, lose all those people and views and start from scratch?

The truth was, I just couldn’t. But I think Quigley’s advice is smart, for most people. If you don’t have a sentimental attachment to your account name or your current content and views, it’s probably a good idea. If you’re trying to grow a business account, it’s probably a good idea to delete and start fresh if you don’t get traction right away.

But I couldn’t bring myself to delete my account.

I couldn’t kill my vulpix.

So I pushed on. Here are the things I’ve learned, navigating the Wild West of TikTok on my own…
This Painting Violates the Museum’s Terms of Service
By: Will Edge
Tags: Fiction, Humor, Content, Satire, Art

The aspiring young artist approached the teller with a stack of paintings.

“Could you put these up in your collection?” he asked.

“Follow me,” intoned the teller. They passed through a labyrinth of endless landscapes, portraits, and abstractions from the sophomoric to the cynical. Parishioners stalked the halls, photographing one frame and spitting on another. The artist clutched his work close to his chest.

“Here’s a nice spot,” said his guide. He ripped an enormous portrait of a king holding up a caravan of pilgrims for change off the wall. It went spiraling to the floor like an Autumn leaf.

The young artist asked him, “What’ll you do with that?” In response, the man nodded at an attendant, who hauled it through an inconspicuous little door. The artist’s paintings dropped with his jaw as the attendant dumped the picture onto a waiting bonfire. “You’re destroying art!” shouted the young man.

“This painting has violated the museum’s terms of service.”

“That was old, unique! It had value!” cried the artist. The guide shrugged.

“I don’t make the rules.”

“The painter is dead though!”

“Well, he should have known better than to depict something against our terms of service.”

“He was lampooning an abuse of power! That’s against your terms of service?”

“All depictions of theft are unacceptable.”

“How can you call out bad behavior if you’re not allowed to discuss it?” asked the artist. As he was gathering up his oeuvre the guide picked up a single frame.

“This is the same painting we just burned!” he seethed and looked into the young man’s eyes. “Re-posting eh? It’s the ban hammer for you.”

“Wait! I can explain!” he shouted as he took off down the hall. The guide wrestled with his satchel and looked for the sainted mallet.

“You don’t want to know what happens when I fish this thing out.”
One by One.
By: Sonia Protasio
Tags: Happy, College, Content, Fall, Adolescence

October 25, 2019

not my picture. ( but will post my own pics soon :) )

Here I am, sitting on a bench 20 minutes before my first class of the day.

I look around at the beautiful warm colors of the leaves that surround me. The crisp fall air, just gives me such relief. I feel amazing. Then a thought pops into my head “I can’t jinx myself.”

Sometimes I think that it’s a good thing that I’m realistic about things, but sometimes I wish I can just accept that I am allowed to be happy and content about everything around me and that maybe, it’ll last a little longer this time. I know what you’re thinking, yes this sounds sad, but again, I’m just realistic about everything.

But in this moment, I am genuinely happy. I love waking up, looking at the window and seeing the colors that fill the trees. I love stepping outside and feeling the crisp air and hearing the rustling of the leaves as they fall. One by one. I love the texts that I get from my old and new friends that immediately bring a smile to my face. I love sitting on this bench and seeing faces that I will probably never see again on this large campus that feels so small now 9 weeks into my first semester. I love the feeling of “I’m here, I made it.”

As I look around campus, I realize there’s really not much to complain about right now. I am happy and in a good mental state. And once I have that, everything else comes falling into place.

One by one.
Importance of Book reading
Tags: Hobby, Content, Books, Improvement, Reading

What to talk, when you have to talk with yourself. Having a standard of talking to yourself and that’s the standard we get from books because the book is an excellent companion.

Books improve our vocabulary, our communication skills improve. Reading enhances our language skills and develops fluency, allowing us to express our thoughts and ideas better. The book is the ocean of knowledge. Books have the power to inspire and motivate us with stories of people who have made something for themselves. Although books reading improves our brain connectivity, reduce stress, and also empowers you to empathize with other people.

Although the book also makes our lives or spoil. It takes a long time to study the personality of someone so we believe reading a book makes the character shine. The book is a sea that sinks in a manner, never dies but swim. A human being is the best creativity of Allah and that knowledge is just found from the book. Last but not the least, the book is the best friend who never cheat
Exploration: Learning Equality's responsive approach to content in 2020
By: Learning Equality
Tags: Education, Learning, Content, Technology, Covid 19

Shivi Chandra leads curriculum strategy at Learning Equality. As she reflects on the year, she shares how the need to connect and explore shaped Learning Equality’s learning resources in 2020.

Learner reading a storybook in Fulfulde (photo credits: SIL Cameroon)

Digital learning has always been about exploration past what any single source can tell us, and this year intensified that need to explore, past harsh limitations. We fought to keep our users connected to the sources of the vital information that people around the world relied on while we went through the pandemic, and spent the year adding options for those who were:

A screenshot of the 'Tackling Violence' film series in Kolibri

Exploring further: We brought in our first full sources originally created in French, Hindi, Marathi, and Portuguese.

Instituto Paramitas (Brazil) public materials as seen in the Kolibri Content Library

Exploring what’s happening: We brought in materials featuring updated information about the COVID crisis from the World Health Organization, CDC, UNICEF, and others compiled in our first LE-recommended selection of materials in a single easy-to-use channel.

We brought in materials featuring updated information about the COVID crisis from the World Health Organization, CDC, UNICEF, and others compiled in our first LE-recommended selection of materials in a single easy-to-use channel. En explorant: Through a collaboration with EdTech Hub, the #FindFrench project received recommendations from our community about open educational resources in French, and we selected four to integrate into our library right away.

Explore more and join our community!

There are many ways in which you too can help make quality educational materials and digital tools accessible by everyone:
Content Developer Resources
By: Preksha Pranavi
Tags: Contents Resources, Seo Resources, Content, Content Strategy

Looking to learn more about Content Development as a Career? Here is a list of useful resources you may refer to :

Websites/Blogs

moz.com : A leading website for SEO. Refer to learn all about Search Engine Optimisation.

copyblogger.com : This website is one of the oldest resources on everything related to digital copywriting.

SocialMediaToday.com : A great source for being updated with emerging social media content trends.

Books

Content Rules — Written by Ann Handley and C. C. Chapman, this book guides to create engaging web content and build a loyal following.

Content Strategy for the Web — Written by Kristina Halvorson and Melissa Rach, it is the go-to content strategy handbook about creating and managing web content.

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People — Written by Susan Weinschenk, this book is an excellent resource on content’s role in the overall customer experience. With this book you’ll learn to design more intuitive and engaging websites that match the way people think, decide and behave.

Twitter

Gary Vaynerchuk ( @GaryVee ) — Video contents have rapidly gained momentum in social media content, and Gary has established himself as a thought leader in this area.

Content Marketing Institute ( @CMIContent ) — This organisation is an industry thought leader in developing and using content to drive business goals.

Darren Rowse ( @Problogger ) — Founder of Problogger.net Darren has been an ideal in establishing blog content as a genuine marketing tool.
Very nicely put your contents!
By: Dr. Preeti Singh
Tags: Contents

Doctorate in Finance, Professor, Author, Interested in education, nature, environment, culture, yoga! Top writer in poetry. preetisingh15@gmail.com
CONGRATULATIONS RYAN!!. And congratulations to all you other…
By: Tyler Zimmerman
Tags: Ｍedium, Creators, YouTube, Content

The reason I celebrate this and all the other creators is they have taken it upon themselves to create the life that they want. Not only their life, they have had the courage to share it with all of us. I can’t say how many times I have fixed something or received directions for something that I wasn’t familiar with by a stranger on YouTube. I have consumed countless articles and stories from places like Medium. I have browsed 1000’s of pictures from the likes of Instagram. For every creator out there that is doing it their own way, BRAVO to you. I celebrate you and am grateful to you for showing all of us the way.

I don’t have to blaze the trail, someone has done it for me. I want to learn from the people that are creating the content that I enjoy. I have the ability as we all do, to do whatever it is that I want to. Now is the time to create and share. If you are reading this on your phone, tablet, or computer then you have a way to share with the rest of us. We must all be supportive of the people that are creating the things that we love. The dreams I have depend upon people like Ryan and others to show us what is possible. Just the same as when I was a kid and looked up to the likes of Michael Jordan, and Ken Griffey Jr. These creators are no different. Their work ethic and attention to detail is no different then those that perfom at the highest levels. The only difference is we get to see how they do it.

I do not speak of the wealth and the fame that has been created by those top 1%, I speak to the joy that they get out of creation. Even more the joy that they bring us and our kids. Fully produced television has gotten boring, newspapers are dead. I love seeing the progression of someone as they begin there channel, their writing and watching it grow and develop.

Matt D'Avella is another gentleman that has been so fun to watch. The progression of his videos and the story he tells has been an absolute inspiration. To see his videos and understand how much production value he puts behind them is incredible. He has taken his own life and created exactly what it is today. We get to see years of work, and we can start from the beginning. He has shared that entire journey with us and to him I say, “Thank you Matt.”
Find Me on Medium
By: Rui Alves
Tags: Blogging, Content, Writing, Links, Content Marketing

Teacher, Life Coach, Ex-Army | World citizen, PT / HQ | Writing to find the surrogate writer in me!
JUMP IN THE DEEP END…….
By: Tyler Zimmerman
Tags: Writer, Videos, Content, Start

Here is where I am struggling. Video is my next venture, I haven’t ironed out the details yet, but that is where I want to go next. I made a video one day when I was doing my podcast. I did 23 episodes of audio and the 23rd one I also made it a video and it wasn’t good. That was ok, I think I needed to have something better to talk. Now I am in a situation where I am so nervous to put out content in a video format because it will be bad and that is the point. I need to jump, you jump in the pool and you swim or drown trying. Nobody ever gives you a hard time because you failed, you will do that to yourself. Now if you don’t try. That is what will eat you up, it eats me up. Get over the how I look, or what the set might look like. I don’t need a set. I keep thinking I do. The main thing is doing it. This is my 40th story or something like that and they are still rough, so just thinking about that it makes me say that I need to do 100–200 vidoes before they might even be good. You know what happens when you begin one thing, is that it slowly finds it way in to being what it was supposed to be in the first place. The “Joe Rogan Podcast” started as Joe and Brian smoking weed and answering ridiculous questions online, to what it is today. It slowly became what it is today out of the progress of evolution. All of the podcasts I listen to have come from someones living room to full fledge studios because they stuck with it and started. I have to start, and have to accept the fact that I cannot swim, yet.

When I am done here I will begin to revamp my webpage. I was going to go to bed early tonight but I will stay up a little longer just so I can get the baseline set for how I want my new page to look and the feel in which I want it to provide. Then tomorrow I will begin my evolution into the multi dimensioanl content creator that I want to be. As Eric Thomas says, “When you want it as bad as you want to breathe.” I have never once laughed at that quote because it is more true than you can believe.

This article is for those that think they want to do but for some reason think they can’t. Remember this, everyone who is doing something that you would like to do yourself came from nothing. They did not know what they were doing when they begin. Remember it takes at least 5 years to become an overnight success.
Weekly digest: December 19, 2020
By: David Andrew Wiebe
Tags: Updates, Music Business, News, Music Industry, Content

Weekly digest: December 19, 2020

What did I get around to this week? Far more than I would have expected, considering I had a bit of a headache mid-week.

It’s time to get caught up with another week of living and dreaming. Here’s my weekly digest for December 19, 2020.
Content Clutter!
By: Mili Radia
Tags: Information Overload, Content Overload, Social Media, Content

Motivation, food, DIYs, psychology and whatnot. There’s so much online. Readily available! How helpful is all this? Is it really making you learn or are you just lost reading and finding content.

Our ancestors rightly said we should only eat according to our capacity. Earlier, humans used to eat limited food, the amount that can be easily consumed & processed. So what does eating mean here? It means consuming content.

We have so much content readily available to us. It is good that now knowledge is readily accessible & easily consumable in any part of this world. But are we really benefitting from it?

Let’s think long run. We gather knowledge, access information, become smart, and use the term “learning” as slang! But, it’s observed that. 60% of the content we consume is never processed further and put to action.

Social media, the internet, e-books, etc are providing us handy knowledge but the quantum is something that we should be worried about.

Science says when you learn a particular concept, you ought to revise it. When you learn something new, your brains create a thread that makes it easy for you to process. However, you tend to break the thread if that content is not revised or re-read. When you practice & revise a particular thing/concept, your thread becomes stronger and you tend to apply that knowledge consciously. How amazing is this, isn’t it?

But how would you do that, if you come across new content daily and hardly get time to implement any of it? It doesn’t make any sense.

So, should we stop consuming content? Absolutely NO. Every element in this world has its own advantages & disadvantages and is essential.

Content has made life easy by handy information and making us more aware, mature & skilled. We can happily consume content by our conscious efforts. We can control our impulsiveness towards using social media and create a pattern/habit by deciding the quantum of our consumption. Useful stuff that we read, should be revised. We can put a bar at the time we spend on consuming content. For eg: restrict yourself to a certain number of blogs per day. Be aware of the time you spend on social media and slowly try to reduce it consciously. To add on, this is one of the best exercises, before sleeping, write down three things you learned today that were helpful and you would want to go back to reading more of it. What we learn, we ought to revise and put to implementation. That’s when we will be experiencing and learning a reality.

Do you agree? Open to thoughts.
Diversity Is King!
By: Heba Abusedou
Tags: Data, Content, Writing, Presentations, Design

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to presentations; therefore, it’s only natural to diversify how you deliver presentations to your audience.

Diversifying presentation content is not a new concept. While there is no right or wrong here, experimenting with different kinds of information delivery methods can spice things up.

Presentations are contextual. Pick the right content that goes your topic, audience and role. Spend sometime on visualizing your content whenever possible. Whether it’s through text, images, videos, infographics or even data visuals, it’s becoming more of an expectation nowadays to visualize your content rather than simply using bullet points. Always use high-quality images and well-explained and labeled data visuals (read more about data visuals). Keep it short and concise. Brevity is key to getting your point across.

Finally, this is something that we’ve learned over the years and we can’t get enough of. Nothing generates more discussion and interest than asking the right questions during your presentation. It makes your audience more receptive to the content as they feel they’re part of it. Work smarter by bringing more discussion before, during and after the presentation.

Always remember, don’t prepare content as though you, yourself, were the audience. Put yourself in their shoes every once in a while and create content that is role-based and audience oriented. Focus on what matters to them, not what matters to you. Don’t overdo it and know when to stop adding more.

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