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Tired of Google Adsense? Try WordPress WordAds

November 29, 2011 by Elias Shams 1 Comment

If you have publicly visible blog with a custom domain name on wordpress.com, you can now make money from online advertising on your blog. The service powered by Federated Media called WordAds and you can apply for it here.

Before you get too excited, not every wordpress.com blog will be eligible for the program. The selection will be based on your traffic, your user engagement, the nature of your content, and the language.

Although, I think this is a great move by WordPress, but most of their big blogs are already part of other niche Ad networks. How do they plan to get them, it will be exciting to see their execution. That said, I would say only small mom & pop blogs will apply for now including us. Read more of this post

Filed under Online Media, Web Tagged with Blog, Federated Media, Google Adsense, online advertising, wordads, WordAds AdSense, Wordpress WordAds, wordpress.com

Awesomize your blog via your awesomize.me user profile page

February 8, 2011 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

Those of you already have user profile page on awesomize.me, you may now embed your awesomize.me profile page to your blog or your web site. Those of you not a member of awesomize.me yet, I urge you to check it out here and see the reason.

You can find the embedded code in the left hand side of your awesomize.me user profile page. Read more of this post

Filed under social media Tagged with awesome, Awesomize, awesomize.me, basically becky, Becky Kopprasch, Blog, bloggers, Blogging, boosting your blog, how to boost my blog, rating, social media, voting, Web

Happy 1st Birthday Awesome DC!

December 5, 2010 by Elias Shams 2 Comments

I am very excited to remind you all that it was exactly a year ago today I launched Awesome DC. Unfortunately, I am currently not in DC to throw a big party, but I intend to do so upon my return from the EU on December 13^th

Why did I launch Awesome DC?

Simple! as I made it clear in about us section of the site, to position our Nation’s capital as the technology hub as well as city of parties, hot events, and clubbing. In a nut shell to show the world Washington, DC is much more than just politics, corruption, and scandals. Have I achieved that? not quite yet With your continuous support, I strongly believe it will get there within the next 5 to 10 years We have been covering everything happening in DC, but politic and religion
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Ways to kick Ass during the Job Interview

August 27, 2010 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

NO! not like the photo I picked for the article. The photo is just to get your attention to read this. Now that I have your attention….

So you are one of those lucky ones who landed a job interview and desperate to secure the job.

By decreasing the jitters before your interview, you can increase your confidence curing the interview. Getting nervous just before or during an interview is natural, but there are specific actions you can take to decrease, if not eliminate it. Here is a checklist of important actions you can accomplish before any interview you walk into. Read more of this post

Filed under Jobs Tagged with acing job interviews, Blog, companies’ Blog, companies’ social media channels, employee blog, facebook page, Google Yourself, job interview, key search, landing a job, LinkedIn Page, social media, Twitter account, Vizibility

Marketing Your Business with Zero Budget

August 16, 2010 by Elias Shams 8 Comments

Having launched and operated a few start-ups since 1999 and now Awesome DC, here are a few tips I’d like to share with you on how to promote your business with ZERO budget. Read more of this post

Filed under Business & Finance, social media, Web Tagged with Ad-Funded Payment Options, Angie’s List, Blog, Blogging, business, dailymotion, Donate Button, facebook, Foursquare, FREE listing, Genius Rocket, GeniusRocket, google, Google Local Business Center, how to start a business, LinkedIn, liveleak, MerchantCircle, metacafe, minimum budget, no budget, online video sites, Q&A writing technical, repeatable marketing, SearchLocal, Share expertise, social media channels, social media strategy, SuperPages, twitter, using Web, Vlogging, Yahoo! Local, YellowPages.com, Yelp, YouTube, ZERO budget

Who Blogs the Most?

June 8, 2010 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

According to a report from the business intelligence for social media research company Sysomos, people within the age of 21 to 35 blog the most.

Other notable stats include: Read more of this post

Filed under social media, Web Tagged with Blog, bloggers, Blogging, business intelligence for social media, middle age, old, report, research company, social media, statistics, Sysomos, twitter, who blogs most, young

Google Buzz And Blogging For Non-Profit Organizations

March 23, 2010 by Elias Shams 2 Comments

by Elias Shams
One out of five people I know in DC works for a non-profit in town. There are at least one or two of such organization at every block in DC. So, no wonder. Although, the non-profit organizations have been pretty savvy in using social media, I have been hearing mix messages about the way they have been using them compare to the profitable companies though. They do realize the importance of the social media for their survival in such tough economical condition, but not many of them have been using it effectively. In particular, their blogging method and their lack of familiarity with the social bookmarking tool Google released last month, Google Buzz.

It looks like they are all in pretty good hand using Twitter and Facebook. So, here are a few important tips I put together with the focus on Google Buzz and blogging. read more…

Filed under social media Tagged with @reply, Ask for Feedback, awesome dc, awesomedc, better public dialogue, Blog, Blog’s Voice, Blogging, Connect, crowdsourcing GMAIL, DC, facebook, feedback, Geo-Location, google, Google Buzz, hashtag, Non-Profits Organization, Public dialogue, social bookmarking, social media, social media for Non-Profits Organization, twitter, washington

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