Since I started my company in digital marketing I keep getting some queries, clients etc.. through my online network. One of the most surprising calls I got was from a tweep, who wanted to help me with the work. In passing he mentioned that he was visually impaired.
"What??" I am sorry, I thought I misheard, did he say visually impaired?
The obvious question in my mind was How can he possibly do any online marketing when he cannot see!!
Since I have chatted, emailed him, and he has some interesting tips for social media marketing too!
I thought all you guys would be interested in knowing about him and how he uses the internet... also Why he does that. Here is a small video and his interview about how he got into internet marketing.
"I started surfing the internet during 2004 that’s when I got my first desktop computer. I am a game geek so I use to play a lot of games with my low vision. It was during 2005 my sister showed me how to use google and then I found that windows xp has got an in built magnifier which opened a new world together. Since then I stopped playing games and started off learning a lot of tech stuff, reading and networking with people using mails. But I got my limitations, in spite of using
the windows xp magnifier I need to give rest to my eyes after 1-2 hrs of continuous work on the computer.
You might be wondering how can I play games when I cannot see any thing on computer with out magnifier, the kind of disease which I got degenerates my vision slowly day by day and during that time I had some good vision which helped me to play games.
Online marketing is a life changing agent and how I entered into this field was due to my interest, hunger to learn and enthusiasm. It was during September 2006 I stepped into online marketing, I went to a friends house and there I saw him making a website with Microsoft front page and when I asked him he told that from these websites we can earn money. It was interesting but my friend told no when I asked him to teach this to me. He said you cannot see properly how can you design websites, don’t strain your eyes…drop the idea. I was stubborn and did not give up the idea of learning web designing. I still remember that every day after coming from college I use to sit before computer for hours together and trying to read lots of tutorials on web design trying and testing new free software’s to crack and make a website. I was not successful but gained a lot of knowledge on web design and learned a lot about the web world as I surfed thousands of pages, read hundreds of newsletters and tested lots of software’s. I don’t like my vision limiting something in life and I always tried to keep up my spirits by cheering my self. When I met the same friend next time I asked him are you earning money, he said I need to get “SEO” done for the website…..when I asked him to teach me SEO the reply was same like before...
I came home and used Google to find out more about SEO and found that it is search engine optimization and I understood what exactly it is. During my campus placements I haven’t got selected. I walk out of the
interview halls because the kind of questions which they asked look silly and use to pull my spirits.
It was then that online marketing took birth as a profession in my life. I thought to my self I can do some
thing with what I had learned through Google. Then I started a blog and got content on it. Did lots of SEO to it and finally sold it for some where around 200$. Then I really thought I can adopt this as profession then I dived into it totally and started doing lots of research.
During this time I met couple of other’s through referrals and started taking clients and offered the
services of internet marketing. We did pretty well and I regularly updated my knowledge in the field of online marketing when my friends use to take care of work under my instructions.
I continued it for a long time of 3yrs until I thought to join some company and learn some corporate stuff. I ran 2 online marketing ventures successfully.
I joined a job at IBM and I can say if online marketing has brought a tremendous change in any ones life I am
a real example. Sometimes it is good your friends might not teach something to you and they may say it is tough and hard, but my message to world is never stop learning by yourself and one day certainly it will
pay you off."
You can contact him on Twitter @raghavasatish He also blogs @ Raghava.in
Social Networking and Gaming, my two passions combined and mixed with Stocks brings Empire Avenue! Anyone can sign up for free and create their own Stock, for themselves or in the name of their company! We can then aggregate our social presence like Twitter, Blog, Facebook to it, so people can see what we are doing online and figure whether to buy our stock and/or follow us.
So it has two way influence one is that our online activities on Twitter, Facebook help us in the game, and vice versa doing well in the game can get us visibility in our real, virtual lives! Cool!
I have 3 free invites to the game so if you are interested let me know in the comments or through the contact me link in the header of this blog!
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Just saw this video on Mashable, super cool!
The black box is actually a barcode which gets decoded by the webcam to show the dragon. Only being viewable on web cam, kinda reduces the appeal. Getting a tattoo for it is also not too feasible.
I think that we can have such 'special' effects appear using a small hologram device hidden somewhere on the body which would show these effects to everyone online and offline.
All life is a stage! Philosophically, your social networking maybe role playing at a deeper level too, but with City of Eternals you can indulge in some serious role playing aka gaming while you network on Facebook!
I had mentioned this game to be released some time back. From what I have seen, it is a little bit like Second Life, however instead of being a virtual, social network in itself (my understanding of Second Life is limited), it is a virtual world in Facebook. There are also virtual goods that can be bought with real money for your CoE avatar.
Players need to login with Facebook connect, or play the game as a Facebook app. On clicking another player, their Facebook profile pic and profile URL are accessible. So they can easily connect with each other.
It is also on the lines of Mafia Wars, as every now and then it prompts to publish status updates about having achieved this level and that medal etc..
There is a chat box where people in the same section of the game can chat. Pretty cool for troubleshooting and 'networking' :D
It is in private beta, people can play it only with invitations. I got mine couple of weeks back. These are my initial thoughts, they only remain initial cause I haven't really played it since some time due to the downside.
Upside
Interesting Game Play: The story starts with being killed by a bunch of vampires and then rising from the grave as one of them! Then it goes on with missions, quests, killing zombies and other creatures.
Quick Level Ups: Few fights will quickly take you to a higher level. Skills can be learnt as we level up, to increase what we can do in terms of gathering food, killing skills or making stuff.
Quest Options: Lot of them! Already there are 15 quests to choose from. We can also go to City of Valencia and accept missions there randomly rather than following one particular quest..
Downside
Heavy/Loading time
It takes a long time to load and requires a very fast internet connection which is a difficulty. Almost everytime I played it, it failed to load atleast once. Moving from one section to another is difficult due to this.
Sometimes it stops working in the middle of the game and I had to reload.
Linux
Doesn't work on Linux. :<
Try it out, and let me know what you think of it!
Today I came across this new and interesting gaming stuff thats happening quite a lot it seems. Its called Alternate Reality Gaming, which is like a real life role-playing game. Let me quote an article from ARGnet about a LEGO ARG,
Two weeks ago a set of mysterious signals from deep space led to a startling discovery. On November 7th a group of Scientific Researchers from the Bradford Rant Institute of Cosmic Kinesis (B.R.I.C.K.) were the first to intercept and decode the signals, which contained detailed coordinates. Following the coordinates, the researchers soon found themselves within Legoland:BillundThis alternate reality game was played, to create hype and publicity for an upcoming release of a LEGO online multiplayer game!
On similar lines when a guy in New Hampshire wanted to propose to his girlfriend he staged a day long ARG!!
This is so cool! I remember as kids when the boys (girls didn't play that kind of stuff) used to play commando and they were making forts and running around with fake pistols. Those games were a whole lot of fun!For Kiaya Steele, the men in suits and dark glasses who appeared suddenly through the raindrops of a New Hampshire morning were the first sign that something very unusual was going on.
One of the men stood under an umbrella next to the car Steele and her friend Kellin had been riding in moments earlier and delivered a message. As Kelli's sister Jenna was brought out of a second car that had pulled up mysteriously behind them, Steele was told that if she couldn't quickly prove that she was "the real Kiaya," the bomb planted inside Jenna would explode.
And this was just the tip of the iceberg of a day spent driving all around the countryside, complete with vans, staple guns, cameramen in trees, threats, red phone booths, and a series of hidden clues. Read More.
I did not know people were actually pursuing this as a media/entertainment industry of sorts! Reading the various articles about it I find it quite an exciting idea!
Infact Improv Everywhere that I blogged about earlier has this 'alternate reality' feel to it! Killer stuff!
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Just made a ppt about Tips and Tricks in Mafia Wars. :p
BTW if you are one of those who has had enough of the mafia wars requests, gifts etc on Facebook and you have deleted the entire application..... then pls bear with me :D
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zis is so cool....
This game is fully online so no downloads or huge disc space requirements! The people have to 'Facebook connect' for login. It is possible to connect with characters in the game on their Facebook! This is sort of a mix of multi-player online RPG's like Age of Empires, WoW etc.. and pure social network games like Mafia Wars and Fishville.
I had blogged earlier that social network gaming is a good market to start something up. This game is from a company called Ohai. I think it has a lot of potential to be something huge!
Currently it is in private alpha phase. Only invitees can play/test it. I have applied for my invite lets see when I get it!
Apply for an invite here.
(source: TechCrunch)
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Have been playing Mafia Wars quite a bit last few days. I have spent many long hours/days playing AoE, Civilization, Java based games so, I can figure these games out pretty quick. This are some basic points for those that find it hard to...
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