Sunday, December 19, 2010

T.A.S.K

T = to be done
A = at any cost
S = simple
K = knowledge-based

task to be done at any cost, have to be simple and knowledge-based ::

which is

:: script on women entrepreneurs for public speaking scheduled on Tuesday <nervous mode>

as this task done, I can go back to SP in peace,,yeay~~

anyway, speaking of public speaking this Tuesday I decided on giving a review on a paper done by a UM lecturer entitled: Conversations with Malaysian Women Entrepreneurs: Cultivating Innovation Through Female Leadership

I found that her thesis was interesting and easy to understand whereby I will focus on the leadership styles among these women entrepreneurs :: the "mother", the "boss", the "teacher" and the "chameleon"


got to practice all the advices from Mr. Hisham Karim, Miss Nani, Mr. Abdullah Yunos and Madam Rusilawati, insyaAllah..

Monday, December 6, 2010

How to Reach An Audience Through Blogging

Blogging may be one of the most easiest way to directly targeted on an audience where via it, you may express your ideas and share them on various related topics. Then, it will facilitates the scope of interest of the readers ad encourages their feedback.

Here are some points to gain the attention of the audience through blogging:

1. Write with the reader in mind with the right tone
 :: determine who'll be your primary and secondary target audience for your post, try to put yourself in their mind and you'll know what topic would be necessary to be discussed and what tone to be used. constantly use the tone till the end of your post to keep people reading it.

2.  Honesty
:: blogs that are written in honest judgement or ideas will always be a comfort, where people don't find any hypocritically and fake ideas through your writings.

3. Keep it double S ( simple and sweet) 
:: simpler way of expressing ideas would be preferable to those readers who don't like to waste their time reading articles. the usage of appropriate words or idioms may be useful to express the ideas not just in general but the wholly issue as well.

4. Use clear headlines
:: when it comes to the headlines issue, it always be the first impression basic. the headlines are the first thing that the reader actually read. if it is snappy and catchy it will attract them to further read the content and give feedback. it's not wrong to bold it though.

5. Write clearly like you talk
:: as you write like the way you talk you will be reader friendly where the audience will enjoy it as the writer is talking to them about the topic discussed. it is not wrong to write in a more formal way but it will turn out to be a text-book reading to the audience.

6. Check out for typos and grammatical errors
:: take it like this, you would not go to class with dirty shirts right? so, why would you publish your mistakes?

7. Read
:: read a lot of various sources of materials to improve the way of expressing and rationalizing your ideas as well as the style of writing.

These points would be a help in getting the best way of reaching the audience through blogging.


have fun blogging! ^_^

uNconDitiOnaL LovE + tRust

I am otter-ly loved: The adorable image of a baby otter taking a nap on its mother's tummy as she swims across a bay

It's an image of utter, unconditional trust. This baby sea otter has so much faith in its mother's ability to keep him safe that it is taking a nap curled on her stomach as she swims across an Alaskan bay. The pup kept its fur dry as it dozed away blissfully under the watchful eye of its parent, who was lying on her back.

cuddles
Thanks, mum! The mother otter grasps her sleeping baby protectively as she peers at the camera during her swim across the Prince William Sound


Photographer Steven Kazlowski, 40, snapped the otters drifting across Saw Mill Bay, in Prince William Sound, off the south coast of Alaska.


The sound has more than 3,000 miles of shoreline and is home to around 70,000 sea otters. Steven, from Seattle, United States, said he had to wait for almost eight hours before he got the snaps of the otters.
He said: "I had watched this area for several days and I found a rock which I thought would make a great place to watch the otters from. I had been hiding there for about eight hours one day when I saw the otter with its baby drift by".


love
This is the way to live life: The baby was sound asleep in the sun


"It was fantastic that after all that time I was rewarded with these images. The baby was just sleeping in the sun as its mother she floated in the sound on her back. It was something I will never forget".
Sea otters spend most of their time on their backs and propel themselves through the water by moving their tails and hind paws from side to side.
They float on their back while sleeping, resting or eating and use kelp or small icebergs to help them from drifting.
While on their back, they can crack open their meals and use their chest as a flat area to eat off.
Sea otters' fur is extremely dense with about 650,000 hairs per square inch and keeps them warm as they do not have insulating fat on their bodies.

>> credits to Assoc Prof Dr Harinder Rai Singh for this lovely article.. ^_^