Personal and Social Development
through Blogging
Shome Nath Bhawani
(Department of
Computer Science)
ABSTRACT:
The elucidation and analysis of Vivekananda scheme of
education brings to light its constructive, practical and comprehensive
character. Blogging has emerged as a specialized industry in itself and is
increasingly being used by individuals and enterprises alike for establishing
and enhancing their online presence. A successful and well-read blog can be a
cash-cow. Some of the following income streams will work on some blogs a lot
better than others – the key is to experiment with as many possibilities and
see what works best for the Blogger. Advertising Banners, CPM Advertising,
Affiliate Sales, Pay Per Click. Student blogging is powerful and stimulating
and enriching. The online capacity to link-reference makes for an effective way
to write interconnected. Expressive writing inculcates better thinking and
learning during hard times, increases gratitude, increases mental bandwidth and
better leadership which leads to self enrichment. Bloggers have the benefit of
to get immediate responses to their questions, viewpoints or thoughts. The
other benefits are: Easy communication between businesses and their clients,
Platform for conducting market research, Great Tool for Relational Marketing,
Best Content Management Systems, Low Cost Marketing Device, Managing Online
Reputation, Keeping Ahead of Competition, and Platform for personal advice.
Corruption in India Mentor
Keywords:
Internet Technology, Blogger, Educating Women, Relational
marketing, Fight Corruption, Social Network, Development of Indian Society,
Philosophy of Education
Introduction
The elucidation and analysis of Vivekananda scheme of
education brings to light its constructive, practical and comprehensive
character. He realized that it is only through education that the uplift of
masses is possible. He further stated it emphatically that if society is to be
reformed, education has to reach everyone-high and low, because individuals are
the very constituents of society. The sense of dignity rises in man when he
becomes conscious of his inner spirit, and that is the very purpose of
education.
The use of social media and networking services has become an
integral part of Indian daily lives. It has reached every corner of the
country. The internet and social media provide young people with a range of
benefits, and opportunities to empower themselves in a variety of ways. We need
to streamline this young energetic citizen to harmonize the traditional values
of India
Whether you are an individual or a business, a blog has
become a prominent and potent tool for increasing his online reach. The quality
of the blog, frequency of posts, and performance in search results, interaction
and engagement with his reader base are key factors that will determine how
successful his blog is, and the benefits that can accrue through blogging.
At its start, blogging was mainly a platform for personal
expression. A blog or a web-log was meant to be an online diary, journal or log
for those who wanted to express themselves online. It has now emerged as one of
the most powerful means of sharing information on the internet. Blogging has
emerged as a specialized industry in itself and is increasingly being used by
individuals and enterprises alike for establishing and enhancing their online
presence.
Blogging for Personal and Social Development
Self Employment
A successful and well-read blog can be a cash-cow. If one can
able to build a high-quality blog that attracts lots of readers and followers,
he can monetize his blog through marketing and advertising revenue. Before one
read it though – keep in mind that every blog is unique in how it can make
money. Some of the following income streams will work on some blogs a lot
better than others – the key is to experiment with as many possibilities and
see what works best for the Blogger.
- Advertising
Banners
Website owners love Advertising Banners because they know
they are guaranteed the money, other techniques such as affiliate marketing can
go up and down a lot depending on what is promoted.
- CPM(Cost Per Thousand Impression)
Advertising
This method is really popular for the website’s that receive
a huge amount of traffic; advertisers pay you for impressions rather than sales
or clicks! As long as you can predict your impressions which are usually easy
to do, you know how much you will earn.
- Affiliate
Sales
Selling on commission depending on the functional and
technicality of the Blogger. One can promote great products and then get great
commissions. Pay back from great products earns lot of money for the Bloggers.
- Pay
Per Click
By far the easiest way to earn money online from a website or
blog is from Google Adsense and being paid per click. Can be very lucrative if
done right!
Top 5 Famous
Indian Bloggers & Their Earnings in 2015-16
S.No
|
Name
|
Location
|
Age
|
Blog Name
|
Estimated
Earning
|
1
|
Amit Agarwal
|
37 years
|
Labnol.org
|
$65,000 per month
Rs. 43,55,000 approx
|
|
2
|
Harsh Agarwal
|
27 years
|
ShoutmeLoud.com
|
$40,000 per month
Rs. 26,80,000 approx
|
|
3
|
Amit Bhawani
|
29 years
|
amitbhawani.com
|
$38,000 per month
Rs. 25,46,000 approx
|
|
4
|
Shardha Sharma
|
26 years
|
Yourstory.com
|
$34,000 per month
Rs. 22,78,000 approx
|
|
5
|
Jaspal Singh
|
Jaipur
|
30 years
|
Savedelete.com
|
$22,000 per month
Rs. 14,74,000 approx
|
Self Enrichment
Students realize how high the tavern of public domain writing is. This
can be initially unapproachable, but that removes all boredom or sense of the
monotonous learning. Asking all students to write blogs as learning unfolds and
interlinks empowers the teacher to be more supportive because they're less tied
to the bureaucracy; it raises challenge levels; it enables IT-skills; it lets
students see their own progress and differentiates well; it means more
productive and accelerating learning-talk over rote-writing.
The breadth of results has impressed. Students have collated and
commented on topical news, explained practical implications and real-world
examples of syllabus phenomena, asserted their views on issues, designed and
written up experiments in depth, published and evaluated data they have
researched or sourced, and commented skillfully on one another's work. And if,
as the best have done, they write professionally in the public domain already
as teenagers - which top university admissions director wouldn't offer them a
place on a degree course of their choice?
Student blogging is powerful and stimulating and enriching.
The online capacity to link-reference makes for an effective way to write
interconnected. The range of interfaces and appearances available
professionalizes students' work and they rise to that implicit reward
Expressive writing inculcates better thinking and learning during hard times,
increases gratitude, increases mental bandwidth and better leadership which
leads to self enrichment.
Top 5 Famous
Indian Bloggers based on Self Enrichment and Personality Development
S.No
|
Blog name
|
Contents of the
Blog
|
|
1
|
Scribble and
Scrawl
|
Somali K. Chakrabarti writes very insightful posts on
leadership, productivity, self improvement, social awareness and self
awareness.
|
|
2.
|
Lata Wonders
|
Lata Subhramanian shares her nectar of enriched knowledge
on personal and professional life through her blog
|
|
3.
|
Sunshine and Zephyr
|
Shewta Dave weaves words in such a way that it touches you,
inspire you and make you think again, and you don’t even realize. She also
writes in Hindi.
|
|
4.
|
Project Curve
|
Debiparna Chakraborty, surely knows how to make a great
fashion blog. The blog features product reviews, look book photo shoots, and
women related issue articles.
|
|
5
|
Voyager For Life
|
Renuka writes about basic travel related thing one solo
traveller should know.
|
|
Entrepreneurship
A well written blog post on a good blog can attract visitors
from search engines. A Blog can rank for a number of keywords that a business
website does not rank for. New visitors drawn to the blog through these
keywords can be directed to the business website, thereby increasing your
business footprint, reach and awareness. Bloggers have the benefit of to get
immediate (within a fraction of a second on active blogs) responses to their
questions, viewpoints or thoughts. The other benefits are:
- Easy
communication between businesses and their clients:
The more businesses and organizations communicate to their
clients/customers, the more they learn and continue using the blog, thereby
making it easy to interact or talk with their target audience in a friendly and
non-formal environment.
- Platform
for conducting market research:
The well developed blog offer businesses and organizations a
perfect platform for conducting market research since one can obtain
information and learn much more about consumer habits as opposed to other forms
of survey and research.
·
Great Tool for Relational
Marketing
A blog can prove to be a powerful too
for building long-term relationships with your consumers. By posting unbiased
and heartfelt articles to your blog, you can earn the much-needed trust from
your potential customers to drive business growth.
·
Best Content Management Systems
Blogs happen to be the best examples
of Content Management Systems (CMS). Whether it is a video file, image, audio
file, document or pdf file, you can easily upload it all to the blog with a few
clicks of the mouse.
·
Low Cost Marketing Device
A well maintained and regularly
updated blog happens to be a cheap marketing device. With a quality blog, you
can instantly inform your consumers of the recently launched products and
services much before you think to promote them through other media channels.
·
Managing Online Reputation
Today, brands have become worried
about managing their reputation online. If you are facing any kind of negative
press, you can counter it with the help of a blog.
·
Keeping Ahead of Competition
Blogging is a great way to stay ahead
of your competitors. In today’s competitive industry, a blog helps you inform
your consumers of the way you work, how you differ from others and how your services
are way above from your competitors.
- Platform
for personal advice:
Through word of mouth advertising, friends are capable of
sharing information about a businesses and organizations with others. As they
talk positively about the company and possible customer experience with the
company’s business activities. This can thereby encourage other people to
choose the company and the products and services it offers.
Exterminate
Corruption
Corruption in India
Just as government-induced distortions provide many
opportunities for corruption; it is also the case that frequent, direct contact
between government officials and citizens can open the way for illicit
transactions. One way to address this problem is to use readily available
technologies to encourage more of an arms-length relationship between officials
and civil society; in this respect the blogging will prove to be an effective
tool to reduce corruption in India.
We see that globally, citizens have fast-increasing access to
tools that enable them to monitor government performance and express their
views on government performance in real time. We want to seize this moment to promote
transparency, fight corruption, empower citizens, and harness the power of new
technologies to make government more effective and accountable. We understand
the blog technology plays in citizen voice and transparency for achieving
accountable responsive governance.
Women’s Education
and Empowerment
Gone are the days when young women preferred to secretly seek
information from friends, cousins or aunties residing in neighboring houses
about their queries. Due to digital communication mediums women are now talking
about these issues openly, breaking gender based myths. This would not have
been possible without the social media as a positive platform for letting women
express their feelings and seek information from various groups, pages,
websites etc.
This is the main reason that social media is also called
infotainment as well, which signifies information-entertainment. There are more
than 100 Women empowerment blogs taking on health and fitness, emotional,
physical, and psychological needs of women, works to empower girls and women,
Educating women to make informed decisions about health, well-being and
personal safety for themselves and their families, helps mothers find their own
empowerment, covering all things “woman” from relationships, to feminism, to
sexual and reproductive health, etc.
List of Best Women’s Information
and Empowerment Blogs
S.No
|
Blog Name
|
Description of
the Blog
|
1
|
Danielle LaPorte
|
Danielle LaPorte is a well-known expert on the topics of
desire, spirituality, creativity, business, and relationships. She has a
fabulous site full of new ideas for women ready to find out what they really
want the most in life and she helps them find their passion and purpose.
|
2
|
Hardy Girls
Healthy Women
|
Hardy Girls Healthy Women is a non-profit organization with
the vision of all girls and women experiencing equality, independence, and
safety in their everyday lives. Their mission is to create opportunities,
develop programs, and provide services that empower them.
|
3
|
The Every girl
|
The Everygirl is an online resource for the creative and
career-driven woman who wants to better her life and achieve her dreams. The
Blog share real stories from real successful women to inspire and motivate
women to experience a life better lived that teach you how to integrate
creativity into your day. Their website includes topics on career &
finance, culture, fashion & beauty, living, travel, wellness and
more.
|
4
|
Project Eve
|
Project Eve to encourage women in business to invest in one
another. Project Eve offers mentorship and networking to connect workingwomen
ensuring equality, increasing opportunity, and empowering each of us to
achieve more than ever.
|
5
|
BlogHer
|
BlogHer is a wonderful site where women bloggers publish
their material on food, family, style, love/sex, health, news and more.
|
Student-centered,
Inquiry-based Education
Getting Smart works with technology to advocate on behalf of
students, teachers, and the field of education overall to implement learning
strategies that increase effectiveness of learning and open more doors for
students to succeed. Education advocates looking to work with technology.
Implementing science pedagogy in secondary classrooms, though identified as the
goal by all science education professional organizations, is rarely a reality
in today’s classrooms. Therefore, teachers committed to reform often lack a
“local” network with whom they can interact around this new professional
discourse of reform-minded teaching. Emerging social networking technologies
such as blogging offer potential to support professional learning through the
development of like-minded communities not geographically or temporally
constrained.
- It
Helps You Venture Beyond Your Means
If you are an academic blogger with a desire to tread beyond
your means or field of expertise, blogging is your tool. Academic blogs help
provide on-the-spot analysis and run commentary on some of the most crucial
issues our society faces today.
- It
Helps You Aggregate Research Work
Blogging gives students and scholars to put together research
work and assignment information. In addition, it helps in researching
information accumulated by researches across the globe through syndication.
- It
Connects You with Professionals
When you consistently blog about a subject of your interest,
you have the maximum chances of attracting the attention of experts in that
field of study. Along with broadening your professional network, this can also
open new career opportunities for you
Fastening young
explorers and learners worldwide
Social networks encourage discovery. If someone is interested
in certain books, bands, recipes or ideas, it's likely that their interest will
be catered for by a self owned blog or group within a service. If users are
looking for something more specific or unusual then they could create their own
groups or self owned blogs. Blog services can help young people develop their
interests and find other people who share the same interests. They can help
introduce young people to new things and ideas, and deepen appreciation of
existing interests. They can also help broaden users' horizons by helping them
discover how other people live and think in all parts of the world.
Better Career
Opportunities
Most people have trouble with career change because they know
what they want to do but they can't get a job doing it. A blog allows you to
show people your ideas and your investigations in a given field. Make your blog
an exploration of the field you want to be in, and sooner than you realize, you
will be qualified to be hired in that field. This is not rare. It happens all
the time, in a very wide range of fields.
Because a blog focuses on your ideas, rather than your
experience, you are more likely to be able to persuade someone to let you skip
the bottom rung. Also, as you are linking and responding to other bloggers in
your field, you are building a network of people who know you as someone with a
reputation in the field, and they can help you land a job above entry-level.
By making real connections with people based on ideas and
passions. A blog is the perfect way to meet other people who think like you do
and who are in your field. Blogging also allows you to focus your connections
on other top performers, since blogging about career topics self-selects for
engaged, motivated, ambitious people. If you want a stable career, and if you
want to take charge of where you're going, then you should be blogging.
Conclusion
In Swamiji’s own words…
“The Light Divine within is obscured in most people. It is
like a lamp in a cask of iron, no gleam of light can shine through. Gradually,
by purity and unselfishness, we can make the obscuring medium less and less
dense, until at last it becomes transparent as glass”
It is high time that we give serious thought to his
philosophy of education and remembers his calls -“Arise, awake, and stop not
till the goal is reached.” for the development of Indian Society
through the benefits offered by the Internet Technology.
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Make Money Blogging.htm: “which visualizes just SOME of the
ways bloggers make money blogging.
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jobs.problogger.net
: Jobs A job board to assist those looking to hire bloggers to
find them and for bloggers to find blogging work..
[3]
problogger.net/learn : eBooks If you’re looking for resources
to take your blog to help you create a successful blog
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problogger.net
: Blog A blog with over 7000 tutorials that has been dedicated to helping
bloggers learn the skills of blogging and build profitable blogs since 2004.
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Problogger.com/podcast: Podcast Regular episodes with a mix
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projectcurve.in/2015/04/women-in-leadership.html: The Girl
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fashion blog.
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renuka-voyagerforlife.com/2015/04/10-things-every-traveller-should-know.html:
about basic travel related thing one solo traveler should know.
Author[s] brief Introduction
Name : Mr.
Shome Nath Bhawani of 46 years residing in Jamshedpur.
Qualification: M.Tech(IT), MBA(System &
Marketing), M.Sc(IT),
Diploma in Computer
Science & Engineering
Project
Developed: Cable tester for Indian
Telephone Industries (Bangalore),
Medical
Store Keeping & Annual Appraisal System for TRF
Ltd
(A Tata Concern, Jamshedpur)
Remittance of Pay slip, Income Tax
Calculation for Contractors, Bank Reconciliation Statement for Bharat Sanchar
Nigam Limited (BSNL Jamshedpur) currently working in EPR implementation for
BSNL Jamshedpur.
Teaching Experience: Taught BBA, BCA, MCA, M.Sc(IT),
B.Sc(IT) from 1993 at
different colleges
of Jamshedpur under different Universities.
Some Universities
are SMU, KSOU, MKU, Ranchi, Kolhan
University.
Paper Submitted in National Seminars
- The Present Scenario of Rural Marketing through Internet
- Women Empowerment through Knowledge Networking
- Quality Education and challenges for Teacher Educators
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