Hi friends !

How are you today?

Recently we have celebrated World Environment Day 2011 with the theme ‘Forests: Nature at your Service’ on June 5. The special days in June are not finished on that point; we also have another special day to be marked. Friends, please start marking June 30 in your calendar, it’s ‘Mashable’s Social Media Day'.

Social Media Day is global event, a celebration of the technological advancements that enable everyone to connect with real-time information, communicate from miles apart and have their voices be heard. This is the second annual day that people around the world are celebrating together. Last year Vancouver and Victoria, B.C. declared Social Media Day as an official holiday, 30,000 tweets were recorded with hashtag #SMDay, thousands of photos and videos posted on on Flickr, YouTube and Facebook. Besides, Social Media Day events were covered from live cast throughout the world. It is expected that this year’s Social Media Day will be widely popular than the first one.

Last year I posted a simple one line Facebook status on Social Media Day, but this time we are thinking bigger. We, the Xplore International team is now planning to conduct an offline event on the occasion of Social Media Day on June 30, 2011. We will announce details on the program ASAP in this site.

You can also participate in various online and offline events to celebrate Social Media Day 2011 by taking actions such as:

• Like Social Media Day’s official Page http://www.facebook.com/mashable.smday
• Write Facebook status mentioning ‘Social Media Day 2011’
• Make official logo of Social Media Day 2011 as your Facebook and Twitter profile picture
• Tweet anything with hastag #smday on Twitter.
• Participate Meetup organized by Xplore International (details will be posted ASAP on this site)

I would like to wish you all Happy Social Media Day 2011 from now.

Have fun !

Suran

Hi Friends !

How’s going? I’m sure you are doing great!

As I have mentioned in my previous blog post, this article is totally different than my usual posts. This blog post neither talks about something new in technology nor gives you any smarter tech tricks. Today I’m sharing some of my popular Facebook statuses posted on various dates.

I’m blogger for sure; meanwhile I’m also a young man with the normal human feelings. :-) The statuses given below are pretty much related with ‘Love’ and social media stuffs. One more thing to let you know, except few all the statuses are self created. Few statuses marked with * are inspired or modified with some of popular lines from others.

I truly hope that you like this.

Here are those statuses:

I start n end everyday with my 'GF'_____ for sure 'Gmail n Facebook'

November 1, 2010

I wish to own such a machine that alerts me every time she is online on Facebook.

March 23 at 9:15pm

People might say I’m addicted to Facebook, I would say not exactly... Indeed I’m addicted to YOU as I see your profile quite often, likes your statuses & posts, see your pictures and always wish to catch you online. Ohhh dear if YOU are not there, I would hardy in it for sure.

March 29 at 7:56pm

* I wanted to tell you how much I miss you by writing an email, my email service provider said it cannot be send because it's big !!!

April 7 at 6:27pm

I have been told that the English alphabet is consisting of 26 characters, that’s simply A to Z. I was sure of it, but I have recounted lately and I found it’s only 25. I thought for a while and suddenly realized “U” is missing... … so plz can I have “U”?

April 19 at 10:59pm

a b c d e f g h I j k l m n o p q r s t U v w x y z (✘)

These English alphabets are in wrong order coz ‘I’ cannot be that early from ‘U’

a b c d e f g h U j k l m n o p q r s t I v w x y z (✘)

These English alphabets are also in wrong order coz ‘I’ cannot be that far from ‘U’

a b c d e f g h U I j k l m n o p q r s t v w x y z (✔)

These English alphabets are in right order coz ‘I’ really need to be closer to ‘U’

May 7 at 12:08pm

* I think I need to borrow a map from you coz I just got lost in your eyes.

May 9 at 11:05pm

hiding feeling is harder...but it does not mean dat expressing feeling is easier...

May 11 at 10:19pm

Einstein discovered ‘E = mc2 ‘ long time back and entire world agrees on dat !!! I don’t know about the ‘E’ but wanted to find out about ‘C’ lately. What I have realized is ‘C=EVERYTHING’ and entire world does not need to agree; if only she agrees... that’s more than enough !!!

May 15 at 12:31pm

I took one small action couple of years back, that was ‘add as friend’ you on my Facebook. Similarly I want to take another action couple of years later, that’s ‘add as wife’ you in my life.

May 26 at 11:12pm

This blog post is just a break from my usual topic. Therefore I have asked you to suggest me a title. Please suggest me the title by writing a message on my Facebook (facebook.com/suran) or Twitter (@susuran).

You can see social media blog from next post for sure.

Have fun !!

Suran

Hi Friends !!!

Hope you are doing great !!

I’m pretty much sure that you guys are much aware about Microsoft Office PowerPoint, it’s a very simple slides playing software used for presentations and one of the core software within Microsoft Office. There is no doubt that PowerPoint is the powerful software from quite long time. But have you thought of any other software similar to PowerPoint or better than that? How about those who are just tired of using PowerPoint from a longer time?

Friends, changes in technology and the way we used those tools are just rife. Sometime it’s even harder to maintain our speed with the changes in technology. But changes may be awesome. Today, I’m writing about the one change that we could bring in our traditional way of presentation. I’m referring the online tool called ‘Prezi’.

Prezi is the flash based zooming visualization tool allows us to create a nicer presentation on web and also on desktop. Since this is different than PowerPoint, it may takes little while to get used to on it. But you may find this cool. To get started is quite easy; you can use the free version that offers 100 MB of file storage on website. First you need to go to the Prezi website, sign up if you are a fresher user or login. Then you can start building presentation online. Further you can easily share your presentation to anyone on the internet.

The following video is the quick guide to use Prezi.

I have tried Prezi for the first time in September 2009 and I found it’s great. Let me just share one of my presentation right now just for an example. There are only few featured used in this quick presentation, but you can obviously use many other features once you get the basic idea. Here's the link http://prezi.com/q7edl8tfforo/cooperative-inqueiry.

I think until and unless you don’t try Prezi by your own, it’s next to impossible to learn this cool tool. You can also download Prezi to your desktop.

Though Prezi could be an interesting and new way of presentation, it requires high speed internet if you are using it online. So consider this important fact too.

Try it out and find yourself how your presentations come out!

Just a quick notice - my next blog will be little different and interesting :-)

Have fun !

Suran

Hi Friends !!

Hope you are doing great.

I have mentioned about Facebook Page in previous posts quite often. The Facebook Page is one of the easier, faster and cheaper ways to reach your audience. Facebook Page could be the first step in social media marketing for business and nonprofits. Running Facebook Page has a several advantages such as your followers or fans get quick information through your page; you can interact with people easily where location is not a boundary. The page also helps to increase your site traffic by posting anything linked with your original site. Trust me friends, there are many other advantages too.

Despite of the face that Facebook Page has many advantages, there are certain group of people who have less idea on creating and running it. I’m trying to address that group today by sharing a Facebook Page Guide and Nonprofits Guide. Below are the links, I hope you like it.

Facebook Page Guide - https://facebook-inc.box.net/shared/9e5jiyl843

Nonprofits Guide - https://facebook-inc.box.net/shared/u2nfl2i1o2

Have a good time.

Suran