By now, you’ve established your presence in social networking sites and just how credible are you as an expert in your niche? It all comes down to social influence…
With new collaboration and project management tools, just how will freelancing look like in 2012 and the near future?
With 2012 just a few days away, how ready are you to face the new year with hope and optimism?
Just in time for the Holiday Cheer, we’ve scoured the Web to bring you hot tools for the savvier freelancer. Though this list may not be as grand as the song that inspired this post, we invite you to take a look and make a list that’s truly worth for your freelancing biz:
Content is King! You hear this plenty of times and in a perfect world, ideas overflow from your writer’s golden cup. But, if you keep on postponing things you could have done today for tomorrow, and words seem to hover in the invisible cloud of your wandering mind, it’s time to snap out of the rut by stomping out that P-factor: Procrastination. Whatever’s stopping you to write a blog on a regular basis, it’s high time to face your nemesis and overcome the irrational fear that’s taking an iron grip of your creativity.
If pictures can paint a thousand words, just how much more can an infographic resume will? In these tough times, a little dash of creativity and daring may be all that a freelancer needs in order to stand out from the crowd. The competition is ruthless and in an effort to make your resume shine, you may have to take the art of personal branding to the next level. So, how can you mix the powers of your work data and turn it into a savvy information graphics that will work like magic?
Natural disasters do happen no matter how you may not like to think about it. No business is ever safe from harm and when unexpected emergencies happen, just how prepared are you to deal with it? First off, you need to differentiate a crisis from a disaster. When you’re having an extremely difficult situation which you can control, that’s a crisis. Disasters are events that can inflict damage, difficulties or even death which you have no control of, but which you can prepare for.
We’ve all come to love these infographics or information graphics that have taken data into a whole new creative art form and as such, Ajeva have scoured the Web to bring you fascinating stuff about freelancing and mobile work which is rendered in a curious mix of context and visual form. If pictures can paint a thousand words, infographics will give you more than just that. Here’s our favorite ten:
In these times when your office location doesn’t anymore define your work, just how crucial is it to collaborate on projects in a virtual scene? While keeping up with new technologies that spun a lot of awesome web collaboration tools is just as important, in the end, you will still have multiple players who need to run your project effectively.. by increasing productivity. It’s all about saving a client’s time, money and not to mention, sanity.
There have been plenty of talks about HTML5. There are lovers and haters. Like any mover and shaker in the land of tech, I have been quite intrigued with all this news on HTML5 that I have decided to take a quick look. After having read this article, among many other feeds on Google, the news has been spreading like wildfire that HTML5 is going to be huge… very soon. I would like to take this opportunity to ask what freelance developers think of the growing support for this platform and why you should embrace it like others did.
The Harry Potter franchise is undeniably a mega success, from the books to the Hollywood blockbuster. The movie alone generated over $6 billion in box office sales across the globe and that doesn’t even include revenues from other sources. The film about the boy who lived may have reached its heights and we’ve been treated to its final chapters, Part Two of the Deathly Hallows, a few days ago – but it’s a tale that’s worth reliving with its lessons that freelancers can also learn from. Ready to take inspiration from the magical wizarding world that many have come to love?
Step-1. Watch this video made by Chris Benny
Step-2. Dream about New Zealand
Step-3. Come visit New Zealand – I’ll meet you here 
New Zealand from Chris Benny on Vimeo.
I love this country.
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