Tag: Nilofar Ansher

• Exploring Germany: Gateway to Europe

  There is a wealth of natural beauty, including forests, greenery, valleys, gardens and parks; cultural spots on the lines of grand museums and contemporary art galleries, opera houses, historical towns and squares, castles; urban spaces such as airfields, pubs, street music and art, artist enclaves, start-up studios, and a whole lot of food, entertainment, shopping…

  Nilofar Haja

  August 20, 2014

  Architecture, Travel

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• Social Media Demography: Guide for Non-Profits

  Plotting a Conceptual Map You draft your organization’s overall social media strategy by plotting a conceptual map. This is something I have explored in a previous post on ‘outreach for non-profits.’ Let me expand on that conceptual map here. A social media campaign wouldn’t feature only the target demography, but would also take into account…

  Nilofar Haja

  February 8, 2014

  Social Media

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• Content in 2020: Could We Future Proof Digital Content Strategies?

  By 2020, however, all of us will be grappling with a totally unique form of medium: wearable devices. Wearable technology is making quantum leaps and in another half-decade Google Glass, Apple smartwatches, digital finger rings will be the norm rather than the hip + geeky gadgets they are now being marketed as. These are the…

  Nilofar Haja

  January 28, 2014

  Design, Social Media, urban culture, User Interface & Wayfinding

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• Social Media Management Tips for Non-Profit Managers

  You would have noticed by now that the ‘best practices for beginners’ series focuses on everyday, low-cost and customizable strategies that your non-profit can implement in order to get the best returns on investment, engagement and interaction. I have received several comments and feedback from my readers, highlighting how effective they found the last two…

  Nilofar Haja

  November 15, 2013

  Social Media

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• Outreach for Non-Profits: Best Practices for Beginners

  Update: This post has an update at the end of the article. Please do check out the questions sent in by readers and my responses to these. Thank you! As a web producer for a non-profit organization, one of my primary responsibilities is to reach out to our constituency and help them make use of…

  Nilofar Haja

  November 3, 2013

  Social Media

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• Want to Work from Home? Here’s My Advice.

  

  www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com has just published a very useful infographic detailing the pros and cons of being a freelancer in America. You can view the infographic at the bottom of this page. My post focuses on a slightly parallel topic: the ins and outs of working from home, full time. A couple of my colleagues working in regular desk…

  Nilofar Haja

  October 9, 2013

  Social Media, urban culture

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• Social Media Strategy for Non-Profits: Best Practices for Beginners

  This post is first in the series on ‘Social Media Strategy for Non-Profits,’ and is aimed at beginners to the world of social media. It features simple and practical tips to help you draft a social media plan for your non-profit / NGO. Listen to this quick introduction here.  The last three years, I have…

  Nilofar Haja

  September 24, 2013

  Social Media

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• Group Behavior on Facebook: Amateur Self Ethnography

  In continuation of my pathological obsession, most recent, to understand the ontology of our avatar, here is another post that delves into textual remembrances. What surfaces and what do we miss when all traces of our textual avatar is deleted from a group? If posts are representations of a person – their voice, so to…

  Nilofar Haja

  August 9, 2013

  Cyberculture

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• Borges, Bots and our Human Stories

  By turning ‘numbers into words,’ statistics and data science companies are inventing creative algorithms that can program a bot to write seemingly original stories on sports, finance and food. Is our collective careers as story tellers in danger from a helix of code? Let’s begin at the beginning. In the beginning, the Neanderthal man discovered that he…

  Nilofar Haja

  March 31, 2013

  Cyberculture

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• My Bot Will Live On

  What these apps fail to take into consideration is that our online patterns are not consistent and interests change over time. Behavior can be repetitive, such as logging into my computer everyday and signing up on Gmail first, followed by Twitter and Facebook, but there is no guarantee that I would continue to follow the…

  Nilofar Haja

  February 23, 2013

  Cyberculture

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