12 Creative Blocks Holding Back Your Writing

Have you ever been plagued by writer’s block? It turns out that there are a few other mental challenges and obstacles that can inhibit one from doing any creative work. via incidentalcomics 1. Starting Block The hardest block to overcome is just getting started. Putting pen to pad, or finger to key if you will.… Continue reading 12 Creative Blocks Holding Back Your Writing

The 7 Risks of Social Media

We know that the benefits of using social media are profound. Through social networking, many businesses have grown, and individual users have blossomed many great friendships and found support when needed. Social media can be a huge blessing. However, at the same time, if you are not careful with how you use it, social media… Continue reading The 7 Risks of Social Media

How to Add Google+ Comments to Any Webpage or Blog [Unofficially]

Google recently launched functionality that allows you to integrate Google+ Comments on your Blogger blog. Even though Google has yet to launch an official API for the Google+ comments feature, Browsing the Net discovered a way for you to embed Google+ Comments on any website or blog too!   Edit your website code and add… Continue reading How to Add Google+ Comments to Any Webpage or Blog [Unofficially]

5 Ways to Optimize Your Social Media Profiles

It should come as no surprise that, by dishing out compelling, educational and inspiring content on your social networks, you will attract an audience. People will like, comment and share your content. If you are on Twitter, they will retweet, reply and favorite your tweets. However, if you are engaging with others on your social… Continue reading 5 Ways to Optimize Your Social Media Profiles

10 Common Ways You Distort Your Career

We’ve all heard that the internet—and social media especially—have led to procrastination. It just keeps getting easier to waste time each and every day. And, even worse, the advent of Klout and other ways to measure online influence have given rise to this new breed of hyperactive social networkers and self-proclaimed marketers who, despite posting… Continue reading 10 Common Ways You Distort Your Career

You Are The Social Media You’re Using [COMIC]

Since each social network is unique in its design and its features, each tends to attract a certain type of user. Taking this idea a step further, you are the social media you’re using. It’s sort of like food: you eventually become what you put in your mouth and swallow. So whether you like to… Continue reading You Are The Social Media You’re Using [COMIC]

Microsoft Introduces The SEO Tag: Empowering Webmasters To Rank Better

Search Engines look to rank good content well in hopes that the businesses producing valuable information receive the most traffic. However, since the beginning of search engines, SEOs have sought to decipher their underlying algorithms, some even abusing the system in an effort to get their content to rank higher. For decades, search engines like… Continue reading Microsoft Introduces The SEO Tag: Empowering Webmasters To Rank Better

DashBurst is Looking to Hire a Full-Time Lead Writer

DashBurst – a social media magazine, design agency and technology startup – is looking to add a full-time writer to its staff. Since launching our blog two months ago, DashBurst is now one of the top 50,000 sites on the web with a rapidly growing community of over 250,000 subscribers. DashBurst is a go-to source… Continue reading DashBurst is Looking to Hire a Full-Time Lead Writer