We all know that with the advent of new technologies and globalization the definition of communication and information sharing has changed drastically. One such area of drastic growth is social networking – courtesy social media sites like FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace, Orkut etc. Whosoever has some knowledge of the Internet seems to be hooked to these sites. In such a case, can celebrities be left behind? The answer is of course a “NO.”

Celebrities such as actors, sportsperson, politicians and public figures all seem to have an account in one or more of the popular social networking sites. While some of them might not be genuine, a majority of them are real. In fact, celebrities on FaceBook and Twitter have a huge fan following. Celebrities find these sites a novel way of engaging and interacting with fans, a tool for promoting themselves and in some cases, to get quick and effective feedback about themselves or their works. Moreover, a lot of mobile applications of today come with inbuilt software to connect to these sites so that both the user and the follower are always in touch with each other.

It is therefore, not surprising, that our own Pakistani celebrities haven’t been left behind. Pakistani celebrities such as Naveen Naqvi, Faisal Qureshi, Ali Zafar, Ayeshah Alam, Ahmed Qureshi can be found on the most popular social networking site, Twitter. Here are a few original account links to celebrities you can check out: 

http://twitter.com/iamsrk (Shahrukh Khan’s verified twitter account)

http://twitter.com/JemKhan          (Jemaima Khan “Imran Khan’s Ex-Wife)

http://twitter.com/marvi_memon   (Marvi Memon, national politician, MNA)

http://twitter.com/MirzaSania           (Sania Mirza’s Twitter Account)

http://twitter.com/AtifAslam_1       (Atif Aslam’s Twitter Account)

http://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI   ( Imran Khan Tehreek Insaaf) 

If you are one of those addictive fans wanting to know more with what is going on in the life of your favorite celebrity, following them up is the easiest way to keep yourself updated.

Source:

http://www.join.pk/Pakistani+Celebrities+on+Twitter

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Building an effective team for achieving specific goals of any project is a technical process, some people have abilities to develop and manage their team, but getting maximum achievements from team members might be a difficult task for some one. It is important to choose right person and motivate them for team goals, training can also play an important role in building team of professional.

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE TEAM

1.   Clear Goals

High-performance teams have both a clear understanding of the goals to be achieved and a belief that the goals embody important results. Moreover, the importance of these goals encourages individuals to redirect personal concerns to achieving team goals.

2.  Relevant Skills

Effective teams are composed of competent individuals. They have the necessary technical and interpersonal skills to achieve the desired goals while working well together.

3.  Mutual Trust

Effective teams are characterized by high mutual trust among members. Means, members believe in the ability, character, and integrity of each other. Trust is fragile! It takes a long time to build and it can be easily destroyed. Maintaining trust requires careful attention by team builders.

4.  Unified Commitment

Members of an effective team exhibit intense loyalty and dedication to the teams. They’re willing to do whatever it takes to help their team succeed you may call this loyalty and dedication unified commitment.

Studies of successful teams have found that members identity with their teams members redefine themselves to include membership in the team as an important aspect of the self.

5.  Good Communication

Not surprisingly, effective teams are characterized by good communication. Members convey messages between each other in ways that are readily and clearly understood. This includes nonverbal as well as spoken messages. Good communication is also characterized by a healthy dose of feedback from team members and team managers.

6.  Flexibility

Effective teams, tend to be flexible and are continually making adjustments in who does what.

7.  Appropriate Leadership

Effective leaders can motivate a team to follow them through the most difficult situations. How? They help clarify goats. They demonstrate that change is possible by overcoming inertia. And they increase the self-confidence of team members. To more fully realize their potential. It’s important to note that the best leaders aren’t necessarily directive or controlling. Increasingly, effective team but don’t control it.

8.  Internal and External Support

The final condition necessary for an effective team is a supportive climate. Internally, the team should have a sound infrastructure. This includes proper training, a clear and reasonable measurement system that team members can use to evaluate their overall performance, and a supportive human resource system. The right infrastructure should support members and reinforce behaviors that lead to high levels of performance. Externally, team managers should provide the team with the resources needed to get the job done.

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In Pakistan during last few years trend of online marketing buildup to the large extent, but mostly people don’t know how to market their products, services or websites with minimum efforts and at low cost. If you are online marketer, you can save your money and time by just building an effective customer list. List building is not a new technique, millions of people worldwide using list building as an online marketing business opportunity. It is the best amongst all other marketing techniques because you can get great response by just making less effort. If you are new in online marketing field, you don’t need to worry about online marketing there are multiple ways to start with. 

List Building Tools

For people who want to make effective list in first attempt, here are six important list-building tools to start with.

1. Podcasting

Podcasting is a way of publishing sound files on the internet so that they can be downloaded automatically to a subscribed user's portable music player. You can create "talk radio show" by applying this tool, you need to have a system to record audio and save the sound in MP3 format. Remember not to be limited only one show, create as many as you can, put them all on your website. When you have series of podcast, offer first as a freebie and tell visitors to subscribe to your email list if they want to get access to the others.

2. Article Marketing

Article writing is the one of the best list building tools, you just need to write some good written articles relate to your industry, submit them regularly to some reputed article directories, and don't forget to put your website address at the end of article in resource box. Interested visitors who read the article will definitely come to your website by clicking link provided by you in resource box, and most of them leave their contact to your opt-in form.

3. Offer E-courses

Offering an E-course is also an effective tool of list building, you can use auto-responder service for this purpose. Mostly visitors want to get more knowledge about your industry; you can offer them to subscribe to your list to get weekly "lesson" or "newsletter.”

4. Training Videos

Training videos are now becoming unique part of list building tools. You have to prepare video tutorial, training manual, and something special about your industry, put little portion of it on your website and only allow small or limited portion of the same to visitors until they subscribe your email list.

5. Hubpage or Squidoo Lens

Hubpage and Squidoo are the Web2.0 systems, you can use them as marketing tools. It allows you to put your podcasts, videos, or articles for easy access to the lots of its members. When you completed process of upload, people will explore your content and video and "vote" them and at the end, they can reach to your sign-up page by just clicking link provided by you.

6. Forum Signature Line

Spare some time to participate in different forum where your target market hangs out in. After spending some time, on such forum you will be aware what people want to know more about, search out what are the answers to questions they asked and learn little more about people's interest. When you feel that you got enough knowledge to answer questions of them, go to different posts and provide answers in friendly way based on what actually they required. You need to do this regularly, after some time people will think you as an expert and reach to your sign-up page through your forum signature line.

If you succeeded in applying all above tools or few of them effectively, you will observe that thousands of visitors will subscribe on your website every day. 

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