The world is no longer the same in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. From the devastating health hazards to the financial crisis covid has impacted our lives in several ways. The economic crisis has led to massive layoffs and pay cuts in the entire nation. All this has taught us several personal finance lessons which should not be ignored in the future. Let’s take a look. Banking Banks have played a crucial role in helping consumers navigate the covid crisis. From providing special relief packages to offering moratoriums on ongoing loans banks have helped their customers in every possible way. Moreover,…
Author: Loknath Das
Looking to write a new blog post but experiencing some writer’s block? Coming up with new blog post ideas and topics can be time-consuming and daunting. What’s even more challenging is coming up with a great content idea – one that will bring you the right traffic and resonate across your audience. Writing a great blog post can take hours, days, and sometimes even weeks, so it’s critical that you do your research to ensure your post will reach your intended audience. This post provides you with creative blog post ideas to help spark some ideas for your next article. Additionally, we provide…
Are you looking for valuable tips, education, or inspiration on social media marketing? Here are 15 of the most eye-opening blogs to help you in 2021. 1. Social Media Examiner Social Media Examiner is one of the largest marketing communities in the world. They help businesses discover tips and tricks on using social media and digital to connect with customers, create awareness, drive web traffic, and generate ROI and sales. You can find a lot of inspiration and help from a range of prominent social media influencers via articles, expert interviews, original research, podcasts, videos, and news. Social Media Examiner…
In August 2021, Gartner released a report that located emerging technologies along what it calls a “hype cycle,” which illustrates the maturation of new industries and products. It placed nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, at the top of a curve termed the “Peak of Inflated Expectations”—a moment in time when a technology receives a great deal of publicity, both positive and negative, attracting some companies to embrace it while scaring off many others. However, I would argue that NFTs haven’t yet reached that point but rather are still at the “Innovation Trigger” stage, where the technology’s commercial viability is still being developed. This…
Instagram is getting a new feature that allows users to embed a miniature version of their profiles on websites. With the latest Profile Embed functionality, users can showcase their Instagram content on third-party sites or link to someone else’s profile. Alongside the Profile Embed, the social media company has highlighted the recently launched Playback feature for Instagram Stories and Reels Visual Replies. With the Playback feature, users can create an end-of-year collection of up to 10 Stories to share with their followers. The Reels Visual Replies lets to respond to comment with a Reels video of up to 60 seconds.…
When your debts become more than you can manage each month, especially your credit card payments, one option many people consider is a debt consolidation loan. Like every approach to managing what you owe, consolidation loans have pros and cons — including the chance that a lender may not approve your application due to your circumstances. If you’ve been turned down, you may wonder what factors lenders consider in evaluating a consolidation loan application, what you can do to improve your chances for approval in the future, or what other options you can consider. WHAT IS A DEBT CONSOLIDATION LOAN?…
In today’s digital world, we seem to be surrounded by news. Clickbait, anyone? Yet the pervasive and often intrusive nature of internet news articles belies the fact that many of these sites are behind a paywall, biased, or feature low-quality reporting. Still, online articles are a great starting point for all kinds of learning assignments across the curriculum. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best free article websites for students. Many of these sites offer not only high-quality topical articles on every subject, but also ideas for lessons, such as questions, quizzes, and discussion prompts. Student Article Websites…
Netflix has hired veteran video game executive Mike Verdu, signaling the video streaming service is poised to expand into another fertile field of entertainment. Verdu’s addition as Netflix’s vice president of game development, confirmed Thursday, comes as the company seeks to sustain the momentum it gathered last year when people turned to the video streaming service to get through lockdowns imposed during the pandemic. Netflix wound up adding 37 million worldwide subscribers last year, by far the largest annual gain in its history. But the landscape has changed dramatically now that the easing pandemic has allowed people to return to…
It seems so simple, but the Internet is a complex web of connections. And that web looks a lot like a medusa jellyfish, according to new research by scientists in Israel. Within the Internet, they say, there is a dense core of connections surrounded by lots of tentacle-like links. Until now, scientists have had a hard time mapping the structure of the Internet. That’s because it formed almost by accident in the 1960s and 1970s, when universities, government agencies, and companies first decided to link their computer networks so that they could share information. The Internet grew as new groups…
Ten teachers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, scrambled for $1 bills on hands and knees last week during a hockey game, spurring critics to call the event “dehumanizing” and “dystopian,” according to the Washington Post. The event was intended to help teachers pay for classroom supplies and other materials, according to the report. Schools had to apply to enter the competition, dubbed “Dash for Cash,” which featured $5,000 in $1 bills donated by a local mortgage company. The cash was dumped on a carpet on the ice rink and teachers raced to stuff bills into their pockets. “Teachers should never have…