wikiHow "Just Believe"

When writing a wikiHow article, you must be able to think outside of the box. Creativity is key. Of course when somebody wants to learn how to do something in a step-by-step process, they turn to websites such as these looking for specific instruction. Not only has this site been useful in providing “how to” do something, but it gives numerous options to choose from with specifics. It is not always easy to be creative. In fact, most people who work under pressure to meet deadlines have to show many ways of using creativity. If time is watched and evaluated carefully and a step-by-step process is followed, meeting deadlines aren't that frightening.

In order to catch a person’s interest in these “how to” articles, keeping many things in mind is fundamental. Try and think of something that nobody has ever thought of before. Start by looking at other published articles to make sure that your wikiHow is different and sparks readers' interests. Even if it's something that the reader wasn't looking for, they might stop and read up on your wikiHow just to fill their time. When you follow these steps, not only will you create new opportunities for others but you will also create new opportunities and ideas for yourself. Think about it for a second. When you aren’t sure how to do something, what do you do? Research is something that is turned to very often. Make your research count and dig deep.

When trying to cipher a new topic or a topic that is not well-known, research is usually done in great detail.  Sifting through resources on the internet can be difficult because you don’t know if hard evidence is always provided. That means, you must dig deeper to find the answers that you are looking for. Try to use legit web references, not just sites such as Google. Google is great for just searching on a topic, but the websites that are provided aren't always great sources. When a topic is studied by using many different resources (new and old), better perspectives  on the subject are found because you are using a number of resources, compared to only a few. When searching for a website that you can count on to be well worth using, try to dig deep and use something such as a related reference from the school library. Scholarly journals and newspaper articles are only two things that can be found on a library's website.  There are many more that you can choose from, you just have to limit your search.

As you create a wikiHow, remember to use concepts that seize your audience’s attention. Always get straight to the point in the first part of each step in your wikiHow, explaining what you’re trying to say in few words. Also, using key words that jump out and will grab your reader’s eye, will help your audience to keep fixated on your work. When you hold somebody’s interest for more than a few minutes, you should be more than impressed. Also, use photos that you have taken recently or maybe over the course of your life, that relates to your wikiHow step-by-step process. Using Photoshop will create new depths of focus on your image, bringing out the shadows and highlighted areas. When taking new photos to use on your wikiHow page, keep them interesting. When you do this, your audience will have to start thinking in greater depth, creating the question of why the photo was taken in the first place. When you create an element of question for your audience, they will want to keep reading and figure out what the actual message is that you are trying to convey. 

As wikiHow introduces many people to new and sometimes unique tasks by giving different strategies in doing so throughout wikiHow, there are a few questions that you need to ask yourself. What is the biggest thing that most speakers use to manipulate their audience? The answer is rhetoric or persuasion. When persuading somebody to do something a certain way, you must give them a commendable reason on why they should be following your steps. When doing so, you have to make sure that steps are not missed or skipped over. If they are, your reader will be disappointed when actually trying to follow your technique. Nothing is more aggravating than trying to follow some sort of directional that gives you a step-by-step process, and something goes wrong. Usually it’s because the person has read the directions wrong, but it could also be a step that was missed when the original recipe or idea was created. Making sure to include everything is crucial.

While writing each step in your wikiHow, be influential and only use terms that people are familiar with. In other words, be short and sweet, getting straight to the point. Sometimes when you drag out a process of “how to” complete something, people will get bored and lose all interest in wanting to know how to do that particular thing that interested them in the first place. You have to realize that not everybody works on the same level, so make sure to create steps that are simple. Of course you may be writing to an audience that is of middle-age, but anybody could be reading your “how to” article. You don’t always run into a nine-year-old that is interested in learning how to do something by looking through wikiHow, but you never know. In creating a wikiHow, you must be willing to create a catchy title. This will also grab the viewer's interest.

When creating a wikiHow, make sure to use something that interests you. If you don’t, this project will be extremely boring for you and you are most likely to go off in the deep end, chattering about something that has nothing to do with your wikiHow. Think about what interests you and the things that you enjoy doing. It is not fun when you become lost in your thoughts and don’t know where to go from a certain point. It may also be hard to get back on track but when you focus and are subject to succeed, there is nothing to worry about. You must think positive. Also, having a schedule in creating your wikiHow is probably a good thing. Make sure to notate deadlines or due dates in your phone under calendar along with marking these things down on paper. When setting deadlines for starting and finishing this project, make sure to set yourself at a pace that you can keep up with. Try to plan out each hour of each day that you will be taking part in completing your task. When you can’t set and meet your deadlines on time, organization is something that isn’t quite on track. When you’re disorganized, you’re not focused. When you’re not focused, you can’t come up with ideas that will make your readers jump and want to read more.

Research is something that needs to be done when creating your wikiHow page, but you don’t always have to use the Internet in doing so. Have you ever thought about maybe asking around to different people on how they would do something or accomplish a certain task? Sometimes great ideas come from other people around us. This doesn’t mean to listen to the specific steps that they give and use their ideas to create your wikiHow page. Simply, this means to use other people’s theories in coming up with a creative and easy way, teaching other people how to do something. Put yourself out there and maybe survey a few people that you come into contact with. You don't have to get into great detail. Just ask a few people if you can ask them a couple of quick questions. When trying to accomplish a task, it is found that a group of people think faster and use more creativity, compared to if it’s just one person that is thinking up the idea.

Lastly, make sure to go over every single detail and step at the end. If your punctuation or spelling is poor, your article will not be published. Use spellcheck and other sources that can help you with your punctuation. Also, when trying to get creative with the use of words, go to a thesaurus and find other words that might fit. When the editors go through and look at your article on “how to” do something, they want to see that you have done your work to the best of your ability and they want to see creativity. If you do have edits that need to be made in this case, they will most likely email you, addressing their concerns and telling you what needs to be fixed or edited. When creating your wikiHow page, you may run into some trouble along the way. But, just remember to stay confident and create a positive environment for your readers.

What Has Been, What Is Now, What Will Be

The Worldwide Web and Human Intelligence

As social media continues to hype over the World Wide Web and the information that it continues to share with people today, it will always hold something that we may not truly understand. That is, we will always have questions about how the web adjusts to our liking and not the other way around. 

Web 2.0 is part of the World Wide Web that that has sucked people into being able to make adjustments and improvements to the work that others have already submitted, being able to add factual items and ideas that were not originally founded. It is a search engine that allows any kind of research to be done, connecting similar sites with one another, providing new information that is collectively trying to be explored. 

Web 3.0 is kind of the newer and improved World Wide Web, or something that can be referred to as “the unknown.” Yes, social media has taken us for a ride and provides a huge leap forward into the future, allowing people to interact with each other through resources such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. The advertisements that pop up on the sides of our screens that links us to “our likes,” is not just something that happens out of coincidence. The websites that we currently visit are being tracked and saved in cyberspace, as “the unknown” having forced their way into private territory.   

When Web 2.0 began to grow out of what was originally referred to as Web 1.0, people really began to notice the difference and social outlets began to pop up everywhere, all over the globe. There was not just one thing that made people jump to the new social interaction over the web. All of the new entertainment that was providing the people with something new to look forward to at the end of their day, grew to being even popular during what is invoked and chatted about during the normal work day. People have begun to assimilate their work with their play, not knowing how to separate the two when it comes time to do so. Web 1.0 was the original version of the malfunction and distraction of Web 2.0, not being as much of a nuisance to the human brain. As society may note, when distraction disconnects a person from the world, focus becomes blurry and problems may start to occur.

How Human Intelligence Has Become Disarrayed

The World Wide Web continues to allow the advantage of new analyzation through and by the human brain, allowing for new ideas to be created and studied at the same time. As modern technology is established and used more and more each day, the World Wide Web has started to create a world for people that lets the electronics do the thinking and creativity is starting to downsize largely. You know that laziness is approaching when you do something as simple as scroll through your Facebook newsfeed in search of a website that you just recently visited, instead of opening another tab and looking for the confirmation email that you know will show up in your Inbox. Web 3.0 and soon to be talked about more frequently Web 4.0, has introduced our generation to the new version of the World Wide Web, where the human brain won’t have to do any of the thinking. Below, is a link that act as a guide leading you through the main stages of the web, touching on and introducing each step in detail. This web evolution will blow your mind.

Web 1.0 created a space for people to look up information that provided mostly any form of knowledge or idea that was longed for, just with a search bar and the click of a button. In order for this to work properly, you had to provide the “idea” or subject that you were trying to perform research on. You couldn’t just log onto a site such as Google, and once you started typing it would just pull up all ideas that could be related to what you were really in search for. You actually had to do the thinking and create the original concept of what was being studied. This is the part of the web where information could be observed, but no participatory action could be taken or used. 

Web 2.0 is the newer version of Web 1.0, linking more similar pages on the web to one another.  Instead of just being able to search for something on the web, you are now able to add your ideas or reflections to information that was already founded. If edited correctly, the information that you provided as “something new,” would be able to be referenced as a reconstruction of the page for others that are on the World Wide Web to view. As more people begin to support and share their own ideas with web users from all over the world, the Internet has become known as a place where you can find absolutely anything, with just a suggestion of a term phrase.  If you click on the link below, you will be able to get a clearer idea of the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Click on this web page to see further detail.

Web 3.0 is the latest pow-wow that is known to man-kind, being of or related to our latest century. It is looked at as something that is happening now and will continue to happen in the future that has yet to come. We have the main idea of what the World Wide Web can provide us with, and we are now able to gather the presumptions about the essential concept of “what will be” or “what could be.” If you think about how the World Wide Web and how it can contribute to our lives today, try to think about possibly what it has not allowed us to do. Can you think of anything? Maybe you can, but probably not. Instead of looking at what it cannot do to help us, we almost always assume that it acts as some type of aide, encouraging us to use the beneficial and factual information that has already been established. Web 3.0 is the latest and greatest concept of the World Wide Web, creating a space for enhancement of new technologies. As we continue to interact with the web and the information that it has provided us with today, we are automatically being linked to the newer version of the Internet and how it can benefit both the sender of the message and the receiver. The web is not just a one way direct message anymore, from one user to another. It is a communicator that will continuously provide new information to anybody that is in search of it, allowing for new and upcoming growth of the World Wide Web. Below, is a link that will provide you with greater detail on how you can make the determination of what Web 3.0 really looks like. Check out this special report to improve your knowledge of the web.

Breaking Bad

When deciding to make a move cross country to the west coast, there are a lot of things to think about and planning to do ahead of time. You may start to overthink and gain anxiety over a short period of time if you don’t actually sit down and break down the steps that you will need to follow. Below are some steps that you can follow, making your move a lot smoother and hopefully stress free.

Step 1: Save Your Money
Saving your money and following a spending plan, is something that you must make an effort to do. Of course stress always starts to commence when money handling becomes a problem, so you want to wipe that clean of everything that you have to do. Whether it’s putting a certain amount of money away in a savings account each month, or just budgeting what you have been or will be spending your money on, it’s always a smart move. When you plan a spending limit for each month, it helps you to self discipline. 

Step 2: Go Green
Instead of putting yourself through the stress of packing things away and storing them once you reach your destination, get rid of the things that you won’t be needing or aren’t necessary to hang on to.  If they are just taking up space, it’s not necessary to hold on to them. The more that you sift through and get rid of, the easier your move will become. Don't throw things out that could still be of use. If they remain in good condition, you can always sell them online at sites such as Craigslist, E-bay, or Amazon. If you choose to sell these things, the extra money that you earn could always be used to purchase new items that are a necessity or something that will be put to use.

Step 3: Find Work
A move cannot be planned if you don’t have a job lined up ahead of time. Yes, you may be able to use money that you have saved over time to hold you over for the first couple of months, but you don’t want to put yourself in a rut. While doing your research and actually job searching, make sure you find something that you plan on doing for a while, something that will benefit your future. Find something that will hold your interest, and maybe have a back-up plan if that job doesn’t end up working out. If you want to make “good connects,” emailing your cover letter and résumé is always a must. Update both, editing and accommodating all fundamentals to where you will be handing in your résumé. 

Step 4: Find Your Community
The next step, is to do some research on where you might want to live. Obviously you want to look for a place that is near where you will be applying for work, but you also want to be able to  be closer to other things as well. You don’t want to be driving an hour to go to a grocery store or gas station either. Contact a handful of places where you might be interested, keeping your options open until you have a great match on what you’re actually looking for. Leasing is a huge thing that you will have to think about, as you will probably be signing a contract of how long you will be staying at the place of your choosing. Some places make a month to month signing agreement, and others may be long-term. If you don’t know exactly how long you will be wanting to stay in the same place,  come to an agreement with the owner of the leasing statement before you sign anything.

Step 5: Choose Your Movers
As far as “the move” goes, you will want to make the decision of whether you want to ask friends and family to help, or if you want to hire actual movers to do all of the work. Some people like to save money and like the pleasure of having the presence of people that are close to them be with them throughout their big move.  If you want to have people who are close to you help you with your move, you have to keep in mind that you may have to plan around their schedules because they probably work or have other responsibilities that come first. If you decide to hire movers, you can find moving companies that fit your match on the web, like anything else. Some companies have weight or space restrictions, so make sure that phone calls are made and details are thoroughly gone over.  

Step 6: Map Your Route
When hiring movers, finding out how you will be getting to your final destination will be very important. Moving cross country can be a haul, so find out the prices on different routes of transportation. While figuring out whether you will be taking a plane, train, or car, you may want to find out the quoted prices for the different companies within the public transportation system.

Step 7: Make The Address Change
To be quite obvious, if you’re moving to a new place you are going to make sure to change your mailing address ahead of time. Once you find the place where you will be residing, make all changes with mail carriers so that your mail doesn’t get replaced or rerouted to the wrong address. There is nothing more aggravating than not knowing where all of your important mail is going.

Step 8: Steer Clear of Insurance Troubles
Plan ahead and make sure insurance coverage can be changed to the state where you will soon be living. A lot of times it can be a long process with changing health benefits to a different plan, having to follow up with customer care repeatedly. Along with health care coverage, medical changes also need to be made, such as finding a local doctor and dentist. These things are important and should be kept at the top of your “to do list.”

Step 9: Pit Stops
After deciding on all of these things, you will want to plan the route that you will be taking and get directions from several different sources. Moving out west is quite the trip, so finding out where you will be stopping ahead of time is something that should be planned out before you hit the road.

Step 10: Patrol Weather Conditions
Lastly, plan your move in a good weather conditioned season. While traveling cross country to your new home, I doubt that anybody wants to face the troubles of moving in the dead middle of the winter months. It could be dangerous and quite irritating, so make sure to make a wise decision on when you will be moving.

All of these things should be taken into consideration, making it easier to face any trouble that may rise to the surface. Organizing your time is important, and most people don’t realize how relevant taking all of these short cuts can really be. Once you take the steps of benefitting yourself by breaking down your move, you will be able to start enjoying the idea of actually moving and the excitement will all be worth it in the end. 

WikiWhat? WikiWho? WikiHOW?

Even though it may not seem that difficult, coming up with new ideas to create a new wiki page may not be all that easy. You have to think, how many people are trying to be creative in their own ways that spark new viewers' interests? There are many ways to pull people in, trying to get your point across, and at the same time make them want to understand why you are writing what you are writing. Sometimes people write to get feedback, but others write to try and create a difference. This is good. If you want to get your ideas out there and start receiving feedback from others from across the world, writing a wikiHow page will put your mind and communication skills to the test.

The first "how to," is how to successfully find a job cross country on the west coast. In order to do this, the right people must be contacted and emails/phone calls must be taken to the next level. You may ask, what is the right way to get in contact with somebody in the correct field, along with somebody that may be a way to "get an in?" This is a great question. The answer to that is a lot of research and patience. The odds of contacting the correct people at the right time is slim to none. However, you have to be patient because the people who are not at the top of the ladder, just may be the people who point you in the right direction. I will walk you through a few more steps regarding how to face the fears of reaching out to the wrong people. It's simple, you must never give up.

The second "how to," is how to be an independent woman who is in a relationship. Of course there will always be the struggle of, "how can I have a man in my life and be looked at as that female who can support herself." I may not have all the answers, but I have many pointers that can lead and guide you in the right direction. Don't be afraid of what people think of you. That's the first step. The key to independence is maintaining yourself first. If you want to be in a relationship that is healthy, make sure you are happy in life. A relationship shouldn't be taken on just to fill a void or make you feel like a better person. A relationship should be "a part of your life," not your whole focus. That's the first food for thought. There are many to follow.

The third "how to," will always maintain a mystery to me in so many ways. Maintaining a long distance relationship in different time zones can always be quite difficult, but always think positive. Think about it. Relationships that are held near and dear where your partner lives down the street or maybe even under the same roof as you, always have room to grow stronger. In order to grow with somebody in life, you have to get to know that person under every single circumstance. With that thought, times aren't always going to be "good." With the good, comes the bad. This also means, you along with the other person needs space away from each other. You may be thinking, "how can you emotionally and physically grow with somebody that is so far away?" First thing is first. You have to stop questioning all the time and let things flow. Space can be a good measure to come by. Think about it. Growing close with somebody who is so far away from you can be quite compelling. It can also be fun, exciting, and maybe a little nerve racking at times. There are some things that you may have to think about over the course of time, but these things that can be worked on over time could bring you quite a ways.

As much as we may question if we can or cannot do something in life, we are always thrown a curve ball that holds a lot of surprise. In order to be successful at something, different strategies might have to be taken. The strategies that you use may not be the ones that you think of right off the top of your head. You may have to do some digging and run a few trials and errors. The key of everything you put your mind to, is to never give up and always push farther from where you wanted or imagined you would ever be. You may be disappointed at times, but don't let that discourage you. In order to meet success, you must face failure. That is a fact, not just my opinion.