Brand New Careers on Internet

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July 14, 2007 ||

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Internet + Careers Once upon a time Internet use to be a Luxury(in India) and I am talking about 5-6 years ago. However, now its no longer Luxury and has become common mans necessity. And, as we know necessity brings opportunities. Internet has evolved as a strong medium of communication and is fast emerging as an alternative platform to kick-start a business or a career.

Talking about career, Internet has brought a variety of new career options. Lets look at a few of these newly emerging careers.

Blogging: Blogging is one of the biggest attractions on the Internet as of now, will it be the same five years from now? Yes! It will be even stronger. Similar trends were recorded in the west when blogging was a hobby and not a bread winner. Now, Asia is experiencing the craze over blogging where millions of youngsters are blogging and want to reach out to people from different continents and match their views with others.

Blogging can be for different reasons, e.g. Awareness, Personal Blog, Hobby, Commercial blogging.

If you are new to blogging and want to know what are your options, visit blogger.com or wordpress.org and you can start blogging in minutes. However, if you are little technical then you can download one of the content managements packages like Wordpress.org or Joomla.com and have your blog on your own domain.

SEO: I have seen this (Search Engine Optimization – SEO) industry growing bottoms up. This is one of the fastest growing industry and the way this industry is changing and evolving your roles & responsibilities and tasks on job are likely to change biweekly if not weekly.

There are different types of SEO’s, mainly WhiteHat and BlackHat SEO’s however the trend is flashing a new emerging type of SEO which is termed as Negative SEO.

Content Writer/Article Writer: “Content is King” This is the mantra for success and frankly its not rocket science. It’s easily understood right? You can be a part of this mantra and work as a content writer/Article Writer where you will be paid to write on specific topics.

If you are interested in something like this then here are a few websites you can start with http://www.guru.com/ http://freelancewrite.about.com/

Freelance Programmer/Developer: If you have the skill then you don’t have to bother about job security, there are tons of jobs for you out there. How does this work? Simple, all you have to do is register with a site that offers projects to freelancers and start bidding for your favorite project. One site that offers similar functionality is http://rentacoder.com

I personally know people who started as a freelance developer and ended up setting up a small size company to handle as many projects as they can from such websites.

Virtual DJ: Frankly, this does not surprise me at all. Lets look at it this way, We started with stage shows, technology evolved and radio came into picture, with more advancements in technology we started buying and watching soap operas on TV and now as the Internet age evolves the next logical thing for human race to do was to make shows for Internet and this is exactly what Virtual DJ is all about.

Hosting a show on the Internet makes you a Virtual DJ.

Internet Jockey: This one is a little confusing or may be because of its infancy the profile is still underdeveloped and recognized. From what I have learned and know this job involves live chatting with the website visitors. Mostly these are entertainment and music websites.

Links:
Job Application for Internet DJ
A Popular Internet Jockey

That’s all for now, if you know of any other Jobs coming up in the internet industry do leave a comment and let us know about it.