8 tips to relieve your stress at workplace

A healthy living is the base of a successful work life. Working continuously at a stretch brings in stress and disorder to our mind, which hinders us from concentrating in what we do, resulting in decreased work productivity. Meditation is instrumental in relieving us from stress and anxiety and aids in healthy living. 

Here are a few quick meditation tips that we all can do on our own when we are at workplace to energize our mind and work with vigor. Don’t worry about the time it takes, as you can utilize your tea breaks, the tiny breaks after prolonged work, and the time when you are waiting for a call or a meeting. 

·         Breathing deeply: Breathing is a stress reliever if it is done correctly. If you breathe slowly and deeply with attention to breathing, it works as a meditation method. Listening to breaths while inhaling and exhaling the air brings in the consciousness of mind and helps in focusing things better

·         Imagine things you love: Close your eyes and take your mind to the beautiful things that you would love to be a part of or good old memoirs that continue to inspire you and bring happiness to your soul 

·         Think of your body: Take your mind to every organ of your body that is from your head to toe, while you take slow deep breathes. This helps in refreshing your mind when you concentrate 

·         Blink your eyes: While sitting at your place, take your eyes away from the screen, and blink your eyes constantly for some time. Your eyes will feel fresh and you will feel like going back to your work

·         Repeat words or phrases: While meditating, you can repeat a religious phrase, positive words or any particular phrase and devote your mind to that for some time. It reduces your anxiety and helps you to bounce back with energy 

·         Take a walk: We all know that walking is a good exercise. When you meditate while you walk, it’s a boon for the body and the mind. Take slow and small steps in your office area and focus on each movement of your leg and feet to divert your mind from odd things and come anew after you finish the round

·         Do your prayer: Praying is one of the best opted practices of meditation. Prayers give us strength and drive away anxiety, worries and stress. Prayers long or small, take the mind to a different state of peace and solace

·         Listen to your surroundings: Close your eyes and take your mind to all sounds that are coming from the environment. Pay attention to each of them coming from the surrounding, and it will relieve your mind from the worries and monotony of work

Besides, reading motivational quotes and good phrases, and listening to soothing sounds will give you a pleasant and relaxed mind to work again.  Try this quick meditation tips and as you practice you will witness the calmness that you achieve and the change you feel if you do it well.

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Make your projects come true by creating your own super team

However, nowadays, with things growing global, hiring dedicated resources and dedicated offshore development teams on contract is the key to make your super team.

Proven advantages for hiring dedicated contract resources for offshore development projects are:

• Hiring offshore employees reduces operational cost up to 70%
• Return On Investments for project completion with dedicated employees are satisfactory
• 100% ownership of the dedicated staff rests on the clients or customers
• You can choose dedicated offshore staff as per your requirements
• Offshore staffing modal is cost effective saving up to 60%

Different projects have different requirements and all organizations may not have the capacity to have multiple resources to work on multiple projects. Hiring dedicated resources on contract can help to solve the deficit by turning up with a new team. For projects, involving Developers, Testers, Project Managers, and Designers, the entire team or any one of them can be hired for product development, and dedicated offshore development projects.

Why creating your super team is easy through contract to hire ?

• Companies offering dedicated resources on contract have a pool of skilled persons to hire out for offshore development and you can pick your team members with the matching skills as needed for the project
• Resources are well-trained and working on similar domains to quickly pick up with development needs for your projects
• It nullifies the trouble associated in recruiting right resources and training them
• Uncertainty that hangs over deciding whether they are the right person for the team is ruled out, if you hire dedicated staff on contract

If you are planning to hire efficient resources to work like a dedicated team to handle your projects from initiation to completion right on time, hiring offshore resources can be a convincing solution.

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Can a smart lighter and an iphone app help you quit smoking?

Smart applications are making a niche in the field of fitness and healthcare with its unique range of products that aim at monitoring health issues. Quitbit is first of its kind, being the smart lighter and an app to empower an individual’s effort to quit smoking. It aids smokers to monitor their smoking frequency and control smoking habits. At present, Quitbit is compatible on iOS 5, but reports publish early plans to launch compatibility on Android 4.3 as well. Striking feature about Quitbit is that, it will work irrespective of a smartphone if you connect it via Bluetooth. The smart lighter measuring 67 x 43 x 10 mm and weighing 72 gm will last for a week with a single recharge.
Distinguishing features of the digital lighter and App are:

• Lights cigarette using a heating coil
• Tracks smoking records with every cigarette lit with it
• Shows the smoking trends of an individual through built in display and App

Quitbit is a digital lighter that can control your smoking habit if you pick lighter often. What it does is -

• Whenever a cigarette is lit with Quitbit, it will display the information of the last cigarette lit and the time gap in between
• It shows the times when you smoke most
• It shows a smoker’s smoking pattern to help him know his smoking frequency and time spent on smoking
• Sets daily limit to the number of cigarettes lighted

How you quit through Quitbit?

• You can stop smoking by setting daily limit to the digital lighter
• As you can see your smoking pattern, your brain triggers to have a check, every time you smoke
• You can curb your expenses as it shows how much costs you incur on cigarettes
• It displays the monetary savings when you keep away from smoking
• You can set the maximum number of times the lighter should light in a day. On reaching the daily limit, the lighter will abstain you from smoking
• Learning smoking frequency and looking at your smoking statistics, it is easy for you to take that step to quit smoking

If you want to quit smoking or you have made up your mind but unable to check your smoking, here is one thing you should not miss taking.

iPhone App Development,   Android App Development

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Staff Augmentation vs Project Outsourcing

Staff augmentation and Project outsourcing are business processes to complete a project which doesn’t fall within the capabilities of the organization due to shortage of manpower, infrastructure or other project loads. The cost and liabilities of permanent expertise including remuneration and employee turnover have ushered in the concept of staff augmentation. Staff Augmentation or Project outsourcing – both the alternatives can be an option depending on the type of project, economic scenario and existing IT expertise of the organization. Yet, staff augmentation is the present norm; it offers flexible options to meet present day needs of skilled IT staff of an organization at a frugal cost
Merits of Staff Augmentation

• Control over staff: Staff augmentation is the best way to mould, and manage your resources with the type of project. Staff augmentation ushers in good hold of project work flow as resources are observed while work progresses.
• Integration with internal processes: It is way easier to integrate resources into the existing business processes, than aligning project teams to a new project cycle. Inclining processes of two units of different organizations is cumbersome to attain productive results.
• Build on resources: Staff augmentation is a strong measure to add new skill sets and creative minds to the team. It is advantageous and innovative for a company to complete projects with staff coming from different working backgrounds. On one hand, such creativity sparks innovation to projects, and on the other hand, companies gain on both external and internal resources to take their projects to completion. Besides, experienced resources with a diverse work profile are an asset to the team.
• Team co-ordination: Staff augmentation can efficiently fill in the gaps arising in outsourced project teams, as they form the same cohesive group to work on a united mission and deliver well.
• Fluctuating staffing needs: Companies may not have the same consistency in acquiring projects and consequently may not require the same amount of man power and resources at the same rate. Companies staffing needs fluctuate depending on projects and time, and in this case, staff augmentation is the befitting answer
• Reduce cost: Staff augmentation has an edge in cutting down a great deal of costs put up on training and skills development as well as internal skills development benchmarked by the organization. Besides the liabilities and costs of direct employees are more to an organization
• Flexible process: Staff augmentation is flexible and drastic changes in any form are not required to bring in staff over contract. Staffs incorporate into company’s regular work roles and chances of high scale adoption required for project outsourcing is nullified

Merits of Project Outsourcing

• Negligible training and orientation costs: Outsourcing projects to clients will make them liable to arrange their own training and orientation as set forth in project requirements. This implies reduction in cost, that is spent in training and development activities
• Flexibility with project size: Project outsourcing furnishes the flexibility to the size of the project work, you want to accomplish. Whether it is big projects or specific task outsourcing there is no hindrance to it
• Induces responsibility: Outsourcing a project envisages a great deal of responsibility on outsourcing company to accomplish the project with all due risks and credits. It relieves company’s resources from constant engagement and monitoring the project
• Focus remains on management and business: If it’s feasible to outsource projects to dependable groups, the company can focus on core competencies, management and business. Effective management lays the foundation of a strong business and outsourcing can spare time for the same
• Streamlining with company’s capabilities: IT project requires human assets with different skills to complete it efficiently and on time. Companies may not have all resources matching to the required skill set at some point of time or the resources may have engagement in other time bound projects. Therefore, project outsourcing is the befitting answer to lack of efficient resources, to deliver projects to clients on time

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Microsoft brings in real-time Skype translator

Microsoft added a new dimension to internet phone service Skype with its real-time language translator to enhance international communications. Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella, quoting it was a dream of humanity and an effort to cross the language boundary; he unveiled the real-time language translator at Code technology conference, California on 27^th May 2014. A demo of Skype’s vice president Gurdeep Pall talking in English with a German-speaking Skype manager in Europe manifested the real-time speech to speech translation.

World has turned to a global village and language barrier stands in the way of communication across global frontiers. With as vast as 300 million accounts on Skype and nearly one-third of international call traffic, it will be a boon for internet video calls and conferences.

The translator technology

The Skype translator has evolved through the use of deep neural network based speech recognition that dates back to a decade’s history of dedicated research by Microsoft Labs on speech recognition, automatic translation, and machine learning technologies. The Skype language translator starts typing the words when a speaker starts talking and then the words are translated into text in the receiver’s language which is then voice synthesized to the language opted by the receiver. Nevertheless, the company is yet to decide on the specific languages it would be supporting. The beta version is due to be available on all Skype devices by December 2014 with support of 40 languages.

Skype Translator has a great potential to enhance communication in the field of education, knowledge management, interstate ties and international business. It’s the year end that will unlock the features hidden in the Skype translator, and its value for the global community.

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App Idea Challenge by Snyxius

 If you have an idea that fits to be a mobile app, to alleviate any problem of common day, share with us and win prizes.

The Competition:
The teams need to submit App ideas that cater to the needs of any industry / sector or add value to any current business area. The winners will get cash prize and certificates.
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Round 1:
Submit a synopsis of your App idea in PowerPoint format (6 slides excluding cover page) to include the following:
a. Executive summary
b. Problem
c. Solution
d. Target Market
e. USP of the App
f. Competition & Business Model

Round 2:
On campus/Skype presentation of the idea of the shortlisted teams

Important dates:
Round 1: Submission of entries: 12th May to 25th May, 2014 (Both Dates inclusive)
Round 2: 28th May, 2014
Final Results: 29th May, 2014

Team Size:
Each team can have 1 or 2 members.

Judging Criteria:
• Quality of the business plan
• Innovation
• Feasibility – technical & financial
• USP of the B-Plan
• Target customers and market opportunity
• Economics, profitability & growth prospects

Prize Money:
Total cash Prize of 7000 INR to top two entries and certificates to top five entries

Competition Rules:
By entering a submission, the Contestant warrants and agrees to the following set of rules:
• App idea should be original idea of the contestant, and solely owned by contestant with no other person or entity having any right to it
• The decision of the Judges is final and binding
• The company holds the right to cancel the contest without any notification to the contestants
• In the event of a tie between two or more submissions, then the cash prize will be equally distributed
• Snyxius has the right to use ideas received from the participating teams to publish, for app development or for publicity

Guidelines for Submission:

• Fill up the Registration form
• Like our Snyxius Facebook Page for regular updates about the competition
• E-mail your entries to bhagyashree@snyxius.com within the stipulated dates i.e. 12th May to 25th May , 2014 (Both days inclusive )
• All presentations should be in Microsoft Power Point .PPT or PPTX format only
• The subject of the email and file name should follow the convention: SnyxiusApp – (Team Name)
• No entries will be accepted after the dead line

Eligibility/Criteria for Participants:

• Individuals who have attained the age of 18 years at the time of entry
• Internal employees of Snyxius are not eligible to take part in the competition

Website:
• Visit our lab at http://www.snyxius.com/labs.php to gather insights on our Apps and cloud solutions
• To know more about us log on to www.snyxius.com and tweet with us @Snyxius

SEO – a new dimension to digital marketing

Technology has reached to that stage that research predicts an average time spent with digital media per day will surpass television viewing time, thereby enhancing chances of promotional work getting more exposure to public through digital media. Digital media has entrapped all the possibility of a successful business adventure that there is no further necessity to exemplify if we quote digital media is a strong weapon of marketing. Among digital media, SEO has added a new dimension to digital marketing. Chances of an advertisement, work, business website, organization getting visibility, reaching people, frequency of appearing in searches will amplify if we employ digital media instead of our conventional methods of marketing. With enormous competitors it’s immensely hard for a website to get noticed when visibility is the criteria to a ranking. Ranking decides which site will appear in a search when words are typed by users. 

SEO - Today’s need

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a strong weapon of web marketing throughout digital media. Search engines pick up the most relevant results in the desired searches. Keyword density, meta tags are important to a great extent to narrow a search to the most relevant, while in some other it’s the correct links, older domains that are crucial to get noticed and so on. Search Engine passes through a stint of operations-crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving before it lands up with the accurate search result. Hence chances of a search getting void in the process cannot be nullified if accurate search tips are not followed.

Here comes the necessity of search engine optimization. Optimizing with technical knowhow can get one website to be on the forefront in search engine ranking when any exact or relevant search is directed. With enormous competitors it’s hard to get a website noticed when visibility is the criteria to the ranking. 

Some tools available to work on optimization among several others are

•    Keyword forecast tools
•   Content tools
•   Converter tool
•   Robots.text generator
•   Title optimization
•   Google snippet preview
•    Copyscape

Google revealing its guide to SEO optimization stresses on the following in a right manner to crawl to the top

  

Use of SEO description meta tag, improvements in URL’s ,

•  Catchy anchor text and heading tags,
• Optimizing use of images,
•   Effective use of robots.txt and
•  Promotions and analytics

SEO - Revolutionizing Business

In this world of competition and thousand others grudging your soldier at the same time, without the right applications, right tactics chances of failure and perishing cannot be ignored. Instances of business getting prominent with SEO by getting traffic aligned to their site are plenty. 

Greeting Card Company NobleWorks rises with SEO usage after employing SEO for its business. Impeccably it has seen 30% increases in traffic, an 8 point improvement in average bounce rate and attributes its success to the firm employed for leveraging SEO

A top financial advisor in Boston for 2010, 2011 and 2012 and founder of Meridian Financial Advisors mentioned that before completing the SEO optimization, Meridian Financial Advisors’ monthly website traffic was around 128 visits which soar to 343 after optimization and continued to grow with168% growth rate. 

University of Dayton, Ohio stated that its certain educational programmes were not reaching its intended users as the university name did not come in local search before they took to SEO and added “Ohio” to the title html tag of these program pages. 

Therefore in business to university programs it’s SEO that’s capturing the online marketing and will continue to be dominant in the coming years. Those having online marketing goals of redeveloping business outlook, opening new business ventures, increasing publicity and reaching out globally to new clients SEO will be the worth taking option. Search engine will continue to be everyone’s favorite and optimization will consign in a precise search to grow and gain from the endeavor. 

A tip for businesses in this new year- Think like a content marketer, analyze like an SEO (Source: SearchEngine Watch)