ProPakistani readers may have noticed that this website is undergoing some problem for last 24 hours now. We were down, then back then down again – and now ProPakistani is up with optimized design and database. Good news is that nothing is lost – however, we will remain in same optimized design for another 24 hours at most. We are sorry for this...
By: ZunNurain Khalid of UltraSpectra Last week I attended a blogger’s meet-up organized by Hewlett Packard. By the end of the day, what I was taking away from it was a nice T-Shirt with their insignia, their new product HP Mini Notebook review brochure, and many ideas for corporate blogging. Since then I was musing about it so I induced to give them...
We have successfully completed beta trial of ProPakistani SMS alerts, at this moment, we thought of sharing our experience with our readers. It was wonderful as well very challenging for us to maintain the quality with scalability. Today there are more than 6,000 subscribers, while we sent more than 40,000 text messages during this beta trial that...
Bloggers of Pakistan, here is the reward coming for you people, at last. CIO Pakistan and Google Pakistan is organizing Blog Awards for Pakistani Bloggers. Awards are confirmed, as we know through sources; however, we don’t know the dates yet. Everyone has to submit his/her blog him/herself. We are even un-aware of last date for submission, but we...
Last Week, HP conducted a bloggers meetup in three cities of Pakistan, Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. The intention of the event was to bring the bloggers community on platform where they can help teach HP that how can they reach online masses in Pakistan successfully. HP gave ample time to people to register for the event. Long and short, I went in...
By Affan Haider - www.TotallyPR.com I have been following ProPakistani with great interest for a while and was particularly intrigued by the topic “Why Professionals Don’t Blog in Pakistan“. A reason I was so intrigued was that in my blog a while back, I discussed the importance of blogs for Pakistani companies in order to further their...
Guest Post by ZunNurain Khalid of UltraSpectra I read ProPakistani daily, but it wasn’t until last week when I noticed a blog post on “Why Professionals Don’t Blog?” by Aamir Attaa that I decided it was time to submit a guest post. According to that post, Aamir asked to give out the opinion on a very important question that what makes the professional...
I am giving out a thought, that blogging community in this country is dominated by youngsters and college/university students. Be it be money earning blogs, or those filled with philosophies, reviews, news, information, documentaries on various topics ranging from politics to sports. Today, instead of writing something, I want you to share your thoughts,...
Exactly a week ago, we started SMS alerts Service for ProPakistani Readers. Service got tremendous response. Today we are happy to announce that 5,000 ProPakistani readers have registered with us, as of now, who are getting SMS alerts every morning. As you may know service is still in beta and we are doing our best to better the service in terms of...
Telenor conducted few online competitions for Weblounge, an online portal, in which thousands of people participated and won numerous prizes ranging from gift hampers to IPods and Blackberrys. Telenor Persona Weblounge Game Competition: To spice up the WebLounge, Telenor launched Weblounge blog (www.telenor.com.pk/webloungeportal). Here competition...
Most of us are familiar with Google Urdu Transliteration Service that converts Roman Urdu sentences into Urdu fonts. Here we got this Wordpress Plugin, which can enable your blog comments Google Transliteration ready, meaning that commenters will be able to type in Roman Urdu while output will be served as Urdu Fonts, and that too automatically. You...
Bloggers’ community and those who earn their money through online resources, ever you thought that the money you earn is taxable? It’s little hard to digest, but yes, the money we earn through our blogs, forums, online portals and through any other online resource is taxable. In this post I will try to explore on why and how much should we (online...
A week before the launching ceremony of Telenor’s online portal Weblounge, Telenor organized separate bloggers’ meetups in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi to demonstrate and brief the blogging community about their new service. These meetups were very fruitful for Telenor as bloggers quickly highlighted the loop holes in the service and suggested...
Earlier we told you about Zong’s email to sms service, today I am going to teach how can you get blogger comments on your mobile through sms notifications. For those who are running their blogs on Blogger, they can get sms alerts with their Zong connection when someone of their readers leaves a comment on their blog. It is free as long as Zong’s...
This is another milestone in the history of ProPakistani – as we have got Mr. Zeeshan Shafquat as new editor for your favorite blog. Zeeshan has been a very active writer of ProPakistani and did several hot posts here over the period of one year. He has got gifted journalistic skills with a technological sense. Until now, I had been managing the...
