Couple of months back we'd featured a Mohammad Ali's portrait that was created using 1300 boxing speed bags. Today we'd like to share another creative homage to a sportsperson: ex-NBA superstar, Yao Ming.

Hang Yi, a very creative artist, quite fascinatingly used a basketball and color red to create Yao Ming's portrait.

After releasing a video of her working on this portrait, Hang experienced an overwhelming social media experience, here what she has to say:

"Next thing I knew, my views shot up from 12k to 50k in a matter of a few hours, and the video was featured on the Huffington Post and Yahoo and NBC! I couldn't wrap my head around what was gong on before my eyes. The next crazy thing: Good Morning America and ABC news contacted me to request permission to show the video on their channels! I'm totally blown away by the power of social media." Check out the video below:

This is a guest post by Alexis Grant, she is the author of How to Build a Part-Time Social Media Business.

Writing and selling your own ebook can be a great way to supplement your income and grow your network, but creating a quality product for your audience isn’t always as easy as it sounds.

How should you go about starting the writing process? What’s the best way to promote your ebook launch? And how do you get paid once your ebook starts selling?

Here are some of my top tips for creating and launching an ebook, so you can take the confusion out of the process and start writing!

ArLynn Presser is a 51 year old woman from Winnetka, Illinois who has been living with 'agoraphobia' for past 30 years. Agoraphobia is the fear of crowded spaces or enclosed public places. Her fear was so severe, that she couldn't muster the courage to go to her son's graduation. Presser is a romance novelist and regional historian, she is scared of traveling, petrified of flying, gets panic attacks when she steps out of the house and stays in touch with all her friends through the Internet. She is the same woman who later took 39 flights to 13 countries, including countries like Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, India, UAE, Italy Germany, England, Canada, Mexico and all over the USA.

Presser's world was her home, a place where she felt safe, but on New Year eve of 2011, she decided to face her fears and embark on a journey of a lifetime. She decided to meet all her Facebook friends around the world, here's what she wrote in a blog post on 31st December 2010:

This is a guest post by Sachin.

When a small business starts out it necessarily has to compete with the big companies for business. This can be very difficult because there is often no real advantage to choosing a small company over an established and proven company. The key is in business image and the front that you present to the world. You may be working from a dingy basement but everything that people see should be professional, neat and tidy.

Guarantee security

When dealing with customers it is absolutely vital that you are able to guarantee both security and confidentiality. Ensure that your IT services are secure and reliable to prevent any loss of information. Identity and information protection are very important to customers in today’s market so it is vital to be able to ensure security.

This is a Guest Post by Craig Kilgore. Craig is an SEO with Mainstreethost. Craig has been practicing SEO for roughly 5 years with Mainstreethost. You can follow him on Twitter @ckilgs or contact him via email at ckilgore@mainstreethost.com.

Nathan Sawaya is a former corporate lawyer turned artist who uses millions of LEGO blocks to create some of the most amazing sculptures. He started out with using LEGO blocks as the material of choice for his sculptures as a hobby, but decided to turn full time artist when he began to get a lot of positive feedback from his audience.

Sawaya’s art is currently touring North American museums in a show titled, "The Art of the Brick". We've featured Nathan on our blog previously and decided to interview him to understand more about the art form and the person behind it. Catch the exclusive interview below:

This is a guest post by Britney Danila, she is a Freelance and Staff writer who writes informative & creative articles on SEO and Technology for various search engine optimisation company. Her expertise are in writing articles related to internet providers, SEO, Social media etc. 

A Google search query response as we all know presents a list of potential URLs, embedded files and social media conversations that may be of interest to the person entering the query. The results are determined by the Google page index, which lists every web page in the world for its relevance to keywords, phrases, tags and subject headings.

This is a Guest Post by Lindsey from ProfessionalIntern.com.

Social media has revolutionized communication: from education to business, social media has given millions of users the power to make their voices heard, to communicate with friends and strangers, and to share and receive information on an endless list of subjects. But it’s also been a surprisingly effective tool in helping ordinary people learn more about newly-diagnosed medical conditions, techniques for treating symptoms, and details about general topics like nutrition and fitness.


Playing for health

The popularity of social games has exploded in the past few years, and game companies and health care businesses alike are hoping to gain a foothold in a new market. According to the Wall Street Journal apps that give customers alerts, personalized information and weight-loss plans are attracting large audiences. By adding game elements and incentives to play, users can feel both a sense of involvement with their health care, as well as receive rewards for playing.

Miami-based artist, Augusto Esquivel creates the most mesmerizing sculptures by artistically hanging sewing buttons to create sculptures like a piano, harp, gramophone, toilet, water hydrant, flowers and much more.

"I realize how insignificant and small a simple sewing button can be as it lays in my grandmother’s sewing box, but at the same time how unique and precious it can become as part of a work of art. Like an atom in a molecule, each button serves and shapes the whole. I hold the button to my ear and it whispers to me, “I want to be…..” shares the artist in the most poetic manner.

Check out these enchanting sculptures below: