Archive for July, 2006
Well, this is probably the first time that I’ve been “e-published”.
Wacom has launched a Community website for the Asia Pacific region and had asked me to write for their “Pro Column”. I have written an article on the subject of “Business of Design“.
By the looks of it, Wacom is trying the online route to getting customers and it feels like a sincere effort too – there’s a lot of new stuff coming up on the community website and we should be reading more from designers and experts from the Asia Pacific region.
A great thing for the designers on the Asian continent!
July 31st, 2006
Just found out that you can now directly delete a network connection with one of your contacts on LinkedIn – the earlier process required you to write to Customer Support and request them to break the connection.
Now, you can just click this http://www.linkedin.com/connections?displayBreakConnections= and you can choose who to break a connection with!
Brilliant – it’s fantastic to see my two favorite online networking portals upgrading features that have been long requested by users!
July 29th, 2006
Hooray! I believe openBC indeed gets it!
They now have a space where everytime you create a new contact, you can assign tags to the contact [ of course Christian from Visible-Networking beat me to the announcement - I only got to use the feature today - maybe because openBC has private releases or geographic releases phase-wise ].
And you can also search on the basis of tags under your “Contacts” page.
This is absolutely wonderful! Extremely useful!
I’m thrilled.
July 25th, 2006
A friend – Gautam Ghosh – recently decided to quit the corporate jungle and beat a path of his own as an entrepreneur / freelancer. Read his blog post here.
He and his wife are setting out together in the HR and Organizational Consultancy space – they are based in India and are currently looking for a name for their startup. Gautam’s worked with Dell, HP, Satyam, Deloitte and has now embarked on a very different job search – the “own” job kind.
Congratulations Gautam and good luck!
The fact that he is a ‘high-network’ individual is going to make the journey a tad smoother – I’m sure he will get his some of his initial work and business from people he is connected to online.
July 24th, 2006
I’m extremely pleased to note that openBC is catching up – and how!
They are introducing changes, new features and even a new design at lightning speed.
At the outset, the new design looks fresh and very welcoming as compared to the boxy interface that openBC currently uses. The new look feels more fluid and interactive and easy to use – congratulations to the design team currently working on it. [ openBC has opened up the design challenge to everyone who wants to take a shot at it - they want the profile page designed in three stages - one where the search engines will display the profile page, the other where the owner of the profile will edit it and the other where the profile page will be displayed to openBC members - there's prize money of Euro 10,000 ].
Other changes include AJAX in their “default settings’ where when you are connecting with someone and have to set the sharing of your contact setting, you can now choose the standard format and just click on “Apply Default Settings” – this is very convenient as compared to the previous multiple clicking on the so many check boxes! Excellent thought.
Now you can also search for people in your contact list based on keywords / tags – this is super cool because earlier it was next to impossible to go to your contact list and find the right person – the only way to do that was to use the general search function and put in keywords and geographic location and then sift through the multiple search results.
One thing I’ve been asking for all along is the ability to download all contact details of all direct contacts with one click – this feature has still not been provided and I am not sure why.
Another feature they should/could provide is the ability to sort through personal contacts on the basis of “last date of contact/communication”, “date of direct contact and network connection on openBC” – I feel that would be extremely useful information to allow people to stay in touch with existing contacts and to BUILD RELATIONSHIPS.
Another feature that I suggest is the ability to send an update to all personal contacts with one click – on openBC, currently, you have to send individual messages to each person separately – an additional feature would be the ability to classify personal contacts into groups – and then be able to send e-mails to that particular group.
openBC is definitely getting much better at networking!
July 22nd, 2006
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