I have also now managed to launch my personal blog and website at www.nainaredhu.com where the main aim is to create awareness about my art [ which would fall under the category of Indian contemporary art since I'm in India ] and hopefully create a market for the same.
2 comments November 14th, 2006
This is the LinkedIn Santa telling you that upgrades are being made to the website. I love this Santa because it tells me that LinkedIn is working for my benefit! I love LinkedIn.
Add comment September 29th, 2006
Just received an announcement from Lars Hinrichs in my openBC inbox that openBC is being re-branded to XING – it’s a new name and a new design for the same platform. For some reason [ maybe because of the example that Lars uses, it seems like openBC is really pushing hard to get into the Chinese market - which is not a bad thing - just that the example of what the name XING means in Chinese really gives that impression ].
The reason given for the change in his e-mail is as follows :
Members also network on the platform in 16 languages, so we needed a brand image that carries meaning in different cultures around the globe. XING meets this requirement. In China, for example, XING translates as ‘can do’ and ‘encounters’. Besides these fitting associations, the name XING is cosmopolitan, innovative and unique – all qualities that reflect our community.
This is what the openBC header looks like :
There is a new website announcing the new platform XING – visit it. DO NOT forget to check out the sneak preview of the upcoming changes that should be in force before the end of this year. I most definitely like the colors of the new-look – much better than the dreary orange, dark teal and grey!
I for one, certainly welcome the change – maybe this will renew my participation on the platform, which has been extremely low since the last three-four months.
On another note, aside is re-designing too! Not a re-branding for sure, but the re-designed website is being tested on nainaredhu.com.
1 comment September 27th, 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!
1 comment July 31st, 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!
Add comment July 22nd, 2006
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