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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.
November 14th, 2006
Hiring for the following requirements: [ these requirements are for the web development company that belongs to a friend of mine ]
- Java — someone who is a pro with Java Velocity. This is for a ongoing offshore setup where we are upgrading the site for a client.
- PHP — freshers with an experience in PHP (if they did a course or did a project in final year MCA using PHP+MySQL). Money will be more if the person has a good amount of practical knowledge.
- PHP+MySQL — person with 1-1.5 years of experience.
- PHP+MySQL+Linux —- same as number 2 above but with a smattering of Linux administration khow (yeah this one is the designer drug). This guy is required to do the support work for an application and needs to be fast on the uptake, polished wrt email writing and reasonably good with the tech.
This small-time company’s been growing like crazy and he’s in a rush to hire because of the project load. All the jobs are based in Mumbai, India.
Please e-mail your CV’s to khanimtiaz @ gmail . com
November 9th, 2006
I recently signed up on Ecademy [ re-signed up would be a better description because I had signed on in December 2005 initially and never got back to using the platform much ]. I was assuming that Ecademy would have atleast a comparable business population – comparable to LinkedIn and openBC – if not more, but was quite shocked to find when they recently announced “Ecademy reaching 100,000 members!”
LinkedIn fortunately shares the total number of members on their platform : about 7 million as on date and openBC, although not very open about the numbers has atleast a million. By those standards, Ecademy is way behind – hence I still do not “get” why business networkers use this platform and how it benefits them.
I am a premium member on LinkedIn simply because the network pays me back – similarly on openBC. On Ecademy I am currently on a trial basis and need to decide whether I should convert to a paying member or not. They don’t have the concept of a free membership as their guest accounts expire in 14 days – and 14 days is just not enough to gauge whether a business networking platform is a good fit for me or not.
I’d really like to find out what your experience has been on this platform!
October 4th, 2006
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September 5th, 2006
Christophe Langlois is in Mumbai, India and I had the opportunity to meet with him.
Christophe is Sales Manager – EMEA & Asia Pacific at Accuity.
We discussed online business networking at length – portals like openBC, LinkedIn, eCademy, Rediff Connexions and many more I’d not even heard of – Chris is obviously more experienced with the various networks than I am and it was fantastic to speak with him. He also managed to get me to do a video interview about online business networking and blogging, which he is going to post on YouTube and I will post the same on my blog as well.
Chris blogs about business networking on his very well-written and informative blog called the Visible Networking blog. You can grab a feed for his blog here.
July 12th, 2006
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