Social networking sites to Knowledge networking sites

Social networking sites have gained popularity among people by integrating it in their daily life to develop their networks beyond geographical boundaries. Though major part of the activities in these sites is to develop contacts and continue a long term friendship, only a few utilise it for sharing knowledge. There is a need for sites that are specifically reserved for certain activities and dating sites, music, photo and video sharing sites are some of the examples.

The social networking sites are undergoing a paradigm change from "its not who you know" to "its what you know". People like to connect to a knowledgable person to spend their time usefully by exchanging their knowledge looking for a mutual learning environment. Now a person in the networking sites is weighed on the intensive knowledge he/she carries. They gets an image makeover turning out to be a knowledgable person with enormous contacts. (Example bloggers like kirubashankar -
www.kiruba.com and Ajay Jain - www.techgazing.com are perceived as knowledgable people in the IT technology part). Though many networking sites are integrating new features for disseminating knowledge, the users still perceive it as a platform for making friends. So, new websites are being launched for exchanging knowledge for niche audiences like IT professionals - techtribes.com, businessmen - siliconindia.com, ryze.com, linkedIn.com.

Sites like authorstream and slideshare enhance sharing of powerpoint presentation among net users. The presentations uploaded can be an academic topic, a marketing campaign a business pitch or handling investment plans. Microsoft estimated that about 30 million PowerPoint presentations are created everyday. Figures also show that the number of PowerPoint presentation users are about 500 million. Though internet is the best mode to send these presentations to meet instant communication needs across geographies, the heavy size of PowerPoint, speed of internet and the sense of losing control over the presentation are major hindrances to meet the objective.

Doesn't like the way VKK ended

While there was confusions in continuing the afternoon session of our office (as there was a blast of an air-conditioner in the 2nd floor), we thought of spending some time in the theatre near to our office. We went to 'Vennila kabadi kuzhu' and I say our additional spending of Rs20 over each of the ticket was proved worth. I could point out some lack of depth in screenplay, but not worse that most as it is an attempt by a debutant director. The film fraternities compared it with Chennai 600028 but its not detrimental for VKK to be on par with it. Both the films had love, joy, friendship, defeat, hurdles, family emotions etc. but still the freshness and depth of the characters kept VKK an inch behind in overtaking Chennai -28. Of course, Chennai -28 had a handful of experienced members who knows the pulse of chennaities.

And i didn't like the way VKK ended...

And in the view of the publicist in myself - The VKK crew should have invited Chennai 600028 team for the launch of its audio function.

Satyam employees still optimistic :)

JUST ANOTHER DIMENSION TO LOOK AT WORK... MAKES A HUGE IMPACT. JUST READ ON... Dear All, I (Satyam Employee) am deputed at client location and came across a very interesting conversation in cafeteria yesterday. One of my co-worker, also deputed with the same client through some lesser known two room company, mustered guts to ask me sarcastically in front of entire team, "So, Satyam is gone! What are you guys planning to do now?" In normal circumstances, I have a habit to not to reply to lose talks, but in front of entire team.... I thought I need to fix this guy's thought process. I asked him, as my military training has imbibed in me the habit to fight till last breath, "Who says Satyam is gone when I am very much alive here and committed to create value on behalf of my company?". He shot back, "Hello Mr., your chairman has resigned, you guys are facing financial turbulence and you still have a face to say that Satyam is not gone!" At this juncture, I thought of replying to this guy in his own language. I asked him, "Tell me, what will you do and where will you go if our country India was not there?" He was not prepared for this level of thought and asked back, "What a stupid question, How can India be gone, it is a country?" I asked him back, "Country! What makes a country? Land? Economy? Our Prime Minister? Our President? Our Geography? Or the PEOPLE? If our PM resigns, will you say India is gone? If our economy faces a slowdown, will you say India is gone? But yes, if the people of a country are lost for any reason, we will say that country has no meaning. Who cares of vast land of Antarctica today which has just one permanent resident, Father Georgy? Which country does it belongs to? Why does not it has any government? Why does not it has any economy? Or, how many countries were there when humans used to hunt for food in pre-historic times? Countries, Wealth, Infrastructures and booming economies are nothing but creations of efforts of PEOPLE, and they do not have any existance on their own. And the final blow was, "When one man can create Satyam as an organization of 53,000 people, why not 53,000 committed people can rebuild one SATYAM?" TRULY INSPIRING......

Ghajini - No Smoking

Aamir Khan Productions and Murugadoss applauded for a scene that shows Aamir hitting people smoking in malls. Scenes like these bring out the originality of the situation and Murugadoss should be thanked for this initiative. He has said in an interview with TOI that the even negative characters in the movie don't smoke. Murugadoss makes the other stalwarts in the field rethink who always try to glamorize or glorify smoking by just mentioninga ban statement during the scene. This happens even in small screen shows.

Even a scene between Surya & Simran in the most hyped 'Varanam Aayiram' tells about the reasonfor acquiring throat cancer due to smoking.

Owing to this can films be used to spread the anti-smoking message....?

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/Ghajini_cheers_non-smoking_lobby/articleshow/3934848.cms