State Council of Educational Research and Training (An Autonomous Organisation of Govt. of NCT of Delhi) Varun Marg, Defence Colony, New Delhi – 110024 Questpaedia: A collection of ‘Teaching Learning Material’ SCERT is launching a link by the name of Quaentpaedia in its new website.
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Questpaedia A collection of Teaching Learning Material by SCERT Delhi
If you’ve ever flipped through an issue of Yoga Journal , and thought, “I wish someone would read this to me so I could get on my mat and practice along,” you’re going to be really excited about our newest feature. LiveMag will be your destination for multimedia versions of your favorite magazine columns and features. In the first edition (which corresponds to the March 2010 issue of the magazine), you can practice along with the video versions of the popular Home Practice and Master Class columns and watch a demo of a few of the Sun Salutation variations highlighted in the feature story “Shine on Me.” Give it a try, and make sure to comment below and let us know what you think! By the way, the new issue of Yoga Journal will be out on newsstands February 16
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Yoga Journal: It’s Alive!
Prof M P Ranjan Image01: Conference Logo using a basic design assignment as an image for the conference – Design: Rupesh Vyas Conference Title: LOOK Back – LOOK Forward: HfG Ulm and Design Education in India Venue & Schedule: Hotel Taj West End, Race Cource Road, Bangalore 560 001, India March 6, 2010 : Full-day Conference-cum-Workshop on Design Education: 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Last date for registration: February 26, 2010 Organisers: National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad and Bangalore in collaboration with Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan (GI/MMB) Bangalore, HfG-Archive Ulm & IfA (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Germany) Stuttgart Background: The HfG Ulm, which started as a continuation of the Bauhaus experiments in design education under one of its former students – Max Bill, soon veered from a foundation in art to a science and society focus under the leadership of Tomas Maldonado.
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LOOK Back – LOOK Forward: HfG Ulm and Design Education in India
I was quoted recently in a TOI article on how activists are using social networking platforms. I like how Indian social activists are using social networking platforms for fundraising, or creating awareness for their causes.
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TOI Article on How Social Activists in India Are Using Social Networking Platforms
I was recently quoted in an Agencyfaqs story on how real time search is a game changer for marketers and content creators. I believe that real-time search is indeed a game-changer of search. The real power of Twitter lies not in being able to send and receive 140 letter messages, but in being able to search for tweets about people, brands, locations and events in real-time
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Agencyfaqs Story on How Real Time Search Is a Game Changer for Marketers and Content Creators
Social media has often played an important role in on-ground reporting, coordinating relief efforts and fundraising during crisis situations, especially natural disasters like the South East Asia Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the China Earthquake.
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Social Media Helps Out in Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort and Fundraising
I was quoted recently in a WSJ article on SMS-based social networking platform SMSGupShup . The article delved into the business model for SMS based social networking platforms in India and focused on the need to limit usage to control outgoing SMS costs – Analysts say restricting the number of user exchanges is the only option SMS GupShup has to hold down costs
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WSJ Story on SMS-Based Social Networking Platform SMSGupShup
Yesterday, I gave a talk at the NASSCOM Emerge Friday 2.0 event about how the time is ripe for Indian startups to target the global market: ‘ Made in India, Made for the World ‘. So far, Indian startups have focused on tweaks for the local market, not inventions or tweaks for the global market, partly because Indian VCs have tended to fund me-too startups with a business model focused on enabling transactions for the local market (book a air/ rail/ bus/ movie ticket)
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My NASSCOM Talk: Made in India, Made for the World
Just two days back we reported on Yahoo setting up a hadoop cluster in IIT Bombay, and now we have news of Facebook coming up with fellowships to PhD students researching topical areas in computing that are relevant to Facebook. The relevant areas as per the Facebook blurb are: Internet Economics : auction theory and algorithmic game theory relevant to online advertising auctions. Cloud Computing : storage, databases, and optimization for computing in a massively distributed environment.
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Facebook fellowships for computing research: another win-win collaboration?
I was quoted recently in a DNA story on how the popularity of Twitter and the real-time web are a reflection of our desire to want everything now: a trend Malvika Tegta calls “nowism”. In the email interview, I had mostly talked about how real-time web is changing the nature of content creation and content consumption, but “nowism” is an interesting idea indeed, the type of idea Maya would think about.
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DNA Story on Nowism, Twitter and the Real Time Web
“I can’t believe you lost!” Maya exclaimed as she put down her coffee. “I was sure you’ll win the Kingfisher Calendar Launch contest . You were the only woman in the fray!” “I know!” Naina agreed animatedly.
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Maya Campaigns for Naina in the Kingfisher Calendar Launch Contest
There is a very interesting report on Indian youth trends at Ingene . What stuck me the categorisation of the Indian youth: 1. The Bharatiyas: 67% of the Indian youth who lives in the rural areas with least influence of globalisation, least economically priviledged and high on traditional values and highly Bollywood influenced.
“Internet in India is like Bharat in Ian McDonald’s ‘River of Gods’ ,” Maya explained to Tarun, as she sipped her second cup of black coffee at the Green Park Costa. “For every four men here, there is only one woman.” In the science fiction novel set in futuristic 2047, India had splintered into several state along linguistic lines.
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Maya Wonders Why India Has No Dating Websites, Only Matrimonial Websites
“How dare she snoop around my photo album on Facebook,” Ria asked rhetorically, red with rage, “then tell Rahul that he should break our engagement?” Ria was railing against Rahul’s mother, Sharma Auntyji; Rahul, of course, being the love of her life, and her fiancée till the previous day.
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Maya Discovers Facebook’s Role in Indian Arranged Marriages
Maya sank further back into the soft leather couch, looked up from her laptop and smiled to herself. The young girl chatting with her college friends at the next table threw her a puzzled look, then smiled back at her. “This is why I started the Facebook fan group for the Green Park Costa,” Maya typed out as she felt her smile grow bigger, “I smile more when I am here.” Then, she added a smiley for effect, along with the link to the Green Park Costa group, and pressed “enter” on Tweekdeck.
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Maya Starts a Facebook Fan Group for the Green Park Costa
I was recently quoted in two compilations of social media predictions for 2010, by TrendsSpotting and Junta42 , along with social media influencers like Pete Cashmore, David Armano, Chris Brogan, Peter Kim, John Batelle, Drew McLellan, Jason Falls, Charlene Li, Robert Scoble and Paul Gillin. I think the big social media trend in 2010 will be that online brand communities will come of age.
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2010 Social Media Predictions: Online Brand Communities Will Come of Age
I couldn’t agree more with what Lakshimipathy Bhat wrote in the Financial Express that the Sunsilk Gang of Girls, often taken as the benchmark on digital campaigns in India owes a part of its success to the massive offline mass media support it got. Often for our clients we most of the time try to integrate digital support to PR and marketing activities
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Support your online media campaigns with mass media & mobile phone marketing
KSID Conference Proceedings: A ringside view 9 & 10 November 2009: Kovalam, Kerala Prof M P Ranjan Brief summary of the proceedings of the Kerala State Institute of Design (KSID) Vision meeting at Kovalam on 9th and 10th November 2009. Followed by recommendations and action points. Image01: Day Zero: Sun, Sand and Beach at Kovalam The conference that was held at the Kristu Jayanti Jubilee Memorial Animation Centre at Kovalam and the conference were set in motion by the Executive Director of KSID, Shri P T Girish who welcomed the delegates and experts to the Vision of KSID conference and invited Prof.
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New Design School at Kerala: State level action in India
For a recovering hoarder — I gave away everything I had accumulated over six years in one cathartic sweep last year — A&E TV’s hit new show ‘ Hoarders ‘ is a fascinating morality tale of how our possessions own us as much as we own them – Each 60-minute episode of Hoarders is a fascinating look inside the lives of two different people whose inability to part with their belongings is so out of control that they are on the verge of a personal crisis. Whether they’re facing eviction, the loss of their children, jail time, or divorce, they are all desperately in need of help.
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A&E TV’s Reality Show Hoarders: We All Own Something That We Can’t Give Away
The students of Singapore Management University have put together a nifty wiki on social media in Asia . The wiki has sections for each country (see India ) with pages for introduction, case studies , resources and interviews with local experts ( Kiruba , Rajesh and myself ). In my interviews, I talk about how the social media marketing scene in India is maturing – :: Tell us about the use of social media by businesses in India
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Singapore Management University Social Media in Asia Wiki