Saturday, December 3, 2011
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The Zing Blog: The Creative Entrepreneur : Is an entrepreneur cre...: Recently a young girl came in to my store. She had recently discovered the art of quilling. She was a journalist before she discovere...
Friday, November 25, 2011
The Zing Blog: When work does not give stress: How to make work f...
The Zing Blog: When work does not give stress: How to make work f...: After the great response to Mamta's earlier post , we decided to ask her to do another guest post on what is work. Here she is on what i...
The Zing Blog: When work does not give stress: How to make work f...
The Zing Blog: When work does not give stress: How to make work f...: After the great response to Mamta's earlier post , we decided to ask her to do another guest post on what is work. Here she is on what i...
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The Zing Blog: On being an entrepreneur and business person : How...: When Umesh asked me to write an article, I just said yes because I love writing :) … and then, I visited this blog, and peeped around, oh...
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Networking Etiquette's, rather how to maintain decorum on social media sites!
It horrifies me to see young blood being so callous about how they come across on these sites.
They are well educated, in good jobs, yet they misbehave.Are they doing the same in the real world?
The online world is not unreal just a parallel world, this is how I look at it.
Why do people become over - friendly from the word go, are they so desperate for friendship or do they think it is cool to behave like that.
I think it is most UNCOOL.
I would like to know how many of you still address letters starting with DEAR.
If we are smart enough to learn the lols etc aren’t we smart enough to know DEAR is no longer ok and it is best kept dear.
Poor Dear it is another misused word like the sorry and the thank you. I feel sorry for the word :)
The funny thing is sometimes I have taken the liberty of guiding few people about leaving the word DEAR out of the conversation, next thing I know they take offense, no amount of explaining that dear it is for your good, get a grip, understand that you are dear that is the only reason I am bothering to explain, but alas….we do not see it like that, all we see is that this woman is a pompous oaf and what does she know….I agree not to know too much, but I have definitely learned that DEAR better be dear, and best left alone, it is like the word Uncle, when we were growing up, our dad taught us to call everyone UNCLE…How terrible :)
I remember going to meet a lawyer very early in life. The lawyer was a bit balding and the entire 30 minutes I was there, I kept calling him Uncle. I remember coming home and my brother took off on me. It seems the guy was my age and he had called and complained. That day was enough. I told myself whatever happens nobody is ever going to be called UNCLE…HaHa.
The point is we all have FB profiles and FB being available on mobile phones very soon all domestic help will also have a profile, so if the educated lot do not know how to behave, how will these guys know?
Can somebody start classes in Social Media Etiquette…is anybody listening, half the time I stay away from chat because this is how it goes….:) Hello Dear….What’s Up….Who all in your family…Where do you live…Are you married…Do you have children…etc…etc, Hello get a life, read about the person before you start chatting, firstly Gmail or FB chat have been created as a follow up/work chat/long distance chats with near and dear ones, friends who maybe your neighbors but not in front of you, I think you get the picture ...….and not to just chat up complete strangers….nothing wrong with that too but do it with some style, some élan.
I know the movie Social Network clearly spells out that the guy added relationship status and every other box so that if you met someone you liked then you could read up about them and now as the trend has reversed we see someone on Fb, like them, and then go about meeting them one to one or chatting them up…...but isn’t it important to read up about the person?????
I also find that on many profiles the info section remains blank. They are probably too busy…...HUH! Why for God's sake are you on networking/social media sites.
You add me as a friend and your page is blank or you have a photo of a movie star:(
Hello people, to say Hello even in this parallel world I do want to know some basic stuff and why should I need to ask you. It should be right there for me to read isn’t that the idea?
Starting 2011 with venting out my frustrations about the beautiful online world where I have met some wonderful people. I have been networking since 2004 and made some fantastic friends and done some good business too and would truly appreciate if the 20’s and 30’s and sometimes the 40’s and 50’s too didn’t think it is the local pub or everyone they say helloooo to is their bum chum :)
Bye for now…...more later :)will be back....soon,very soon.
Mamta Mamta
Networking Etiquette – by Aviva Shiff
http://www.sideroad.com/Business_Etiquette/networking-etiquette.html
How to Make Your Social Networking Stand Out
• By: Kyle Lacy on July 1st, 2010 at 5:30 am
http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/how-to-make-your-social-networking-stand-out/
They are well educated, in good jobs, yet they misbehave.Are they doing the same in the real world?
The online world is not unreal just a parallel world, this is how I look at it.
Why do people become over - friendly from the word go, are they so desperate for friendship or do they think it is cool to behave like that.
I think it is most UNCOOL.
I would like to know how many of you still address letters starting with DEAR.
If we are smart enough to learn the lols etc aren’t we smart enough to know DEAR is no longer ok and it is best kept dear.
Poor Dear it is another misused word like the sorry and the thank you. I feel sorry for the word :)
The funny thing is sometimes I have taken the liberty of guiding few people about leaving the word DEAR out of the conversation, next thing I know they take offense, no amount of explaining that dear it is for your good, get a grip, understand that you are dear that is the only reason I am bothering to explain, but alas….we do not see it like that, all we see is that this woman is a pompous oaf and what does she know….I agree not to know too much, but I have definitely learned that DEAR better be dear, and best left alone, it is like the word Uncle, when we were growing up, our dad taught us to call everyone UNCLE…How terrible :)
I remember going to meet a lawyer very early in life. The lawyer was a bit balding and the entire 30 minutes I was there, I kept calling him Uncle. I remember coming home and my brother took off on me. It seems the guy was my age and he had called and complained. That day was enough. I told myself whatever happens nobody is ever going to be called UNCLE…HaHa.
The point is we all have FB profiles and FB being available on mobile phones very soon all domestic help will also have a profile, so if the educated lot do not know how to behave, how will these guys know?
Can somebody start classes in Social Media Etiquette…is anybody listening, half the time I stay away from chat because this is how it goes….:) Hello Dear….What’s Up….Who all in your family…Where do you live…Are you married…Do you have children…etc…etc, Hello get a life, read about the person before you start chatting, firstly Gmail or FB chat have been created as a follow up/work chat/long distance chats with near and dear ones, friends who maybe your neighbors but not in front of you, I think you get the picture ...….and not to just chat up complete strangers….nothing wrong with that too but do it with some style, some élan.
I know the movie Social Network clearly spells out that the guy added relationship status and every other box so that if you met someone you liked then you could read up about them and now as the trend has reversed we see someone on Fb, like them, and then go about meeting them one to one or chatting them up…...but isn’t it important to read up about the person?????
I also find that on many profiles the info section remains blank. They are probably too busy…...HUH! Why for God's sake are you on networking/social media sites.
You add me as a friend and your page is blank or you have a photo of a movie star:(
Hello people, to say Hello even in this parallel world I do want to know some basic stuff and why should I need to ask you. It should be right there for me to read isn’t that the idea?
Starting 2011 with venting out my frustrations about the beautiful online world where I have met some wonderful people. I have been networking since 2004 and made some fantastic friends and done some good business too and would truly appreciate if the 20’s and 30’s and sometimes the 40’s and 50’s too didn’t think it is the local pub or everyone they say helloooo to is their bum chum :)
Bye for now…...more later :)will be back....soon,very soon.
Mamta Mamta
Networking Etiquette – by Aviva Shiff
http://www.sideroad.com/Business_Etiquette/networking-etiquette.html
How to Make Your Social Networking Stand Out
• By: Kyle Lacy on July 1st, 2010 at 5:30 am
http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/how-to-make-your-social-networking-stand-out/
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Have you heard of a place called Tibet?
The Tibetan in Mumbai
is not a foreigner.
He is a cook
at a Chinese takeaway.
They think he is Chinese
run away from Beijing.
He sells sweaters in summer
in the shade of the Parel Bridge.
They think he is some retired Bahadur.
The Tibetan in Mumbai
abuses in Bambaya Hindi,
with a slight Tibetan accent
and during vocabulary emergencies
he naturally runs into Tibetan.
That's when the Parsis laugh.
The Tibetan in Mumbai
like to flip the MiD-DAY,
loves FM, but doesn't expect
a Tibetan song.
He catches the bus at a signal,
jumps into a running train,
walks into a long dark gully,
and nestles in his kholi.
He gets angry
when they laugh at him
'ching-chong ping-pong'.
The Tibetan in Mumbai
is now tired,
wants some sleep and a dream.
On the 11pm Virar Fast,
he goes to the Himalayas.
The 8.05am Fast Local
brings him back to Churchgate
into the Metro: a New Empire.
This was written by a young Tibetan by the name of Tenzin Tsundue. His parents were forced to leave their country, Tibet in 1959 fearing Chinese persecution. When they reached India, they worked as mountain road construction labourers in Masumari, Bir, Kullu, and Manali. Hundreds of Tibetans who came across into India died in those first few months as they could not bear the heat of summer, and the monsoon caught them in poor health. But the camp lived on and had many shifts along the road. Tenzin Tsundue was born somewhere along that journey, at a roadside, in a makeshift tent. His date of birth is not confirmed and three different records exist at different offices. He did his schooling in Dharamsala, and later went on to study in universities in Chennai and Mumbai. Today, Tenzin Tsundue is the guiding light of inspiration for the scores of Tibetans living as refugees across the world, and each day, he dreams of going back home.
In a recent article for MiD-DAY, he wrote, "Activism is that social consciousness that refuses to be cowed down under the weight of injustice and apathy, not because the cause being fought for has a high quotient of future success, but because your conscience forbids you to remain a silent witness; your efforts can bring change." And this is exactly why my conscience has woken me up, and perhaps you too can be part of Tenzin Tsundue's and my personal journey in not wanting to be a silent witness.
"When I am writing, I am a poet. But when I publish them, I am an activist." Tenzin Tsundue earns his bread and butter to continue the struggle through his writing. His second book 'KORA: stories and poems' was first published in 2002 and is currently in its sixth edition. I had the wonderful chance to meet Tenzin Tsundue in Dharamsala this year. Not less than a monk, yet not less than a thorough Mumbai lover, he embodies the fire within the youth across the world today. Only, he has been able to channelise them into something he deeply believes in.
KORA-front.JPGKORA-back.JPG
This poem that you may have liked is published in 'KORA: stories and poems' -- a compilation of Tenzin Tsundue's words of fiery passion, romance with poetry and patriotism. He has priced the book at Rs 50 and as I have already mentioned, this is how he continues his struggle for his own survival and that of the movement to get the wonderful land of His Holiness The Dalai Lama from from Chinese occupation and repression. When I asked him, "Why don't you price it a little higher?" He replied with a laugh, "I cannot lie to myself to such an extent!"
Let me know if you are interested in purchasing this book for yourself or to gift it to your friends. I am based in Mumbai, and would love to share more about Tenzin Tsundue, the land that he is madly in love with, and of course, why the Tibetans are the most peace-loving people despite the repression and tyranny since 51 years.
More on Tenzin Tsundue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Tsundue
His recent article in MiD-DAY: http://www.mid-day.com/opinion/2010/may/200510-Gharwal-Himalayas-Activism-fell-trees-urban-area-opinion.htm
The FB link is: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124644254239364
Regards,
priyanka borpujari
+91-9820741992
www.priyanka-borpujari.blogspot.com
is not a foreigner.
He is a cook
at a Chinese takeaway.
They think he is Chinese
run away from Beijing.
He sells sweaters in summer
in the shade of the Parel Bridge.
They think he is some retired Bahadur.
The Tibetan in Mumbai
abuses in Bambaya Hindi,
with a slight Tibetan accent
and during vocabulary emergencies
he naturally runs into Tibetan.
That's when the Parsis laugh.
The Tibetan in Mumbai
like to flip the MiD-DAY,
loves FM, but doesn't expect
a Tibetan song.
He catches the bus at a signal,
jumps into a running train,
walks into a long dark gully,
and nestles in his kholi.
He gets angry
when they laugh at him
'ching-chong ping-pong'.
The Tibetan in Mumbai
is now tired,
wants some sleep and a dream.
On the 11pm Virar Fast,
he goes to the Himalayas.
The 8.05am Fast Local
brings him back to Churchgate
into the Metro: a New Empire.
This was written by a young Tibetan by the name of Tenzin Tsundue. His parents were forced to leave their country, Tibet in 1959 fearing Chinese persecution. When they reached India, they worked as mountain road construction labourers in Masumari, Bir, Kullu, and Manali. Hundreds of Tibetans who came across into India died in those first few months as they could not bear the heat of summer, and the monsoon caught them in poor health. But the camp lived on and had many shifts along the road. Tenzin Tsundue was born somewhere along that journey, at a roadside, in a makeshift tent. His date of birth is not confirmed and three different records exist at different offices. He did his schooling in Dharamsala, and later went on to study in universities in Chennai and Mumbai. Today, Tenzin Tsundue is the guiding light of inspiration for the scores of Tibetans living as refugees across the world, and each day, he dreams of going back home.
In a recent article for MiD-DAY, he wrote, "Activism is that social consciousness that refuses to be cowed down under the weight of injustice and apathy, not because the cause being fought for has a high quotient of future success, but because your conscience forbids you to remain a silent witness; your efforts can bring change." And this is exactly why my conscience has woken me up, and perhaps you too can be part of Tenzin Tsundue's and my personal journey in not wanting to be a silent witness.
"When I am writing, I am a poet. But when I publish them, I am an activist." Tenzin Tsundue earns his bread and butter to continue the struggle through his writing. His second book 'KORA: stories and poems' was first published in 2002 and is currently in its sixth edition. I had the wonderful chance to meet Tenzin Tsundue in Dharamsala this year. Not less than a monk, yet not less than a thorough Mumbai lover, he embodies the fire within the youth across the world today. Only, he has been able to channelise them into something he deeply believes in.
KORA-front.JPGKORA-back.JPG
This poem that you may have liked is published in 'KORA: stories and poems' -- a compilation of Tenzin Tsundue's words of fiery passion, romance with poetry and patriotism. He has priced the book at Rs 50 and as I have already mentioned, this is how he continues his struggle for his own survival and that of the movement to get the wonderful land of His Holiness The Dalai Lama from from Chinese occupation and repression. When I asked him, "Why don't you price it a little higher?" He replied with a laugh, "I cannot lie to myself to such an extent!"
Let me know if you are interested in purchasing this book for yourself or to gift it to your friends. I am based in Mumbai, and would love to share more about Tenzin Tsundue, the land that he is madly in love with, and of course, why the Tibetans are the most peace-loving people despite the repression and tyranny since 51 years.
More on Tenzin Tsundue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Tsundue
His recent article in MiD-DAY: http://www.mid-day.com/opinion/2010/may/200510-Gharwal-Himalayas-Activism-fell-trees-urban-area-opinion.htm
The FB link is: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124644254239364
Regards,
priyanka borpujari
+91-9820741992
www.priyanka-borpujari.blogspot.com
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