January 2012
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December 2011
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“There was a specific perception of SCRM that was somewhat different than the...”
– CRM 2012 Forecast - The Era of Customer Engagement - Part I | ZDNet
Harvard Punishes Free Speech in India →
It’s going from bad to worse to farce for free speech in India. In fact, by the time you reach the end of this blog, its contents might be illegal on the subcontinent.
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June 2011
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A List of Completely Wrong Assumptions About... →
More wrong assumptions revealed themselves during these courses. For example, the “+” and “-” markers on the map are not intuitive either nor is the concept of zooming in and out. How are you supposed to understand that pressing these buttons still shows the same map but at a different scale and not an entirely different picture instead? Again, when I took a moment to think about this, I...
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“Today’s India has greater headroom for social and economic mobility. And is now...”
– Santosh Desai (via mansitrivedi)
“While badges and leaderboards can be effective tools in the modern workplace,...”
– Salesforce.com’s Chief Scientist on Why Gamification is the Future of Work
(via oscarberg)
The Local Tea Party: Mind your language, not mine →
localparty:
Dear English Pundit,
As I am suffering from ‘horrible English’, I kindly request you to go to hell. You are really senseless or you are just acting like this? Don’t you know that English language is constantly changing and that, what you are speaking now will be a joke 50 years from now?…
The 7 stories that do their rounds →
mansitrivedi:
The British literary critic Christopher Booker, has argued that there have only ever been seven basic plots, as follows: 1. ‘Tragedy’. Hero with a fatal flaw meets tragic end. Macbeth or Madame Bovary. 2. ‘Comedy’. Not necessary laugh-out-loud, but always with a happy ending, typically of romantic fulfilment, as in Jane Austen. 3. ‘Overcoming the Monster’. As in Frankenstein or...
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Visual thinking prezi from the Austin E-Learning...
Visual Thinking and Involved Learning on Prezi
May 2011
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Kisko Labs: Introducing Snowfinch: open source... →
kiskolabs:
Snowfinch is an open source realtime web analytics application built with Ruby on Rails and MongoDB. The project was developed as a part of my thesis, and has then been released under the MIT license.
The application focuses on what is happening right now on your site. To a user it works just…
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April 2011
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Eusociality: Origin and consequences →
In this new assessment of the empirical evidence, an alternative to the standard model is proposed: group selection is the strong binding force in eusocial evolution; individual selection, the strong dissolutive force; and kin selection (narrowly defined), either a weak binding or weak dissolutive force, according to circumstance. Close kinship may be more a consequence of eusociality than a...
March 2011
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“The science is straightforward. Whenever a behavior is common in the animal...”
– Why Masturbation Helps Procreation - Newsweek
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“This then is the position of the child living in grown-up surroundings. He is a...”
– Child training : twelve talks broadcast from the Madras station of All India Radio, June 1-12, 1948 / Maria Montessori
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WatchAncient Aliens
Thin value of brand engineering
Think customers, not brand, & brand will fall into place .. after all, the concept of Brands emanates from the emotional attachment of customers to a label/logo/concept. Align with customer behavior, else you engineer their emotional attachment, not win. And this engineering is thin value. Since its not sustainable, depletes resources and leaves the engineered party unsure and uncomfortable.
February 2011
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Getting Started with Attensity360
View more presentations from Attensity
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Spray-On solar-power cells + E-Ink = Giant...
E-ink technology is known to my geek audience, they are now found in Amazon Kindle and many other products. My first brush was via Motorola F3, still used by my dad. More interestingly, Toppan Printing has created huge 1 x 3.2 meters posters made with E-ink technology. If I could get a wall converted into e-ink, or all, I could change the wall paper ever so often as well as watch TV right on the...
January 2011
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“If today is a typical day on planet Earth, we will lose 116 square miles of...”
– David Orr - What Is Education For?
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Four-factor Model →
When people tell lies, there are four underlying mechanisms at work:
Arousal: Lying causes anxiety and arousal, either because of dissonance at conflicting values and behavior, or due to fear of getting caught. This can be detected via lie detectors, speech errors and hesitations, repetitions, fidgeting and displacement activity, blinking, higher vocal pitch and pupil dilation.
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Four-factor Model →
When people tell lies, there are four underlying mechanisms at work:
Arousal: Lying causes anxiety and arousal, either because of dissonance at conflicting values and behavior, or due to fear of getting caught. This can be detected via lie detectors, speech errors and hesitations, repetitions, fidgeting and displacement activity, blinking, higher vocal pitch and pupil dilation.
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WatchThe lost temples of India - a video playlist
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Sikander and the Sadhu →
Short, witty, excellent imaginative script.
December 2010
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“Vampire bats are believed to be the only species of bats in the world to...”
– Vampire bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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♏℅☠♨: cryptic sign 4 my curated #scrm feed
I have been curating articles, blog posts, news items, research papers, journals, etc. of use for people thinking about &/or doing social CRM and publishing them via Google Reader shares at http://j.mp/scrmfeed after yahoo piping and then baking them at feedburner.
Though it makes me happy to see others autotweeting from my curated feed, since my higher goal is spread of knowledge in the...
November 2010
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“Many people in organisations are frustrated that no matter how hard we try and...”
– Peter Fryer, Trojan Mice (via oscarberg)
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“The same editor felt that increased competition led to today’s journalists...”
– The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : The spotlight is on the media now
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WatchInnovation Through Design Thinking | MIT World
October 2010
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American vs European way of Business Management
American
European (Rhenish)
Shareholder value is the only objective
It is a balance between the interests of all stakeholders (shareholders, employees, customers, community, …)
Humanity: individualism
Humanity: solidarity
Humanity: most people are only motivated by financial incentives
Humanity: most people naturally want to do their work properly
Who is the boss may say
Who knows?...
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“Innovation is what customers and clients adopt,” move “from greater creation of...”
– BNNS
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“[Collective intelligence] is correlated with the average social sensitivity of...”
– Science