Nuggets

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:08:00 +0000

Karma Tube
KarmaTube is an inspiring collection of short, "do something" videos coupled with simple actions that every viewer can take.

Watch this video on Dr. V, a visionary eye surgeon from South India, whose mission was to eliminate needless blindness. Today, the Aravind Eye Care System, that he founded, is the largest and most productive eye care facility in the world.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:27:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - Discontinuous Learning
Open Source eBook “Discontinuous Learning: Igniting the Genius Within by Aligning Self, Work and Family” by Dr. Prasad Kaipa is available for download here. Visit his company's website to read more about his research and his other articles.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:08:00 +0000

Proaxsys Reader Engine
Proaxsys Reader Engine bring power of speech to your desktop. You can speech-enable your applications and listen to your e-books.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:19:00 +0000

How to do what you love
To do something really well, you have to love it. But doing what you love is complicated. Paul Graham has some tips on "how to do what you love".

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:40:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - The Art of Project Management
In "The Art of Project Management", you will learn from a former Microsoft team leader how to plan, manage and lead projects. If you are a software developer or lead teams/projects, this fun and entertaining account of hard lessons learned over a decade of work in the software industry can help you in your current work, and on future projects to come.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:04:00 +0000

Textbookgenie.com - Textbooks at great discounts
Textbookgenie.com is a comparison shopping site dedicated to finding great deals on textbooks. It also finds the best deals for an entire bundle of books.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:36:00 +0000

Do you want to change the world?
Are you eager to find solutions to global problems? Are you moved by inspirational stories? Are you ready to jump from "caring" to "doing"? Then host a party, watch a movie and change the world!

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:03:00 +0000

How to use Wikis for Business
Content management systems will always have their place in the publishing world, but they've never been the best tools for business collaboration. A simple open-source app called the wiki may soon rule the knowledge management roost.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:31:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - Nobodies To Somebodies: How 100 Great Careers Got Started
"Nobodies to Somebodies" looks at the early career development of leaders from varied walks of life. Focusing on 100 leaders and their first jobs out of college or graduate school, the book delves into the stories behind the scenes. It describes that exciting period when these well-celebrated people were lesser known, when they were young, anonymous, and struggling for their big breaks, like the rest of us.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:40:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - Never Eat Alone
Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success? The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships, so that everyone wins.

In "Never Eat Alone", Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps and inner mindset, he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:24:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - The Tipping Point
"The Tipping Point", written by Malcolm Gladwell, presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does. Why ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease? They are social epidemics. "The Tipping Point" is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us.
Read excerpts from "The Tipping Point".

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Wed, 18 May 2005 00:33:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - "Blink - Power of thinking without thinking"
"Blink", written by Malcolm Gladwell, is a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. "Blink" is about those two seconds.
Read excerpts from "Blink".

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:14:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - Igniting your Natural Genius
An interesting book by Prasad Kaipa & Steve Johnson on Learning, Conditioning, Unlearning, Openness and Manifestation.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:31:00 +0000

Intelligence and capability are not enough.
There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.
- Dr. V

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:34:00 +0000

School to School
'School to School' by Goonj turns someone's wastage into a resource for another. It won the Changemakers Innovation Award.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:22:00 +0000

How to Start a Startup
An interesting essay written by Paul Graham.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:17:00 +0000

BROWSTER
Browster provides a quick way to browse through search results and other lists of links. It is a free browser plugin that automatically prefetches links and provides a fast preview window to view a page quickly before committing to go there. Browster's preloading and previewing capability can cut the time required to go through search results and other links by as much as 50%. This helps internet users achieve more effective searches in less time. Browster is available today for Internet Explorer and soon for Firefox.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:19:00 +0000

Muhammad Yunus, banker to the world's poorest citizens, makes his case
One of the most influential business people of the last 25 years is Muhammad Yunus, managing director of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and a pioneer in the practice of microcredit lending. Till date, Grameen Bank has dispersed close to $5 billion in loans to four million borrowers, 96% of them women. Grameen's strategy is to offer miniscule loans to very poor people, giving them the means to generate income and work their way out of poverty.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 02:00:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - Feiner Points of Leadership
"The Feiner Points Of Leadership" offers you fifty insightful laws covering everything from managing tough bosses and difficult subordinates, to dealing with uncooperative colleagues, to overcoming resistance to corporate change.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:51:00 +0000

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that
nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
- Oprah Winfrey

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:34:00 +0000

Innovative Ways to Generate Money & Resources
Changemakers invite you to vote for the Changemakers Innovation Award. Contestants have been asked to submit description of a technique that has been or will be implemented by their organization. These must be pioneering concepts that promise to generate significant amounts of financial, human, and/or in-kind resources for sustaining a citizen sector organization. These ideas must be relevant for other organizations located anywhere on the globe.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:34:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - The Five Fundamentals of Occupational Adventure
Want to create a passion-filled career? Learn from those who have done it! Download the book "The Five Fundamentals of Occupational Adventure - Pursuing Your Passion, Achieving Your Dream" for FREE from here. This book takes the cumulative insights of dozens of people who have successfully pursued their passions in their careers and boils them down to the five key elements their journeys shared in common.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:30:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - Man's Search For Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning is the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl's struggle to hold on to hope during his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps where he endured unspeakable horror. Frankl's training as a psychiatrist informed every waking moment of his ordeal and allowed him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 05:49:00 +0000

Donate towards AID Tsunami Survivors' Relief Campaign

As you know, a massive tidal wave (Tsunami) struck parts of Asia and has done enormous damage in terms of lives and livelihood for the people living along the coast of India (Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar) and Sri Lanka among other places.

I am working with an organization called AID(Association for India�s Development) which is a grassroots organization with goals of alleviating poverty and suffering through specific development projects such as education, literacy, women�s issues, community health, etc.

AID is in a unique position to help as it has projects with its volunteers and close partner organizations that are active in some of the worst affected areas in India including Chennai, Nagapattinam and Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu. They anticipate immediate need for shelter, food, clothing and medicines for people who are rendered homeless. Considering the massive scale of the disaster, which has wiped out entire costal villages or fishing communities, it is expected that long-term rehabilitation will require significant resources.

AID has launched a massive drive to collect funds to aid our grass root effort in the affected areas. To show solidarity with the affected people, please donate generously for the cause.

To donate, go to https://www.aidindia.org/aidadmin/DonateToRRF.jsp

For latest updates on AID�s Tsunami relief efforts, visit http://www.aidindia.org/CMS/

More about AID-India -
AID-India is non-profit, 501 (c) (3) and has an impeccable record in terms of project delivery and unambiguous allocation of funds. AID has received the highest 4-star rating by Charity Navigator, America�s best-known independent evaluator of charities. AID projects and partners have also received several national and international awards and recognitions. AID has 40 chapters across the US.

1. AID has funded several grassroots efforts in Tamil Nadu, India over the year. These are the very areas that are affected by the disaster.
2. AID works very closely with its grass root partners and looks at long term development and rehabilitation.
3. AID has setup a special fund appeal towards its Relief and Rehabilitation fund to help the Tsunami victims.
4. AID is a completely volunteer operated and run. All of the funds are being used for AID projects with very little administrative expenses.

To learn more about AID, please visit http://www.aidindia.org/

ProPoor also recommends AID-India.

noreply@blogger.com (Deepak) — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 01:22:00 +0000

Book Recommendation - The Art of Business: In the Footsteps of Giants
Raymond Yeh shares how modern business giants such as Southwest Airlines, Medtronic, etc have developed enterprises with soul by applying the five strategic arts of possibility, timing, leverage, mastery, and leadership outlined by the ancient strategist Sun Tzu in The Art of War. This book offers you the opportunity to walk with these giants, learn their secrets, delve into their minds, and experience these five arts as they do.