Saravanan's Online Presence

Speeches Triggering your mind

2009-04-12T18:13:00.001+08:00

Recently I watched two videos. One is by Steve Jobs:
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

The other is by Randy Pausch:
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Both of them are real-life stories. Both illustrates their very own approach towards life. Let me know what crosses your mind after you watch them.

Managing People Managing You

2009-04-10T23:15:00.003+08:00

A wonderful insight for those are overwhelmed by changing priorities at work place. Especially if you have multiple stake-holder are 'customers'. The video discussed role-set theory used in sociology.

Do you want insert a YouTube video into a presentation?

2009-02-13T23:30:00.000+08:00

Recently I came across with a need to use a video available in Youtube in a presentation. Googling the need resulted in breaking down the tasks into:

Saving a YouTube video into .flv (Flash Live video) format
Converting it into more common video format (WMV)
Embedding in Presentation (Powerpoint)

I used Download helper to accomplish step 1, though you can use many online services. I recently learnt about WinFF which is wonderful converter that converts the FLV files to WMV, though I tried VLC player to perform the same. Downside of VLC player is that you will have a garbage at the starting frame.

You could embed the WMV as an object or link it as your need be.

Alternative to the first two steps is to go directly here.

Simplify your regular reading habit

2009-01-29T23:34:00.003+08:00

Are you a person who regularly read news from different sites, blogs and news providers? You can save time in opening multiple sites for reading using a less known free service from Google.

The best part I like is, it can track the reading discipline for every site or blog using the cool feature called 'Trends' . Watch this video for simple explanation of this service and take control of reading time.

Managing your online presence

2009-01-29T22:49:00.005+08:00

How many times had you searched your name or email id in Google to find out your online presence? If you have never did so, probably it is a good time to try now. I am sure you would find many interesting and surprising results.

Incidentally, I came across another search tool which claims to perform a deep-web search. It seems to be performing a pretty decent search in selected social networking sites. Try it today and see for yourself what traces you have left on internet.

Now what?. How about doing a regular check on what happens to your online presence? It doesn't matter whether you are shocked or felt good about the search results.

I am sure you would not say no to a free service that performs a regular search on your name or email id and returns to you. 'Google alerts' is such a handy service . Watch a short video on how you can turn 'Google alerts' into a Virtual research assistant as well as online presence monitor.

நீண்ட நாள் ஆசை - Writing in Tamil

2009-01-27T16:04:00.005+08:00

ஒரு சிறிய முயற்சி - தமிழ்ல !

பல blog-ல தமிழ்ல எழுதி இருக்கிறத பார்க்கிற போது ஒரே ஆச்சரியமா இருக்கும்ங்க. அதுவும், எப்போதெல்லாம் அறுசுவை.காம் வலைதளத்த பார்கிறேனோ, அப்போது எல்லாம் அந்த ஆசை அதிகரிக்கும்ங்க.

சரி! எப்பவாச்சும், நாமளும் ஒரு நாள் தமிழ்ல, web-ல எழுதுவோம்னு, வருஷ கணக்கா பட்ட ஆசை, இந்த post- உடன், 2009-ல நிறைவேறிடுச்சு.

தமிழ்ல, எழுதி , வாசிக்கிறதே ஒரு தனிசுகம்தான். நீங்க என்ன நினைக்கறீங்க?

Greeting Someone

2009-01-14T00:02:00.011+08:00

While I take this opportunity to wish you all an Happy Pongal (Harvest Festival), it just occurred to me to make a quick reference check at what it really mean by 'Greeting' or 'Greet someone'. To my surprise, it defines greeting as a

way for human beings to intentionally communicate awareness of each other's presence, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other.

Now, to greet someone, is a day-to-day affair. In fact, an interesting statisitic points out that 7% of employees leave their managers because they didn’t say good morning. Quite amazing isn't it? Have a nice day ya...

Happy New year 2009

2008-12-31T15:43:00.008+08:00

Happy new year 2009

இனிய புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்

Motivational Videos

2007-12-16T15:52:00.000+08:00

Introduction to NLP: Presupposition

2007-12-16T15:44:00.001+08:00

Just watch. It is amazing...

Trust

2007-12-16T15:38:00.000+08:00

I was doing some research on what I always associate with the word Trust or rather what Trust means to me. I think I have been very hard on it and didn't tolerate even a little less when comes to trust. I found the following from changingminds.org:

"Trust is both and emotional and logical act. Emotionally, it is where you expose your vulnerabilities to people, but believing they will not take advantage of your openness. Logically, it is where you have assessed the probabilities of gain and loss, calculating expected utility based on hard performance data, and concluded that the person in question will behave in a predictable manner. In practice, trust is a bit of both. I trust you because I have experienced your trustworthiness and because I have faith in human nature.We feel trust. Emotions associated with trust include companionship, friendship, love, agreement, relaxation, comfort"

I continued my research to find more abt it and found the following from www.coping.org:

People need to develop the following behavior traits, attitudes, and beliefs in order to develop trust:
Hope in the goodness of mankind
Faith in the fairness of life
Belief in a power greater than yourself
A healing environment
Reduction of a sense of competition
Self-disclosure of negative self-scripts
Taking a risk to be open to others
Becoming vulnerable
Letting go of fear
Self-acceptance

I found them much fascinating and read the detailed discussion on each topic in How to develop trust. I found the following two very very interesting:

Belief in a power greater than yourself: This is the acceptance of a spiritual power with greater strength, wisdom, and knowledge than you; one with a divine plan to include your experience, whatever you will encounter in life. Rather than believing that you are 100% in control of your destiny, belief in this spiritual power enables you to let go of over responsibility, guilt, and anger. This lets you accept God's will in your life and enables you to let go of your distrust and isolation from others. If God is in control of the universe, you can lighten your load and let God do some of the leading in your life. `"Let go and let God,'' can be your motto.
A healing environment: This is the creating of a trust bond with the significant others in your personal life where blaming, accusing, and acrimony do not exist. In the healing mode the participants actively use forgiveness, understanding, and healthy communication to resolve problems and issues. The participants are then willing to forget, to let go, and to release themselves of the past hurts, wounds, and pain, opening themselves to trust one another."

Meditation

2007-12-16T15:35:00.000+08:00

In search of the Meditation techniques, I ended finding this video:

The Essence of Bhagavad Gita

2007-12-16T13:45:00.000+08:00

Whatever happened, it happened well.
Whatever is happening, it is happening well.
Whatever will happen, it will also happen well.
What of yours did you lose?
Why or for what are you crying?
What did you bring with you, for you to lose it?
What did you create, for it to be wasted or destroyed?
Whatever you took, it was taken from here.
Whatever you gave, it was given from here.
Whatever is yours today, will belong to someone else tomorrow.
On another day, it will belong to yet another.
This change is the law of the universe

Media box

2007-12-16T13:41:00.000+08:00

Welcome to mY Blog

2004-07-25T20:17:00.000+08:00

Today found out this service from google. Just curious and posting my first blog