Touchscreen technology Breathes New Life Into modern day businesses
Touchscreen displays have evolved considerably, thanks to technological advances which make hardware and software work together in a pleasingly tactile unison. Getting rid of physical keys and buttons provides many different advantages, 
but in the modern market perhaps the most important reason to invest in touchscreens is that the average consumer is now far more touch literate than ever before. This is thanks to the proliferation of smart phone technology and software connected to the web through a Verizon FiOS service, which typically focuses on delivering finger-friendly interaction the consumer’s hand. As a result, now is the time to get involved with this innovative and exciting technology.
One of the best things about touch displays is the sheer flexibility of what can be achieved with the software applications that run on the device they are attached to. While using physical keys gives you a rigid and immovable set of potential functions with no scope for innovation or future changes, a touchscreen display can be anything you want it to be. When a keypad is needed, a virtual array of buttons can pop up. When you want to select a different app, you can touch the relevant icon and the work of many different developers will be brought to life. Devices such as the Apple iPhone and iPad have helped popularise touchscreen displays and many other businesses are harnessing them as a result.
The other reason to invest in touchscreen displays is the potential for increased user friendliness of the interface. Intuitive menu systems and the ability to use a finger like a cursor, to drag and drop items and pinch to zoom in on specific elements, allows users to learn how to fully exploit a system without any complicated tutorials or verbal instructions. In addition, the newer multi-touch sensitive displays can register more than one simultaneous press, allowing for multi-finger gestures and even more opportunity to enable intuitive inputs.
There is a variety of places in which touchscreen displays are already being used by businesses. Automated cash registers at large chain stores let users scan and bag their own shopping, increasing the throughput levels, reducing queues and ultimately resulting in the need for fewer staff to man the tills. Touchscreen kiosks at airports and other travel hubs can help people get through the check-in process much quicker, as well as letting them buy their own tickets and tag their own luggage. By eliminating the need for a direct human agent and making many different services electronic, faster transactions are guaranteed.
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facebook, twitter and Linkedin can help you get a job.
People, companies and agencies are increasingly using social media to identify employment opportunities. this morning i saw an interesting infographic and would like to share it over here.
The original article appeared in the Business Insider
Created by: MBA Online
Google+ for business should be part of your social media hiring strategy
Using Google+ page as part of online recruitment strategy
Many progressive organizations today are using social media as an integral part of recruitment strategy. 
The latest weapon the in the armoury of the HR department is Google+. By now most organization have aligned social media are part of their recruitment process might have developed an integrated effort on their website, blogs, LinkedIn company profile, Facebook page, twitter and some other tools and applications like bullhorn which helps them maximize their reach. Now the online recruitment activity is blessed with another awesome tool in the form of Google+ for business.
How to setup up Google+ page
- Creating a Google+ Page: http://plus.google.com/pages/create once you click on this link there will be a wizard that will help you complete the process. The wizard lets you choose your category under which your business will be found.
- Account Name: Choose your company account carefully. First and foremost create a Gmail account that can be shared by the entire HR team. Don’t used personal email as currently Gmail does not allow multiple users assigned to one account.
- Creating Public profile: The HR department and marketing department needs to take adequate care while creating public profile so as to maintain consistency across online platforms. Important thing here is to ensure you choose right tag line that helps you entice candidates
- Sharing the page: the next step is to promote the page, the idea is to first develop an interactive page as per your online recruiting strategy and only then exercise this option. As promoting the page will share the page with all your connections and a blank or half completed page will not give good impression and will surely not achieve ultimate objective of the page being added in your prospective candidates circle.
Facts/issues/limitations about Google+ pages
- Google+ pages do not allow mentioning yourself unless you are connected.
- Pages don’t have option to extend circles
- Pages can’t + 1 other pages and they cannot +1 any other content
- One can find a business by typing its physical his content
Aadhaar Unique identification card – UID to act as a proof to open bank accounts
This is one of the major developments going on in the country and I am really interested in tracking its progress as this 
initiative will ensure a thousand different things but most importantly it will act as a single biggest basis of ones identification in India. A country’s progress largely depends on its financial backbone and it’s really heartening to see that banks will now officially accept UID as a valid address proof. In today’s times of India it has also been said by UIDAI chief Nandan Nielkani that Aadhaar card is a valid KYC – know your customer document and this will enable financial institutions to further assess the background of individuals and help them serve better.
Even the telecom and petroleum ministry also consider Aadhaar as a valid KYC norm for issue of SIM cards and cooking gas connections.
I urge everyone to apply for the card if not already applied as the faster we all are on the system the better is it for all of us. You can read the complete process of applying for the unique identification car here
Aadhar UID project touches one crore applications
In just nine months since the launch of the Aadhaar project in Maharashtra, UIDAI has issued one crore Aadhaar numbers. 52 year old, NK Chheda from Maharashtra has the distinction of being the resident whose Aadhaar number was generated on reaching this milestone. Coincidentally, the first resident to get the Aadhaar number, Ranjana Sonawane, is also a resident of Maharashtra. She received her number on 29th September, 2010 in Tembhli village of Nandurbar district. You can download official report on UID here
For detailed and correct information I recommend you visit the official site
Advice on CNG conversion kits in India
I have recently installed a CNG conversion kit in my car and now it can run on petrol and gas both. Finally after a lot of research online and offline i have made this decision and it really makes me happy for two reasons:
- It’s going to save me a lot of money as they say money saved is money earned
- I am going to contribute in a small way by not polluting the environment hence helping reduce global warming ;-)
I am writing this article for people to get accurate information and not spend time searching the internet just as i did. As there are not many source of authentic information for CNG or LPG conversion kits in India.
Overview of gas conversion kits in India
There are quite a few gas conversion kits available in the market most of these kits are either imported from Italy and Argentina and rest are made locally here in India. Install only government approved CNG kits in your car. As when your car will be sent for RTO registration they will verify the status of the CNG kit manufacturer. There are two types of kits one with sequential system and other is lambad system.
The list of government and RTO approved CNG kit can be found here:
Anna Hazare the new Gandhi leading India’s second freedom struggle
Last few months have been very critical in the context of Indian History. With super humans like Anna Hazare selflessly fighting against corruption history is bound to be written.
With Gandhi like avatar and ideologies Anna Hazare is bound to get public support and undoubtedly going to win the fight against the government. It’s amazing to see how the entire nation gets behind one individual and accepts him as their leader. As i write this article million of Indians are gathering to stage a fight against corruption.
I have yet to meet someone who does not support Anna Hazare in his movement to curb corruption as it is the single largest issue obstructing India’s progress. There is corruption in entire world at one level of the other but in India is rampant and its present at all levels.
Citizen of India need to be careful at this stage as there might be a lot of political parties, corporates and individuals with maligned interest and would like to take advantage of this situation and redirect our efforts to benefit their vested interest.
Before we blindly support our leader we should be clear of our objectives and know more about our leader. Most people I met knew very little about Anna Hazare and his team and also knew very little about lokpal bill.
As a result I am writing this article and would like to share certain links where you can get complete information. These are official sites where you can get information
How can you support Anna Hazare?
- Take some time out and go to designated places in your city just be there you don’t have to fast to show your support
- Participate in march past organized at various location in your city
- If you can be there in person you can
- Wear black band to work
- Facebook badge for profile picture – click here to get one
- tweet information with # tag on twitter #annahazare
- Write about it on your blog
- Create awareness by sharing my article ;-)
I understand that we all are very busy with our work and hardly find time for ourselves, but this is the time when we need to stand up collectively for a better India. I am doing my bit are you?
An email that changed the life of one Stanford student by getting him a job at foursquare
With people looking at innovative ways of hiring or getting hired this article really showcases that passion and desire to work for a company that you love can work miracles in life.
I would like to thank Nicholas Carlson as I am sharing his article for the benefit of my readers (especially fresh graduates aspiring to do something big in life)
Two years ago, a Stanford business school student named Tristan Walker sent Foursquare cofounders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai an email out of the blue, asking for a job.
Today, Tristan is Foursquare’s director of business development. During his tenure, he’s built partnerships between Foursquare and huge brands such as Bravo, MTV, CNN, New York Times, NBA and Starbucks.
To celebrate the two year anniversary of the email, Tristan just published it on his personal blog, along with some notes:
The golden email ;-)
Today marks two years since i sent my very first email to Dennis and Naveen (wow i was such a nerd! ha). Naveen sent a reminder to team foursquare today and i thought i’d share it on my blog. Man, how times have changed:
Itunes stuck at syncing contacts or calendars
Generally I write about things that I experience on the professional front. This time around I am writing something I have been experiencing a nagging issue (Itunes stuck at syncing contacts or calendars) on my iphone and thought would use this medium to help fellow iphone users overcome the issue.
I have been using iphone 3GS for couple of years now and have been actively involved in the jail breaking community. Have been upgrading and tweaking my iphone for all sort of different things. After an upgrade on 4.2.1 using Sn0wbreeze or Redsn0w I found three very common issues
- Iphone stuck at synching contacts or calendars
- Battery drain
- Multi-tasking not working well
I will help you decode the first issue for the other two you can use SAM preferences and I am sure (on 3gs) it will surely solve the battery drain and multi-tasking issue. Details click here http://www.bingner.com/SAM.html
FOLLOWING IS ONLY FOR JAILBROKEN IPHONE STUCK AT SYNCING CONTACTS OR CALENDARS WITH OUTLOOK
The idea is to do simple things first and try and arrive at root cause of the problem it’s not a one stop solution. Please backup iphone using itunes before you start.
Step 1: Try and sync your iphone with some other computer
Step 2: Uninstall Mobile Me if you installed it along with itunes
Step 3: Step 3: Reset Sync History – Process
Step 4: Install latest version of itunes and try again. Strictly follow this process
Step 5: Create a new user on your operating system and then try synching itunes
Step 6: Disable third party login in outlook - Process
Step 7: I know it tedious but try all of the above on another operating system
Step 8: Take a backup of your .pst files – meaning just copy them and keep in another location
Step 9: Run Scanpst.exe and fix all pst files and then run the sync – Process
Step 10: Create a new pst file and make it as default and try syncing - Process
Step 11: unfortunately if all of the above doesn’t work then there is no option but to redo the jail breaking process. Use redmondpie.com as a genuine source of information for jailbreaking.
Or write to me and I shall be able to help you out.
Happy Synching.
Blogging after a break – The restart of my blog
I haven’t been able to blog since last 5 months. Though my passion for writing and sharing my opinions were still the same it’s just that I wasn’t finding enough time to blog. Why am I writing this? I could have just started writing and things would go back to normal but at the same time a thought crossed my mind that there would be a lot of people like me who want to blog but had to stop blogging due to one or the other constraint.
In such cases we would think about a lot of stuff like: 
- Is it really worth starting a dead blog
- What happens to my SEO
- What happens to my Google indexing
- My audiences would have stopped waiting to read my post
Many such things crop up in our mind and we starting thinking towards starting a new one or just leave this one behind. Let me tell you, it’s a bad idea to leave this one and let your effort go down the drain.
First and foremost, it’s your blog – your perception your views about topics that you write about and the points mentioned above really doesn’t matter. This would matter only if you are a PRO Blogger but if you were then you would never land up in this state.
Restarting to blog is more about mindset than anything else. Most people think of having changes in design or functionality some might improve interactivity of the blog and the other would improve / include social media aspect of the blog. Each one of us is trying to give a reason to the world that why you were absent for this long and why are you starting all over again.
Bottom Line when starting to blog after a gap:
You aren’t starting to write because people want you to write, you are because you are passionate about sharing your perception with the world.
I have approached the whole thing with this mind set and everything has worked out well.
Few things I did before I re-started
- Promised myself that I will post at least once every 15 days
- Informed my personal network to watch out for my blog again
- Used social media to spread message so that people can be aware that I am starting again
Integrating social media with HR initiatives to foster recruitment, engagement & retention
I have written many articles on how to use social media to generate business, to recruit talent and to create organization brand awareness. I believe it’s high time that organizations start thinking of integrating social media to strengthen their HR initiatives.
In a global and connected economy where the workplace extends beyond the boundaries of a cubicle or office building, human interaction is the key building block in the workforce of the future. Imagine One happy employee who blogs or tweets about her experience can, in turn, inspire others to change their jobs or their companies, and one workplace at a time, the most valuable assets of future economic development will change the way we do business and by extension the world around them.
The big question is 
- Are you ready for this world?
- Do you know how to compete in it? Are you part of the conversation?
Points to be considered while integrating social media with HR initiatives
- Turn your employees into brand ambassadors, it’s very important to treat the brand internally and externally in the same way.
- Encourage transparent communication internally. Position social media as a tool for connecting people and thereby foster exchange of cross functional interactions.
- Be judicious with social media policies. Your policy should be focused more on empowering your employees than on restricting them.
- Be involved, be a part of the conversation that is the basics of having a PR activity via social media and be ready to respond if your employment brand is not communicated in the right manner.
- Use social media to share important information, but make sure that communication is two-way and takes advantage of the capabilities of the medium.
- Use social media to hunt passive talent, that’s finding people who are not actively looking for a change but might be the perfect fit for your organization.
- Maintain an effective employee alumni network with social media. Welcome someone back to the organization who might have left to pursue an opportunity with another organization, leveraging the diversity of experience that may have led to significant growth in that individual.
- Redefine learning and development within your organization using social media to create a more collaborative learning environment.
- Cultivate collaboration across divisions and management levels within your organization by empowering employees to form groups and open discussions on social networking platforms that focus on solving specific problems or experimenting with new ideas.
