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These days almost eveybody is using one or the other social networking sites like Orkut, Myspace, Facebook. I use orkut extensively. I use social networking site for social networking, to keep in touch with friends , for fun. How the information you put up on your proflle is used by employers, school administration is interesting. Following is a pretty neat article regarding the same

Should you go offline ???
How the Web Could Kill Your Next Job Interview

After reading the above articles, you
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Here is an excellent list of best value travel sites. Now that holiday season is approaching, it might be pretty useful.
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If you start reading blogs, you will see one blog talking about another blog, second blog talking about the third one and so on . So there will never be shortage of content to blog on because people can blog on each others blog . I also observed one such interesting example

Paul’s post blogs on
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Yahoo Finance recently launched new super cool interative draggable charts. I wanted to blog about it for quite some time but anyways its never too late ..

Yahoo finance has been number 1 finance portal for past many years. It takes less work to get to top than to stay at top. Number 2 position has always has number 1 to look forward to but number 1 has to be always innovative and competitive to beat the rest of the crowd. Though ppl often comment “Yahoo finance look the same for past couple of years” , but they need to know that we were always making our base stronger and stronger for better user experience and launch the following major projects and more

Streaming quotes : Today if you look at http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=yhoo , you wil find the quotes
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August 25th was my last day in Yahoo.It seems like yesterday when i joined Yahoo but when I actually look back , its been two years since I joined Yahoo and best time of my life so far. It was my first full time job as a fresh graduate. It couldnt have been better. When I joined Yahoo, I had offers from Amazon and ebay too but I was fortunate to take the desicion to join Yahoo which I never ever repented

I dont know how it happened but each day I found myself getting more and more
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I was looking for a new laptop for sometime…After doing some research, was about to buy sony viao but my friend Bharath opened apple site and insisted on buying that. I have been using windows for past so many years , it was bit difficult to move to mac ..I was somehow not at all interested in buying a mac…He showed me all the features like I can have windows too on the new macbook with intel processor..I was quite impresed with it ..Right away we went to Palo Alto to check it out and there I liked it so much that ended up buying it that day itself …I got a very good deal and it costed me around 400$ less than the regular price..

I got it home..
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It was June 29th. I had booked my tickets for Seattle for the long weekend. I had taken a day off on June 30th so I had total 5 holidays. I was pretty excited about my trip . I was supposed to go to Canada from Seattle after getting visa from Seattle. I have couple of friends in Seattle so was planning to meet them too. On June 29th I spent quite some time in preparing visa documents, getting that stupid special picture for canada consulate.

My flight was at 9:45pm. I was ready with everything by 6:30 pm . My roomie dropped me at the airport at 8:55 pm. It was little late knowing there will be rush due to long weekend. I just rushed in towards the self check-in machine. That machine was not ready to accept my credit card though I was getting late for my flight :(. Anyways instead of wasting more time on that machine, I decided to go directly to Alaska Airlines represenatative.

To my surprise….
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Last year one of my friends forwarded me the video of “The Blowers Daughter” by Damien Rice. I really liked the song and listened to it lotta times. Then I again like his songs in the movie “Good company (Cannonball) “…Awesome songs…

We all wanted to attend his concert but all tickets were sold out last week itself. Thankfully one of my frnds arranged couple of tickets from
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I used to find it very painful to fold any shirt/t-shirt ….

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I love to observe things around me and analyze them. Also got to read a nice book on management last week.. From my observations and those readings , I got to learn few things about managing ppl which was pretty interesting.

Every workplace, big or small involves managing ppl and finally getting work done from them…So as some ppl say ” ppl are the most imp resource of an organization” …More judiciously you use this resource , better are the chances of success of the organization . Every manager has the responsiblity of managing ppl under him and getting work done from them …

Finally you have to the get the work done. Thing that really matters is how you get the work done !!

Consider a manager getting the work done without even thinking whether ppl working under him are happy or not. I think in the short run it will work fine. But it has been proved that if that happens for long , ppl (who are not happy with their work) subconciuosly withdraw from giving their best. Day after day , their productivity is getting converted into frustation. Its possible at some points, there is need in the group to get some kinda work from an employee which he/she doesnt enjoy at all. In that case , it would be much better if manager lets the employee know that he/she really appreciates employee’s efforts of doing the work which employee doesnt really enjoy. If the manager constantly shows his thankfulness to the employee and make some efforts that employee doesnt have to work on the stuff he/she doesnt like for long, I am sure employee will try to give his/her best. At the end of the day if the ppl are not happy , things cant scale. With ppl unhappy, one project can be done on time , second can be done on time BUT not the third one. I agree that it needs lotsa efforts to keep all the employee working under you happy. It involves , understanding them first, knowing what they like and what they are best at. Its kinda investment which is definitely needed for long term results.
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