Kelley Bell is a writer, graphic designer, martial artist, and seminar leader who resides happily in Ohio with her husband and two children. She is a self proclaimed Eco-Feminist and Progressive thinker. Kelley is a freelance writer, co-author of a soon to be published work on Women in the martial arts, and has written a… Continue reading
Date Archives → January 2007
Quought for the Day #36 – David Moxam
David Moxam serves as the President & CEO Authentix, David leads a team of PhDs, engineers and industry experts that work with Fortune 500 companies and governments around the world combating the issue. The firm’s pioneering work has been the subject of numerous broadcast and print stories and in 2006, Mr. Moxam was recognized as… Continue reading
Give to 1.6 Million; Lay the foundation to take from 1 Billion – Should you complain?
The last few years there have been many protests in the US about outsourcing and the loss of jobs. I was a bit confused on that but this trip to India it made it clear. I spent most of my time in Bangalore and Chennai and saw what the consumers were fascinated with. Here are… Continue reading
Blog Re-design – thanks to these fine folks
Soon it will be two years since I started blogging. I was interested in re-designing my blog for a long time and finally that happened with the help of these fine folks 1. Karthik Sundaram and Sunil of Purplepatch Services for the concept and design behind the new look and feel. 2. Sethu Sethuraman for… Continue reading
A story on problem solving – contributed by Sridhar Krishnan
Sridhar Krishnan shares a wonderful story about problem solving. Enjoy! Many years ago in a small Zezuru village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s young beautiful daughter. So the moneylender proposed a bargain. He said… Continue reading
Grassroots Brand-building Questions: A Baker's Dozen
I was waiting for my plane at the San Francisco airport a couple of weeks ago. I chuckled when I overheard a comment from a fellow traveler. He was saying something about his “We say that we are working on the project Fusion but within the company some of us feel that there is only… Continue reading
Compassites is M.A.D. – Video on employee social responsibility
Disclaimer: I am one of the Board Members of Compassites. However, I am not writing this post in that capacity. I am thinking that Compassites is M.A.D. (Making a Difference) not only in terms of building cool software products (two of my new startups have their products developed through them) but more importantly via their… Continue reading
Where do you work?
I have struggled with this question all my life (or should I say “working” life) Whenever someone asks me “Where do you work?” I am “shaken but not stirred” mainly because I don’t think I have ever “worked” in my life. It has always been “play” for me. Serious play but not work. Work is… Continue reading
The dilemma for Bangalore software industry
I am in Bangalore (called Silicon Valley of India which I totally disagree – more about that topic later) for the last few days. I have learnt a lot in the last few days. First, while the IT boom has helped a small percentage of people directly and a larger percentage of people indirectly, it… Continue reading
Quought for the Day #35 – Ashwin Rangan
Until recently, Ashwin Rangan served as the Chief Information Officer of Walmart.com. Prior to this assignment, he served as senior vice president and chief information officer of Conexant in Newport Beach, CA (www.conexant.com). Ashwin was a member of the founding team that spun-out Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (in January 1999) and created Conexant. Prior to joining… Continue reading