My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

Here is the announcement from the ITSME Association about the forthcoming progrtam on “ Talent Acquisition Workshop ” on January 7th, 2010 at 5.30 pm at “The Accord Metropolitan”, # 35, GN Chetty Road, T Nagar, Chennai – 600 017. This workshop is aimed at - CXOs and other stakeholders/decision makers who deliver the HR functions The agenda is given below: 5.30 - 6.00 Networking and High Tea 6.00 - 6.05 Welcome addresses – ITSME President 6.05 - 7.00 “Talent Acquisition Workshop” by Srikanth Ganesan, Associate Vice President at Wipro BPO within Corporate Business Services 7.00 - 7.15 Q & A 7.15 – 7.25 Introduction of a Member Company 7.25 - 7.30 Vote of Thanks See you tomorrow at Accord Hotel Sarada

I am reproducing the mail from ITSME associaiton about their forthcoming session ITSME association invites you to an interactive session on “ Marketing Challenges for IT SMEs” on December 21, 2009 at 5.00 pm at The Accord Metropolitan, # 35, GN Chetty Road, T Nagar, Chennai – 600 017 . The agenda is given below: 5.30 - 6.00 Networking and High Tea 6.00 - 6.05 Welcome addresses – ITSME President 6.05 - 7.15 “Marketing Challenges for IT SMEs” by Raghavendra Prasad Venkataraman 7.15 - 7.25 Q & A 7.25 - 7.30 Vote of Thanks For further queries and registration please contact the ITSME association. See you on 21st. Sarada

Here is the write up about what was shared by each individual speaker on 13th November at Bangalore IT.BIZ - women in IT track ‘Empowering women in IT’, known as eWIT, a Chennai based IT forum that focuses on women empowerment programs was the brain behind the entire workshop on ‘Women in IT’ track of BangaloreIT.Biz2009. The track focussed on ‘ Sustainability and Success for Women in IT’ as the theme. Ms. Vijayalakshmi Rao, President, eWIT, and Director, Scope e-Knowledge set the stage for the track. She said that given their skill sets and inherent strengths, women have the capability and potential to build successful careers for themselves in the IT industry. To a large extent, there is no gender discrimination in the IT industry. While there is scope to enhance the basic share of women it is sustainability that is crucial and the most important determinant for success. In one of eWIT’s research initiatives, it was found that close to 90% of the companies interviewed had some wome

It it with great pride and joy that we would like to share with our viewers that ‘Women in IT’ track of Bangalore IT.biz which was conducted by eWIT and was a great success in terms of the quality of topics and speakers, the participation and the support that we got from the industry. Mr Askok Kumar Manoli , Principal Secretary to Govt-Dept of IT, BT and S&T, Govt of Karnataka graced the occasion and pledged to offer his government’s support to the cause of eWIT . The launch of the Bangalore Chapter of eWIT with Ms. Sudha Selvarajan , GM Mindtree as the Vice President of this Chapter was also announced on the occasion. We are sure that under Sudha ’s leadership and with the help and unstinting support of Ms. Rajalakshmi , STPI Director-Bangalore, this chapter will be quite successful in the city of software! My next blog will have a brief write up about what was shared during the event by each speaker. Happy reading

Today the technology is taking us places - of course , there are positives and negatives of its use. While a century ago, even to send a message to somebody living in a far off place, we needed a bird to carry it over to them, today, we get instant connectivity through telephones, online chats, etc. You can see your near ones, even if they are continents apart through webcams and hold a daily conversations through Skye, VOIP , etc. I am typing this blog from the aircraft flying over the skies of East coast of America. I am currently on board the flight from Atlanta to Newark and there is this availability of wifi connectivity which enables me to do this. Yesterday , we were having a conference call with 5 participants - each participant from different locations - Chennai, Bangalore, Pune , Phoenix and Chicago through gotomeeting . What a amassing technology it is isn't . All our teams have regular conference calls and scrum meetings with people from different loca

At one time, I was a very avid blogger, I probably got into a hole where I wanted to write, but wasnt in the mood to pen down and there has been a lot of gap. But one thing I have learnt is that it has got me great friends, it has got my friendships strengthened, it has opened up new avenues etc. Now these days, I am very much bogged with whats happening within my office. There has been small, medium, large issues with each teams. One of our friends used to say that - what your power is determined by how many number of issues you can face head on in your daily life and still continue to go ahead. Life hasnt been great these days with so much tension - all of course related to business - with competitor being very aggressive and trying to eat into our business ( this is the pain of being small - that you cannot counter the biggies aggressiveness every step of the way), taken by surprise by these attacks, recruitment pressure, operations pressure - Oh life is so sweeeet .......

Here is an invite for the next program for ewit (empowering women in IT). What a wonderful topic it is. eWIT invites you to a networking event! Date: 30 th September 2009 Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Venue: Benz Park Hotel No. 62, Thirumalaipillai Road, T. Nagar Chennai, Chennai - 600017 Get Directions 044 28159999 Topic : ‘Making Relationships Work' More About The Topic Have you cried at work because your boss was unhappy with your work? Do you feel that your co-workers are hostile towards you? Do you feel respected at work? Are your ideas heard at work place? Do you find that your relationship at home is weakening because you spend a lot of time at work? Do you find it difficult to distinguish and identify when a 'professional relationship' at work starts and when it gets 'personal'? Making Relationships work. Women are extremely good at people skills, especially understanding/empathising with others and even counselling . Yet, they run into various problems and ar