Category Archives: Science & Technology

Time For Some Self-Skilling — Pune365

June 14, 2017 by thebengali

Just the other day, I was sitting quietly minding my own business, when this inane conversation posed into my space. “It’s difficult right now. Very difficult.” Said one voice. “But you could try. There are so many avenues now and I have like 10 years,” Said another voice. “Yes, yes but that’s all 10 years… via Time For Some Self-Skilling — Pune365

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Self, Work • Tags: HR, India, Jobs, Pune365, ReSkilling, Self-Skilling, thebengali, Upskilling

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“I’ll See Your Troll and Raise You One Notable Woman Scientist”

February 13, 2017 by thebengali

Brilliant insight into the challenging life of a dedicated woman admin of Wikipedia, and how she channelised the resultant negative energy into productivity; (Explicit language). At Backchannel, Andrew McMillen writes on how one young Wikipedia admin fights back at trolls by raising the profile of notable women in science, one new Wikipedia page at a time. via I’ll See Your Troll and Raise You One Notable Woman Scientist — Longreads

Categories: Learning, Media, Science & Technology, Society, Work • Tags: Andrew McMillen, Keilana, Temple Wood, Wikipedia

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Appocalyptica … Inky Pinky Ponky

December 13, 2016 by thebengali

The other day I was walking about aimlessly, looking here, looking there, generally in a lethargic mood, undecided about what I would do next, what I wanted to do, and very aware that in the meanwhile, work and errands and chores were piling up. It felt good to just take a walk without purpose – I was ‘browsing about’ one might say. Then, a friend walked by and another and another and before I knew it, several people were rushing […]

Categories: Learning, Media, Science & Technology, Self, Society, The Arts, Work • Tags: apps, Content, Dependence, Learning, Predictive Tools, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, Social Media, Society, Substance-dependence, Technology, Technology-dependence, thebengali, Video

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Twitter Dear Twitter: Where is thy India Time zone, INR payment option?

September 24, 2016 by thebengali

So, the other day I decided to add Twitter Ads to my recommended media strategy for small businesses. I like Twitter, always have since I started using it. It’s simple, effective, and can be a very efficient advertising platform. But then, during the set-up process, I discovered that Twitter does not list Indian Standard Time as a selection option, and: it does not offer Indian Rupee as a payment currency. I tweeted my query to Twitter For Business in the […]

Categories: Learning, Media, Science & Technology, Society, Work • Tags: Dave Chaffey, Global Web Index, India, Indian Standard Time, INR, Media, Mobile Connectivity, Rupee, Sanjay Mukherjee, Smart Insights, Social Media, thebengali, Twitter, TwitterAds, We Are Social

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Notes on Aviation Training Trends from APATS 2016

September 8, 2016 by thebengali

Last week (August 30-31, 2016) saw a flurry of discussions and conferences at the two-day Asia Pacific Aviation Training Symposium (APATS) in Singapore. Attended by 559 delegates from 45 countries, representing 51 airlines, 234 companies, APATS 2016 saw 32 presentations on various operational and training matters, addressing some major training issues confronting the Asian aviation industry. Taking off from the WATS narrative in Orlando in April 2016, APATS saw a continued expression of the aviation industry’s worry regarding current pilot shortages, […]

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Work • Tags: Airbus, APATS, APATS2016, Aviation, Boeing, Cabin Crew, CAT Magazine, competency-based learning, EATS 2016, EBT, Evidence Based Training, Flight Crew, Halldale Media, Human Factors, India, Learning, online learning, Peak Pacific, Peak Pacific Limited, pilots, Safety Training, Sanjay Mukherjee, Simulation, Singapore, Technology, thebengali, WATS

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The Train

September 7, 2016 by thebengali

I know this little boy who loves cars and trains. And why not? He’s at that age. So he plays with his assortment of little toy cars and a few toy trains. Curiously enough, he has never really seen a real train, nor for that matter does he really have a ‘train’ – he has a few train engines and train ‘cars’. One day, while on a vacation, the boy and his father took a ride on a toy train – an entourage […]

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Self, Society, Work • Tags: evaluation, Game-based Learning, India, Learning, Play, Sanjay Mukherjee, synthesis, thebengali

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e(vo)lution.nu.learning

September 5, 2016 by thebengali

The world’s changing and it’s all happening right here in the living room, study or kitchen … basically, wherever you carry your internet-enabled phone (#everywhere). There was a time, a long time ago (I think it was last year), when the world was changing wherever the iPad was; and an even longer time before that (2014?), the world was changing wherever the laptop was, but now it’s the phone. People, friends actually (let me not generalise), (#applelovers.forever. #andever) would […]

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Work • Tags: Apple, Cloud, eLearning, Facebook, India, iPad, iPhone, Laptop, Learning, LinkedIn, Rapid eLearning, Sanjay Mukherjee, Social Media, thebengali, WhatsApp

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Wired, Differently

September 3, 2016 by thebengali

Product companies, no matter how visionary or big, just stop connecting the dots after a while and then spend their time ‘maintaining’ a product built 10 years ago. To my mind this difference is important because a product built even five years ago is going to really struggle to connect to anything today, keeping the whole company busy looking for sticky tape and mud-balls to plug each leak and twigs to build bridges to newer platforms that think, behave and perform in […]

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Work • Tags: Apple, apps, Facebook, generation, Google, India, Learning, Sanjay Mukherjee, Technology, thebengali

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Hop, skip, jump

September 3, 2016 by thebengali

In the near future (say in about two decades), I don’t see computers (the way we know them now that is). I don’t see laptops, I don’t see iPads, maybe some palm-tops. Which is why the iPad does not excite me any more. I am bored of it. And bored of the smart-phone as well. And I want to be excited, but the tech companies have been evolving too fast for my pre-historic brain and now it’s given up getting excited […]

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Work • Tags: devices, Learning, rainama, Sanjay Mukherjee, Technology, thebengali

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