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From: Bala Pillai [mailto:bala@apic.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 April 2005 2:01 PM
To: 'Markandayan'
Cc: 'sangkancil@lists.malaysia.net'; 'malaysiaindians@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: Sneak Preview & Indian Community Project

Markandayan,

Yahoo IM me at bala2pillai  -- let me get a feel for your mind, raise some possibilities and  narrow them down. By doing so, you and I can get onto the “same page� heaps faster and I can connect you with those that are “same page� as you. If you don’t have Yahoo IM, it just takes 2 mins off http://messenger.yahoo.com

I have so much on my plate, but I’ll make time for you. Because you are an emerging leader, you are a high priority for me. And if you turn out to be one with low resistance to learning, we will be laughing. I have discovered the metrics and the technology/change management levers [1] to have us rise sky-high fast and need co-cognitive minds to execute them with.

Do you have a profile of yourself that you can send me or that’s online? Eg see mine at http://www.ryze.com/go/bala and in next email ?  That’ll accelerate our “same page-ing� – from that I’ll be able to sense notions you’re likely to be great at, notions that you’re a self-starter in, and notions that might be more alien to you.

I’m cc’ing this to Sangkancil and MalaysiaIndians to enable those who are unable to expand the synthesised notion, “same page-ing� to see an aspect of the phenomena in action. So that more of us use this virtual teaming technique.

[1] Levers = Archimedes: Give me long enough of a lever and a place to stand, and I’ll single handedly lift the Earth. Eg of lever = 1 line at the bottom of each Hotmail message led to very rapid spread of Hotmail which led to Hotmail owner making $400 million. Most of that $400 million was because of that 1 line. There were others who provided free email but couldn’t imagine this lever. Remember, this at a time when few were ready to realise the power of the Internet because of low foresight, high resistance to learning and fatalism. 

That one line was “to get your very own email account for free click here� and the strategies, structures and processes associated with it.  Many even today do not realise the cost of customer acquisition eg insurance companies depending upon cost of sales and marketing staff and advertising agency and media costs, would spend between US$500 and US$1000 per new customer. Thanks to this idea, Hotmail reduced cost of customer acquisition to like 5 cents each.

I have discovered many more levers and more importantly, lever metrics – the art and science of discovering where levers are likely to be, what their anatomy is likely to be, and rules of thumb in applying them for maximum success/minimum risk odds.  Let’s together use them.

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)

Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency

See http://www.malaysia.net/bala-interview

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 Some people make the world happen, more watch the world happen, most wonder what happened.

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From: Markandayan [mailto:karthe7@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 25 April 2005 5:44 PM
To: bala@apic.net
Subject: Re: Sneak Preview & Indian Community Project

Dear Bala,

Thanking for your reply. I appreciate your thought of us collaborating together. Your offer has opened the current plans to a wider era. It will be my pleasure to work together with you to make these plans successful for our fellow Indians. I am sure the other members would agree with me. As you mentioned, lets make something happen for those who are still wondering what happen.

Bala, i have read through your idea of sharing and creating innovation. It sounds wonderful to me and i presume this the only bullet train way of reaching the crowd. Now, Bala tell me, how shall we get further with this? How to get started?

 Markandayan

 On 4/25/05, Bala Pillai <bala@apic.net> wrote:

Dear Markandayan and all,

Some might have noticed that I have not been posting for a while – that's because I have been full-on with something in the works.

However I have been following your progress, because I sense you are one of those "make the world happen" types or well on the journey to being one.

Check out "Asian Knowledge Economy Brands in-the-making" at http://www.tamil.net/node/67 and http://www.malaysia.net/bala-interview  . This new phase is in beta thus no hoo-haa yet.

I sense we might be able to collaborate together – your call.

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)

Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency

See http://www.malaysia.net/bala-interview

http://www.malaysia.net  http://www.tamil.net http://www.singapore.net http://www.indonesia.net 

 

Some people make the world happen, more watch the world happen, most wonder what happened.

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To:

MalaysianIndianCLUB@yahoogroups.com, malaysiaindians@yahoogroups.com, UnitedMalaysianIndianClub@yahoogroups.com, "UTM-i-Net" <UTM-i-Net@yahoogroups.com>

From:

"Markandayan" < karthe7@gmail.com>  

Date:

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:19:07 +0800

Subject:

[malaysiaindians] Indian Community Project - Outcome of Second Meeting

Dear all,

I am pleased to inform that our second meeting on Indian Community project went on very well. It was held at Tamil Foundation in KL town. There were some new very commited members who joined us. This meeting has made a platform for us to move on with this project after few brilliant ideas were discussed. Furthermore, Tamil Foundation is doing a wonderful and amazing work in upbringing the Indian students from Tamil schools. Combining our ideas, knowledge and effort together with them will benefit more Indians and in a wider prospect. The foundation themselves has some ideas that we can contribute to. These are the plans and ideas which were discussed and we are now proceeding with the action.

1) Education Website/Booklet - Work is progressing. The draft has been created and need a pool of IT guys to assist.

2) School program - Tamil Foundation has highlighted that a tamil school in Dengkil, Selangor needs some urgent assistance. With this, we have decided to start of our project in this school as our pilot project. The school doesnt have a canteen at all, students are having their meal under the trees. No proper library and without any book racks. As the school is situated in a estate without proper fencing, snakes and other unwanted creatures finding their way in. I have yet to receive the full report on the school from the foundation. As soon as i get it, i will post it to all of you. Our planned action :

a) Having a visit to the school on 15th May 2005 (Sunday) to understand the situation and possible have our next meeting over there.

b) Foundation will provide us with the information/ records of the students education & past exam results, parents financial status and school teachers problems. This will enable us to analyse and draft the ways to tackle the problems in term of education.

c) As soon as the action plan is drafted, all of us (i am including you as an Indian) to spend a day for a student workshop with the students and parents on guiding them on the relevant matters.

d) A quality education program has also been suggested for the UPSR students whereby the outcome of the program can be analysed with their UPSR results.

3) Other Plans - we recognize that our community problems will not be solved by only targetting the school students. We are planning few ideas for SPM/STPM school leavers in which the deserving and excellent students must be guided to secure them a place for higher education. No point studying hard to get A's when a path for higher education is not defined. Not forgetting the average students, they must be guided to the skiils institute and vocational trainings.

These are the plans that a handfull of members can come up with. Imagine if everyone of us join our hands and contribute for our community, wont it give a mega-impact. A small contribution of yours maybe a great encouragement for our community. I hope to see some replies and suggestions from all of you. Most importantly when these plans kicks-off we need a lot of volunteers to make it big. Lets show our community that we youths care for the community and will extend our hand for them. I reckon some of you are doing a great job in helping Indians and i salute you all for that.

I hope to see more members will come forward and join hands to bring up our community. Hopefully we can gather in a group on the 15th May 2005 and visit the school. The crowd will bring some sort of confidence to the parents and teachers. Awaiting for all your replies.

Markandayan

(On behalf of all the committed members)

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