This week's Sports show

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Interview with Mr Chandresh Dhebar

Mr Chandresh Dhebar had addressed our College students on People Management and business ethics on the 14th of June. Chandresh Dhebar is currently the Chairman of HR Advisory services Pvt ltd in New Delhi.

A small note about Mr Chandresh Dhebar

Chandresh has enriched innovative HR practices at such global corporations like PwC, Adobe, GrapeCity etc. A HR strategist and a motivational trainer, also serves as a member of Human Capital Committee of FICCI. Chandresh is spearheading HR Minds Consulting to boost people revenues at its clients using its pioneering ‘performance with merit’ programme. As a visiting faculty to various business schools, Chandresh is seeding future business leaders with his HR innovations.

Some of the key points of his address were to know oneself very well, have a USP, Create credibility and reliabilty for delivery and finally to orient oneself as a person who executes all actions. He spoke on the subtle differences between promise and commitment and how working on business ethics helps in achieving business and personal goals.

Here are some pictures from the event and a small interview with Mr Chandresh Dhebar, on behalf of the Great Lakes Blogging Team.


Mr Chandresh with Seema Mohanty and Arunachalam.S of Team Gravity (Our Magazine)

Mr Chandresh with Seema and Balaji Sarukkai( The most experienced person with 13 years of Consulting experience)

Arunachalam.S welcoming the Guest, and starting the proceedings

Mr Dhebar on People Management at Great Lakes



Kartik Kannan interviews Mr Chandresh Dhebar


The Interview is shown below

Images from Podworks

Podworks happened last week, and I managed to deliver my session on day 1 as well as day 2. I was not able to take too many pictures, but managed to get some from other folks. The biggest advantage of attending such events is the amazing amount of business networking that happens for the 200 Rs that you pay there as a participant(even speakers at the conference pay, as they still attend other sessions). I felt the presentation on "How to make Audio Podcasts in 10 minutes" went a little longer than expected, but did objectively teach even the naive user, how easy podcasting was. The second presentation was on quick video podcasts, that could be made from any place in the world, even as we travel with the convergence of a Laptop,Data Card and a Mobile Phone.



This was on Day 1, when I was responding to an answer.

This was during the hands on session when I was speaking on where to paste the embed code

Me during the presentation

A live demo of a quick 5 minute audio podcast on ODEO

The demo in action via a HP Tablet PC

Podcast Interview with Sunil Nair, CEO of Nautanki.tv

Mr Sunil Nair, is the CEO of Nautanki.tv, which claims to be South Asia's first Online Video Media Network. They webcast programs / episodes / segments on an ongoing basis in the short format. In the various sections of nautanki.tv you will find humour, thrillers, drama, short films, documentaries, indie productions, satire, political commentaries, religion, spirituality and body and soul.



Mr Sunil, had also authored a fiction novel called Chatroom Blues in 2003 and a non fiction novel in 2004 called Footloose in God's Own Backyard.

Sunil Nair speaks to Kartik Kannan on Nautanki, his business model and Internet Advertising and money making on the internet through uploading videos

The Interview- Part 1







Part 2






Part 3

One Heck of a weekend

This Weekend, I am totally pressed for time. Podworks, India's biggest Podcasting Workshop is there on the weekend and in the evening on Saturday,we have a Beach house party at a resort on the East Coast Road.Click here to Listen to the music of the Podworks Tune

The Beach would provide ample oppurtunities to interact with like minded folks from the social media Industry and the beach house under the moon should be a great way to spend the night.

If That was not enough, there are more events that would attract me. That would be the Afro Asian Cup happening in Chennai with a double header match up on the weekend. Watching cricket at the Chepauk stadium has always been my favourite pastime, as it's an awesome experience watching the match and feeling the pulse of 30,000 people at the same time. Since 2002, after the introduction of the Electronic scoreboard that relays slow motion replays, has now made combined the home effect of watching the match.

Sachin is not there, but still its the spirit of cricket that matters amidst the din and chaos of the crowd at Chepauk. The last match I watched was the India Seniors Vs India B at the Chepauk, last October(Challenger Series), where I managed to get lucky, sneaking through to the players enclosure, managing to speak with Sreesanth and Harbhajan Singh, who were frustrated by the rain that had ruined play. What also helped was an excuse at work, saying I had an "urgent" work to attend, which brought me to the stadium at 4 pm.

Apart from that, I also need to prepare hard for my Financial Accounting terminal exam at College(Monday).

The mid term exam, a couple of days back was a disaster and there is all speculation that the second one could be more serious.Need to hit my Books :-)

Bhogle, Mein Aa Raha Hoon!

With extremely gruelling schedules at B School, and no time for actvely pursuing hobbies, I decided to squeeze in some time for a hobby of mine. I generally capture myself on video, and take Interviews on my mobile, but that was largely amateur, and when I spotted an oppurtunity to do it a little more professionaly, I grabbed the offer.

I have my own Sports Show.(This is episode 1, and will happen every Wednesday)



More about it a little later, as have a presentation in Marketing and a test following that.