Saturday, February 5, 2011

..."You've gone a million miles ; How far d'you get ; To that place where you can't remember ; And you can't forget"...

We Need To Talk:

… if you are hearing this particular sentence in a rom-com/sitcom it will often be followed by giggles or burst of laughter (sometimes as a voice-over as well… for the un-initiated ones!) and if you are hearing this face-to-face there is a good chance that your face will develop reddish hues and difficulty in listening and general loss of concentration…

… communication is not easy… and that is in spite of the spectacular growth in the field of ‘transmission’ be it data or voice or pictures or even humans! … it really doesn’t matter how fast you are able to send your ‘thoughts’ or ‘views’ unless the intended (or even unintended!) recipient is able to ‘get-it’ from your perspective… be it Orkut or FB or ICQ or AIM or Wikipedia or Knome … last of which is an interesting place to be… the riot of colors on the pages was welcome and inviting … an exhaustive FAQ page was another surprising aspect … they don’t bother to ‘create’ it anymore these days…

… Knome what?? … “ a Knowledge Management and a social networking website. It blends cutting edge consumer web collaboration patterns with enterprise KM to provide a platform that is easy, intuitive and adaptable. It is an interactive portal having modules like Q&A, Bytes, Blogs, Wikis, Ideas, Debates, Community and Media which provide a one stop shop to look for and contribute to the generation of knowledge in your organization.” …

… there was a reason why the ‘coffee house’ became so popular… there was an entire generation which turned to these places; not only to drink good coffee and munch the mouth watering and delicious and crunchy hot snacks… be it vada-paav or masala dosa or bread pakoda or medu-vada sambar… but also to sit across and talk and share and debate and laugh and crib and most importantly communicate… ideas, perspectives, feelings, passions… everything was put on the table and dissected among the peers …this helped anyone and everyone who was willing enough to sit for the entire length of the chit-chat … the beauty of such ‘verbal battlefields’ was that they were slugged in the most casual way possible…

… and THAT is what is needed… an informal, casual and light-hearted chit-chat … you can post an open ended query in ‘Q&A’… you can ‘blog’ your doubts and seek answers… and you can definitely ‘byte’ your crib… but if you want to get the answers first-hand… get ready to walk the longer way round … the shortest path between two points is not always a ‘straight’ line… so go ahead and buy a decent pair of spare footwear… tap gently on the shoulder… wear a friendly smile… tell them that you want to help and let them sing… and they will…

(originally posted in the intranet portal: Knome)

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