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	Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Blogging leads to Better Sales  I guess when I wrote lengthily about what we tend to accomplish by launching 9 websites the last two months to increase collaboration and cooperation, I am not alone.  Here is another story on how blogging have increasse traffic. Blogging is also search engine friendly, and Paul Allen reminds us that you get 6 times more traffic clickthroughs in search engine results than in paid ads.   3:59:57 PM     comment []   trackback []

This I Believe (On Life )   (selected articles in bizdrivenlife compiled) After almost 20 years since I started reading and following the company that is Microsoft,  I still am amazed at Bill Gates. He was a hero for many of us back in the 80s, but the 90s, it somehow become uncool to be impressed by him as the company became accused of certain practices that led to making too much money. But the more I read of him, the more I am convinced that he is still driven by the same passion, the same intelligence and vision as it was 20 years ago.  Many billions, as well as successes and failures later, he is still driven -- which is important. In an interview with NPR ( National Public Radio) which is appropriately titled "This I Believe", he reiterates his vision -- to have a job you love that will mean using your creativity and intelligence to make the world a better place and to pursue that vision relentlessly. After so much innovation of the company ( which I feel they are less credited than what they are contributing), and contributing over 30 billion dollars to fight disease in new ways, I continue to be awed and inspired by the man. I do look forward to be able to continue to have the same passion to tap dance to work,  and yes, this will probably be an unpopular piece, but we are all human, and I think before we throw judment, let us try to understand the issues better.  For the last few years, he has not been on the driver seat ( not in operations), but in innovation and software design, and I think as we see the whole piece of Microsoft's design coming in together, we have to give him credit - he is smart, he is driven, and he is doing much more than many of us in making this a better world for our children.   3:29:55 PM     comment []   trackback []

Lives Lived  "on life " I just happened to come across an announcement of a departure of an accomplished person at the age of 49. I don't normally read this part of the news, but the way it was written had a sense of appeal in the way his life was examined.  To quote:" The death of a good man always come too soon.... It was so unfair, many who knew him said...  But his life was not a waste. He was an over-achiever of the very best kind, the kind that strives and achieves without fanfare, show or self-aggrandizing. He had, at the time in his life, received many of the rewards one hopes will come for a life well-lived... A man of great tact, he could deal with difficult human encounters with quiet good humour and equanimity." That, I hope, other than the first sentence, would also apply to me, when it is my time to go.   4:34:18 AM     comment []   trackback []