Jinal Shah
Thoughts on monetizing online communities
These are random and slightly haphazard, so bear with me.
I’ve been part of a few discussions the last few weeks that have resulted into me going back home with the ultimate question in mind: how do you monetize a community? Or rather – can a community even be monetized?
Everyone is trying to do this – [...]
To Bombay we will go!
Wheeeee!!!! I am coming home after a long 3.5 years. I just booked my tickets to Bombay from Dec 20th - Dec 30th. Yes, its ten days only but even then I’m psyched and it just means that I’m going to be doing very little sleeping.
I’d love to meet and make some new [...]
Musings
I just realized that I am incredibly envious of people who figure out their place in the system. By this I mean, getting the education, the masters, the job and climbing up from there - never once questioning the other possibilities or lives. There are so many “jobs,” “vocations” and “work” in this world that [...]
My mometous year!
2008 is my momentous year!
Look what I received in the mail!! My voter registration card and my passport.
Applying for a a passport was such an easy process. All I had to do was take my Citizenship Certificate and my Drivers License to the nearest post-office that processed passports. I got my passport photos taken at [...]
Thoughts on the current economic climate
Warning: I’m about to sound incredibly naive.
The current economic climate is a definite damper on the mood of the country. When I talk to people, friends, colleagues .. I wait to hear them say, it’s all going to get better. But they shake their heads in dismay and shurg. And then I wonder - are [...]
What makes people creative?
As someone who works in the ‘creative’ industries, I find the word “creative” far too limiting in its scope. I am uncomfortable being termed a creative. In New York speak and in agency speak, a creative is someone who designs or someone who makes things. Graphic designers, fashion designers, product designers, sculptors, artists is the [...]
Managing oneself
So my last plea for some advice didn’t yeild much
But I found this amazing Harvard Business Review article penned by management guru Peter Drucker. The article is called, Managing oneself. I read it at a bookstore but upon googling, I found a pdf online.
Drucker essentially laid out the framework in my head very [...]
Advise me on your organization/ project management skills
My job mostly involves thinking/ consulting and being held accountable for it. Knowing my client’s problems, understanding the landscape and offering possible solutions that will meet the clients objectives. Of late, I’ve been tasked with work that involves a teensy bit of project management/ execution: problem solving on the go. And not million dollar client-related [...]
Palin reminds me of Dolores Umbridge
This stormy weather outside is inspiring dark thoughts inside my head today…
For those of you unfamiliar with Umbridge, she was the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix. It is unanmious opinion that Umbridge’s era at Hogwarts is ‘characterized by cruelty and abusive punishments against students.’ Stephen [...]
Come see me speak :D
I’m a little shy of self-promotion, but come watch me and a bunch of other smart, incredibly clever women speak at this month’s She Says Event. The theme this month is: three reasons that makes a killer idea successful. Confirmed Speakers thus far include: Allison Mooney of Fleishman-Hillard and Gill Linton of The Joneses
See the [...]
