Time to Move on…

The last time, when I changed my job, my then boss prayed for stability at work. I wrote in my post two years back that change is better and must be appreciated.

During my tenure here, several times, I felt that my previous job was better and I should not have changed. Well, this is natural I guess. Every time we move out of comfort zone, we face difficulties and sometimes it makes us feel dejected for the time being and I ended up doubting the decision taken earlier.

But I realized or consoled myself that life is not be overwhelmed by these small setbacks. It is about changing ourselves and evolving to explore ones potential.

To evolve we need to challenge and take risks with the existing situations in life.
I look forward to these challenges as I am on the path to exploring real self.

I am also fortunate and blessed to have experienced change in all sphere of life and thus succeeded in changing and moving towards new self and exploring the opportunities which were never in my horizon when I started.

This change is another milestone and the lessons that I learnt during this period were plenty.

*I retained my health and family life.
*I learnt to handle austerity at work place and at home.
*I read books which I wanted to during college days.
*I met people from diverse background and improved on the listening, reading, writing, sharing and reflecting skills.
*I learnt new subjects like psychology, auditing, literature, and e-learning.
* I applied myself to work closely with my colleagues and teams to achieve office goals and objectives.

I thank you all for the support and cooperation extended to me and helping me to be what I am today.

Good luck…

The power of power

The real power of power is to achieve goals without executing or abusing the power. But more often than not, the powerful people in all spheres of life and work use to dominate and create environment of distrust and chaos.

Recently during my one to one meeting with one such person occupying a powerful position in office wanted to know whether people perceive him to be tough, and took pride in creating an environment of uncertainty at workplace.

Reflecting back, I wonder that people in general feel uncertain and subdued with their managers or bosses. So what was so special that he achieved by being “tough”. It comes naturally with power as an unwanted side effect. The real power to him I understand is to create the environment of certainty, trust, cohesiveness, teamwork, openness and give away the power that creates uncertain environment and chaos.

The real powerful are those who could influence the minds of young and old by evoking the real power among others. Hopefully they practiced by following the principles of:

· The power to give away.

· The power to eliminate fear, violence, jealousy, anger, greed etc.

· The power to share knowledge and learning’s.

The real power to powerful people in the organization occupying top most position is to create environment of trust, certainty, camaraderie, hope and joy at workplace.

Let the power bring in joy and pleasure at work. I am sure it will foster productivity and innovations at work.

W3C Conference

W3C India chapter was inaugurated on 6th May 2010 as a unit under Department of IT. An international conference was organised from 6-7th May 2010 to mark this occasion. Several distinguished speakers and CEO W3C participated in the event. Different topics on W3C standards ranging from web to Website design standards were discussed by the International and National expert speakers. The issues discussed were as follows:

• The concept of Web for All based on Accessibility feature, Internalisation, Machine translation, Security and Privacy and Multilanguage support was discussed at length by several speakers.
• The scaling up of present Web to Ubiquitous web, which must supports all Data device everywhere was emphasised , the web design must be scalable, and based on open standards.
• The point in discussion was Mobile web (presently seen as future of web computing due to growth of mobile usage and internet through mobile devices). The mobile web best practices must not use tables for design of page to be accessible on mobile, and must not rely on JavaScript. The mobile page must support augmented reality on web. The current mobile web practices do not support Unicode and hence must follow single Unicode standard, support multiplicity of language and must be W3C standard compliant.

Web Design guidelines
a. The WCAG 1.0 guideline was released in 1999 and version 2.0 was released in 2008. The guidelines can be downloaded from web.guidelines.gov.in.

b. Some of the products that support WCAG guidelines are Mobile Speak, Talks, Talkback, and Mobile speak.

c. The website lifecycle can be divided into six cyclic phases. They are: Planning , Content, Design , Development, Management and Maintenance.

d. The website is hosted generally with the objective that it reaches to all, the content is updated, complete and correct and its management is right.

e. The planning phase consists of designing Key policies. Some of them are Copyright policy, Privacy policy, Hyperlink policy, Content policy, Content Review policy, Content Archival policy, Website Security policy, and Website Maintenance policy.

f. The content can be divided into three form primary, secondary and tertiary form. The quality of the content must adhere to authenticity, currency and accuracy parameters.

g. The design phase must consider universal accessibility of the website along with the colour, layout and visual identity features.

h. The development of the website must be based on Interoperability features, and open standard.

i. The contingency plan must be in place to cope up with interruption or failure of the website in the events of natural disaster, terrorist attacks, corruption, and other threats.

j. The website can be certified through website quality certification by STQC, DIT.

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