Now Liz’s workshop is all about how to write a book (non fiction). It’s a scientific approach to book authoring. What Liz says is when ever we want to write on some topic, we just try to fill in with what ever we know about that topic. This is the type 1 thinking that involves no deep thinking. By doing this we end up writing a ‘me to’ book and will be very ordinary one.

First Workshop In India

Dr. Liz’s workshop at Chennai was the first of this kind in India. The participants play a key role in making any workshop a grand success. Dr. Liz’s workshop on book authoring also saw very interesting and active participation. The participants were all from different backgrounds, but the one thing they share were the passion to author a book.

Interesting mix of participants: An NLP trainer, serial entrepreneur, Marketing and strategy professional, CEOs, freelance writer.

Type 2 thinking for extraordinary books. One of the main points that Dr. Liz shared was the power of type 2 thinking, the one which is deep, that requires lots of effort and time. If you want to leave your mark with an extra ordinary book in your subject area, you need to cultivate this habit of type 2 thinking. Here one of the participants shows his mind map, a result of type 2 thinking.

 Blue print of the book. The main goal of the workshop was to create the blue print for the book. Here you see the participants thinking hard to create the blue print for their respective books.

 Once you are ready with your blue print, you share it with others and believe me the value addition they bring is some thing awesome.

 We all had a great time commenting on others blue print, lots of value addition, almost like a crowd sourced idea.

 At the end of the day we became close pals!!!! And Dr. Liz is coming back to India in July end for another series of workshops.

To know more about Dr. Liz and her works, visit http://drlizalexander.com/, Facebook page, Twitter and LinkedIn

Last week I attended an interesting workshop organised by my friend Rajesh Setty named “The Art of Personal Branding.” Now I have tried to get a gist from the workshop. Here it is gist of the workshop.

Personal branding starts at zeroth impressions

If premium is on your mind, don’t wish for that to be easy

Personal branding is An assessment of your promise to the World (marketplace) & your capacity to fulfill it with ongoing proof of accomplishment

How to identify your strengths?

Create your six word memoir

Noticing what you notice and noticing what you don’t notice

Noticing when you are in the flow

Personal Brand is:

Not something you can ask for

It is not your presence on social media

It is not an extension of your employer’s brand

How to move from noise to voice? distinguish yourself

The hallmark of a compelling story is when some one else telling about you

Say ‘No’ more often

5 Step process for saying ‘No’:

Repeat the question,

Say No

Say a reason

Give an option and say what they can ask for

About Rajesh Setty

Rajesh is an entrepreneur, author and speaker based in Silicon Valley. You can find out more about him on his website, blog,Twitter or on Facebook.

Here is a chance for all App developers out there. Now, port and build your apps for the Next Generation Laptops. YourStory.in & Intel present Appathon Hyderabad scheduled for 1st April, 2012 to get you kick-started with Ultrabook development!

Register here for the event and check here to know more about the event.

Do you have an active Blog?

Are you well connected in various social networking sites?

A great number of people following you on Twitter?

Have lots of friends on Facebook?

Interested in traveling with cricketers, attend after match party and cover IPL 2012?

Here are the opportunities waiting for you!!!

Devils’ Advocate!

The Devils’ Advocate is a contest hosted by team ‘DELHI DAREDEVILS’, to discover their most dedicated and talented fans. These selected few will be part of the Web Crew that will travel with and bring news about the Daredevils to the other fans.

So what’s the deal?

3 talented fans will be recruited as the team’s official Web Crew . They will get a chance to spend time with the Delhi Daredevils and will be given designated posts to cover the team’s IPL5 fixtures.

Categories!

Photographer or Devils’ Eye – He/ She will be the team’s official web photographer who will capture the most extraordinary sporting moments; and share the thrill and excitement with the fans.

Videographer or Devils’ Shadow – He/ She will be the team’s official web videographer and will entertain fans by creating the most thrilling and captivating videos.

Blogger or Devils’ Hand – He/ She will be the team’s official web blogger and will enthral fans with the latest news on non-match days and during/before/after a match.

Want to be part of Devil? click here

Party Players!

Another contest run by Spiritzandmore.com, One of India’s largest lifestyle related community portal. Become the official party blogger of Spiritzandmore, attend IPL after match parties, rub shoulders with celebrities and cricketers and blog about that! Interesting right? so apply here if you want to become a Party Player.

RCB Fanatic Fans Challenge

In order to participate in this challenge you need to send your cricketing article and you will get a chance to spend a IPL 5 match-day with Team RCB in your city !! For more details on this contest, click here

Now come back to IPL 2012. Various teams are trying ways to increase their fan base. This includes contests, special offers to fans and exclusive merchandising.

a.      Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

CSK has Kings Club Membership cards. Now it’s a three tier card, Kings Club Yellow, Kings Club Senior and Kings Club Junior. Members get benefits like access to the royal world of the Chennai Super Kings, bunch of goodies, priority access to purchase tickets a few days before the general ticket sale. You also get a chance to watch Super Kings in action during the team’s practice sessions. There are special discounts on a whole host of team merchandise including t-shirts, caps and stadium gear.

 b.      Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

KKR is back with a new logo and their website says ‘New dawn. New Knights’. We need to wait and watch how the new logo will change their fortune.

c.      Deccan Charges (DC)

DC’s slogan is let’s recreate the history! They were the winners of 2009 edition and they want to repeat that this time.

d.      Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

RCB is another team that has come up with so many benefits and offers for their fans. They have an interesting offer named Pay for 6 matches and go for 8. I am sure that’s a great deal for RCB fans.

For more details on this offer and to buy the tickets, click here

As part of App On Cloud event, you can submit the apps developed by you. This is for startups / Entrepreneurs / Developers

So what do you get? once you are selected, you get a chance for a closed door one-to-one with VCs, mentors and cloud experts. So here are the various categories

Categories

Mobile Apps on Cloud
Social Apps on Cloud
Consumer Web Apps on Cloud
Last date to apply 10/Mar/2012.

So you can apply here for submission of the apps

For queries or more information, please write to chandan@yourstory.in

App On Cloud event will have many a distinguished speaker. One among them are Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Windows Azure Team

Yousef Khalidi is a Distinguished Engineer in the Windows Azure team. Windows Azure is a platform for developing, deploying, managing, and hosting cloud-based Web services. Khalidi is responsible for several aspects of the platform, centered on the goal of building a low-cost, automated, large-scale computing system, using commodity hardware, with efficiently managed shared resources. Before Windows Azure, Khalidi led an advanced development team in Windows that tackled a number of related operating system areas, including application model, resource management, and isolation. He also served as a member of the Windows Core Architecture group.

App on Cloud

App on Cloud will showcase the true potential of the developers and entrepreneurs in India by giving them an opportunity to build a killer app powered by Cloud.  So if you are an App developer, this is the right opportunity for you to participate and by doing that you get a chance to showcase your prototype to the top notch investors, VCs and mentors from the industry.

So if you are interested to be participate in App on Cloud, register here 

As part of App o Cloud event, Yourstory.in has organised a series of webinars on various topics. Here are the details,

Leveraging Open Source on the Cloud - Thursday, March 1, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM IST

To register for the free webinar, click here

Building Social Games on the Cloud that go Viral - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM IST

Registration  yet to start, keep checking the page.

Cloud and Mobile – The Winning Combination - Monday, March 12, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM IST

Registration yet to start.

For more details on these webinars, visit here 

How about building a personal blood donor network from your FB friends and Twitter followers? I think its a cool idea. Thats what my good friend Ramasubramanian Alwarsamy has come up with. The initiative thanksya.com is an entry for I save Life project by Mahindra.

Thanksya:

The idea is simple. You have lots of friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter, but you have no clue about their blood group. Now with the the help of Thanksya App, you can find their blood groups and thus you are creating a personal blood bank. Its a wonderful way of leveraging the powerful Social Media network.

I wish him all the very best for this wonderful initiative.

For more details on Thanksya.com and to be part of this, visit here and here

Catch Thanksya on Facebook

Yourstory.in is back with another interesting event, App on Cloud, a program to showcase the potential of Cloud Computing.  Cloud Computing when combined with Mobile, Social and Open Source offers tremendous opportunities to the developers and entrepreneurs. App On Cloud is also a contest inviting your business ideas that leverages Cloud to build the next killer app!

App on Cloud

App on Cloud will showcase the true potential of the developers and entrepreneurs in India by giving them an opportunity to build a killer app powered by Cloud.  So if you are an App developer, this is the right opportunity for you to participate and by doing that you get a chance to showcase your prototype to the top notch investors, VCs and mentors from the industry.

So if you are interested to be participate in App on Cloud, register here