IT PM

Berkley webcasts

If you aren’t aware of it yet, most of the major universities out there are offering their courses for free online now a days. One of them is Berkley: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php There is a lot of content here from economics, sociology, statistics, etc… though I’ve found it most useful in the Social sciences and Arts topics. […]

IT PM

Good site for Self-education

Psychology Course Name Category Videos available Click to view video lectures Introduction to Psychology Psychology 20 Click to view videos General Psychology Psychology 25 Click to view videos Behavioral Neuroscience Lab Psychology 9 Click to view videos Psychology of Personality Psychology 36 Click to view videos Abnormal Psychology Psychology 26 Click to view videos Industrial […]

Marketing

Online Marketing 101

I was recently introduced to the Wiley world of online marketing by an x-colleague and I’m fascinated at how systematic this discipline is. Managing relationships, getting attention, creating impressions.. I always felt these were things inherent in personalities and not things that can be crafted and managed. I guess the real world has been seeing […]

IT PM

Resource planning 101

For a lot of IT services companies, a large part of their work portfolio is fixed cost projects. That means that they go after and bid for projects in a particular domain. When they reach certain milestones (e.g. project completion), they get paid a certain amount. i.e. compensation is tied to delivery of scope, not […]

Sales

Online marketplaces for BPOs

I knew people were finding work off the internet but I didn’t realize there were so many sites out there. Site URL Notes Project Spring http://www.projectspring.com IT Moonlighter http://www.itmoonlighter.com Hire Bidder http://www.hirebidder.com Freelance Web Project http://freelancewebprojects.com/ Image Lance http://www.imagelance.com/ Web Developers Index http://www.webdevelopersindex.com/ ScriptLance http://www.scriptlance.com/ Got Projects http://www.gotprojects.com Outsource Today http://www.outsourcetoday.net/ Freelance Auctions http://freelanceauction.com/ Programming […]

Marketing

Marketing IT services

Marketing would be the process of generating prospects and leads for your idea. Marketing is different from sales in that sales focus is on closing deals while Marketing’s focus is on generating opportunity. In much of the B2B world, marketing plays a less dominant role than Sales activity. Basic objectives Locating where the ducks are […]