Don’t Know What To Blog About?

In case you are stuck for a topic to blog about, have a look at Chris Brogan’s blog.

He lists 100 topics you may like to write about. Interesting list.

I wondered how many of the 100 would get written about.

Should we add ” Thinking about Topics to Blog About” as a topic to blog about ?

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The Red Zone

The Red Zone , according to an article in The Fast Company , is a program started 3 years ago in the Boston Consulting Group to spot and tame chronic over workers. When a consultant averages more than 60 hours per week over any five weeks, he or she is flagged on reports seen by partners and managers.

What is striking is the effort made to get consultants to slow down and reduce risk of burn out in an industry characterized by long work hours.

Of course, hours of work is but one indicator. No one claims that the best achievements are from those who work most.

Do you want to have a variant of the Red Zone in your organisation ?

The Juggle

Very informative and interesting addition to my reading is The Juggle.

A blog in the Wall Street Journal (lead writer: Sara Schaefer Munoz ) on the choices and trade offs that people make as they juggle work and family.

I was interested to see that the issues discussed are almost universal. From Montana to Moscow, from Washington to Warsaw, the issues around balancing often conflicting demands between work and family are the same.

I guess because we are all human, right?

Stop Tobacco Abuse

I am told that September 27 is Stop Abuse Day. Since I have stopped abusing tobacco, let me encourage others to do so.

Since I quit on July 4, 2003, Quitnet informs me that I have stayed quit for 1545 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes and 34 seconds !

The website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a fund of useful information on the dangers of smoking and how to go about stopping the habit.

Their Factsheet is a good place to start.

Best Employers: India’s Tech Companies

The Indian magazine Dataquest in partnership with IDC publishes their list of the Best Employers in India’s tech companies.

The top 5 rankings for 2007 in their 7th annual survey:-

1. TCS
2. HCL Infosystems
3. iGate
4. RMSI
5. Synechron

TCS was also ranked No. 1 last year. RMSI has fallen from rank 2 to rank 4. HCL Infosystems has improved from rank 3 to rank 2. iGate has moved from rank 29 to rank 3. Synechron was not in last year’s list.

Global IT Services Market

India’s top 6 IT players increased their share of the global IT Service market from 0.5 % in 2001 to 1.9 % in 2006.

The Economic Times reports that the global top 10 IT services firms, also increased their market share from 22.8% in 2001 to 26% in 2006.

IBM, EDS, Fujitsu, Accenture, and Hewlett Packard are the Top 5 Global players with IBM alone having 7.2 % of the market share.

India’s top 6 were TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, Satyam and HCL Tech. India’s leading player, TCS ranked 36 in the global rankings while HCL Tech ranked 86.

Delighted!!

Enewss, the India blog aggregator, lists Today’s Top Blog Hits on a daily basis.

I am delighted to find that the Most Popular Outgoing Link and the 2nd Most Popular Outgoing Link in Enewss, today are my posts on Indra Nooyi ( September 16) and Connecting India ( September 25) respectively.

Although a late starter who began blogging a year ago at age 55, I derive a lot of satisfaction from this interest quite irrespective of the number of people who follow my blog.