Making Winning Online Portfolios..my talk at "Freelance Fair Conference" 2011

I was a speaker at "Freelance Fair Conference 2011". My topic of my talk was on "Building Winning Online Portfolios" for designers, writers, bloggers and other freelance professionals. This was held on 7th august 2011 @ Hyderabad.

Freelance fair Conference - 2011

There were many serious freelance professionals attended this event which was organized by "Lectures for Good" organization. My goal for this talk is to showcase the importance of portfolios and make sure every freelancer should have a striking online portfolios. Overall, it was good and happy to see people noting down the notes.

Many people requested my presentation deck and hence i am uploading here so that any one can see it.

Making Winning Online Portfolios

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My talk on "Facebook for OBAMA & Facebook for ME"

Facebook for OBAMA & Face book for ME @ Facebook for your Business Seminar @ Hyderabad

News Article published @ Andhra Business
http://www.andhrabusiness.com/NewsDesc.aspx?newsID=Facebook-enthusiasts-exchange-knowledge.html

When i was invited as a speaker for this seminar to share my knowledge and my thoughts,  thought that i should speak on something related to reality & people aware a bit.  Finally choose a topic "Facebook for OBAMA & Facebook for ME" This seminar was held at Hotel Celebrations, Hyderabad on Sunday, Feb 2011 organized by Brio Factors group. There were 100 people out there including who have attended this event.

There were other 5-6 speakers including Raj Allipuram (MD& CEO - Brio Factors),  Naidu Darapaneni, CEO of Versant Technologies and www.meraevents.com, Vamsi Vanteru, Managing Director of Fine Group of companies, P. Madhusudhan Rao, Praveen Kumara Machavaram of ContentMentor & me (Ranjeet Kumar Tayi - SumTotal) who have shared their experiences and it was really kool. Interesting wide range of topics include, The psychological impact Facebook , Personal branding, Social netwrorking, Using Facebook, Facebook for OBAMA & Me and many more.

This event was full day event and i have presented my talk for about 45 Min and there were good range of interaction with participants and happy to hear that they like my presentation. :) Finally there were lot of  requests to do these sessions often. The organizing team resolved to continue such sessions within and outside Hyderabad based on public demand.

Thinking Aloud...!

What is this?
Thinking aloud (Nielsen, 1994), may be the single most valuable usability engineering method. It involves having a end user continuously thinking out loud while using the system.

Purpose
By verbalizing the users thoughts, the test users enable us to understand how they view the system, and this again makes it easier to identify the end users' major misconceptions. By showing how users interpret each individual interface item, THA facilitates a direct understanding of which parts of the dialogue cause the most problems.

Points of Interest
a failure to lend itself well to most types of performance measurement; the different learning style is often perceived as unnatural, distracting and strenuous by the users; non-analytical learners generally feel inhibited; time consuming since briefing the end users is a necessary part of the preparation. Causing users to focus and concentrate is both an advantage and disadvantage since it results in less than natural interactions at times and THA results in being faster due to the users focus.

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CARS 2007, ChiCl Annual Research Symposium, Preston, UK.

22 November 2008
USAB 07, Usability & HCI for Medicine and Health Care, Graz, Austria.

26-28 November 2007
UCS 2007, International symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems, Tokyo, Japan.

29-30 November 2007
HAID 2007, 2nd international workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, Seoul, Korea.

30 November-2 December 2007
UMO 07, National conference on Designing for User Experience, Hyderabad, India.

6 December 2007
HCT 2007, 10th Human-Centered Technology postgraduate workshop, Sussex, UK.