Monthly Archives: October 2008
Review of Arthur and the Invisibles by K M Mahmud hasan
Romantic Action cgi movie!
Thats the line, I have in my mind after view the movie ” Arthur And The Invisibles”.
Ignoring some technical mistake and the strong force of the story line, you will have a great time when you see this movie with your family. There are many lessons for the audience in this movie.It’s a pretty good picture, albeit a strange one: a fantasy adventure set in `60s New England about a little boy, Arthur (Freddie Highmore of “Finding Neverland”) who, seemingly abandoned by his parents, is living with his somewhat fey but lovable Granny (Mia Farrow). Arthur’s imagination is sparked by the African adventure diary of his also-absent granddad Archibald (Ron Crawford), and, following Granddad’s instructions, he discovers a magical kingdom in his back yard. This alternative world, a lighter, poppier version of the kind of wondrous underworld Guillermo del Toro created in “Pan’s Labyrinth,” is a miniature sub-Tolkien realm full of tiny people–kings, feisty princesses, wicked wizards and bouncy elves.
To get there, Arthur shrinks to size of the beings who inhabit this realm, the Minimoys. (“Arthur et les Minimoys” is this film’s French title.) He becomes a kind of smart-alecky human hobbit, and his quest takes on added tension because he’s trying to find some hidden
7 Tips for the WordPress “Write Post” Page
Here are 7 useful tips related to WordPress’s “Write Post” page.
- Change a Post’s URL – If you’re using Pretty Permalinks, you can open the “Post Slug” section of the “Write Post” page and type in the text that you’d like to appear in the post’s URL. Among other things, this can be useful for shortening the URL of a post that has an abnormally long title.
How Branding Works
Who you know, has its benefits. But maybe even more important is who knows you. Great branding helps you get known. Great branding builds a relationship between you and your audience. And for a business, a blog, or any kind of endeavor, that relationship is the key to accomplishing whatever you set out to do.
Whether you’re trying to raise awareness, foster change, or increase sales, branding is an investment in making it happen. And when done well, you can leverage your brand for as long as you take care of it and keep it alive. Your brand has a job to do. And step by step, this is how it works to get you known.
Corporate Branding
Making the brand the strategic ‘driver’ for the entire organization
By K M Mahmud Hasan
The concept of “brand” and the practice of “branding” have become two of the most bandied – and misunderstood – terms in today’s business lexicon. Not by me, you say? Think about it. Here are two short quizzes to get you started.
Call Centers: How to Reduce Burnout, Increase Efficiency
The front lines of a corporate call center are often charged with emotion, and companies need to account for that when hiring and training workers to take on this critical role in customer contact, according to speakers at a recent Call Center Industry Forum sponsored by Wharton’s Financial Institutions Center.
“There is a growing need for workers who have to deal constantly with the public to manage emotions – and this is especially true for those on the phones,” said Steffanie Wilk <http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/wilk.html> , a Wharton management professor who has done extensive research on call centers.
Nancy Rothbard , professor of management at Wharton, presented the results of research on workers’ mood, performance and burnout conducted by her and Wilk at a large property and casualty insurer. During three weeks in May 2003, a group of 40 call center workers received computer prompts to answer four short questionnaires at the beginning and end of the day, and another two at random times, to gauge their mood.
how to slove problems
Here is one of many possible models of problem solving.
1. Problem identification What is my concern?
2. Goal definition What do I want to achieve or change?
3. Brainstorming What can I do?
4. Consequences What might happen?
How To Handle Difficult People
The job of any manager is how efficiently & effectively he handles people at work. It is a challenge as a manager to form coalitions of willing, eager, & ambitious people within the realm of your responsibility. Handling people at work is not always as easy as it looks like, more so when a manager has to handle difficult people. They can destabilize you if you cannot understand & handle them properly. Every difficult person in the form of a boss, colleague, subordinate, friend that you come in contact with is an opportunity for you to grow & develop into a stronger, more resilient – & more serene- manager.
Ten things that you didn’t know about the Big Bang
1. Tomorrow the Large Hadron Collider will be formally switched on at an underground location near Geneva in Switzerland. Princess Michael of Kent has graciously consented to perform the ceremony. Afterwards, Her Royal Highness will be presented with a bouquet of primroses, freesias and interlocking strings of seasonal DNA.
Blogging In terms of Search Engine OptimizationBlogging In terms of Search Engine Optimization
In recent years, weblogs have grown from a band of sharp-tongued outlaws to the darlings of online marketing. From Stonyfield Farm Yogurt to the Republican National Committee, it seems that everyone has a blog, or two, these days. Whether you are an individual out to bring in an income through running ads on your site or a large business with a blog on the site as a way to create relationships with potential clients, you are today’s Big Thing on the Internet. Naturally, the major search engines should be catering to your every need. But you make it plenty hard for them! Your site lives and dies by content that changes every day, so it’s difficult for search engines—which are also trying to index the entire rest of the Web too—to keep up. But little by little they are catching up.
