To the bravest man I have ever met in a bus

Yes, you are the MAN!

I call you "the man" because you had the guts to get up and ask me that single question. The bus had stopped in the middle of the road in the busy Kadawatha town, everyone in the bus was staring at me and I was crying, yet you had the guts to ask that question.

Save this link with your valuable Tweet

DEEPS: Hi all the marketers out there, have you heard of Blinklink? It helps you build a link that self-destructs after certain number of views.

RANDOM MARKETING GUY : So, what? I have seen such services from the day I was born.

DEEPS : Let me finish please!!

Meet the people behind "help", learn how they do it

As I have blogged earlier, Technical Communication is a field yet to be explored by the Sri Lankans. Many do not know that such a career path exists in Sri Lanka.

For those Sri Lankans who are in the profession, there is no community gathering or at-least a web portal to share ideas. So, I thought, why not start with a Facebook Community Page.

I expect no comment because this is just my morning routine

Birds start their daily gossip session and I open my eyes to a room that is far away from my own. Windows are open and the sky is already painted with a reddish hue of the rising sun. Time is still 5.40 but seems everything including nature is getting ready to fight the daily battle.

I get off the bed, treat myself with a shower and start dressing up. I hear a faint "Good Morning" from a soul still comfortably covered in warm a bed sheet. My roommate is still half asleep. I dress up, pack my bag, wave goodbye to whoever awake at that time and climb down the staircase to the ground floor of our building. My landlady is usually found having her breakfast and her cat runs around asking for more food or probably more attention. In a second, a door opens and you hear a gate latch adds its mark to the morning choir of sounds.

I’m out in the lane. Cars, mothers, kids and even the dogs are seen running towards the A1. I join the race too. Survival in Colombo depends on how fast you adapt to the race.

The danger of being the obedient kid

We all have seen that kid.

He does all the school work and never eats from the canteen because the mother does not like it. (For the sake of gender equality, I will use “she” for the next sentences) She never buys a dress that is not approved by the father and she never cries thinking of the shoes that the next door neighbor has got for her birthday. She is happy with what she has.

It is the dream of every parent to raise an obedient kid. Even if the kid is nasty, parents wish he/she was obedient and it is not exaggeration if I say that such nasty kids have at least once heard his/ her mom saying “Look at that kid, he listens to his parents and never fusses around like you do. Look around and learn how to behave”

Prezi - presentations are now all about zooming

Yes, Powerpoint has a powerful competitor!

Prezi is a modern presentation tool that can make you re-think about presentations.

Have a look at the video to get an idea. 

How do you collect data for your research?

This is the thesis season. Lots of my university friends are in their final year and they have started collecting data for their undergraduate thesis. Being tech savvy people, most of them have taken the digital path to send their questionnaires to the respondents. I have seen several methods they use to collect data.

How to become a Thought Leader in LinkedIn

Thought Leader is a person or a business that process innovative ideas and LinkedIn is the Facebook for professionals.

Recently, LinkedIn has given us the opportunity to follow great Thought Leaders within the network. For example, if we follow Barack Obama on LinkedIn, we will be able to read his updates right in our LinkedIn home page. LinkedIn currently has a long list of thought leaders and while going through the list, I wondered how to become a thought leader within the network.

December is the time to grow | දෙසැම්බර් යනු වෙනස් වීමට කාලයයි

If the world ends this December,

Technical Writing Unveiled - part 2

This is a second post in a series of posts about Technical Writing and I guess it would be better if you read the episode number one  first.

Continuing from the set of questions I asked you in the last post, here comes the next set of questions.

Technical Writing Unveiled - part 1

While I was about to complete one year at the university as an English Instructor,  an IT company came to me with an offer for a new job as a Technical Writer. I did not apply for the opportunity, therefore, I had no idea what Technical Writing is and what they expect from me. So the first thing I did was to consult Sadeepa, the elder brother of one of my batch mates. I remembered him having a Technical Writer as the headline in LinkedIn. Then I did a search for Technical Writers in LinkedIn and tried to get in touch with them to know what the job is really like. Meanwhile, I found some interesting blogs and news articles about the job.

She had gone to the same school

Today I delivered a lecture to the inmates of a rehabilitation center. Most of the inmates there were either raped or sexually abused. During the question time, one of the girls asked about the schools that I have attended. When I told them about the schools, the girl who posed the question smiled, pointed towards her friend and said "මෙයා ගිහින් තියෙන්නෙත් ඒ ඉස්කෝලෙට" [she had gone to the same school]. The smile and the eyes said, "you see, you are correct. Deeps is educated in the same school as yours"

On using the subscribe button in Facebook

Facebook has finally introduced the subscribe button. For me, it is a copy of G+ circles. The theory of the G+ circles is that anyone one could add you to their circles but you do not have to add them back. Until you add a person to your circle, they will only see your public updates in their newsfeed. Facebook subscribe button works on the same principle.

15 reasons to hate SMS

I tweeted in the morning that I prefer email to SMS and some asked why. Here is the answer.

Is Google going bad or are we spoiling it?

For me, Google is the god. He knows everything. But lately, I have a feeling that Google is not the same God that used to exist 5 or 6 years back. The pure God that existed in those days is spoiled by money minded human beings I assume.

"Let us start in the A/L class" - Preventing plagiarism at the university level

POP - Conflict Resolution & Social Harmony - Training the Trainers Programme

POP or the Pre-Orientation Programme for the new university entrants was a topic which brought out serious debates among the Sri Lankans few months back. But as for now, the training is going on and as far as I heard, English and Computer training programmes will begin shortly.

Who use ICT in Sri Lanka and why? - part 2

You can read the part one of this post here

Social Status and the Digital Divide

By the word social status, I mean the social class and the income level of the people.

The Demise

Wide Open eyes,
No vision but dreams...

I didn't know what she was thinking
Her mouth wide open,

Who use ICT in Sri Lanka and why?

Being a university student, I have had the opportunity to conduct researches on various topics. One of the most interesting researches I have done is a sociological analysis of the digital divide within Sri Lanka. This post is based on the research findings