50 Little Things You Can Do to Empower Other People
1. Give out compliments that you mean.
2. Speak and act with honesty.
3. Listen to others.
4. Help illustrate your points with visual aids.
5. Teach a class.
6. Get involved in community art projects.
7. Mentor a child or student.
8. Volunteer with local organizations.
9. Lead a group on a travel expedition
10. Donate money to charity.
11. Help the spread of community health clinics.
12. Take the time to talk to strangers.
13. Start a non-profit.
14. Travel abroad and make new friends.
15. Reach out to friends and relatives at a distance
16. Be aware of body language.
17. Be sincere.
18. Nurture talent in others.
19. Go out and support local musicians.
20. Give thoughtful gifts.
21. Join a community farm or grocery coop.
22. Volunteer in schools.
23. Stay in touch with local politics.
24. Throw dinner parties with a mixed range of guests.
25. Smile more often.
26. Use public transportation.
27. Organize recycling projects.
28. Run a benefit event.
29. Project positivity and eliminate negative thoughts.
30. Join a book group or club.
31. Start or join a language exchange program.
32. Lead team-building exercises at work.
33. Encourage social activities.
34. Initiate physical contact.
35. Tell your loved ones how you feel about them.
36. Make sure the atmosphere at work is a democratic one.
37. Nod your head when someone is making a point.
38. Help foster creativity.
39. Run meetings with an open, discussion oriented atmosphere.
40. Have suggestions ready for those who need advice.
41. Take walks to new areas of town.
42. Spend time planting trees in the community.
43. Set up a food or blanket drive.
44. Learn inspiring quotes that can be doled out.
45. Learn new listening techniques.
46. Study psychology.
47. Give a helping hand.
48. Give encouragement instead of criticism.
49. Take time for yourself to help others.
50. Learn intervention techniques.
Stephen
Monday, August 29, 2011
Top 10 Techies Who Changed the World
Top 10 Techies Who Changed the World
Steve Jobs, Apple
Co-founder of Apple, A grandmaster of technology and Business. Risk taker, the visionary who redefined technology with world changing products like the Apple Personal Computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Bill Gates, Microsoft
Super Geek, entrepreneur and Microsoft founder, Brought computers to everyone with his software, The richest man in the world from 1995 to 2007 is currently the second richest. Gates and wife Melinda have made philanthropy their primary concern recently .
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
A Whizkid from Harward, who single handedly transformed the Internet from a place people went to get information to a place they went to meet each other. Facebook gave the virtual world a touch of humanity, the real world a new medium of interpersonal relationships. Became this generation's phenomenon, and the second youngest billionaire in the world. The youngest billionaire is Dustin Moskovitz – co-founder of Facebook is 8 days younger than Zuckerberg.
Linus Torvalds- Linux
Virtually unknown outside the inner circles of technology, yet he is among the most influential figures in software industry. A believer in open source software, Torvalds initiated the development of the Linux Kernel. Linux O/S runs the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world as well as smallest of devices. Android OS is a modified version of the Linux.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google
Co-founders of Google. They ran Google from a rented garage in 1998. Today world's largest media corporation.
Evan Williams, Twitter & Blogger
Virtually unknown in the real world, this college drop-out created two key communication technologies that shaped the Internet – Blogger and Twitter. He no longer works at Twitter.
Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo
Japanese game designer and creater of Super Mario Bros.
Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon
In 1994, this Princeton graduate started Amazon.com from his garage in Seattle and changed the face of online retail business. He began with selling books online but soon diversified into almost everything. Amazon made him a billionaire as well as Time magazine's person of the year in 1999.
Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
in 1990 British physicist and computer scientist Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, the first web browser and the first web server.
Akio Morita, Sony
Former naval officer Akio Morita left his family business of sake, miso and soy sauce to co-found Sony Corporation in 1946. Most of Sony's path-breaking products like magnetic tapes, tape recorders, pocket-sized radios, the Walkman and the Discman were developed under his leadership.
Steve Wozniak
Co -founder of Apple
Affectionately called Woz, he has been credited with developing the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s.
Andrew Grove, Co-founder of Intel
Sameer Bhatia - the whole concept of emailing
Vinod Dham - designer of Pentium processor
Source (NDTV)
Steve Jobs, Apple
Co-founder of Apple, A grandmaster of technology and Business. Risk taker, the visionary who redefined technology with world changing products like the Apple Personal Computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Bill Gates, Microsoft
Super Geek, entrepreneur and Microsoft founder, Brought computers to everyone with his software, The richest man in the world from 1995 to 2007 is currently the second richest. Gates and wife Melinda have made philanthropy their primary concern recently .
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
A Whizkid from Harward, who single handedly transformed the Internet from a place people went to get information to a place they went to meet each other. Facebook gave the virtual world a touch of humanity, the real world a new medium of interpersonal relationships. Became this generation's phenomenon, and the second youngest billionaire in the world. The youngest billionaire is Dustin Moskovitz – co-founder of Facebook is 8 days younger than Zuckerberg.
Linus Torvalds- Linux
Virtually unknown outside the inner circles of technology, yet he is among the most influential figures in software industry. A believer in open source software, Torvalds initiated the development of the Linux Kernel. Linux O/S runs the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world as well as smallest of devices. Android OS is a modified version of the Linux.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google
Co-founders of Google. They ran Google from a rented garage in 1998. Today world's largest media corporation.
Evan Williams, Twitter & Blogger
Virtually unknown in the real world, this college drop-out created two key communication technologies that shaped the Internet – Blogger and Twitter. He no longer works at Twitter.
Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo
Japanese game designer and creater of Super Mario Bros.
Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon
In 1994, this Princeton graduate started Amazon.com from his garage in Seattle and changed the face of online retail business. He began with selling books online but soon diversified into almost everything. Amazon made him a billionaire as well as Time magazine's person of the year in 1999.
Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
in 1990 British physicist and computer scientist Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, the first web browser and the first web server.
Akio Morita, Sony
Former naval officer Akio Morita left his family business of sake, miso and soy sauce to co-found Sony Corporation in 1946. Most of Sony's path-breaking products like magnetic tapes, tape recorders, pocket-sized radios, the Walkman and the Discman were developed under his leadership.
Steve Wozniak
Co -founder of Apple
Affectionately called Woz, he has been credited with developing the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s.
Andrew Grove, Co-founder of Intel
Sameer Bhatia - the whole concept of emailing
Vinod Dham - designer of Pentium processor
Source (NDTV)
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