first in the demo area at TC40 and now a full demo at DEMO. I had the chance to meet Maggie Tsai from Diigo and she took me through some of their new features. The initial product was a Web annotation tool which in itself is very cool. Maggie then showed me another piece of their technology called WebSlides. Now this is cool and useful. I could see Web (and other) agencies loving this along with bloggers! Basically its a PowerPoint for the Web. You annotate the Web pages for your presentation, and then WebSlides takes each page live and creates a fully-functional presentation. No more screenshots in a ppt, instead you save each page as a slide and then you can move just as you would in a ppt. Maggie called this an "innovative way to repackage content and the publisher gets all the traffic."
The new "layer" they are presenting at DEMO is a social layer. Diigo will now find neighbors who might be close to the things you are. You can search by tag and find other users who also are interested in that tag. The messaging system between neighbors was twitter-like.
From their official press release, "Diigo offers a variety of productive ways for people with common interests to easily find one another and aggregate into specific groups or communities. "Interest Neighbors" help people identify other users who share similar interests; "Site Communities" unite users who annotate the same website; "Advanced People Search" identifies users based on reading interests and their profile information; and "Friends" creates a connection between people."
"Diigo combines the best of social networking, bookmarking, highlighting, and annotating to let people discover, save, and share the information that is important to them personally or professionally," said Wade Ren, CEO of Diigo. "Not only can people find a collective repository of searchable and relevant information, but they can markup and save information along the way - all while connecting with like-minded people for future collaboration."
The Diigo HQ is located in Reno, Nevada and their development team is in China. Maggie was quick to note that it's not an offshore relationship, the developers are all Diigo employees. The leadership team are all former investment managers. I like the annotation and social layer tools, but the WebSlides tool is the strongest of the set and could be an invesment opportunity for a company such as Zoho.
rblacademy on 28 Jun 22A CASE STUDY on AIR FLY AIRLINES Merger issues leading to failure of Industrial relations Critical Incidents - strikes, employee separation, Retrenchment Voluntary retirement and revenue losses. Major Stakeholders - Employer, Management, Trade Unions, Employees, Labour & Government Abstract With the transformations and gradual change in business environment, the Industrial Relation system has seen a vast change over a period of time, due to which, the role of employer and employees have become more tough and challenging. Of all the human resource management problems that have occurred in the Indian Airlines Industry in recent times, the problem of Industrial Relations is the most critical. The reason behind this is the fact that Industrial Relation deals with people who are foundation of the Industry. Their action or counter reaction matters a lot for the Industrial Harmony of the economy country. Harmonious Industrial Relations are pre-requisite for economic development of a country. Success and growth of the Airlines Industry depends on cordial relationship between the employers and the employees. The Objective of this case study is to examine the "Industrial Relations in Airlines Industry in India: "A Case Study of Air Fly Airlines". Research in this field can be of practical utility to all those involved in Industrial Relations scene like management, employees and the government. Success of the Airlines Industry depends on cordial relationship between the employers and the employees. This study assesses the state of Industrial Relations in the Airlines Industry and also identifies the factors that affect it. The case study also proposes to redefine the pattern of Industrial Relations in Airlines Industry by suggesting some changes in the role of various stakeholders such as employer, management, union and government. Introduction Indian industrial enterprises are hugely affected by disinvestments, privatization, restructuring and takeovers which,
