TiECON Blog

Hello!

We are about 4 months away from TiECON 2006. Things are falling into place and the level of activity amongst the organizers has increased perceptibly. The flurry of emails, the weekly phone calls, the planning meetings – all of these have reached a new heightened level of intensity.

I have had numerous conversations with Sanjay, one of the co-chairs, on projects that I could be involved in and the one that seemed right up my alley was the “Blog” project (I am trying to come up with a better name for this but for now “Blog project” it is). I am an official blogger (if there is a term like this) for MIT Sloan. I maintain a journal on my life at Sloan for applicants, students and others interested in the school to know more about Sloan. It is fun to write a blog for many reasons. One, you chronicle your life digitally which is very cool, two, there is a high probability you will be recognized because of your blog and three because you will never be bored with nothing to do.

We have great plans for the TiECON blog project. We envision the blog site to be a place where business leaders will share anecdotes about their lives, their business endeavors etc. In addition, our charter members will talk to us about various things they are involved with. The coolest part is the podcast initiative. Given the fact that many of the potential bloggers are very time constrained, we thought of an easy way for them to blog. Instead of typing away at their computers and uploading document we figured it would be much easier for them (and way cooler!) to record their thoughts and upload them so we can hear them as podcasts. And for those who prefer the tried and tested interview method, we are more than happy to conduct interviews either in person or over the phone and publish them for all our readers.

As you can see this is not going to be a traditional blog site. Journal entries will be mingled with podcasts, interviews will be sprinkled throughout the site and our organizers will chime in every now and then with key learnings and funny anecdotes. Obviously, our blog project will become a success story only if we have readers and writers. I personally think it is the writers who will draw the readers. If you would like to write a blog or you know someone who you would like to recommend please do get in touch with me – I am always ON as far as email goes. My email address is achitrapu@sloan.mit.edu – I look forward to hearing from you.

Anu Chitrapu