ABCI celebrates Golden Jubilee

Association of Business Communicators of India (ABCI) is the first organisation in India to be set up for professional communicators established in the year 1957. Their Golden Jubilee coinced with the 47th Annual Awards Nite held on 11th Jan 2008 at Mumbai. ABCI's Awards are considered as "Oscars of Business Communication". PodUniversal brings out two special podcast features on ABCI.

These podcasts are part of the lead stories published in Jan 2008 issue Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense, published by Prime Point Foundation. All the back issues of PR-e-Sense can be downloaded from http://www.corportezine.in/.

Jan 2008 issue of PR-e-Sense may be downloaded from the following link (280 k in pdf)
http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0108.pdf

Now please listen to the podcasts:

PodUniversal Edition 26 - ABCI - Specail feature - Part I

In this podcast, we have brought out exclusive interviews with Mr Yogesh Joshi (President of ABCI), Ms K Bhavani (Director of Communication of Singapore Govt and Global Communicator Award winner from ABCI) and Mr G P C Nayar (Chairman SCMS Group of Educational Institutions and Life Time Achievement Award winner from ABCI)

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PodUniversal Edition 27 - ABCI - Specail feature - Part II

In this podcast, we have brought out an exclusive interview with Mr K S Neelakantan, a doyen in the PR and Communication industry. He has received many awards, including that of 'Life Time Achievement Award' from ABCI

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Documentary film on Dr Abdul Kalam - A worthy gift to the Nation

PodUniversal Edition 25

Last week, a documentary on Dr Abdul Kalam was released at Chennai. The documentary has been produced and Directed by Mr P Dhanapal, CEO, Minveli Media Works. Mr Dhanapal is a great admirer of Dr Kalam. His mission is to spread the message of Dr Kalam across the Nation amongst the youth. As a single person, he devoted more than 30 months in the production of this documentary by collecting various information, materials on Dr Kalam. He was taking the guidance of Dr Y S Rajan (co-author of the book India 2020) and Mr Ponraj (presently Advisor to Dr Kalam) for the authenticity of the information.

The 60 minutes English documentary film was released at Chennai last week by Mr K. Balachandar, doyen of Indian film Industry, in the presence of Dr Kalam. I have seen the documentary fully. I donot find words to appreciate the enormous work that has gone behind this production. This is a 'story in story' type. A grand father tells his grand son about the greatness of Dr Kalam. In the process, speeches of Dr Kalam at various places, including that of European Union have been included. Right from the childhood of Dr Kalam at Rameswaram till his Rashtrapathi Bhavan days are visualised in an interesting manner. At the end, you don't feel that you have spent one hour on this.

Mr Dhanapal has given this New Year gift to the Nation. Inorder to ensure that Dr Kalam's message spreads acorss the Nation, he has priced this VCD, so low at Rs.50/-. This VCD can be used as 'gift' to youth during any memorable occassions. This can be screened in the Schools and colleges.

If you want to get the CD, please contact Mr Dhanapal

Mr Dhanapal can be contacted at pdhanapal@yahoo.com or can be contacted at 09282235990

We have taken an exclusive interview (9 minutes 40 sec) with him. Please listen to his interview by clicking to play. Please also watch the trailer of the documentary given below.

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Right to Information Act

PodUniversal - Edition 24

Mr A K Venkatasubramanian IAS (Retd), Former Secretary to Govt. India, in an exclusive podcast interview talks about the various aspects of Right to Information Act. He also speaks about the various benefits the general public can derive by extensive and intelligent use of this RTI Act.

Mr Venkatasubramanian is a well known Citizien Activist. He runs more than 200 Citizen centres in Tamilnadu.

This interview is part of the lead story of December 07 issue of Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense. The December 07 isue of PR-e-Sense may be downloaded from the following link (248 k in pdf format)

http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense1207.pdf
All the earlier issues of ezine may be downloaded from
http://www.corporatezine.in

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Corporate arrogance and human insensitivity

PodUniversal - Edition 23

In an exclusive podcast interview, Mr T S Krishna Murthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India speaks about the various corporate arrogances and human insensitive activities practised by Corporate executives. He also suggests various measures to improve the human aspect in the day to day functioning of the Corporates.

This podcast interview is part of the lead story of Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense November 2007 issue, published by Prime Point Foundation. (Download 224 k in pdf format)

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Violence to Non-Violence : Story of an extremist turned social worker

Edition 21 and 22 - PodUniversal - An Unsung Hero

From 2007 onwards, United Nations has declared that Mahatma Gandhi's birthday i.e. 2nd October every year will be observed as "International Non violence Day" globally. Mahatma Gandhi was leading the freedom movement few decades back against the mighty British Empire and succeeded in his mission. In these days, when violence, extremism, terrorism are on the increase, the concept of 'Non Violence" assumes greater significance. Violence has no place in the development of the society.

To mark this occasion, we present to you a real time case study of Mr Periaswamy of Tamilnadu. Mr Periaswamy right from his boyhood, got engaged himself in extremism. He was arrested and sentenced to death by the Court. He was relieved by the High Court later. During his five years of imprisonment, Mr Periaswamy realised that 'violence' had no place in the development of dalits and downtrodden. A totally changed person, Mr Periaswamy, has now organised 63 night schools in 63 hamlets in two districts and started providing education to dalit and downtrodden children. (see pic. on right)

Besides, he is also conducting tailoring sessions to benefit the young ladies and girls in these localities. (see pic. on left)

Mr Periaswamy may be contacted at nandanartrust@gmail.com

His silent revolution is now benefitting nearly 4000 children of his locality. In an exclusive interview with K. Srinivasan, Editor of PodUniversal, he explains in detail about his transformation.

Interview with English translation:

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Public Relations 2.0 - Engaging stakeholders in the new media landscape

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Edition 20 - PodUniversal and August 07 issue of PR-e-Sense - PR 2.0 and New Media

Institute of Public Relations of Singapore (IPRS) organised a one day conference on Public Relations 2.0 inviting various experts. Probably this is the first time, a conference is being held on this theme.

August 2007 issue of Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense carries briefly the proceedings of this conference. Ms K Bhavani, President, IPRS is the Guest Editor of this edition.

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A bird's eye view of India's 123 agreement with United States

Edition 19 - PodUniversal - 123 Agreement

Indian Government's 123 agreement with United States has generated a heated debate in India amongst politicians, media and general public. Many people are not aware of the background and the implications of the agreement.

In an exclusive podcast interview, Mr T S R Subramanian, Former Cabinet Secretary to Indian Government speaks about this agreement and the various issues involved.

Mr Subramanian held the highest position in Indian Government amongst the Administrative Service Officers. He has played a greater role in the economic liberalisation, infrastructure reforms like Telecom, Power, Surface Transport, etc.

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Indian Media should represent the billion people of the country - Dr Kalam

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Edition 18 - Exclusive interview with Dr Abdul Kalam - Part Three

When India is celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of her freedom, we are presenting three part exclusive podcast interview with former Indian President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. The first two parts have already been published in these columns. If you want to listen to them, please click:

Part one - Challenges before the Nation and the role of youth in facing these challenges
Part two - Exclusive Independence Day message to children

We are now presenting the Part Three of Dr Kalam's interview. In this podcast, Dr Kalam shares his views and suggestions to Indian Media to become the partner in Nation building. He wants the Indian media to become 'the media for billion'.

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India 60 - Second part of interview with Dr Abdul Kalam

Edition 17- Exclusive interview with Dr Abdul Kalam - Part Two

On 15th Agusut 2007, we released the first part of the exclusive interview with Dr Abdul Kalam, former Indian President. We are happy to release the second part of the interview .

In this second part, Dr Kalam gives his Independence Day message to children. Though, it is meant for children, it is more applicable to school and college going students.

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India at 60 - An exclusive interview with Dr Abdul Kalam - Part one

PodUniversal - Edition 16
Top Ten challenges and role of youth

India celebrates 60th Anniversary of freedom on 15th August 2007. In an exclusive telephonic interview to PodUniversal , Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, former President of India shares his views on the 'Top ten challenges' of the Nation. He also shares his views as to how youth can overcome these challenges to realise the vision of developed India by 2020.

We will be publishing his other views in the coming weeks.

Please also visit http://www.indiavision2020.org and join the India's largest India Vision group

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Nation salutes Indian President Dr Abdul Kalam

PodUniversal Edition 15 - July 2007


After a glorious five years of tenure as President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam hands over charge to the new President and leaves Rashtrapathi Bhavan on 25th July 2007. During his tenure as President of India, he proved himself as "People's President" and he made the President's Palace (Rashtrapathi Bhavan) as "People's Bhavan". He was not worried about the protocol and ceremonial positions. He was meeting thousands of children and common man.

In an exclusive chat with me on the eve of Dr Kalam's retirement from Office, Prof. Y S Rajan, co-author of the book India 2020 with Dr Kalam and his close associate speaks about the achievements of Dr Kalam during his tenure. He also speaks about the future plans of Dr Kalam. (This conversation was recorded over phone). Please listen to the conversation.

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A perspective on education in United States - Few tips to aspiring students

PodUniversal Edition 14 - July 2007

During the last week of June 2007, Prime Point Foundation and Stenographers' Guild jointly organised an interaction session at Chennai for students with Prof. Sreenath Sreenivasan, Dean of Students, Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, USA.

During this interaction session, Prof. Sreenath Sreenivasan explained the various levels of education in USA, eligibility conditions, Admission procedures, cost aspects, future prospects and common mistakes committed by the students during application stage, etc. He has also provided various useful weblinks which may be of help to the students. Extract of his discussion is reproduced in this podshow for the benefit of global students.

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