Feedback -2023 Sep 30 Seniors’ Day out

Feedback on Seniors’ Day out – Doubts Clarifications session

Date : 30-Sep-2023

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As said in the session, when anything is given free, people take it for granted. We expect more sessions with a nominal fee.

Mr. Thiruvadi, M
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Very useful. I need practical experience. is it possible kindly help. I  forget easily.

Mr. Arumugam, D A
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Very Useful session

Mr. Kaliyamoorthy G
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Thankyou for everything, especially password protection. Till now i have been using the same password. Thank you once again

Mr. Thiruvadi, M
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Very useful. Thank you for your information and guidance. Nice opportunity to learn

Mr. Meda Manohara Reddy
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Thanks a lot for your guidance especially caution regarding sharing of personal details in social media and strong password creation

Mr. Chandramani
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The way it is conducted is superb

Mrs. Vimala, S
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Thanks for managing an excellent session with passion and eye for details .. great learning .

Mr. Sivashankar Babu
Seniors’ Day out !

Seniors’ Day out !

Updated on 08-Oct-2023:

Realizing that it is not enough just to teach, but also we must take efforts to clarify their doubts, the session to exclusively clarify basic doubts held on the 30th of Sep, 2023, was well received with 26 registrations. It was heartening to note that 90% of the registrants were senior citizens and was blessed to get a call from an 82 year old super senior citizen on the day of the event to check whether he could attend the session , and he did attend.

Starting with the usual initial hesitation, the session slowly broke the ice and people started asking doubts right from creating folders to correcting mistakes they made while creating their email-id and as against the anticipated 90 minutes, the session went for the whole of two hours.

The lavish feedback by the participants can be viewed at: Feedback

Initial invite on: 17-Sep-2023

Towards greater awareness of common man,  I have been conducting free online coaching sessions on various computer related topics since Jan 2022 and over 250 people have acknowledged the knowledge gained from these sessions. The focus of these sessions are on educating those who feel helpless dealing with computers and the participants include senior citizens, home makers and students.

Despite the accepted and acknowledged hand holding in these sessions, it is understandable when people say that ‘I understand everything in the session. But, when I go to computer and operate on my own, I get lots of doubts. What to do – my son and daughter are busy- who will clarify these doubts for me‘ !

Don’t worry. A special Free, online session is being planned to discuss and clarify all the doubts one has on  ‘Basic Computer Operating Skills’, ‘Email handling’ and ‘Internet Banking’.

This session is free but registration is essential.

Anyone wanting to register and attend this doubts clarification session  could

1. Send an email to kapaleeswaran@gmail.com

2. Send WhatsApp message to +91 984025 8014 .

3. Directly register by filling the Google form at the link : Registration Link

Date and Time of the session will be notified directly to the Registrants soon.

Let us Care and Share – knowledge

Kapaleeswaran, V

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General Feedback

General Feedback

Last Updated:  07-Sep 2023

Nothing pleases one, more than a pat in the back or a second look at the efforts. Be it professional landmarks, cultural achievements or passionate pursuits , greatest gift for one with distant vision would be to get that appreciable nod. Blesseed to have gathered some and hoping to get more though not striving towards them.

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Mr. R.V.Ramanan
Former President & Executive Director, Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
Date: 05-Sep-2023
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I wholeheartedly thank you for your tremendous efforts and presentation. You are the guiding star for us.

Mr P Wilson
Date : 21-Apr-2023
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Excellent feedback and congratulations for your initiative 👏🏻👏🏻 I really appreciate your energy and enthusiasm for spreading knowledge. God bless you

Mr. Gopalaswamy Ramesh
Date : 05-Jul-2023
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Your zeal for knowledge empowerment and imparting to others is a great service to fellow humans and May God bless you with good health to continue to serve the society !!

Mr. Ramanujam Varadachari, USA
Date : 10-Mar-2023
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Read the article and very useful and need of the hour for every one.. Thanks

Ram Narayan Hariharan
Date: 23-May-2022
Towards Greater Awareness

Towards Greater Awareness

I have been conducting free online coaching sessions on various computer related topics since Jan 2022 and over 250 people have acknowledged the knowledge gained from these sessions. The focus is on educating those who feel helpless dealing with computers and the participants include senior citizens, home makers and students.

I propose to continue to conduct such free online sessions for anyone interested, on regular need based requests. All that is required for the participant is access to a computer or a laptop {With iPad, mobile phones or other tablets, the purpose will not be fully served} and attend the session online, which will be for two hours.

Anyone in need of such ‘Basic Computer Operating Skills’ could send an email or a WhatsApp message to the below contact coordinates requesting for the same. A batch of six would be ideal to conduct a session of two hour duration.

This is being done purely as a community support service to enhance the digital knowledge of people.

For more details, feel free to connect through Email: kapaleeswaran@gmail.com or WhatsApp: +91 9840258014

To know more about previous sessions and feedback, please visit my website www.kapaleeswaran.com

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Kapaleeswaran, V

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Needless Exposures

It is a matter of grave concern that people are increasingly exposing their personal data , more dangerously the individual photos in public forums. Of late, there are many posts in social networks stating “today is my or my daughter’s birthday” and post their latest photos. Just out of curiosity and with academic interest,  I pried further into the profile of the author of the post. Though the person is not in my friend list I was still able to have a good look at important features of their whole profile including their location, their previous photos, siblings, family  and I could say to a fair extent I had enough data to re-build the person’s profile to my liking. With some more hunting with the latest sophisticated tools, I am very sure the complete profile of the person who is unknown to the intruder could be built.

In another post, I saw a senior person posting his photograph at an international airport stating that he will be away from the heat and dust of India for the next six months. I am concerned that how much of efforts will be required to trace the person’s house in his native place, which was visible in the social network, and what a field day the miscreants would have should they chose to pay a visit to the locked house !

Recently, I was fortunate to attend a lecture by a leading cyber law advocate who precisely but  elaborately dealt on how photos in unprotected social platforms could be misused and with what  consequences. He detailed that such photos in public forums are picked up methodically every few minutes and then analyzed for their utility (?) values, with the single photo of young women fetching the maximum for obvious reasons and how they could be used to milk further from the hapless victims.

I sincerely wish such people who keep on sharing their profiles and programmes ‘to all’ learn more about the ‘Dark net’ and their activities !! People who frequent social network and boast that they could never live without it should better remember that whatever is posted in such public places are like matters dropped in the ocean and even if it is deleted within minutes, they are already into the hands of those whom you would not like to encounter. Present day technologies offer so much of tools that it is almost possible to recover and bring back anything except lost souls !

Already people in other countries are reported to be avoiding sharing pictures of the children with so many cases of paedophiles in the news.

So dear friends, please refrain from sharing any travel updates or making such begging for blessings and also avoid posting the pictures of children. Cyber world is far more dangerous than the world we are used to and assume to be .

Shared in the public interest of being forewarned than repenting in leisure !!

Blogpost made on 31-Jul-2023 at my blog : Needless exposures

 

 

Plight of Indian workforce

Plight of Indian workforce

Plight of Indian Workforce

I have heard that the personal space of an employee is protected vigorously in other countries whereas in my own backyard, it is not that much respected and I had occasion to witness both within a week.

One of my friend flew down from another state to visit me at my current location in the US and spent some good time extending his weekend. As he is a critical resource in the team, I casually asked as to how he could travel at such a short notice and he responded that he has enough leave and all he has to do is to update his calendar as PTO (Paid Time off) and that there is no practice of waiting for approval here, unless there are some exigencies. In fact, he went on to add that employees here claim leave as a matter of right, as and when it is available to them, and their leave requests are rarely turned down by their Managers.

In a closed group in social network I happened to see another post about the updates to the leave management policy of a leading nationalized bank in India. The circular on amended procedure explained as to how the Manager has to send the status of ‘as on date employee’s performance’ against his targets while ‘forwarding’ the leave application and in the absence of the same the leave request will be summarily rejected.

I was aghast at the situation prevailing in India – atleast not yet changed since I left active service a decade ago ! Does this mean that if an employee’s performance is not upto the expectations he cannot enjoy his promised privileges or exercise his rights which includes spending time with his family? Is this the work life balance that seems to be more breached as much it is preached ? Indian working conditions have a long way to go and it is time that such employees also raise their voice against the injustice.

This could also be considered as an abject failure of the representative bodies like unions and associations , supposed to safeguard the interest of the workforce, from which not a whimper is heard, at an order in writing impacting the personal life of employees. If a representative body is unable to resist such an interference into the personal life , is it not time to (re)think about its utility ?

Blogpost made on 28-Jul-2023 at my blog : Plight of Indian workforce

 

Cyber crime prevention Tips

Cyber crime prevention Tips

Cybercrime prevention tips

  • In case of threatening calls from unknown numbers, disconnect and do not keep talking.
  • Do not panic under any circumstances – the caller could sayYou will be arrested’ or ‘your electricity connection will be disconnected’ or ‘your bank account / card will be blocked’ – Just disconnect the call, as these are all meant to panic the receiver.
  • Never share any information to ANY caller be it your bank or anyone.
  • Note down the number from which the call was received and report the incident to  cybercrime police.
  • Cybercrime complaint can be lodged 24 x 7 through phone number 1930 . You can also lodge online complaint through the below websites:

       www.cybercrime.gov.in 

       https://eservices.tnpolice.gov.in/CCTNSNICSDC/ComplaintRegistrationPage?0

       https://ncrb.gov.in/en/node/2318

  • Earliest reporting of cybercrime is very important- Do not delay – Complain at the earliest.
  • Think twice before sharing your Id to anyone. Avoid sharing your personal details unnecessarily and in unavoidable circumstances ‘ print boldly across the document as to whom and why it was shared along with the date’.
  • Check the reliability of the shop before taking photo copy of sensitive documents like Aadhaar card, PAN card, license, ration card, Voter Id or passport. If possible have a copier at home and take copies.