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A very nervous Amisha stood on the dais, behind the microphone, waiting for the thunderous applause to subside, before beginning her speech. This was no ordinary moment - on the dais was present the senior staff of MIT and the global CEO of Microsoft. And amongst the audience were present the students and staff of MIT, besides her husband, daughter and old parents - all proud of her achievement and eagerly waiting for her to begin. The occasion? The annual event at MIT and to honor Amisha, the extra-ordinary Odissi dance teacher from California, and originally a resident of Bhubaneshwar, Orissa (India). This teacher had demonstrated to the world how technology could be leveraged to impart personalized lessons in traditional Indian dance form. From a small student base of 5, she had expanded her dance institute to over 150 students nationally in the US, with multiple virtual dance centers! Using social media and collaboration technologies, she had shown how technology can be a distance killer. In a world where dance or any form of art is regarded as highly personalized and high-touch instruction driven, this little-known teacher had made waves by using social media and video sharing technology to create virtual classes with a "secret" recipe. Read "Fifty Percent Near" to learn Amisha's remarkable journey- from a young lass at Bhubaneshwar to an ordinary stay-at-home mom to an extra-ordinary case study at MIT; and her secret sauce to leverage smart and modern social media and collaboration technologies to transform a high-touch art form to a low-touch yet equally personalized virtual reality. This book is for a cause. 50% of the proceeds received from sale of this book will be donated to ALC India, a social enterprise. India's marginalized producers battle formidable odds to eke out a fragile livelihood. Access Livelihoods Consulting India (ALC India), established 2005, is a social enterprise that partners almost 65,000 marginalized producers, including small and marginal farmers, weavers, tribals and small livestock holders. To such producers, ALC India offers professional services delivered by a team of passionate individuals who have graduated from some of India's best institutions and chosen the road less travelled. ALC India's services support economically marginalized communities to turn the odds in their favour and build livelihoods that are more rewarding and certain. To know more, visit www.alcindia.org.
About the Author: Arun Trivedi is an author and a management consultant with a multi-national company based in the US. An MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur and an engineer from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kharagpur, Arun lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California (USA) with his wife, Sangeeta, and two daughters, Hritika and Rishika ages seven and four. Arun currently works with Cognizant and was with PwC prior to joining Cognizant. He has previously authored the book "The Female Struggle", that is available worldwide on Amazon, Barnes & Noble (US), Flipkart, eBay and other leading retail stores, in both kindle and paperback editions. The book was published in December 2013 with CreateSpace (an Amazon company), USA.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781502806673
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 172
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 236 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1502806673
  • Publisher Date: 18 Apr 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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