Posts by Shaku Atre
Rome Calling!
Upcoming Event April 4-5, 2016 – “10 Skills to get the Best of Big Data?” at Rome
Read MorePart 02 – Tips for Public Speaking: Motivating and Managing the Audience
No matter how informative your material is, you can’t provide benefit to the audience if their attention is elsewhere. However, there are a few techniques that I use to catch and hold audience attention. Keeping an attentive audience: First, if members of the audience are chatting with each other while I am speaking, I…
Read MoreWhen it Rains it Pours
Mistakes We Have Made and Mostly Recovered When it rains it pours In the last blog I described a frustrating experience in which a contractor with Administrator rights to our Facebook page had locked us out of our Facebook page. We had just recovered from this Facebook challenge and had once again received the rights…
Read MoreWorld Woman Warrior
World Woman Warrior is a portal to help women to develop skills and become financially independent. World Woman Warrior’s mission is to inspire and help women everywhere to develop skills to become financially independent—forever. Women around the world need advice on learning solid skills in order to be able to make good amount of money. There…
Read MorePart01 – Tips for Public Speaking: Rules of Thumb to become an outstanding public speaker
Part 01 – Rules of Thumb to become an outstanding public speaker Tips for public speaking: It is an Art as well as Science I am describing my approach of speaking in the public, which I prepared in response to requests from audience members at a number of training sessions, seminars and as a keynote…
Read MoreA Country of Saints & Loan Sharks – Incredible India
Our cook and cleaning lady in Pune, India Sunita looked very sad. So I asked her what the matter was. I knew that her son died at the age of 28, a year ago, because of some illness with his liver. She and her husband took him to the hospital. Most of these poor…
Read MoreMemoirs
Shaku Atre Memoirs : The story of a girl from Panvel, India PROLOGUE The two major themes underlying Shaku Atre’s memoirs are shared in the Prologue. One story line addresses the self-confident, successful business woman. “Dressed in my sari, I stood in the lobby of IBM Europe’s headquarters in Paris, watching people step into and out…
Read More7 Computer Skills You Must Have to Survive and Prosper in Today’s World
Shaku Atre is an accomplished entrepreneur and a passionate advocate for helping women around the world develop skills to gain financial independence. Using her own money to finance micro-lending ventures, she has helped a number of young women to become successful entrepreneurs in the US and in India. She is a computer technologist who has…
Read MoreBEWARE of Giving Administrative Rights on Facebook
If you run a Facebook page, please think twice before assigning “admin” status to any new contractors for your business or brand. Someone assigned to your page as an administrator has the ability to actually remove you from your own brand page. While Facebook has a strong process in place for handling these kind of…
Read MoreManisha – the Soccer Player
I was born in Kolhapur, India, and lived as a child in a small village near Kolhapur with my mother and brother. My parents are separated, and my family’s finances have been very meager all my life. After I finished my 7th grade school in my village, I attended high school in Kolhapur, a much…
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