Setting up your own web product company? Start following the founders of Creately on Twitter to see a mix of interesting and insightful tweets!! And, yeah one such tweet is what made me contribute today! I found an really useful blog post on Mashable – ‘10 of the Best Social Media Tools for Entrepreneurs‘. This was tweeted by Creately’s co-founder Charan. This post grabbed my attention cos I wasn’t aware of some of the tools [...]

We’re about to step into the New Year and the whole world is waiting to celebrate the New Year’s Eve with loads of elation. And I’m here sitting on the couch sipping on my cup of tea, trying to draw a Concept Map. New Year’s Eve is just like a monsoon that sweeps away all the negative experiences and helps us start afresh. Old Year’s Night will be celebrated on December 31, 2009, throughout the [...]

An application failing to respond is no big deal and troubleshooting is no rocket science!! But we end up cursing the application each time it fails to respond. Not everyone is a techie; and every time we have issues we run to IT support or our friends for help. Now thanks to Thomas Boito (First Steps in Troubleshooting),  you needn’t hassle your tech-savvy friends anymore. This flowchart by Thomas created with Creately.com illustrates the first [...]

My mom is diabetic, and each time I take her to the clinic for her quarterly check-ups, the physician asks me to monitor her blood sugar levels regularly. She often tells us how serious diabetes is although it is very common and manageable. However, I wondered if the physician was only exaggerating about the subject to make us more cautious. Well, having a family member with diabetes, I thought its essential to expand my knowledge [...]

Last week before Charan left to Hyderabad to attend the TiE-ISB event, he asked me to come up with some useful diagrams to demonstrate the power of Creately. As usual I was active during my power hours of 10p.m. to 3 a.m. generating ideas. I had random ideas running through my head, but didn’t quite understand the importance of each of them. So even before I figured out the effort required to build a diagram, [...]