text: Laxmi Hariharan 2016-05-30T14:54:40-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/index.php?author=londonbombay-return Copyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Laxmi Hariharan Good old fashioned elbow grease. Why Is it That Indie Author Panels Always Discuss Selling, Instead of Writing? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2015:/theblog//3.7079738 2015-04-16T12:25:46-04:00 2015-06-16T05:59:02-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ As an Indie author, my first stop was the various Indie author panels. Held at Author HQ, as the space was called, here, Indie authors spoke about how their books went straight to No.1 or No.3 on the Amazon bestseller lists. How important it was to invest in a publicist. How you should keep tweaking your novel--the cover, the synopsis, and the Amazon keywords--to drive sales. How you shouldn't hold back from investing behind your author brand and how you need to move on very quickly to the next book. Perhaps it's my marketing background, where I marketed and built media brands for a living. Or perhaps it's because, having been on the Indie author circuit for a few years now, I have heard similar conversations. Whatever the reason I found my attention wandering. So, I walked across to the other side of the building to the PEN Literary Salon, where authors were being interviewed. The first session I attended featured Mexican author Valeria Luiselli. She spoke about here new book Story of My Teeth. In this the protagonist Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might help him on his way: he can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums, he can interpret Chinese fortune cookies, he can stand an egg upright on a table, and he can float on his back. And, of course, he is the world's best auction caller - although other people might not realise this, because he is, by nature, very discreet. Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke, Highway travels the world, amassing his collection of 'Collectibles' and perfecting his own specialty: the allegoric auction. In his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites, he finds unusual ways to raise the funds, culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection: the teeth of the 'notorious infamous' - Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton, Virginia Woolf et al. I was hooked. What a cool and very different story. I also came away with some very interesting one-liners: "How the teeth are a window to the soul." "How one should not trust a writer who smiles." And that was only the beginning. I was also fortunate to hear from the electrifying Carmen Boullousa, a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Carmen writes about feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. She spoke and the audience listened, enthralled. Carmen talked about her love for cooking, and how for a long time she denied herself that pleasure, for she associated cooking with female subservience. Coming from a traditional Indian family where my mum was a housewife and spent the better part of my teenage years in the kitchen, whipping up freshly cooked breakfasts, lunches and dinners for her family... I totally got it. And then she delivered this stunning one liner: "If I talk about my current project it just gets putrid." That's my most basic fear right there. Listening to these authors was like being afforded a peek into their soul, a teensy-weensy view of what inspires them, what they obsess about; about why they write on the themes they do. And then I wondered ... Why is it that I never hear from a panel of Indie writers about their writing? About what inspired their books, about their thinking, how they feel, how they react to situations. Yes, yes, so many of us Indies had professional careers, which shaped us before we pursued writing books seriously. So, why not talk about that previous life and how it influences how we write now. About what inspired the themes of those bestsellers? How about discussing life and death, loving and hating, our fears and our secret obsessions? The emotions we face everyday and which we reflect in our books... Know what I mean? I acknowledge the importance of, and indeed pursue my understanding of the every-changing Amazon algorithm, for it is important to my book sales. But I'd also rather spend a lot more of my time obsessing about the algorithm of life. It's why I write. Laxmi Hariharan is the author of The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer. ]]> It's Not About India's Daughter - It's About India's Sons tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2015:/theblog//3.6821892 2015-03-07T06:13:57-05:00 2015-05-07T05:59:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ India's Daughter is a documentary commissioned by BBC Storyville, meant to air on International Women's Day It traces the brutal gang rape and murder of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, and the unprecedented protests and riots, which this event ignited throughout India. The Indian government obtained a court order banning the screening. Taking no chances, the BBC brought it forward to air in the UK. The Indian government have since, successfully ordered the removal of a number of versions of the video from YouTube. Now read on-- I knew it was going to be a disturbing watch, but nothing prepared me for the terror I felt at the re-enactment of the crime. I already knew the horrific details of what was to come, yet was unable to tear my eyes away. All the while inside I was screaming with fear for Jyoti, begging her not to get on the bus, to run, run, run as far away as she could. I watched helpless as she did and the tragedy unfolded, again. Then, one of the convicted rapists came on screen. He shared the details without wavering. "A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy." He declared, before adding, "A decent girl won't roam around at 9 o'clock at night ... Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes." I know it's not just him who believes this. I have heard this sentiment expressed in many different ways growing up in Bombay. It's why my mother stayed up at night unable to sleep until she had assured herself that I had reached home safely, after a long day at work. It's why I was admonished for wearing tight jeans. Why it was drilled into me that it was dangerous to stay out after dark, and definitely after 9 pm. Precisely because there are people like him out there. The rapist speaks about the youngest of them ramming an iron rod into Jyoti, and pulling out her innards, as if it was an everyday incident. There is no hint of having done anything wrong. All he says is that if she had kept quiet and not screamed, had given them what they wanted, they would have simply raped gone their own way. It brought to mind the number of times when travelling by bus or train in my home city I have been felt up by men; been commented on lewdly or just been stared at hungrily as if they'd like to ... rape me. It's difficult even now to admit how scared I was. And yet, everyday I went to work, despite the nightmare commute, despite what lay outside the safety of my home, because I knew I had to first overcome that fear to make something of myself. I couldn't stand up to them. Confronting my tormentors would have simply made it worse. And so I kept my head down, put up with it, got on with life. While all the time inside, I was yelling at the men to keep their hands to themselves, to keep their gaze averted, furious at what gave them the right to do what they did? It's unreal that a crime like this can take place in the new millennium, in the capital city of a country that's in the race to become a global economic superpower. It's even more inexplicable, that this man can air his distorted views to camera without fear. I know it's because he believes he is right, because is secure in the knowledge that there are millions who agree with him. When did this happen? That there are so many in my home country who think basic human values don't apply in everyday life and certainly not to women. Watching India's Daughter, I realised with even more clarity there are many different India's. There is the relatively safe India I grew up in. Then there is the other everyday, dystopian one that lay beyond my doorstep, beyond the air-conditioned circle that my extended family live in. The film may have set out to examine the values and mind-sets of the rapists. It revealed the complete lack of. Has my birth country become such a merciless society where most men don't acknowledge the existence of women, or if they do its only as an object to be bullied, groped, raped, beaten, tortured and killed? I refuse to believe the faces of those men is the face of all Indian men. I am married to one, and know many others. I know they can be kind, gentle, patient, creative, artistic and caring. Yet, when I hear the policeman in charge of the investigation guarantee that Delhi is a very safe city "even for women" I know he is one of them. When the government is more worried that the documentary might taint the country's image abroad and take away tourism dollars, than about it depicting a horrific reality, I know there are many of them in power. When the first defence lawyer tries to show how much of a humanist he is by comparing women, to flowers and diamonds, and other things that can be plucked and owned and thrown I know even education doesn't change their mind-set. And when the other lawyer says confidently that if his daughter had pre-marital sex, he would burn her, I know he is only voicing the thoughts of millions of them. I always suspected most men in my home country were like him but now, hearing him speak, I know they are. Perhaps what one of them declared is true, "We have the best culture. In our culture, there is no space for a woman." And no, he wasn't joking. Or perhaps it's time India took a good hard look at her sons and figured out how so many of them turned out so wrong.]]> How a Near Life Experience Changed My Life tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2014:/theblog//3.6080370 2014-10-31T04:11:14-04:00 2014-12-30T05:59:01-05:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ When I look back now I think I can tell with pretty accurate precision the exact moment that little thing which was not yet a foetus tore its way through my left fallopian tube. It didn't live to tell its own story. Hence it falls to me to narrate the journey of that soul that never was, and how she--I just know it would have been a she--changed my path. I call this my near life experience. For it was in almost giving birth to a new life that I stumbled across the courage to really live my own. I remember clearly the first line of poetry I wrote. "The leaves swayed in the breeze like a ship on the high seas." I was five and quite inspired by the kairee (mango) tree outside our balcony. It's a very distinct memory. I knew then I would write. A lot. It took many, many years; a few lifetimes; many reinventions to actually give some shape to what my five-year-old self had seen. Emerging from the haze of morphine at the hospital--thank god for drugs--I switched off my cell phone and went offline for a month. A full four weeks. A first and never since. In the silence that followed, I looked into the eyes of my husband and saw real fear: he didn't want to lose me. I didn't want to die either. Not yet. And yet I could have. And I would never have written all that was in my head, that which I saw so clearly. In my weakened state-of-mind, I clearly saw the many generations of thwarted writers in my family, shake their heads sadly at me. They had thrown down the gauntlet. Was I going to do it? End this pathetic, self-pity filled saga stretching across time? Perhaps it was being put deep under by the anaesthesia, for I am told it really is a little like dying. Well the closest one comes to dying without actually... dying; when you are sedated enough for them to cut into you. Maybe it was that which dropped me deep into myself, enough to touch the stuff that really mattered. The debris hidden behind decades of conditioning shot to the top. So, when I switched on my cell-phone and plugged back into the real word, I knew what I had to do. Write those damn books. A near life experience told Laxmi Hariharan to write. She never stopped. Reach her @laxmi | Blog | Facebook ]]> Ten Point Strategy for Indie Authors tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2014:/theblog//3.5501932 2014-06-17T02:55:32-04:00 2014-08-16T05:59:04-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ My writing straddles too many genres to be categorised. So I turned Indie. However, when my self-published, first novel made it to the Amazon bestseller list, I realised I had a niche: a group of readers around the world who liked what I wrote. They wanted to know what it meant to come of age in a complex environment like India. So, my second novel is about a teen protagonist coming of age in Bombay: a city already so post-apocalyptic in the today that I didn't need to look further for dystopian settings. Its action-oriented plotline is inspired by the history, and events in the timeline of the city. Once an Indie always an Indie: so I thought. Imagine my pleasant surprise when I turned up at The Literary Consultancy's (TLC), Writing in a Digital Age conference, to find that the boundaries between Indie and mainstream publishing seemed to be blurring. The more enterprising commercial self-publishing platforms of Kobo and ePubli along with Amazon KDP & Createspace are at the forefront of working in partnership with Indies to ease us along our next self-publishing endeavour. There is also the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi): a non-profit collective of independent self-publishing writers, which advances the interests of Indies. It means we now have access to a support community of peers; invaluable for the kinship it offers to help ease the loneliness in the journey of a novelist. What TLC does particularly well at its annual conference is: a. Humanise the professionals in the publishing business: Curated by Jon Slack and Doug Wallace, this is the rapid fire Canon Tales session, where UK's top literary players talk about what motivated their choice of careers. Using just 20 images each presentation lasts precisely 21 seconds. A great adrenaline rush from which I walked away with much inspiration. b. Give authors a chance to pitch to agents: Through its Pen factor competition, TLC provides a great way for authors to present manuscripts to agents. Nothing like having to prep for a live pitch to get that synopsis and opening chapter in top shape. It's nerve wracking, but invaluable for the author who is pitching. A live demonstration of what that all important promotability factor--which all agents are looking for--is all about. In addition, I hope the following learnings will help other Indies: 1. Identify your target audience: Like me, you may not write within a conventional genre, but you must have a niche. Find it. That is the starting point. 2. Once you know your niche, you must target your audience. Write for them. Let their needs overrule your preferences. 3. It still is all about the quality of what you write: perfect your craft, keep at it, spend time with your characters, learn how to plot. Put your time and money behind actually learning how to write. 4. Write the damn book. Just do it. I use SelfControl to block out social media and get the words out. 5. Once the book is complete, invest behind editing and the packaging. It will pay off, in loads. 6. Get the pricing right. Pricing is still the number one factor that influences discoverability for an author. 7. Now, let the social networks in. Be professional in your marketing, appeal to your target audience groups: identify their passion points online, go to where they are. Get the book in front of them. 8. SEO aids discoverability, if you can use it to help you, nothing like it. I have to admit I haven't managed to master this one completely yet. 9. Write the next book: you need the bandwidth to see the income. 10. The long tail is important. Don't ignore your audience between books. Personally, my blog and Facebook page have been invaluable in staying in touch with my readers. This is my tribe after all: where I really belong. And it's not always about the writing. I try to share a little of what I am thinking, what I see everyday. It's a more genuine way of keeping in touch. Laxmi Hariharan is a kindle bestselling author and the creator of Ruby Iyer. Find her @laxmi or on Facebook]]> Ten Publishing Trends: An Indie Author's Take tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2014:/theblog//3.4884676 2014-03-02T08:53:13-05:00 2014-05-02T05:59:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ By then, you have worked out that all the authors are in the same boat: i.e. hoping to be mainstream published, but meanwhile contemplating going Indie. Also, by this time the speakers have completed their promise to their marketing departments of pitching their own platforms. This is also when you have worked out that--just like you--nobody really knows what they are doing. So it was with a wish and a prayer--a state of mind that as an author I am most intimate with--that I headed into the last few sessions of the day at the London Author Fair. As it turned out, there was at least one Eureka moment for me here. Organised by authoright.com, a company actually run by an Indie Author for all authors, here are the ten trends I came away with: 1. Books will get shorter as people will have less time on reading This was a comment from literary agent @andrewlownie, which I agree with. We live far more fragmented lives thanks to technology: which in simplifying tasks, and freeing up time, has only meant we try to fit in much more into a day. So as a writer, I am very conscious of the expectation to live a life in 140 characters, and definitely have this back of my mind as I write. Yet, as bestselling author, @adeleparks remarked: "the best things are those which you linger over." So if in that shorter, sweeter, novel I could find a way to hang those moments of introspection strategically onto the timeline, then yes, that would work very well indeed. 2. Will the number of writers mirror the number of readers in the future? A concern voiced by several authors in the conference. Personally, I don't worry about this, too much. I do believe ultimately quality will over overshadow quantity. Write a bloody good book, market it well, and the readers will come. 3. In 2020 social will play an even bigger role on how books are read Even as someone who is socially connected 24/7, I view this with apprehension. It means readers can now highlight text, make notes and share a link to the selected passage on social networks, from eBooks. Good, bad? Again, good if you write well. But overall, it feels very confusing: for the time lag between liking something you read and sharing to the world is minimal. Which does take adjusting to. 4. Is there a business model for the author in the digital world? To quote @PollyCourtney, author of Golden Handcuffs : "...To do it well you have to invest time, effort and money." Even more so as an Indie author: for when you put your book out there, it gets judged on the same platform as a book from a mainstream publisher. So it's got to have great content, be well edited, have a great cover, really everything you would expect as a reader from any book. As publishing journalist @Porter_Anderson added: "don't use your readers as the test base for your typos." So true! Yet how many of us Indies, can sustain and keep this investment going book after book? No, I think the answer is to look at your books as just one component of building your platform. Get the book(s) out, and very quickly figure out related sources of income, be it through paid appearances at book clubs, blogging--uh! A daytime job helps too I wager: to take the pressure off and giving you the mind-space to actually write. 5. It's the book stupid! Amongst all the social media and marketing jargon, don't lose sight of this. Said bestselling Indie author @bellaandre: "it's the book, the book, book. Focus on the book." It also means when you have a first success, capitalise on it. "If you can get a book out every six months do it" she adds. 6. The Indie Author Brand "Think about your brand before you publish" advised @nookpress. Yes, you absolutely have to find your voice, be true to yourself, and figure out what you are saying before you put yourself out there. As @MattCainWriter, author of upcoming novel Shot Through the Heart said: "you need a really simple proposition for people to get you." 7. Naïve Confidence Do you really believe it can happen? @adeleparks did! But then if you didn't you wouldn't have thought of going Indie in the first place right? 8. Do you know who your reader is? I am still working it out, I confess. But it absolutely helps to flesh this out. Here's an important one from @Porter_Anderson: "themes in your books: use them to get to the readers. Don't just stick to the writerly community." If you identify your readers you can target your appearances amongst that community. 9. Please, don't turn into a buy my book machine @PatrickRBrown of @goodreads commented: "never talk about buying your book!" Exactly. Best way to sell your book is not to sell directly, I have learnt. Come at it sideways. On social networks, talk about yourself: your interests, your passions, what drives YOU as a person. If they like what you say, chances are they will buy your book. Meanwhile, be sure to develop a thick skin. In the words of @MattCainWriter: "If you get knocked back don't take it personally." 10. Eyeball Heroin Thanks to @anna_cn for this phrase. I liked it so much, I am going to borrow it. Anna was referring to how once you start watching series on Netflix you just cannot stop. She wondered if authors need to write in a similar style to survive and be read in the future? Well my answer is, yes! This exactly what I am attempting with the Ruby Iyer series. Fast paced, short 800 word episodes each week, ending on a cliff hanger to keep them coming back for more. PS: Just had to thank Blurb for the free coffee aka author fuel, throughout the day! Laxmi Hariharan is a kindle bestselling author and creator of the Ruby Iyer series. Find her on Facebook]]> Eleven Reasons Why I Selfie: And You? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.4518457 2013-12-30T08:21:20-05:00 2014-03-01T05:59:02-05:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ My very first selfie was a drawing, a portrait of myself as a teenager. I continued capturing myself on paper until those vague outlines petered out--to be replaced by a search for acceptance in the world's appreciation of me. Perhaps this is what was called growing up? I thought I had moved on, until technology brought it all back in reverse focus: to my self. And, now that these pictures I take of my reflection have been officially recognised as an art form, it's made taking self-portraits even more weirdly appealing. It's only fitting then, that I end the last day of the year of the selfie with ten thoughts that cross my mind when I click the shutter. Here they are: 1. Why do I look better in my selfie, than the pictures you take of me? 2. Not this way - that: THAT is my best profile. 3. Am I not more natural when I pose with myself? 4. Can I snap these, those most intimate parts of me--which I would not reveal even to myself but I would to a mirror? 5. For, I am so cool.... And, you can't touch me. 6. Did you see, what I just saw in my selfie? 7. All the better to feed my Instagram with... 8. Keep it running! Snap... snap... snap... Ah! This one works, perhaps? 9. Does this lipstick colour go better with the black dress? What do you think? Ping me back on my selfie. 10. ... But I do look younger than my years, don't I? 11. Do I want you in my selfie? No, not you. Perhaps you, there? No, not really. I am bored, so I selfie--looking for that which lies just below the surface: perhaps an epiphany? To thine own #selfie be true then. You bored too? Tell me why you selfie? Thanks to Sonia Ducie, Pooja Vir, Prateeksha Vir and Ashanti OMkar for sharing their thoughts on selfies, which helped me with this piece. ]]> Did British Airways Finally Get it Right? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3712558 2013-08-06T08:49:26-04:00 2013-10-06T05:12:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ Face Ad. With its distinctive sound track of The Flower Duet from Lakmé, for me it personified the BA brand--classical, a bit out of touch, conservative, steady, and reliably not delivering on certain journey factors. Many many years later, BA has come up with another one - a five minute clip which has forced me to see it in a more kindly light. In the tradition of the best (or worst as you may see it) reality TV programming tradition, the ad unabashedly tugs at the heart strings of immigrants like myself, tracing the journey home and how it feels to surprise your parents with a sudden visit. It is unabashedly sentimental and plays on the age old mother-son relationship drama, yet I confess it brought tears to my eyes for I could see my own Mum in the genuine reaction of the mother in the ad. It works because it is not a 30 second commercial, but a five minute situation film, which takes the time to set up the characters. Even though you know where it is heading, the unstaged reactions of the characters in the climax, captured on screen are what make it. (Watch and judge for yourself.) It reminded me of a real life surprise visit last year to Calcutta, by my husband for his parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary. Having witnessed her shock then happiness, I definitely identified with the story in the ad. Enough to push me to look beyond BA's aging fleet, its matronly stewardesses, and its overcrowded economy class travel seat -- all of which have become the hallmarks of my yearly Christmas sojourns home. By humanising its air miles, it seems BA did get to the heart of the matter, eventually! Interestingly, this on screen drama may well become a real life reality, now that Britain plans to impose a £3,000 pounds visa bond on visitors from six countries including India. My parents for one will be unable to afford this. Which means the only way to eat Mum's home cooking will indeed be to fly home. As Sidin Vadukut writer and author of The Dork Trilogy, remarked on twitter @sidin: New ad idea for British Airways: Mother makes bhindi and cries because she cannot afford visa bond to meet son in UK. Son visits on BA. What do you think? Do write in and tell me. Laxmi Hariharan is a content branding strategist and writer of epic fantasy. Find her at LAXMIwrites or @laxmi ]]> Is Crowdfunding the Way Forward for Indie Films? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3666071 2013-07-28T05:58:25-04:00 2013-09-27T05:12:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ London Indian Film Festival. Even in that premature state, it was clear this was going to be a milestone for Indian cinema, nothing less than the equivalent of an Indian Trainspotting. The audience, at its world premiere at the London Indian Film Festival, took it up a notch, comparing it to nothing less than Inception or Limitless. LUCIA's film director Pawan Kumar, seemed to take it all in its stride while relishing its success. Not just is this a high quality film, but it is also also crowd funded by Indians around the world. "I put up on my blog that I had written a movie script titled LUCIA, and was looking for investors," remarks Pawan. "I gave the audience the option to put in little chunks of money in the project, the idea was to make a good movie which was purely an artist's work and was free of market pressures. I was able to raise 51lakhs (£ 55,584) in just 27 days." Pawan also runs Home Talkies, an online portal hosting many popular Kannada (movies from the state of Karnataka in India) films. This has helped create an international market for these movies, giving producers a new revenue generating model and opening up a new demographic for filmmakers. Now that the film is complete, the audience has a chance to buy distribution rights. On pre-ordering you receive a unique link to the online version of the movie. You can share this on your social networking sites and whenever someone clicks through and watches the movie, you earn a percentage. It's exciting on many levels. A film, crowd sourced, produced and distributed by the will of the audience, and it's real good too. A fast paced--highly commercial--well made, thriller, which belies its lean origins. Which goes to show that if you have a high quality product, and the might of a well-connected tribe which actually wants to support its own talent (the Kannadigas from around the UK turned out in full force to support the premiere of the film in London) you can indeed make the impossible happen. Now more than ever it seems the boundaries between creative and commercial, the story teller and his audience, the will to do and actually making it happen is blurring, thanks to technology. A little bit of luck, being at the right place at the right time, having good partners-- in this case the Edinburugh based Distrify an online viral distribution platform -- helps too. Of course, to quote Pawan, "in film making- it's those little things that go wrong, which help push creative boundaries" and that only adds to the enjoyment of both the creator and the viewer. Laxmi Hariharan is a content branding strategist and author of epic fantasy. Find her at LAXMIwrites or @laxmi ]]> Does 80% of Happiness Come From 20% of Your Life? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3524557 2013-06-30T07:12:54-04:00 2013-08-30T05:12:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ I was determined not to wait till I 'retired' to write. Yet, I did not want to compromise on my lifestyle--or at least the kind of life I was used to thanks to a decent paying job--which meant I had to find a way to do both. Hold down a fairly full on day job and write. A juggling act alright. But as I walked down the road to becoming an authorpreneur, I realized every single writer, including some very famous ones, hold down a day job to pay the bills. If they could do it, why not I? So in my quest to do both, I came up with a few guideline themes for myself. a. The Red Thread: This one is really cool. I drew the red thread which went through my life, the theme that kept it all together. I actually physically drew it on a sheet paper and put it up--to remind myself that jobs would come and go, but what my life always came back to was this inherent ability to write, to communicate. By being able to physically see it every day I reminded myself that it was in me and I would never lose it. It was strangely reassuring. b. The 80% rule: Most of the people on the island of Okinawa in Japan, live to be over 100. Researchers have traced their longevity to a practice called hara hachi bu that is "eat until you are 80% full." The result? Lower rates of disease and longer life. In this post Justin Jackson explains how he has carried over this 80% rule into his life. So at work for he became conscious of the amount of energy he spent at the office. He would deliberately pace himself so that he spent only 80% of his mental energy throughout the day. He explains its more about being mindful, to pick 2-3 big things to complete during the day and after that focus on little things which do not need energy. As he explains, this means he is in for the long haul, without fear of a burn out. Works for me too. The additional benefit of the 80% rule I discovered was that it brought a sense of detachment to my day job. This paradoxically made me more efficient at what I did. You see, unlike previously where I would emotionally involved, by taking a step back from the day to day, I can now keep things in perspective. This meant I take my ego out of the job, so it makes me a great team player and quite calm in crisis situations. Yet, by consciously holding that precious 20% back during the working week, I now have enough mind space left to focus on my writing over the weekend. (If you want to be pedantic, well 20% x 5 (days) = 100%. And if you add that onto the 100% of the weekend, and yet keeping back 20% over each day of the weekend, I still have 160% to play with for myself and my writing for that period of time. Cool right? c. This neatly brings me to the 5:2 diet rule which advises to eat less for two non-consecutive days of the week, but eat normally but healthily on the other five days as an easier way of losing weight. Reading between the lines, it actually leads back to the 80% rule, which is to hold back a little and not give it a full 100%. Interestingly though I interpret it in my life as doing the day job for 5 days of the week, and being an authorpreneur for the other 2. By experimenting I have also learnt that when I am in the middle of completing a book--when the muse is with me and the writing is going well--I can always flip the balance, i.e. try to fit in more writing every day of the week or plan and take time off so that the 80% of my week day is actually focused on my writing. So then, the bottom line seems to be 80% of that much sought after self-fulfillment kind of happiness comes from the 20% of my time which I am able to spend writing. Tying in with that oft quoted/ misquoted 80-20 rule or, the law of the vital few, which states roughly 80% of the effects, comes from 20% of the causes. Seems about right. What do you think? Have you any similarly interesting themes you have in your life? Do write in and tell me. Laxmi Hariharan is a content branding strategist (via MTV & NBCUniversal) & author of epic fantasy. Find her @laxmi or at LAXMI writes ]]> Can You SEO Your Way to the Bestseller List? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3420298 2013-06-11T07:22:55-04:00 2013-08-11T05:12:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ Let's get Digital, sent the audience at The Literary Consultancy (TLC's), Writing in a Digital Age 2013 conference into a tizzy. A sentiment echoed by Chris McVeigh-- he runs FourFiftyOne a digital publishing consultancy as well as seoforbooks--who said, "SEO is a huge opportunity for Indie authors to become discoverable" adding "it is not a discoverability but a visibility problem for many authors. Which raises the question, does author success come down purely to the algorithm of discoverability? The great thing about technology democratizing the publishing world is that size matters less than it once did. So does this mean Indie authors can SEO their way to the top of that Google search result or that Amazon bestseller list? Well, it is not that simple. You have to make sure your book is top notch - stand out stuff. So you have to pay attention to detail to make sure it's good quality, well edited content. No less than any commercial book published by a mainstream publisher. Then you have to invest behind an eye-catching cover and a cut through blurb which resonates with your target audience. But once you have a great product, and you've pressed that button and sent your book skimming across the electronic waves, what then? Well then the visibility game starts. In today's digitally plugged in age, where an average adult in the UK spends just under 17 hours per week online, and where readers discover eBooks mainly through online browsing, an Indie author cannot ignore optimising her online presence. Which means, alongside setting up an effective online author-brand presence, you need to have a strong, implementable SEO strategy--i.e. feed the biggest discoverability engine which ever existed--Google. So that the next time a reader searches for the genre you write in, your book comes up (50,000 monthly searches for crime fiction alone.) It's the first step--a real step in developing a direct relationship with your reader, which is crucial in driving sales. There is no escaping a links based economy, but as an authorpreneur, I hold out hope for a passion driven economy intertwining with this too. So, with my inner geekess completely in thrall, I am resolved to feed that algorithm monster, mind my metadata and make sure my online digital presence is seamless while complimenting my real world footprint. But I am still going to have to write that damn book first! Laxmi Hariharan is a content branding strategist & multi-genre author. Find her at LAXMIwrites or @laxmi ]]> Are We Writing Too Much to Be Reading? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3416525 2013-06-10T13:50:08-04:00 2013-08-10T05:12:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ I wish I could unplug! This was the thought foremost on my mind as I read a write up in The Guardian, by Sylvain Tesson, about his new book Consolations of the Forest - a largely philosophical account of his six-months living as a hermit in a cabin in Siberia. While he took the obligatory survival equipment with him on his retreat, he also carried a library of almost 80 books. As he mentioned in the same piece, for the first time in his life he was able to read a whole book beginning to end without stopping. "Always being contactable is the beginning of your loss of freedom," he added. How true! If I could spend even seven days, in my own home unplugged from my devices, perhaps I could recapture some of that stillness inside which is so needed to create--to read or write. The theme was picked up at The Literary Consultancy (TLC's) Writing in a Digital Age conference; when Alison Baverstock, course leader for MA Publishing at Kingston University, asked if we were all too busy writing, to read? It's a sign of the me economy we live in, one in which many of us --myself included--feel compelled to spend time recording our every thought, word, deed, spewing out our inner stream of consciousness in short 140 character bursts, into the ether. (1/4th of American children have a digital footprint before they are born.*) But, when so much of one's waking hour is spent simply amplifying our own voice in quick rapid fire output of words, is there anything else left to offer to long form prose? And, is there any mind space left to just read? As, Chris Meade, Director, if:book, a charitable company exploring digital possibilities for literature remarked at the conference, "our lives are not disjointed like a stream of tweets, it needs some form of long form narrative" and I would add, both in the written and the read. Michael Kowalski, Founder of Contentment, a creative technology start up that specializes in digital content production and publishing, hit the nail on the head when he said, "if you don't have a writer's chromosome you are more likely to be a reader." So what do you do if you were born with the defective writer's DNA? What is the secret to just writing? (Or just reading?) You could always resort to apps such as self-control, which once installed on your laptop can help you avoid distracting websites. Else, eschew the laptop and embrace the joy of writing with pen on paper? Or exercise that simple thing called choice? Resist the temptation of allowing the digital world to disrupt the real world? Shouldn't just the words be enough? * Report by the Internet security firm AVG Laxmi Hariharan is a content branding strategist and multi genre author. Find her at LAXMIwrites or @laxmi ]]> Is Kindle Worlds a Pure Content Marketing Move? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3336808 2013-05-25T14:38:57-04:00 2013-07-25T05:12:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ Fanfic as it is called refers to stories produced by fans based on existing plot lines and characters, often taking pre-existing story worlds in new directions. The grey area has always been the rights-holders point of view -- people using characters and situations in ways that probably violate copyright. With Kindle Worlds, Amazon seems to aim at a platform to publish fan fiction, a digital publishing platform where writers can publish fan fiction under official licenses and possibly make money. Right now, the deal is limited to Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries -- all from Warner Bros.' Alloy Entertainment -- but it promises more to come. The content guidelines for Kindle Worlds, clearly states Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright. When you submit your story in a World, you are granting Amazon Publishing an exclusive license to the story and all the original elements you include in that story, you also give the World Licensor a license to use your new elements and incorporate them into other works without further compensation to you. As an author--my spider senses tingle on reading this. But as a marketer I wonder if this concept is not a bold, experimental move? With Kindle Worlds, Amazon has created a powerful content marketing, amplification platform. At a time when marketers are pulling their hair out over innovative ways to keep viewers/ readers/ film goers/ gamers engaged with their brand--well here is a platform not only completely dedicated to that, but which actually officially enrolls its most vocal evangelists, as brand ambassadors to write about the characters. Here is a community where these high affinity content generators feed off each other, building on each other's ideas and elements, taking up the plot lines where the others leave. A vibrant creative world, set around the show or game or movie of that world, which grows with each new story, generating new ideas for the original content producer or studio. Remember though, the World Licensor has the license to use these new elements and incorporate them into other works without further compensation to the author. If and there are many big ifs here: If the community is nurtured carefully, if despite the fact that the content generators have to err on the side of caution with respect to pornography, offensive content -, though the thrill of fan fiction is that it is illicit and can take characters and make them do things that fit your personal fantasy in the first place--they yet stay motivated to continue to write; then it's an innovative experiment in getting the core fans to actually live and breathe these characters, and generate massive, self-propagating, word-of-mouth traction. The kind which delivers huge franchises, and ultimately big money. Kindle Worlds--the way it is positioned today as a platform for new stories inspired by books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games people love--is a marketer's brainwave and should be seen in that light. To view it as purely an editorial platform with the sole purpose of providing a voice for budding authors, is muddying the waters, though the connection with Amazon squarely places it there. Either way, one more barrier towards content generators becoming content marketers has fallen, and the landscape of content marketing has changed forever. Laxmi Hariharan is a content branding strategist and author of award winning epic fantasy. Find her at LAXMIwrites ]]> The Ultimate in Social Media Envy? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3018634 2013-04-05T02:42:59-04:00 2013-06-04T05:12:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ Like the picture of my lunch, like the portrait of my death then? Where it would stay for time immemorial, for footprints in the sands of virtual time are never wiped away. On one level, this did not surprise me. I do live a majority of my life in the online space, and a big portion of that time used to be spent on my Facebook page--that is till I realised I was one step away from Facebook envy or worse, death by Facebook family portrait--boredom. So perhaps it would be only fitting that when I die my Facebook page became my defacto online commemoration space. After all, it is so easy to send virtual condolences through the click of a button. Far more sanitised too than having to turn up in person or call and face the messy emotions of the real person on the other side? Besides by sharing sympathies on a social networking site, friends can show everyone else, that they have also done their bit, right? On the other hand, there's the tongue in cheek Google graveyard a virtual space for grieving Google's ill-fated services. "Click on a grave to leave a flower, and let the healing process begin" it advices. Into this scene steps DeadSoci.al, which allows you to schedule messages to be distributed across your social networks after you die. "It enables you to extend your digital legacy by keeping the conversation going post death" says founder James Norris. "We articulate our social networks when alive, so why not after death?" So I can be both 360 in life and in death. Here's one way to say good-bye to my entire community. I can get a vanity url, invite friends to like my profile and entrust up to six executors to activate my social messages once I am gone. I can continue to reach my friends and family from beyond the grave. A ghostly voice, which lives on to say everything I didn't dare, when alive. Perhaps confess my love to those I never did or use it in a show of one up-womanship? For, you may have the wonderful family pictures and the much coveted job promotion and that gorgeous holiday in Bali, but guess what, I am in control of my afterlife! Is something like a DeadSoc.ial, the ultimate in ego-boosting-envy-invocation or simply a logical quasi-spiritual ending to my uber-technology-driven life? Either way it's a clever, timely, keeping up with the cycle of life and death in the connected age, service. At the crossroads of where technology meets the other world, it would seem. I wondered, if Jim Morrison had lived and died in today's times, could a virtual memorial, ever replace the much visited gravestone--with its outpouring of fan tributes--at Pierre Lachaise? No, likely not, for the time I spend in the virtual world, makes me cherish the touch of real life even more. Laxmi Hariharan is a broadcast branding marketer and an author. Find her at LAXMIwrites or @laxmi ]]> What Is the Future of Content Branding? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2848946 2013-03-12T18:23:32-04:00 2013-05-12T05:12:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ £2 billion of sales last year as thousands of visitors flooded through the new Stratford mall during the Olympics. At the Women4Technology event organized by Bailey Fisher and adjustyourset.tv, Angel Gambino, entrepreneur and investor (SVP Digital Innovation at Westfield Shopping town during the 2012 Olympics), mentioned that of all value additions provided by Westfield, during the Olympics, the most appreciated and re-tweeted was -- no, not the photo opportunity with David Beckham or Mo Farah -- it was the free Wi-Fi and stations for charging mobile devices. Duh! Of course! We live in a connected world -- after air, water and coffee what's most essential is Wi-Fi, and then you want to make sure your smart device is juiced up so you can stay plugged in. In today's app-heavy world, where the battery on an iPhone 5 does not last more than four hours, I, for one, have learned to never leave home without my charger. In fact, my choice of a coffee shop or a shopping outlet boils down to which one provides Wi-Fi. As my dad confessed, the key reason he equipped his home with Wi-Fi was because without it his children absolutely refused to visit. This underlines a core principle of marketing: Provide something that makes a real difference to your consumers' lives, and they will come. As a content marketer though, it raises the question -- what real need does content deliver for a viewer? Content entertains and engages. But does it make a tangible difference to the lives of the viewer? To some extent, factual programming does, so does news. But what about entertainment? And if it does not make a tangible difference to their lives then what is its future? Content that resonates with viewers normally elicits a specific emotional reaction. It makes them laugh or moves them to cry, or perhaps taps into their deepest fears. Thus, most successful content branding exercises have been those that have focused on fulfilling a specific emotional niche. But the added complexity in the connected world is that it also needs to specifically appeal to, get noticed and shared by key influencers who are perceived as adding real value to the lives of their connections. (Seth Godin, anyone?) Which means 1 percent of the audience. The future of marketing for content-based branding is then to laser target that 1 percent of the audience with content that is not just unique or exclusive, but which compels the key influencers to share. Which means really moving beyond mass media to individual targeting of these influencers, thus generating word of mouth and finally engagement. Or else it has to be content that adds social value of some kind to the community at large. The days of just providing a simple tune-in message and expecting viewers to come are over; it has to be teamed with engagement tactics and add value to the viewers' lives. What do you think? Do you agree? Laxmi Hariharan is a broadcast branding strategist & a writer of epic fantasy. Find her at LAXMIwrites or @laxmi ]]> How Whittington Hospital Saved My Life tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2760020 2013-02-25T13:57:42-05:00 2013-04-27T05:12:01-04:00 Laxmi Hariharan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/londonbombay-return/ The symbol for Whittington Hospital is a cat. After having been saved not once but twice from possible death within its walls, I have begun to think of it as the proverbial cat o'nine lives. My first lease of life was a few years ago when I suffered a bad miscarriage and was instantly rushed into the A&E and then into surgery at the hospital. It was only later when my GP went pale on seeing the reports that I realised that a few minutes late and I may well have slipped across to the dark side. The second was just earlier this week, when a suspected lump in my breast had my GP referring me to the hospital. Convinced I had breast cancer, and seeing the next few years unroll in a haze of chemo and possible surgery, I showed up white knuckled. Queuing for my scan, I trembled - composing my eulogy in my head - rueing the hours I had wasted away in front of the television when I should have been working on my next book. If only... if only... I prayed to all my gods, even carrying my prayer beads into the waiting room-- a first for me - where I proceeded to chant as a way of focussing on the moment and not dwelling on the probable outcome. Within an hour I was seen by a consultant; who within seconds of the scan told me not to worry, it was just an enlarged lymph node. I sagged in relief, mentally check-listing the deals I had made with the various powers that be upstairs. What struck me was the efficiency, the confidence of prognosis of the consultant, the cleanliness and the modernity of the equipment. Everything worked and the staff - the doctors and nurses - stretched as many of them were behind piles of paperwork and files did their best to put me and the many frightened women there that day at ease. Yet it is the latest hospital in the capital to face cutbacks. In 2010 its A&E almost shut down but for timely action by local residents. Today NHS managers want to sell off part of the Whittington site, cutting almost 570 jobs to leave the hospital with reduced maternity services, ward closures and fewer beds for the elderly. Why cut funding for something which works? At what cost is the government saving costs? For local residents such as me, the Whittington is more than a lifeline. It's a beacon of everything that is actually right in this country. It is crucial for the hospital to stay open and unaffected if it is to continue to provide the kind of life saving services it has delivered so far. You can join the Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition here Laxmi Hariharan is a broadcast branding specialist and a writer who lives in North London. Read more from her at LAXMIwrites and @laxmi ]]>


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Miguel Angel Jimenez picked a nice time for his best round ever at Augusta National.
His 66 on Saturday was the round of the week and just the third time someone over the age of 50 had shot 66 in this tournament. The other two are Ben Hogan in 1967 and Fred Couples in 2010.
Jimenez rocketed up the leaderboard and will likely be in one of the final groups on Sunday as he sits at 3 under overall for the event.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in James City County by age group. In James City County, the male-to-female ratio is 34,986:37,450, which is 3% lower than the ratio of Virginia, which is 4,127,655:4,267,822. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
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As campuses around the world gear up for two weeks of anti-Israel agitation, the school that was continually drawn the most attention is once again in the news. At the University of California, Irvine on Tuesday, several hundred gathered in support of the 11 students arrested for disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador last… More ▸
The more things change …. The current drama playing out at the University of California, Irvine is shaping up to be nearly note-for-note identical to the one we witnessed in 2008. Then, as now, harshly anti-Israel speakers sparked the Zionist Organization of America to issue condemnatory press releases and appeal to the United States government… More ▸
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The fact that you're reading this article means that you are probably planning a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative and recognize that some level of governance is required in order to be successful. If you are like most people in this position, you are also somewhat confused as to the meaning of SOA governance. Governance is the current buzzword, and combining governance with SOA creates a phrase that every independent software vendor (ISV) wants a piece of. How do you sort out what is marketing hype from what is truly valuable and relevant to your organization's SOA efforts?
Governance Scope Within an IT Organization
Much of the hype around SOA governance has been focused on operational governance. Defining, tracking, and managing factors like service-level agreements (e.g., average response time, peak response time, average throughput, peak throughput) and authorization policies (e.g., users from organization A are allowed to invoke this service while users from organization B aren't) are clearly important once the pieces of an SOA get up and running within an organization's IT infrastructure.
However, while operational governance and management is necessary for a successful SOA initiative, it is not sufficient. For an organization to effectively define and implement an SOA (and not simply implement a series of point-to-point services masquerading as an SOA, but in fact creating another layer of technology spaghetti), it must extend SOA governance back to the development and architectural perspectives. To be successful with SOA, you must find a way to bind these perspectives together as seamlessly as possible to enable effective information flow in both directions: from architecture to development to operations, and vice versa. Let's investigate each of these governance perspectives in turn.
Architectural Governance
Architectural governance at the enterprise architecture (EA) level involves three key elements: 1) making core decisions about business or technological functionality within the enterprise, 2) sufficiently documenting those decisions so that downstream consumers (the teams responsible for developing and deploying services and applications) can quickly understand and make effective use of those decisions, and 3) reviewing the project-specific application of those decisions. In order for an EA team to execute these tasks, it must have at its disposal an effective way to disseminate the knowledge assets it produces, to track and understand which knowledge assets are being applied to specific projects, and to document the review of those project-specific decisions.
Design-Time (Development) Governance
In many ways, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) governance within an SOA initiative is a reflection of decisions made at the EA level. Decisions about the scope and granularity of business services to be implemented and the technical approach to be used in implementing those services must be applied to specific service production or consumption (i.e., application development) projects. However, SDLC governance extends beyond appropriate application of EA guidance to the actual analysis, design, implementation, and testing of the resulting services and/or applications required by the IT project at hand. With respect to service production, SDLC governance involves the progressive "hardening" of the service as it progresses through its requirements definition, design, implementation/unit test, and integration/system test phases to eventual deployment in the operational environment. When applied to service consumption, governance may involve both internal project-specific reviews (e.g., have the appropriate services been selected, have requirements for new services been identified) and external reviews from the perspective of service providers (e.g., does the use of this service within this application conform to enterprise-specific or government-mandated privacy rules, does the service implementation contain open source components and if so, are the components used in a manner such that enterprise-specific intellectual property is not compromised).
Operational Governance/Management
Operational governance/management within an SOA involves applying appropriate business and technical policies (e.g., which groups and users are allowed to invoke a particular service, what are the minimum throughput and response time expectations required of a service) to deployed services. Business policies are often implemented within an SOA by an Enterprise Service Bus or SOA Fabric integrated with the enterprise's authentication and authorization infrastructure, while technical policies are typically monitored by a services management platform. The cumulative set of governed technical policies is often referred to as a service-level agreement (SLA). Examples of SLA-level technical governance elements within an SOA are:
- Average throughput
- Peak throughput
- Type and description of committed SLA
- Availability
- Consuming service clients
- Hardware and software configuration
- Fault history
- Alert thresholds
How do we map these governance disciplines into an organization's structure and roles? Because of the loosely coupled nature of SOA, SOA governance is a new discipline that has implications for existing corporate and IT institutions as well as for new organizational structures and processes (and the politics associated with those structures and processes). Proper focus on what governance is, how it can be achieved, and its implementation can help make governance a valuable and necessary function to support your SOA migration.
SOA governance has an impact on current IT governance processes. Some of these processes include the budgeting and project approval process, portfolio management activities, and ongoing oversight of projects to assure budgetary compliance. Applying governance to SOA activities is critical because there may have to be changes to the normal IT governance processes for budgeting and portfolio management.
Think about the budgeting process of your organization. That budgeting process has a tremendous impact on the behavior of various organizations and their IT representatives. If there is no budgetary control of projects to influence them to adopt SOA and reusable services as their fundamental design concepts, then projects will go their own way as driven by the requirements of that particular business unit or project. The same goes for the portfolio management process. If there is no mechanism to surface SOA and reuse opportunities for all projects and then apply budgetary pressure to converge them toward an SOA, then they will similarly go their own way. SOA governance, budgeting, and portfolio management are ways to influence behavior of business units, as well as the IT and business personnel within them, to more aggressively support SOA and reuse.
Enterprise architecture processes may undergo similar changes given the advent of an SOA initiative in an organization. Often the architecture process and organization will have to be restructured to accommodate the requirements of an SOA initiative because the skills, roles, and functions of an EA team are not completely appropriate for an SOA initiative. Think about the process of architecture as two tiers of activities: one tier is the architecture strategy and goals, followed by the definition of the elements, standards, and organization of architecture to accomplish those goals. The second tier is the application of architecture to funded projects, the acquisition or implementation of various technologies and standards, and the enforcement of compliance to the enterprise architecture goals (see Figure 1).
These are two related yet distinct processes, and often they are not as interdependent as CIOs would like. Think about the cases where there is a chief architect or central architecture group at corporate headquarters, and then also present are the solution architects assigned to projects. They actually build systems and implement technologies and standards. Who has the most direct bearing on the architecture that ultimately is implemented in a given organization? Naturally it is the person assigned to the budgeted project that was sponsored by a specific business unit that ultimately funded the project. The behavior associated with enterprise architecture is similarly related to the organization and processes used to achieve the goals of SOA, architecture compliance, portfolio management, and budgetary compliance.
|robertmorschel 10/10/12 03:57:00 AM EDT
In my experience SOA needs to begin with a single, skilled team that can define evolving standards and processes in an agile manner, before being let loose on the enterprise; and even then, only if the enterprise has an established and effective centralised governance function that would be able to enforce SOA policies across multiple teams.
|Gary Smith - SOA Network Architect 02/22/06 11:51:19 AM EST
Excellent. This puts governance into perspective.
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