Tej Kohli Personal Blog

Tej Kohli has always been associated with charity works and is helping scores of underprivileged people. Recently what called his attention is the slew of hoax charity emails fooling people on internet.

For years e-mails have been floating around the internet promising money to sick children or for disaster relief fund. Most of these emails assert that if users forward it in their circle, for each email they will contribute a certain some of money. Thus, if they forward email to enough people, some charity organization will make a donation for a good cause.

And while these messages are sham, majority of people continue to send them, clogging inboxes and even worse, casting suspicion on the legitimate online charity campaigns.

Hitherto, there is no such technology on internet to keep track of the forwarded emails. These hoax emails serves no better purpose than causing headache for authentic charities and thereby thinning their chance of raising funds for genuine causes.

Albeit many renowned charities have stepped forward to squash this practice and even have disclaimers on their websites warning users that such email chain letters are fakes, but to no avail.

Despite such efforts this practice is spreading on the internet like forest-fire. Though not all such campaigns are phony, the bad news is, it is casting clouds of suspicion on the legitimate campaigns too. As one fails to distinguish between the fake and genuine campaigns, the confusion persists.

Even online social networks are coming up with several features to thicken this muck further. As a result, people are becoming apprehensive of the online charities and this in turn is limiting the fundraising capacities of many popular charities.

Many hoax-busting websites maintain that this confusion will continue to exist for some time, even in face of efforts to discredit them. One of the reasons is that it’s all too tempting for users to feel like they’ve contributed by doing very little. Such hoaxes give people a chance to experience feeling of doing something good for virtually no effort.

Tej Kohli adds another feather in the VoIP news category on Tej Kohli blog. Come and discover with Mr. Kohli how VoIP can expedite your business operation.

Owing its popularity to several cost-effective factors like low communication costs and better productivity, VoIP has become an indispensable part of Corporates, business houses and contact centers. Apart from these inbuilt benefits, the corporate houses can also enjoy flexibility and scalability accompanied with data security.
In addition, the internet based telephony services guarantee excellent call quality even in hybrid network environs. VoIP offers a lot of utilities over its obsolete alternative- PSTN. Like, it supports services across multiple sites, as these services are backed with the customer unique numbers and area codes of the customer’s choice. This capability can be used for forwarding of voice mails or transfer of the calls to almost anywhere using private dial plans. Organizations having branches in different locations can make the most of this feature. The IP technology would create the connecting links to their branch offices located across the globe and that too at significantly low costs.
Moreover, the users are not required to install, invest or maintain an independent IP infrastructure; all they would require is a broadband internet connection. This way, VoIP enables businesses to focus more on important business matters including generating and expanding of their activities. So, it won’t be wrong to say that VoIP has changed the face of the corporate communication all over the world.
Also, it is equally beneficial for the contact centers as it enables them to make long distance ISD calls at significantly low rates. Besides, it facilitates seamless connectivity, real time monitoring of calls, require less capital investment and help users to expand their employees’ shift according to their needs.

Tej Kohli unveils the secret of true happiness. If you’ve known how to take, learn TO GIVE as well, says Tej Kohli.

Charity or philanthropy is the greatest virtue that makes us real human beings. We are born in this world, nurtured in comfort and have always been fortunate to enjoy all comforts of life. But there are those who live on the streets and run pillar to post to meet bare ends. We are born in a society. It is this society which gave us our individuality and so many other privileges. Like a mother, society has given us everything we desired of, but ‘what have you given to the society’- is the question to be answered.

Though I have volunteered a few charitable endeavors but I still don’t rank myself in the philanthropists of that great persona like Andrew Carnegie, Peter Cooper, William H. Gates or David Packard, who have devoted their entire lives in helping those who are less fortunate.

The attitude of giving is a great way to seek solace and pay homage towards the society, which has made you, who you are. Charity has nothing to do with your bank balance. No matter you come from the wealth or from a modest family background. All you need to have is an attitude of giving, the vim and vigor to volunteer your services. So what if it’s in kind and not cash. If you have the will, your keys to philanthropy are endless. Find what’s your key and Unlock the happiness in someone’s life today.

Tej Kohli shares information on Ofcom courtesy mbayair.org.

UK telecom regulator, Ofcom, has ruled that internet telephone carriers must provide uninterrupted access to Britian’s emergency number, 999, as well as the European Union’s universal emergency line, 112.

Carriers have until September 2008 to comply with the ruling, which applies to all VoIP firms that allow their customers to call normal phone numbers over the internet.

Ofcom says that the regulation is necessary to ensure that emergency victims can summon help as quickly as possible. According to a recent survey, an astounding 78% of those using non-emergency-enabled VoIP services in the UK thought that they had access to 999 and/or 112.

Tej Kohli gives a list of his favourite Product Management books:

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin

The Product Manager’s Handbook : The Complete Product Management Resource by Linda Gorchels

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making (3rd Edition) by Thomas T. Nagle

Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launch, Third Edition by Robert G. Cooper

Harvard Business Review on Brand Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) by Erich Joachimsthaler

How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate by Andrew Hargadon

Sales & Operations Planning — The How-To Handbook by Thomas Wallce

Software Product Management Essentials by Alyssa S. Dver

Retail Product Management by R. Varley

Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota’s System Is Four Times More Productive and How You Can Implement It by Michael N. Kennedy

Product Development for the Service Sector: Lessons from Market Leaders by Robert G. Cooper

Harvard Business Review on Marketing by Harvard Business School Press

Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin