Convention 2007 Photos: Evening Session
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on September 10, 2007
NED Convention 2007 Crowne Plaza - Sep 8, 2007 NED Alumni Convention 2007 September 08, 2007 Crowne Plaza Hotel San Jose, Ca |
Sorry about the “Intezar Famaiyay”
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on September 9, 2007
We’re back on!
Sorry about the delay in getting the evening program online. Our hotel host screwed up.
You can watch live video on the blog.
Video from Convention
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on September 8, 2007
During the convention you will be able to see live video below.
[Official videography at Convention 2007 by WBT-TV.com.]
NED Alumni Giving
Posted by riaz_haq on September 7, 2007
NED University & Alumni Giving
By Riaz Haq
Sept 2, 2007
Summary:
Alumni of US schools play a significant role in the lives of their alma maters. There are well-established traditions and mechanisms in place for alumni giving their time, money, and various resources to enhance the academic life and extra-curricular activities of almost all schools in the US. Even public universities such as University of California system boast of their alumni support as a source of funding and a way to attract the best faculty, significant research grants from industry and government, and higher rankings by various ranking bodies including US News & World Report. As a rule, the older campuses of UC system are ranked higher than the newer ones based mostly on the size of the alumni and their track record. In recent years, the IIT system, established in the 1950s in our neighboring India, has taken a leaf from this US tradition and resulted in a dramatic boost in their international reputation and brand recognition through the work of their alumni in the US and elsewhere. NEDUET is a 76 year old institution of higher learning in Karachi, Pakistan with a sizable and highly accomplished alumni population in Pakistan, US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Yet, NEDUET has not derived the benefits from their vast and wealthy alumni body that are quite common and expected in the US universities as well as IITs in India. This article is written to propose how this situation can be rectified. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Father of Pakistani Blogosphere
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on September 4, 2007
In the very first post on this blog, when I was providing an introduction to prominent NEDians in the blogsosphere, I introduced “Tee Emm” (Tariq Mustafa, Batch ‘90-91) as “probably one of the first people to write a blog out of Pakistan”. But it appears that my cautious characterization was unnecessary.
The Karachi Metroblog team (Metroblogging ®, for the uninitiated, is the largest and fastest growing network of city-specific blogs on the Web–from San Francisco to Bangkok, from Karachi to Toronto, Metblogs are a hyper-local look at what’s going on in the city) recently held a seminar at “The Second Floor” (a coffeehouse, featuring a bookshop and a space for creative expression and intelligent discourse in Karachi) titled “Blogging 101″. You can read their own report here, but what caught my eye was the following slide:
Which means that I stand corrected. It is good to see general recognition for the work of an NEDian who’s been hacking away in the netroots for a long, long time. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
