New Financial Year. Are you invested yet?
Dear Friend,
It is April,the new financial year is here. have you planned out your investment for professional development?
Investment in yourself is not subject to market risks. Read on.
Renew your membership of IEEE - Special Offer
- You can renew by going to http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/renew/index.html
- as a special offer, if you renew now, you pay only for 6 months of dues, but avail 8 months of membership benefits.
- If you forgot your account and access, click IEEE Account recover
- Not the right society, there are 38 societies and even more different committes and councils. choose another one.
- autos, biology, management, geoscience or plain rocket science.
NEW-Group Insurance for members
- IEEE India members can now avail group Insurance outside of your workplace. see here- https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/discounts/group_insurance.html#sect1
Renew In Rupees
- Now you can renew through your netbanking facility in Indian Rupees. Go here https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/rupee_renewal_option.html
New Technology for members.
- IEEE Collabratec is a phenomenonal state of the art platform to collaborate, co author, find mentors, find like minded professionals. or just plain access Linkedin, twitter, G+ your email {Gmail, yahoo, Outlook.com} etc. all from one login.
- you can find me there and we can talk, or use video through Google Hangouts. find me- Madhav Negi.
- Try it at https://ieee-collabratec.ieee.org/app/home
- see a short video Collabratech Video
- google@work provides all of google's tools with 30G of data and a great email id of <yourname>@ieee.org.
- Collabratech provides you space to share files, emails, and more.
What else can you do in a year for the equivalent cash value of an IEEE Membership?
- Get that one professional training you wanted. just one. while you would have access to many events throughout the year as a member. and many more through the online courses offered at IEEE or fantablous discounts at highly valued external providers. Names you would willingly sell your car to join! (but members keep their cars)
- Buy a new smartphone--> yeah great, so you can play more games and take time away from improving your professional identity?
- See about 50 movies at multiplexes. --> but this does not add to who you are professionally! (you might do better to get a subscription to netflix and watch them from the comfort of your home)
- Get one flight return flight ticket to New Delhi if you are lucky. -> but you would like to do more at Delhi then just fly around. and that costs more.
- Get 1 membership at a international library? but most likely they are not going get you to connect to your professional peers or mentors?
- Buy less than 10 critical books of your profession? Instead of having access to all of them through the online books access.
- Buy less than 5 high quality shirts. but Shirts dont give you additional knowledge. at least not yet.
- You could Dine out about twice or thrice in a year at a real good place with people of your choice. Your membership can get you access to a hundred peer professionals globally. not just someone who is nearby, looking for a free meal. Join our different events and eat out regularly with good company.
- Register for one conference, assuming you come to know about it. Just Register.
- Certainly not Meet with interesting people from round the globe, round the year. Unless you are at the reception of a 5 Star hotel.
Interact with your investment
well, I think it is among the best investment decisions of the year.
Unlike your other investments, this one you can talk to, walk over shake hands, eat lunch with and the more you visit, the more you get out of it. it is a way of becoming a leader with great technical knowledge and content. Your managerial skills may have to retire, but your technical knowledge just becomes better and better.
if you have queries, complaints or a better reason why an IEEE Membership is not worth it,
reach out to m.j.negi@ieee.org,
you can find me on IEEE CollabraTec.
madhav negi
Chair member value, IEEE Hyderabad Section.
