Welcome Mani! As always don't hesitate to ask the community if you have questions large or small about how Wikimedia works :)
(and the Institute for the Future is pretty cool... I have a t-shirt of theirs that is one of my favorites) best, Phoebe On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Barry Newstead <[email protected]> wrote: > It is my pleasure to welcome Mani Pande to the Wikimedia team. > > Mani joins as the Senior Research Analyst, Global Development. In this > role, Mani will work across the Global Development team and the organization > as a whole to design and lead research work that helps us make good > strategic decisions and evaluate the results of the work that we do (to make > even better decisions). In addition, Mani will help to design and deploy > metrics for key Global Development areas so that we can monitor our > performance against the strategic plan. > > A native of New Delhi, Mani brings a global perspective to our work. Her > passion lies in understanding how consumers use technology to map > opportunity spaces for new product strategies and industry growth. She has a > special interest in the transformative technology experiences brought about > through the use of mobile devices by emerging market consumers. She has also > extensively studied the growth of open source movement. > > Mani is an accomplished quantitative researcher & has conducted surveys > studying technology usage, sustainability and health in US, India and China. > Mani is an experienced ethnographer having conducted work in India, Brazil, > Russia and China on technology usage and studying women in the software > industry. Mani worked for the Institute for the Future, a forecasting > research organization based in Palo Alto, for over 5 years. She has a PhD > in Sociology from Kansas State University and an MA and MPhil in Sociology > from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before moving to the US to > pursue her PhD, Mani worked as a reporter-cum-sub-editor for The Times of > India. Her beats were media (favorite assignments covering a Cindy Crawford > press conference & Yanni's show at the Taj Mahal) & crime (no favorites > here, just saw a lot of gross stuff). > > Mani loves to cook. Her specialties, Thai red curry, enchiladas in mole > sauce (from scratch) & chicken biryani. She posts pics of food that she > cooks on Twitter. You can see some of the pics (@manipande on Twitter). > > Welcome Mani! > > -- > Barry Newstead > Chief Global Development Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 634 > Skype: barry.wikimedia > Twitter: @bazanews > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia > Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > > -- * support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org | I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
