Prime Time with Craig Newmark, TONIGHT!

Tune in tonight, July 26th, 7pm EST on HumDesi Radio

Craigslist is one of the largest privately owned companies, with 20 Billion page views a month worldwide. Not just a house hold name, Craigslist.org is used by 77 countries, and we are very excited to have founder Craig Newmark on the show live from the West Coast!

Born in NJ, best known for starting his SFO based company craigslist.org, Newmark is vocal about keeping the internet free.

A web-oriented software engineer by training, with 30 years of IT experience at companies such as IBM and Bank of America,Craig now spends his days working as a customer service rep at craigslist.

In 1995 while Craig was working at Schwab, he started craigslist as an email list for friends and co-workers about events going on in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1999, Craig retired from IT consulting to work full-time on craigslist. What started as a fun side project in Craig’s living room has since grown into one of the busiest sites on the internet, helping people with basic day-to-day needs such as finding a job, an apartment and a date, all within a culture of trust.

Craig continues to embrace his inner nerd though he no longer wears thick black glasses that are held together with tape, and he retired the plastic pocket protector some years ago.

Craig is involved with a variety of community efforts and is particularly interested in organizations promoting public diplomacy, mideast peace and new forms of media such as participatory journalism. He’s on the boards of Sunlight Foundation, OneVoice, FactCheckED, and VotoLatino.

From inspiring a Wierd Al Yankovic song, to an award winning documentary, the most striking thing about Craigslist is it’s staunch decision to stay minimal CSS based. In a world where web 2.0 is already outdated, it is simply remarkable to have a site that is so overwhlmingly popular yet largely free and community moderated.

Craig graduated from Case Western University and will talk to us about the Presidents call to volunteer-ism, a subject very dear to him. Using the net for social change is also a subject he cares deeply for an one that goes to the core of NetIP’s values: social change.

For more check out Craig’s blog, http://www.cnewmark.com/ and send in your questions for Craig to primetime@netip.org

Craig will be streaming live on twitter during the show, be sure to follow @netipna and re-tweet using the hashtag #netipradio. Follow Craig @craignewmark

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About Prime Time

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Hungry?

Prime Time with NetIP presents Celebrity Chef Jehangir Mehta. Broadcasting LIVE from Graffiti Food and Wine bar in New York with an audience, join NetIP’s brand Strategist Pooja Dhawan and guest co-host Shweta Subramanian of HumDesi Radio. June 7th, 7pm EST.

We invite you to have a listening party and serve up some goodies while you listen to our live show. Download the iPhone app and listen on the go.

Besides being the author of the book Mantra: Rules of Indulgence, (HarperCollins) he was the runner up on the Next Iron Chef, aired on Food Network, and was also on the Martha Stewart show. In collaboration with NetIP New York, all guests in the audience will receive Jehangir’s signed book after the show.

Vote for Jehangir Mehta on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=browse

Currently, Jehangir, a former pastry chef to the brilliant Jean-Georges Vongerichten of Jean-Georges fame, is working on a multi-city tour with Whole Foods on a program called Kids Food Adventure with Chef Jehangir, where he teaches children to cook and eat healthy.

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About Prime Time with NetIP

NetIP launched its radio show in 2009 and has a large listener ship across its broadcast cities and the web. During this regular show, leading business, financial, arts and media professionals discuss issues such as; surviving the financial turmoil by leveraging South Asian roots; the political voice of South Asians; the face of the 21st century Indian American professional; struggling for the American dream, immigration, economics and much more. The show gets over 6000 listeners on the internet alone. Every show brings NetIP’s social networks to life with questions, comments, status updates and more. Hum Desi Radio is a division of World Band Media, North America’s first Ethnic Digital Radio Network.

Happy One Year Anniversary “Primetime with NetIP” — One Year Later…

15 amazing show, 12 tireless months, 20 big-name personalities (including the NetIP Executive Team), a valuable alliance partnership & thousands of man-hours of prep later, we are at the one year anniversary of our most successful visibility campaign- Primetime with NetIP. About a year and a half back we got together and dreamed of creating a radio show dedicated to NetIP listeners and covering topics & speakers that would be valuable to our diaspora. After bringing on our first guest (Saira Mohan on May 25th, 2009), little did we know that we had created a “monster” that instantly attracted globally admired and recognized personalities. A show that propelled NetIP’s visibility to a whole new level. A show that attracted over 200,000 listeners both on the radio and through live internet streaming. A show that helped us acquire key sponsors. A show that helped us build one of the strongest Alliance Partnerships  in NetIP’s history with World  Band Media and Hum Desi Radio.

Join me in wishing  ”PRIMETIME WITH NETIP” a Happy One Year Anniversary

This unbelievable success is owed to the support of the NetIP Executive Team, the many tireless NetIP-NA volunteers, the support of the NetIP Chapters who participate and promote  the show, support of World Band Media and Hum Desi Radio and most of all to the efforts of Pooja Dhawan, Brand Strategist for the NetIP External Affairs Team!
What’s next? NetIP on Public Television and Radio?
Stay tuned…

Prime Time with NetIP Presents Surya Yalamanchili

Few people can say that getting fired is one of the highlights of their life. Yet for former “Apprentice” star Surya Yalamanchili, getting personally fired by Donald Trump on national TV has been a peak moment of his life.

Well known for the passion, energy, and business acumen he displayed on the hit NBC reality TV show, Surya, 28, has been a fireball of a businessman since he was 15, when he started his own Internet company. Since then, he has catapulted himself into the big leagues. Last year he became one of the youngest brand managers ever at Procter & Gamble.

He is now poised to take on the world as he runs for US congress from the 2nd Congressional District in Ohio: www.votechili.com.

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Primetime with NetIP presents Manu Narayan & Ami Sheth

Manu Narayan has been hailed as a “promising young star…a compelling actor and outstanding singer who can light up a stage with sheer force of personality. Manu has starred on Broadway’s Bombay Dreams, and co-stars alongside Mike Myers in the Film The Love Guru. Manu was born in Pittsburgh and now lives in New York City.

The music for Bombay Dreams was created by A. R. Rahman, plot was written by Meera Syal and it was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Love Guru starred Mike Myers, Jessica Alba along with Justin Timberlake. Manu has also starred in Quarter Life Crises with Maulik Pancholy, Lisa Ray and Russel Peters.

Ami Sheth is a model and actress that began her career at 16 with a fashion show at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. She attended Boston University and has a degree in biology. She is a licensed vet. NetIP’s New York Chapter featured Ami as one of the Auctioned Dates at their summer 2009 cruise to help raise money for charity.

Ami starred in ‘Hotel Chelsea’ and recently modeled for Indias Reebok spring/summer line and is currently shooting the tv show “Delocated”. You can see Ami on Claritin’s commercial nationally.

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Join NetIP Prime Time with Comedian Vidur Kapur

Prime Time with NetIP Presents a LIVE interview with Comedian Vidur Kapur

Join us September 28th, 7pm EST on Humdesi Radio.

Vidur Kapur’s stand-up comedy is based on the social commentary of a one-man culture clash. A South Asian raised in a conservative upper middle class family in New Delhi, an overachiever with a degree from The London School of Economics and Ph.D. coursework from the University of Chicago, a misfit in a family focused on arranged marriages and social status, a chic urban trend-crazy gay fashion victim in West Hollywood and Manhattan, a corporate executive from blue chip international firms, an immigrant to the US and a person horrified at being mistaken for a terrorist in a post 9/11 America.  Join in the laughter as we speak to Vidur about his struggles and his triumps in the big bad world of comedy.

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NetIP Welcomes Nandita Das as July’s Prime Time guest

Prime Time with NetIP is pleased to welcome Nandita Das to the show in July.  Das is an award-winning Indian film actress and independent filmmaker. As an actress, she is known for her critically acclaimed performances in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000) and Aamaar Bhuvan (2002). As a director, she is known for her directorial debut Firaaq (2008), which has won a number of national and international awards.

Although globally recognized for her performances on screen as a critically acclaimed Indian actress, Nandita Das remains deeply involved with her activism and social work. She holds a Masters degree in Social Work and is involved with various civil society organizations and movements. Over the years, she has actively campaigned against communal violence, violence against women, stigma concerning HIV/ AIDS and has raised a strong voice on the issues of child rights, disability and human rights. Not only has she voiced her concerns at relevant platforms, but she has also actively advocated for certain issues close to her heart at various social forums in India and abroad. In recent times, she has also produced & directed short public service films on issues like Education & Rainwater Harvesting.

Do you have a question for Nandita Das? Please email your questions before July 20th to primetime@netip.org.
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NetIP interviews world renowned economist, Dr. Ravi Batra, on HumDesi Radio.

Dr. Ravi Batra Live on NetIP Prime Time

In 1990, the Italian prime minister awarded him a Medal of the Italian Senate for writing a book that correctly predicted the downfall of Soviet communism, fifteen years before it happened.

Dr. Batra has been written up in major newspapers and magazines, such as the New YorkTimes, Washington Post, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, the U.S. News and World Report, and appeared on all major networks including CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, CNBC, among others. Batra’s latest book is: The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos.

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Prime Time with NetIP: A new initiative for 2009 members

NetIP successfully launched a new initiative on Feb 15th with the debut of its first teleconference with a guest speaker. The tele-con was open to 4 pilot chapters and provided free to paid 2009 members. With its success, the initiative is well on its way to becoming a regular event brought to you by NetIP NA. Jay Subramanium wrote in “Hi, just wanted to say that I thought the telecast was great. The subject matter is definitely of interest to everyone. Keep up the great work. Thanks, Jay”.

Do you have suggestions for the next set of “Prime Time” topics? Examples include, Immigration Updates, Surviving the Financial Turmoil. Please send your suggestions, preferences or questions to pooja@netip.org