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Orlando’s Figs, originally uploaded by Chewbacka.
foarte bune, mai ales la munte cand e nevoie de un boost glucidic anti-oboseala
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I saw the job request ad below and I remembered that I had a rough week trying to prepare my most important pitch so far. It was for the job interview at MPI and I had to do a market analysis on a segment and then based on it to propose a new business in this segment and develop the business plan, forecasts, competition study, marketing plan, etc.
Initially I thought that this task was to hard for me/my experience and that I would never manage to come up with something remarkable. But, driven by the desire to get this job and to do something better for my career, I received an enthusiasm overdose and managed to see the light with my project. Presenting it was something very confusing - I didn’t know whether I was doing it right or not, I had cold feet and thought I was terrible. Everything was lightning fast (at least that’s how i felt it) and only after a couple of hours, a text message from my current boss cleared out the fog from my head - “it was excellent!”. I managed to sell myself, and I did it good.
So - important moment - high enthusiasm - over achieve - performance & success. What about the daily tasks, the moments that don’t seem that important? How do we keep up the enthusiasm? How do you stay driven everyday? How do you manage to be motivated in daily repetitive tasks and dealing with difficult clients? Always seeing the big picture? Enjoying every single thing that you do?
This guy certainty knows how to sell himself, how to make all those bad things from his past work in his advantage:
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...TEASING: Dupa ce am alergat toata ziua de ieri sa inmatriculez masina si 60km & 10l de benzina mai tarziu am ridicat si numerele, pot sa spun ca sunt doctor in procedura si voi publica un ghid practic “Cum sa inmatriculezi o masina(de import) noua in Bucuresti” - stay tuned!
Intrebare 1: Unul dintre cei mai buni prieteni …genul ala de prieten care stie mai multe despre tine decat sotia …isi cauta o garsoniera de inchiriat - cu un buget maxim de 250 eur/luna intr-o zona cat mai decenta. E serios, e cu pretena (deci e pentru un cuplu garsoniera) si o vor pe cat se poate pe termen lung.
Intrebare 2: Unde pot gasi sa decodez (network lock) un HTC TyTn II luat de la Orange ?
Concurs 1: - fara tragere la sorti - colegii de la Descopera va trimit in Africa - e pe bune!
Concurs 2: - pe www.apropo.ro puteti castiga dvd-uri de la provideo :)
via Orlando
Leapsa: - preluati si adapatati Intrebarea 1 (cea cu garsoniera) si mentionati ceva despre asta la voi pe blog. Dupa experiente negative cu agentii imobiliare si babe shokate, situatia e de asa natura incat prietenul a ajuns sa creada ca nu se gasesc astfel de oportunitati decat prin cunostiinte, etc. Leapsa merge la Zoso (i know you don’t do tags dude :P), eCostin (plizzz :)), Victor, George Olteanu, Ionut Popa, Oasze, Oraan si Anurim ;) Thanks guys!!!!
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[YahooLilu - Bobby Voicu (Yahoo! Romania Community Manager) & Sergiu Biris (www.trilulilu.ro Founder)]
Organized by Cristian Manafu/Evensys and proudly sponsored by Microsoft, first edition of Web Club took place last Thursday in Club Colocvio and gathered more than 90% of the online industry from Romania. The joke of the evening was that if something happened at the location (airplane crash, God forbid) probably the dot.ro business will freeze for a couple of years.
WebClub will consist of aprox. 10 meetings/year and access will be provided based on a membership fee. Access to new members will be granted based on recommendation from at least 2 current members. It’s a great opportunity for networking but also to get a sneak preview at exclusive presentations and news and probably in the future, a chance to meet with angel investors interested in the online business.
WebClub #1 consisted of some really interesting presentations from Vladimir Oane - about the a.Online entrepreneurship from Romania comparred to European one and b.Ubervu; the news that Calin Fusu (Neogen.ro) agreed to invest in Vertimo, a vertical search engine for local real-estate, created by Brainient (Emi Gal); great networking.
Here are my WebClub #1 Pictures - and more at Victor Kapra and Zoso.
Web-Club #1 by manafu.ro
More write-ups, mostly in Romanian: Orlando, Sergiu Biris, Florin Grozea, Radu, Victor Kapra, Emi, Noro, Ciprian Stavar
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Calin Fusu, Orlando Nicoara, eCostin, originally uploaded by adrianzanfir.com.
I missed roblogfest as I was out of town. Lots of posts and pictures have been posted since last Friday.
In the kodak moment above you can see: Calin Fusu (head of neogen.ro), Orlando Nicoara (head of MediaPro Interactiv) and Constantin Cocioaba (a.k.a eCostin, just head :) )
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Are you in the internet business and deal with generalist portals and UGC sites and look forward to make lots of money? Well behold, because a mighty competitor has just re-launched few hours ago. It’s the new Apropo.ro, a Romanian portal that was not updated since 2001, but still had very high traffic. Based on technology trends and user needs, MediaPro Interactiv team, led by Orlando, has managed to do a silent re-launch of one of the biggest portals in the Romanian internet.
This is just a 1st release of a trilogy (this explains the beta in the logo), meaning that Apropo.ro will improve it’s features and services in the next 6 months. The step has been taken, the platform is ready and very scalable and we have lots of brilliant ideas to implement in the near future. But until then, the new Apropo.ro is offering, for the first time in Romania, some premium online services - 2gb free email (name@apropo.ro) with 20MB attachments capability , free SMS (nobody has done that since 2006 when Vodafone abandoned the project), a multimedia album with video sharing that allows 10 simultaneous uploads, chat, news, weather and lots of other exciting stuff all in a user friendly format.
Others have written articles about this re-launch and surely more will do so in the next days: The Robi, Costin, Orlando, DailyBusiness, Zoso, eCostin and Mediafax.
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Since Friday, I am a BlackBerry user. I decided to go this way as Windows Mobile stability was pretty challenging when combining internet, email, messenger and regular phone usage. I am very happy with my BlackBerry 8800 and I have to tell you that this device is amazing - it hasfrig native support for GTalk and Yahoo Messenger, automatic configuration for my gmail and webmyc email accounts (webmyc has Google Aps) and probably soon, support for my corporate email account. The device works lightning fast and never had to reset it because it hooked up on some applications, like a Windows Mobile device would probably do.
A nice feature is also the integrated GPS, but I was a bit suspicious if it would prove to be useful, as I was told that I am stuck with the BlackBerry Maps application that is not quite relevant for Romania, at least. This, until 2 hours ago, when I discovered that the mobile version of Google Maps has GPS support and can locate you on the map in no time. That being said, give it a spin - you won’t be disappointed - the accuracy is amazing. However, I will not use it as much as i would want to, as the roaming costs for data traffic are not very low.
Good job Google! I think this is the future - no more carrying around large storage memory cards to host GPS navigation software that cost more than half the price of the device. Mobile Google Maps is free and it has global coverage + satellite maps + many more features such as traffic information, locations (restaurants, hotels, museums, etc)
Boss, if you will see some roaming charges on my phone bill, it is because I could not find the way to the conference and I had to use my GPS enabled BlackBerry to get there. :)
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A fost interesant. Fiecare invitat a impartasit cateceva din experienta personala de online.
Am remarcat, spre rusinea mea, ca autoarea cartii, Dorina Guţu este profa mea de la SNSPA - ne-am intalnit si sambata cand eu am dat una dintrele cele doua restante care mai stau intre mine si diploma de licenta - joi se afiseaza notele - poate mediul online ma ajuta sa obtin o nota de trecere - se aude dna Guţu ? :)
Vlad Stan a facut un apel offline catre toti bloggeri - haideti sa promovam aceasta carte - in mediul online. Stau si ma intreb, din moment ce cartea se adreseaza in primul rand celor care nu au avut tangente prea mari cu mediul online - se vrea a fi un instrument de “educare” a acestora - oare cat va ajuta o promovare in mediul online ?
Am mai observat ca Orlando a fost singurul pe care microfonul l-a respectat si caruia nu i-a facut probleme tehnice (bine Chief!!)
eCostin a vorbit foarte frumos si chiar in versuri - “internetul ar fi mult mai sarac, fara un Novac…” - si datorita lui avem si urmatorul montaj de la lansare:
uitati si cateva poze:
si nu uitati sa cumparati cartea: “puteti cumpara cartea de pe siteul dol.ro sau de pe siteul editurii Tritonic” - costa 20 ron.
Later edit: Am luat examenuuuuu !!! Sarumaaaaaana :)
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After spending more than 3 years (since Sept 04) in Oracle, acting as Senior Web Specialist in the EMEA OPN Web Admin Team and dealing with the administration of Oracle PartnerNetwork portal & eMarketing campaigns, more and more signs that my journey with Oracle was reaching it’s end, started to show.
Don’t want to say something that I would regret later on, but the possibilities to develop my career further in Oracle where extremely limited and the worse part is that I was becoming a lazy corporate boy, learning nothing new and doing nothing merely exciting. As my manager said in a recent email, regarding my departure “No hard feelings on the fact you leave, I actually think that it’s a fair option for everyone as we would not be able to meet your expectations and vice-versa!”, things were not longer working for me. That “vice-versa!” part was a bit mean, but justified by my lack of involvement and motivation during the last months and also by his poor management skills.
I am not being ungreatful, I learned tons of things @Oracle and I got the chance of participating at some pretty exciting stuff. Being responsable for a high trafic portal, for the entire EMEA region and being part in meetings with senior Oracle EMEA management were surely experiences that I will benefit from in the future. Coaching new colleagues and helping them become autonomous was also very challenging. I also met some extraordinary people which I am proud to call my friends - hopefully they will drop by and read my blog from time to time.
Moving on to the next step, I am eager to join, starting November 1st, a team of great professionals, Media Pro Interactiv, managed by one of the pioneers of the online advertising industry in Romania, Orlando Nicoara. I don’t know exactly what my job role will be, nor if I am allowed to disclose these kinds of information (it involves some development plans of MPI), but I am more than excited about the people I already met and the new learning curve I might benefit from. Also, the recruitment process, was nothing like the ones I was familiar with. Corporate world definetly has an impact on you, and after 3 years you live to think that the corporate way is the only way. Well, it is not, and the process that made me “sign” with MPI was not at all corporate. If you indulge me this exercise of modesty, it was more of a head-hunting, rather that the standard interview, only that it was “provoked” by me. Anyway, it’s pointless talking about a job that I didn’t even start and I am pretty sure this is not what my blog is about.
One of the signs, I mentioned earlier, came during the interviews, in the form of a prize. I won the Peopleware book in the contest that Jobber started (thanks Filip!), to help spread the word about their really cool site and product. I believe this book will prove to be very helpful in the new challenge that I was offered the opportunity to take.
Jobber is running a IT job board focused on developers, designers, etc and they recently decided to offer their product as an open-source platform. I am pretty sure that it will have a great success and it’s certainly the platform I would use for helping the HR department of a SME company that does not have a good & stable online recruitment system put in place. Please check out Jobber Development Network if you are interested in the product. You might as well put the jobs widget on your site/blog and participate in the monthly drawings. Filip is offering some pretty cool books. I am fan of Jobber and not only because it’s a Romanian product, but it’s also a great tool.
Later edit: A small mistake in the part about jobber. The open-source platform for Jobber can be found @ jobberbase.com. JDN is something else, even more exciting! Check it out and don’t miss the launch!
Stay tuned! :)
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