Posts tagged MPI
Keep up the enthusiasm
Aug 20th
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:
roblogfest – a picture worth a thousand words
Mar 20th
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 
)
Castigati 3×1000 ron cu Apropo.ro
Dec 19th
Nu ca as vrea sa fac reclama proiectzelului la care am contribuit si eu un pic dar Apropo.ro a lansat un concurs de colinde unde puteti castiga 3 premii in valoare de 1000 ron. Tot ce aveti de facut este sa va inregistrati (video sau doar audio) cantand un colind iar apoi sa adunati cele mai multe voturi. Uploadurile nu trebuie sa fie neaparat serioase – adica sa aveti voce, sa inregistrati in studio si mai stiu eu ce. Important este sa fie colinde!
Ca sa nu lansam concursul fara nici un pic de content am facut o vizita la “Clubul Copiilor – sector 6″ unde am gasit niste kinderi foarte talentati care ne-au dat permisiunea sa ii filmam. Ce a iesit vedeti mai jos.
Mai multe informatii despre concurs
Regulamentul “Ne colinzi si castigi 3×1000 RON cu ING si Apropo.ro!”
Clipurile participante
“Plugusorul de net” – un rewrite al clasiculului “Plugusorul”
…si Making of
Responsabil cu montajul si fotografia – Aurelian Galice. Good job dude!
did ya see something awful? do something about it!
Dec 18th
…as it’s the only way things will change.
A good friend and colleague of mine after passing by an abandoned female horse, managed to put to action a bunch of people including animal doctors, police, and TV to save the poor animal from freezing to death. The horse was heavily injured, had a broken leg and was carrying a baby horse. Good news is that the doctors decided not to put it to sleep, which means there are big chances it will recover. The baby horse is fine as well. Read the whole coverage on PROTV website.
Good job Sorin!
Apropo.ro just launched!
Dec 7th
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.
Career move, MPI, peopleware
Oct 28th
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!
