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Google’s March Deadline for Consent Mode & Ads Privacy

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Google Search Engine (Pexels.com)

Google’s deadline for organizations using its services in the EU/EEA and UK for advertising is March 2024. Companies need to implement a Google-certified consent management platform, like Cookiebot CMP. If they don’t, they will still be able to serve ads, but without access to personalization functionality. […]

Under the EU user consent policy, third parties that use Google’s platforms and services need to meet the following requirements:

  • obtain legally valid consent from end users for:
    • use of cookies or other local storage where legally required, and
    • collecting, sharing and using personal data from audiences for ad personalization
  • when requesting consent from end users, parties must:
    • retain records of users’ consent choices
    • enable end users to revoke their consent any time, with clear instructions for how to do so

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Just one more

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dr. Alexandru Pesamosca

There is a scene in a movie (I think it was a documentary) with an old person making fake IDs for Jews during the Second World War.

The person said they were working for very long periods of time, hardly ever sleeping, always thinking that they could save another life with their work.

And there’s this scene from Schindler’s List: I could have saved one more (ending scene).

Dr. Alexandru Pesamosca and Dr. Niculina Bratu hardly had any life outside of helping others.

In life, you do things – work, have fun, relax, concentrate, get more results, do more things.

It’s important to see how much you can have an impact on others.

And having just one more little impact.

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Follow-up: Eternal Values and Their Relevance in Higher Education (2024.01.25, online)

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Eternal Values and Their Relevance in Higher Education (online)

On the 25th of January 2024, the event “Eternal Values and Their Relevance in Higher Education,” organized by ASE Bucharest (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies), took place.

Agenda:

  • Lector Dana Radler – Opening of the event
  • Message from His Excellency Rahul Srivastava, Ambassador of India to Romania, Moldova & Albania
  • Dr. Rukmini S, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu
  • Q&A Session moderated by Dr. Swayam Prabha Satpathy, Siksha ‘O’ Anushandhan deemed university, Bubaneshwar, Odisha, and Dr. Elena Stoican, Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, ASE – with Dr. Rukmini S, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu

Below are photos and videos from the event.

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Talking to Bishop Robert Emmet Barron

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Christian Kortum - Into the unknown

If I’d known a famous person right when the person was little known, I’d talk to them easily. As time passed, I’d talk less and less to them if they became famous.

Let’s say I’d known Bishop Robert Emmet Barron since he was not famous. Sure, I can talk to him. As time passed, I’d talk less and less to him.

This is natural – his time becomes more valuable, and he can do better things in the world than talk to me.

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SERP Conf. International 2024 brings to Sofia speakers from Google, Semrush, and Ahrefs

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SERP Conf. International 2024

The event will be held on April 18 and 19 in Hall 3 of the National Palace of Culture

Sofia – More than 700 guests from 4 continents are expected to gather for SERP Conf. 2024, an event organized by Serpact. The conference, which is now international, is one of the most recognizable events for the SEO community in Bulgaria.

“The event is two days now. The great interest motivates us to increase the capacity of the hall by nearly 50% and the tickets offered – we expect more than 700 people in Hall 3 of the NPC. The place we have chosen to be the home of SERP Conf. International 2024 – the National Palace of Culture – symbolizes growth, development, and great goals. We believe it is time for the next step”, commented Nikola Minkov, CEO and founder of Serpact, SERP Conf. and SERP Acad., CEO and co-founder of Trackian.

During the two days of the conference, visitors will have the opportunity to gain knowledge and benefit from the personal experience of top speakers from leading companies such as Google, Ahrefs, Digital Olympus, Growth Skills, and more.

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Marco- and Micro- events

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NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center - Marshall, Mirrors, and Mission History with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

I know people who worry about wars, pandemics, economics, and other things at a macro level.

For some reason or another, they also make mistakes at the micro-level.

I’m much more interested in tactics than in strategy.

It doesn’t take a lot of information to know what to do at a strategy level.

It takes a lot of information to know what to do at a micro-level.

My practical tip? Know just a bit of strategy and lots of tactics.

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Why I don’t review bad books/places/movies/music

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I don't judge people on their worst mistakes.

Sometimes, I read warnings – “This is a poor movie/book/song/place.”

The thing is, if we consider the Pareto principle to be true, most of the things out there are of poor quality.

If 80% of things are bad, and out of the good 20, another 80% is not that great, it brings little value to mention what is of poor quality.

Also, it doesn’t take much to determine whether a movie is worth seeing or not.

On the other hand, if we are talking about something debatable and with lots of pros/cons, in this case, yes, I want to hear some opinions.

For example, choosing to spend a vacation in a place brings a lot of factors to weigh in.

Again, choosing to live in a place/country requires many things to look at.

Sure, it’s not a bad thing to mention “Oh, you’ll waste your time by watching the movie X”.

OK, that’s not bad, although I could surely get that information elsewhere.

Also, if I can, I will write to the author of something and give them negative feedback (not in all cases, of course; otherwise, I’d spend my waking time writing complaint emails).

Also, I prefer not to give definitive solutions – This movie is 100% good/bad. It might be that I like it/dislike it, but it’s almost certainly not 100% good/bad.

It’s also of low importance. The reviews of the Napoleon movie tend to be negative. But there are other criteria for watching the movie.

In conclusion, I prefer to give positive, not negative, recommendations and debate the “big” themes.

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Sorry, but

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Cindy Ford - Those Who Don’t Accept the Truth Aren’t Fit for Salvation

I hear people saying, “Sorry, but I need to tell you,” “Truth be told,” and “Forgive me, but I must say this.”

The problem? There is no sorry-ness, no actual need to be forgiven, and no one wants to hear the truth.

These are just conventions for having duplicity.

You can’t say anything you can imagine by simply specifying, “Forgive me for saying this.” You aren’t asking for forgiveness; you ask for permission not to care.

The alternative? For example, if you need to say, “Sorry for the off-topic, but …”, just say, “I know I’m off-topic, but this is important. Here goes:”.

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