What you like to do, what you have to do

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I think there are two major things in life: a. What you do because you have to (you need to eat, thus you need money, thus you need to work, thus you need to have a job, thus you need to act in certain ways); b. What you do just because you want to (decide to go out for a run, play a game); OK, the above is not rocket science, but it’s pretty important on how decisive are the above things on emotions; only do things because you’re forced to, and you may not feel good; managing to do the things you love & have to do at the same time, you may feel better; Also, diversity is key – you can’t eat chocolate all day and expect to feel great after this; A final observation – the above are very likely seen in movies – you may notice what is a job and what is a pleasure; also, people seem to get a lot pleasure from childhood.

Watching „An inconvenient truth” (2006) from the perspective of a wannabe presenter

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I want to be a good presenter; so, when Al GORE said in „An inconvenient truth” (2006) that he has held the speech / presentation in the movie for more than 1,000 times, I looked for some methods he used; I will not speak in the blog post about the message itself, but about how it was said; when seeing the movie, do remember that Al GORE is a successful politician, so he, in theory, should have the ability to hold a very good speech.

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Schimbări pe Facebook

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Facebook e nou – poți să mergi în „urmă” cu status updates mult timp (am mers până pe 30 august, anterior puteai să vezi doar ultimele două-trei zile); apoi chestia cu ce anume să urmărești de la un om (totul, sau chestiile importante, sau chestiile foarte importante) e binevenită; în fine, listele urmează modelul Circles al Google; eu aveam doar două plângeri, care au fost rezolvate, vezi mai sus; Circles nu era obligatoriu, dar dacă trebe, trebe.

Idea: There is no competition, only niches and segments

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I think there is no competition, only niches and segments; let me explain this: Any business you would take, you can segment it very much and pick a niche that hasn’t been taken yet and solve that niche’s problems better than anyone else; you will be the master of a niche; then, you can expand your business; Let’s say you pick a niche which is already taken; even in that niche you can create another niche; so, if you build a donuts shop next to another donuts shop, you can differentiate via customer service, quality, products, marketing, operating times and so on; you can be a different donuts shop. So the bottom line is that, in some way, there is no competition, only niches and segments. I got this idea from Vlad STAN (Twitter), at the Coaching Support Group Bucharest, Noble Manhattan training center. My follow-up: 2011.09.15 Vlad STAN at Coaching Support Group Bucharest.

Idea: (self-)promotion doesn’t work

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There are two business models: You can solve a problem, get recommendations, solve other problem, get more recommendations; Another one is bragging „I’m so good, look at me!”; promoting yourself all over places. I think it’s better to use the first model (personal recommendations) rather than the second one (self-promotion); of course, you can do some self-promotion, but this should not be the key factor; other people’s recommendations count more. The search engines, who put much more emphasis on a link you get from other web sites than your own, knew this for years. Main takeaway – let others do the promotion for you; it’s more believable. I got this idea from Vlad STAN (Twitter), at the Coaching Support Group Bucharest, Noble Manhattan training center. My follow-up: 2011.09.15 Vlad STAN at Coaching Support Group Bucharest.

Idea: Constantly communicate with your target audience

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How about this? Constantly communicate with your target audience. So, if you have a Facebook group, keep it alive; Twitter? Communicate constantly; newsletter? Set a frequency and keep it; you should constantly blog with a defined frequency; So, the main idea – whatever your channel of communication is (Twitter, Facebook, email, newsletter, blog, forum), you should keep a constant flow of communication with your audience. Constant. I got this idea from Vlad STAN (Twitter), at the Coaching Support Group Bucharest, Noble Manhattan training center. My follow-up: 2011.09.15 Vlad STAN at Coaching Support Group Bucharest.

Follow-up: Vlad Stan at Coaching Support Group Bucharest (Noble Manhattan training center, 2011.09.15)

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On 2011.09.15, I enjoyed a presentation by Vlad STAN (Twitter) at Coaching Support Group Bucharest, Noble Manhattan training center. The event was organized as part of Noble Manhattan Coaching Support Bucharest. Contact person was Andreea VORONEANU and I was invited to the support group by Alina BUZATU. Below you’ll find some notes, photos and ideas I got from the event.

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Password strength

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A password can be like this: a. anahasapples – or like this: b. ana8has8apples8 – or like this: c. uiY5*bmR*)($H; The thing is, it’s easier to decipher a password only with letters (a.) , than one with letters and numbers (b.) or one with special characters and both lowercase and uppercase letters. But, in my opinion, the person deciphering a password should have the information that your password is only numbers / letters / special characters. How would perfect password look like? In a lot of people’s opinion, in the above example, it would looks something like: c. uiY5*bmR*)($H. My opinion? The perfect password is this: ana8has8apples8and3she3really3likes3them9a9lot (or a similar model). It’s much easier to remember a password with real words than a password with complicated strings. And it is, actually, harder to decipher than a complicated password.