tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14291122645374570802024-03-04T20:12:45.235-08:001101001 1110011 1110100ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-80550366363770655482011-01-01T12:26:00.000-08:002011-01-01T12:26:03.968-08:00La multi ani 2011 :-)<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;"><strong>R</strong></span><span style="color: #073763;">eţeta pentru un an bun</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Se iau 12 luni si se curata foarte bine de amaraciune, mandrie, ura, frica, irascibilitate si stres.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Se imparte fiecare luna in 28-31 zile,dupa caz, astfel ca proviziile sa ajunga exact un an!</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Fiecare zi se prepara separat: 1 parte munca, 1 parte liniste, 1 parte veselie si umor. Se mai adauga 3 linguri optimism, 1 lingura toleranta, o priza de bun simt si... O picatura de speranta!</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Peste aluatul astfel obtinut se toarna apoi dragoste din belsug!</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Preparatul gata facut se impodobeste cu un buchetel de curaj si incredere in sine.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Se serveste zilnic, cu bucurie, la o ceasca de cafea invioratoare si cu incredere inepuizabila in Dumnezeu!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Prezenta reteta nu se compeseaza, ea este gratuita si se transmite liber, insotita de LA MULTI ANI!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-61826164959513870892010-04-22T11:47:00.000-07:002010-04-22T11:47:00.869-07:00A BIC challenge masterpiece<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></span></b>e all use ballpoint pens almost everyday. I admit I tend to use ballpoint pens in different colors, as if an idea could somehow be expressed better if written in a certain color. I even have what other call a remarkable collection of pens and of anything that you can possible think a person would use for writing. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6r9LhbQxvk">BIC power</a>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-60257415421367363432010-04-20T11:47:00.000-07:002010-04-20T11:50:06.122-07:00Which Mobile Framework Supports Cross Platform Application Development?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">hen we want to develop applications that should run on different O/S's like Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and etc., we need to know what options we have. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">PhoneGap? </span></span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Since winning the Web 2.0 Expo LaunchPad competition in April 2009, PhoneGap has been widely recognized as a game-changer for mobile app development. The open source code has been downloaded more than 200,000 times and hundreds of apps built using PhoneGap are available in mobile app stores and directories. In 2009, PhoneGap was named by InfoWorld as a top emerging enterprise technology in the category "cross-platform mobile app development". The PhoneGap mission is to Web-enable native device functionality with open standards like HTML, CSS and JavaScript so that you can focus on the app you're building, not on authoring complex platform compatibility layers.</span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://wiki.phonegap.com/Roadmap"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">PhoneGap Roadmap</span></span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">RhoMobile?</span></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rhodes is an open source framework to rapidly build NATIVE apps for all major smartphone operating systems (iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM, Symbian and Android). These are true native device applications (NOT mobile web apps) which work with synchronized local data and take advantage of device capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://rhomobile.com/products/rhodes/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rhodes</span></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">See also:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.whoop.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Whoop</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - everything mobile they say in just 4 steps! </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mobinex.biz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mobinex</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">These are just a few options. More to come...hopefully! :-)</span></span> </span>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-40567544147353563702010-04-20T10:52:00.000-07:002010-04-20T11:50:58.995-07:00Top excuses for being late: "I dreamt I was already at work"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">O</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">ne-quarter of IT workers say they are late to work at least once a week, according to a survey from CareerBuilder.com, with 11% showing up late at least twice a week. Hiring managers contacted by the company gave some of the excuses offered by workers—from the legitimate and to the outrageous.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">23% of managers say they have terminated an employee for being late :)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">Among the top excuses for being late:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">"I dreamt I was already at work"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">"I had an early morning gig as a clown"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">"It was too windy"</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">and of course, last but not least</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">"My dog swallowed my cell phone" - poor dogs, from eating homewoirks to eating cell phones! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">I think that "late to bed and early to rise gives a programer blood-shot eyes" applies very well when it comes to IT workers. This would make a pretty good excuse :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">For more: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Intelligence/Worst-Excuses-for-Being-Late-to-Work-826982/?kc=BLBLBEMNL04202010STR1">Worst Excuses for Being Late to Work</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-87135806699972044952010-02-22T12:34:00.000-08:002010-02-22T12:34:26.994-08:00Building energy-efficient cities<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">An</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> interesting project. As the population that lives in cities is increasing at a rapid pace, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 13px;">energy efficiency becomes a global and crucial theme for the future. Ursula Eicker, of the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, and Zerrin Yilmaz, of the Istanbul Technical University, are collaborating on a European research project, CITYNET, to help realise their shared vision for energy efficient cities. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=27"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Efficient cities</span></span></a><br />
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</div>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-16966061368546972462010-02-02T12:11:00.000-08:002010-02-02T12:11:01.459-08:00Love and happiness :)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></span></b> beautiful song. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mKWscmXGc">Love and happiness</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoy!</span>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-71955045049163935482010-01-28T12:50:00.000-08:002010-01-28T12:50:27.854-08:00Unification<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">U</span></span>nification </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">Techies,</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Mind your prescriptions for the world.</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Humies,</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Tone down your fears of techno-change.</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Step outside your precious castles</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Look within before the split</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Fill the space that makes you whole</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Enjoy the sunset</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">And the wheel.</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Argue from logic</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">And emotion.</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Technology is humanity's child</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">As is our quest for human purpose.</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">To love them is to love ourselves.</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">There are no differences.</span></i><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span><i><span style="color: #990000;">Only labels.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">~ discovered while attending a lecture held by prof.acad. Florin G. Filip</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Tahoma;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Glad to see that techies and humies are encouraged to collaborate. Always felt as being both and none at the same time. Too much of either is...too much. A little bit of both should suffice. More, it should lead to understanding and innovation. </span></span>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-32145098971360649642010-01-28T07:38:00.000-08:002010-01-28T07:38:36.053-08:00The Lazy Project Manager<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today's the day I have learned that there's science behind laziness! When Peter Taylor began his post with "progress isn't make by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something", I had but to agree with him :P </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to confess I didn't expect somebody would make smth out of laziness, but the idea of adopting a more focused approach to exercise our efforts where it really matters really appealed to me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, if you wanna take a look, just click...<a href="http://www.thelazyprojectmanager.com/index.htm">Productive laziness</a> and next time when you realize you're laziness question if you're experimenting a productive laziness or a idle one! :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND </span></span><br />
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<h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.3em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #741b47;">he European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has launched its first three Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) last December. Legal partnerships are selected by the EIT to become KICs. The first call for proposals was launched last April. It will be interesting to keep an eye on this initiative. If interested bookmark the following link:</span></span></span></span></h1><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.3em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><a href="http://eit%20home%20page/">EIT Home Page</a></span></span></span></span></h1>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-51233041848971912722010-01-27T00:28:00.000-08:002010-01-27T00:28:22.255-08:00Julian Beever<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Nokia town :)</span></i></div></span></span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">J</span></b></span>ulian Beever. The previous post reminded me of another artist. English. Belgium-based chalk artist. Pavement drawings, murals, collages. Great talent. Plenty of imagination.</span></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></span></b>lfredo Rodriquez. Born and raised in Mexico. Painting since the age of six. Professional artist since 1968. Now famous. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">enjoy!</span>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-32332541532931717832010-01-11T13:06:00.000-08:002010-01-11T13:06:31.185-08:00Tribal Knowledge<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">...and then one day I found out about Tribal Knowledge :) Quite a concept I thought. Out of all the tribal truths pointed out by John More in his </span></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Business Wisdom Brewed from the Grounds of STARTBUCJS Corporate Culture </span></span></i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I shall resume to just a few for now. So, we have...</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">() There's a high price to a low price strategy</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><i><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If Starbucks ever decided to run itself as a priced-to-sell retailer, it would be admitting the company no longer values a unique product or a unique customer experience</span></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">() Be the best, not the biggest</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Starbucks never set its priority to become the biggest coffee retailer. Starbucks did, however, set out to become the best coffee retailer, trusting that growth would be a by-product of being the best.</span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">() Actions speak louder that advertising</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><i><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For Starbucks, action, not advertising, is the most effective way to drive sales and build a brand.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">() Practice local warming - one of may favourite!</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><i><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Starbucks may be global in scope, but it strives to be local in function through being a good neighbor in the communities it serves...and one ..oh, a few more :)</span></span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">() Touchology Trumps Technology</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Starbucks has learned that customers appreciate the high-touch human interaction with store partners and not the high-tech mechanisms that attempt to emulate personal relationships, but are a poor substitute for the real thing.</span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><h3 id="post-47" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">() Tourists bring home souvenirs. Explorers bring home stories </span></span></span></h3><div class="entry" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Starbucks marketers treat customers not as occasional tourists seeking superficial trinkets but as everyday explorers seeking stories.</span></i></span></span><br />
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<h3 id="post-49" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">() Walls talk. Take a moment to listen</span></span></span></h3><div class="entry" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #bf9000;">All walls talk, no matter the business. Walls say something good or bad about businesses every day. The problem is, many businesspeople do not spend enough time in their stores to know what the walls are telling them.</span></i></span></span><br />
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<div class="entry" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">() Everything matters</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #bf9000;">You’d be hard pressed to find a Starbucks employee say, “That doesn’t matter. No customer will ever notice it.” Because chances are a customer will notice. And that’s why EVERYTHING MATTERS to Starbuck</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a few thoughts on the challenge of sharing. Keep? Tell? Quite a dilemma! A vicious circle if you like. Where do we start from? Well, it's been true that knowledge shared is knowledge multiplied. Simple. Easy. Practiced? Not as much as it should. The more a group knows of what its members know, the better it can perform in the world. It's also true that the more remote people feel from one another, the more risky knowledge sharing looks and the more tempting it is to hold knowledge for private advantage. After all, what we give is what we get, right? :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By doing so, we can multiply the mutual benefits and we can focus more than one mind on solving a certain problem by looking at it collectively and come up with better solutions. The faster our collective knowledge can be spread, the faster we can advance towards better and richer outcomes. With this in mind, we can reconsider our attitude and advance!</span></span>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-37875264116080114602010-01-07T07:48:00.000-08:002010-01-07T07:48:56.231-08:00Quotes...an old passion :)<b><i><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Q</span></span><span style="color: #741b47;">uotes about knowledge - part 1</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="color: #741b47;">I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ~ Franklin P Adam</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. ~ Claude Bernard</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #741b47;">The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. ~ King Solomon, Bible</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps yo make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~ Sandra Carey</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #741b47;">To know is to know that you know nothing. This is the meaning of true knowledge. ~ Confucius :p</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything! ~ Thomas A. Edison scary, isn't it? :)</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #741b47;">The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ~ Caryl Maskins People need another excuse, eh? :P</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. ~ Samuel Johnson</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">I am not young enough to know everything. ~Oscar Wilde</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">~ source </span></span><i><span style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Say Hello to your very own book of Quotes </span></span></i><br />
</div>ioanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01529485672716234852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1429112264537457080.post-26988977309025648962010-01-01T11:05:00.000-08:002010-01-01T11:05:24.411-08:00Relax, it's only ONES and ZEROS :)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Well, there's today & there's tomorrow.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Today we have things called <i>search engines</i>...This is certainly better than nothing, but these mechanisms are not what dreams are made of. What are our dreams about information? What are our dreams about knowledge?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the first time in history, we can actually dream & expect some of it to happen. And since dreams are described by human beings, they are constituted out of the fabric of what us deemed at any moment possible & what is deemed as possible is available in new combinations...Michelangelo was viewing the piece of stone before the hammer and chisel was invented, and all that Michelangelo was able to mouth was his admiration & observation that it's a big piece of stone; whereas, when somebody slaps a hammer & chisel in his hand upon the event of invention of those technologies - of tool making - he then, because of the availability & possibility, thinks of the creative opportunity & shouts, "I Must let Moses out!"</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's hear it for tomorrow!</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now is the time to start shouting about having smart engines that know who you are & anticipate the things you might be interested in. We need smart software & smart hardware in combination which suggests sparklers in a birthday cake, amazing connections between thought & thought, braiding & weaving ideas, overlapping to help you create creative thoughts, new thoughts, artful thoughts, new patterns that you own, trips that are only yours, journeys & voyages that profile who you are, fantasies of flying through information that is constantly accessible & understandable, that tickle a random thought until it becomes an idea & combines ideas until they become inventions & packages those inventions so they become available for others. Now is the time to dream.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>~adapted from Richard Saul Wurman's foreword to Information Design </i></span><br />
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