Cif Strike – Mission Commence !

Cif2.net is ready !
 
Bugs corrected, plenty of options for you to make your Blog or your website, build a cause or join a cause and pretty much do what you always wanted to do online.
 
So we are launching a full scale attack on getting more people into the Cif2.net Community 😀

 
3, 2, 1, are you ready to rock ?
 
– First Strike… Commence !

My First Speech for Toastmasters

I checked in yesterday @ the FSPAC – UBB and I wrote that I was preparing my Ice Breaker speech for Toastmasters.
 
The Ice Breaker Speech is the first speech every new member gives. It was a challenge for me, because I had to talk for only 6 minutes. This is something new for me and very hard to do, because I talk a lot and usually, my presentation range from 20 minutes to 1 hour. 6 Minutes was hard !
 
I managed to create empatical links with the audience in the begining, so that I made it MY audience, which was awesome ! They actually liked my ideas and how I presented them and told me that I used more advanced techniques, which appear later on in the Toastmasters manual. They also appreciated that I was natural.
 
I was glad I could make it all rotate around the Core Idea of my speech, which was iExist.
 
The problem was that I had to rush a lot at one point, because I was running out of time. I need to improve for the next speeches and I think it will help me to learn not to talk so much. There will be times when I’ll need to fit in the given timeline.
 
Thank you very much, dear readers. I want to tell you that you should join the Toastmasters in your area. It’s simply well-spent time. You can learn a lot and improve your Speaking Skills. Thank you.
 
Florin Muresan

What a week !

Yeah, what a week ! I felt the need to say that again.
 
I’ve been working on awesome stuff for the whole week. Managed to finish the last few details of Cif2.net and finally launch it in it’s v1.0 phase. It’s fully functional now and the website has enough content on it to help people understand what it is all about.
 
I kinda joined Toast Masters, here in Cluj, I went to last Monday’s meeting and tomorrow I’ll give a speech about “Florin Muresan – iExist !”. Hope that will go well.
 
I also finished the new design for The Marketing Health and it’s gonna look great.
 
Also managed to keep all my promises to friends and I am glad for that. I finally feel like I can manage my time well and do all the things I want to do.
 
Well see you this next week. Good Night, folks !

Happy 1st of March – Google Romania stuff

La mulţi ani de mărţişor!
 
 
It’s nice to see Google offers us a “Martisor”, to remind us of the spring that might come.
 
It was really nice to see this today 😀 Happy 1st of March.
 
Too bad they are so much taking directions from the US Goverment and helping people only because they have a direct interest, not because they believe in something. Yeah, they helped Egipt, but ignored Libya. Which totally sux, and they kiss Obama’s behind.

i Use (and over-use) Diigo.com – love it !

Diigo.com is the Best Research Tool. Ever.
 
Diigo
 
I love it because it helps me store the many lots of bookmarks I make every day, when searching for information and creative ideas in all sorts of domains.
 
I use it mostly for things I consider extremly helpful in developing my projects and for webdesign.
 
It’s so easy to create lists like “The Zig Zag Trendy Project” (where I post inspiring designs and what the client likes, in order to know on what direction to go with the design) and to bookmark things in those lists.
 
It is remarcable. It’s a social bookmarker, the ex Furl.com, if I remember well, but it’s social part isn’t really much. It’s awesome to use for your individual endeavours and access all the info you need anytime.
 
It even allows you to highlight text and bookmark it with the highlights or save an image of the page you want to bookmark, to have “backup” in case the page goes offline.

Give it a try. You”l love it: http://www.diigo.com
 
 
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[UPDATE:] Is Mark Zuckerberg becoming Britney Spears/Justin Bieber ? – keeps me up at night

 
This keeps me up at night…
 
Think about it. Britney. Spears. | Justin. Bieber – They have the same thing in common ! They were both those spoiled little brats that suddenly appeared everywhere and were remarcably popular for a while, until people decided they were either stupid, gay.
 
So what the bloody nut shell is Mark Zuckerberg doing ?



Is he becoming this guy ?

Yes, he is !
 
I will admit to you that I really enjoyed watching The Social Network. I like that movie. I haven’t read the book about Zucky, but I guess it’s not bad to have a book written about you.
 
That is the kind of success that you would enjoy and that would help you or help your image.
 
But a Comic Book and an Animated Series ? Really ? Dude.. 

That is wrong in so many ways, I wouldn’t know where to start.
 
First of all, there are a lot of people who see the great CEO (,$itch) as being just a kid that got lucky and he’s an over-the-night-billionaire now. Not too good an image if you ask me. You’d think the guy would actually think about this a little bit, but no ! “Let me have my comic book with my face on it”. Be the facecomicbook.com or something.
 
He is going to the Funny Pages. Who knows ? Maybe just a few months until the first “Mark Zuckerberg Underpants“.
 
Let us all Merchandise him, dear www. world ! 😀 Woo-pyyy !
 
I want a hairbrush, tooth paste, milk can, beer can, olive oil bottle, socks, underwear, all with Mark Zuckerberg.
 
Be a fan ! Like him on facebook. Keep him close. Very close. Intimately close.
 
 

Is Mark Zuckerberg becoming 21st Century’s Super Man ?

 
Quite disturbing it is to find out that Today, Mark Zuckerberg: Creator of Facebook is available in comic books across North America.

The author is a freelance journalist who also wants to turn this into an animated movie.

So check out the 21st Century human being: The guy who wears underpants over his pants ain’t awesome enough anymore, so therejust  has to be the Billionaire, who has the power of secretly ” knowing ” (you know, like gathering, stealing, etc.) all your data, in his fight for … aahh… yeah.. your guess is as good as mine.

As creepy as this all is, I am looking forward to seeing the Tech League’s first issue ! Maybe it will star Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.. oh man ! Justice League is so washed out right now 😀 Muhahaha ! (yes, that would be even more horrible then just this, but there is a possibility and it wouldn’t surprise me to see that coming).

Experience in Webdesign – IS KING !

yup, it really is ! 😀
 
Especially when you receive a design order from a client who has a simple 2-pages portfolio and a few other images and text to place on the website, plus an order form.
 
1 Day to design
 
webdesign
 
1 Day to integrate.
 
I’m glad it went that well and he was glad he had his website in a week. (because it took him some time to get all the material ready and I was gone for 3 days).
 
Things are really simple once you’re experienced.

Level 9 ! My Fire Cif rocks :D


 
Yay ! I’m Level 9 😀 sweet. Getting links for my website, having lots of visitors and blogging really pays off 😀 Now I can get some more apps I always wanted.
 
 
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