Woo-hoo ! It’s on, baby ! Cif2.net teams up with April Todds ( @socialapril ) and her project, Red Tweets, to deliver you the first Twitter Directory that chats and plays music !

Oh, yes ! This is the spoiler we’re giving you today.

The project has been in the works for some time, we’re 3 people that will update content on it and we’re looking for one more, who I want to recruit for the initiative 😀

I’m looking forward to this project and I really believe in it and it’s potential 😉

See you soon, everyone ! 😀

Florin Muresan
The CBO
www.cif2.net 

Well, I guess you’ve seen the Halloween theme, Free Ghosting or Free Hosting ? that we’ve had here.

I was expecting more accounts to be made, but didn’t push the issue further, since it’s still in Beta and there are still changes that we have to make before any Launch of the Official version of cif2.net

The event was interesting, people said they liked the theme and the Tagline: Free Ghosting or Free Hosting ? is the new trick or treat ! 😀 still, accounts weren’t made, so it’s not that much of good news.

I always believe that you have to try things, to actually try many things, if you wanna get somewhere. If you fail, if you make a mistake, or it doesn’t really go as planned, that’s great ! What ? Yeah, that’s great ! Because now you have something to learn from. Living in disappointment is a waste of time, energy and potential, eventually of life. You’ve made your mistake, learn from it and move on.

Not everything you do will reach it’s target, so if it doesn’t : learn from it, try to make it AWESOME next time, or leave it be.

Anyway.. it’s important that April Todds made her account on cif2.net and aaa… I’ll announce something in about one hour about it 🙂 See you soon !

Free Ghosting or Free Hosting ? is the new Trick or Treat, so this Halloween, cif2.net decided to throw it’s own Halloween Party down on http://www.cif2.net

You can also let us know if you want to attend on http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144931915553081 

We will have some cool prizes for you if you Sign Up on the 31st of October 😀 

See you there ! 

And I’m also a Founder of CIF2.net which is just awesome 😀

We’ve had a meeting yesterday and have discussed all the ideas we’ve put up in the last 5 to 7 days ! I wasn’t as active online as I used to be, because I was down in my mind’s lab and I’ve come up with a lot of creative ideas for branding, marketing and direction for the Cif2.net brand.

The other Founders, Teodora and Calin Vingan (the CEO) have also made their awesome contributions and I almost didn’t sleep all night, thinking about these.

Now comes the tricky part.. We have to start putting all these ideas into practice and get CIf2.net out there to the whole wide world. Yes, we’re doing that. For starters, besides the International version, there will be a CIf2 in France, in Austria and in Romania.

And there are more things to come.

All in all, I am the CBO, and I’ve never felt happier regarding my profession and the direction my life takes ! 

The world just became a bigger place 😀 

Ohoo… what’s this all about ?

It’s about managing to explain all of your creative ideas to the others. Do you think it’s easy ?

Well, I find it to be one of the hardest things to do. The whole idea you’re having for your product might be so great for you and for the people in your head, but for the people in the real world you have to do some serious work to make them understand what’s going on in your head.

Stop thinking from your perspective !

Creating a brand in your mind won’t help at all ! You have to unleash it, you have to bring it into the real world. Put all those ideas on paper and see for yourself that suddenly, they don’t seem like too much if you were to just read them, without knowing all those premises from your mind.

Well, well …

The best thing to do is to start writting down your ideas, as concentrated as they are. Then, simply start “breaking” them into smaller pieces. Divide et Impera. You will do this in a Top-Bottom way and it will help you sort out most of the ideas you have and reach out to the details. As you may know, details are very important.

You may not like what you get. If that happens, do some other things that day, then go somewhere inspiring (like Italy :P), listen to Opera, or read a creative book. Then the next day get to work, all coffee in your hand and start writting again. You can organize the writing as you want on a blank, white piece of paper and even draw on it, *stick-figure*-style .

It might really help organizing your ideas and bringing them to a better form, which the others will understand and love. 

It is very important that you update all your social media accounts if you want to do some good Social Media PR-ing and also to increase brand awareness.

But you might find out that you have too many accounts already and logging in and out, following/unfollowing, wrting individual updates and […] Man, it started to sound like too much !

I’ve been in the Social Media field for more then a year now, mostly Twitter and Facebook and doing effective work on them for different businesses. Before this, I used to promote a band on Myspace, but let’s face it, Myspace is dead ! 😛

So big deal I’ve been socializing for so long ! Well, it actually is, because I’ve learned a lot and one of the most important lesson was that if you want to do effective marketing on the Social Media, you need to give it A LOT OF TIME ! Yes, and there is no shorter way here .

You may try all sorts of tricks, all sorts of nothings like Click Here and get a Santa Clause 14 ” Figure with Jennifer Aniston in a sexy dress, but come on ! That’s old.. there’s marketing 2.0 AND marketing 3.0 nowadays and foolish tricks won’t work anymore.

What to do then ?

Well, it’s not the End of the World or anything. It’s just that you’ll have to dedicate a lot of time to Social Media. And it gets better. If you organize your stuff a little, you can make much better and much more effective marketing, losing less time.

That’s true !

Come back on Monday and I’ll tell you of some free Top Apps to help you in your Social Media crusade 😀

See you then ! 

Hey ! It was high time I updated it with some of my website designs. I still have others to upload, but they are a little bit older. Most of these are from Oct 2009 to Oct 2010.

You can check them out on Flickr or on Twitpic .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/florinmuresan

http://twitpic.com/photos/florin_muresan

I will post my Logo Design Portfolio soon enough.

We know that there are many bloggers out there who want to have free blogs.

What are the biggest problems with blogs ? 

You can’t modify the way it looks, only if you know a lot of CSS and HTML or if you pay a shell lot of money to somebody to make it for you.

That is not good !

A blogger should have much more control over his blog and the way it looks.

If you have a blog and you also want a website, you can’t have it in the same place. You need to have a blog here AND a website there… somewhere…

Well why not simply have a Website with a blog incorporated ?

It is a much better thing to have, because your clients don’t get confused. It’s great if they don’t.

That’s why I personally chose to move my http://www.themarketinghealth.com/ to cif2.net

I made the layout in about 5 minutes and I can also have a blog and a website now, a thing that I could not have anywhere else.

What sort of problems did you encounter, fellow blogger ? 

This is horrbile !

No matter how you look at it, it is horrbile. Maybe you remember a while back, when the Who Is Cif round 1 was on-going, I almost lost a few awesome contest entries because Twitter did not display @replies in search results, so I remembered the names of the persons and had to go to their Twitter timeline and dig for half a day to reach the tweets I wanted.

What could I have done ? Could I just have ignored their entries because Twitter did not work ? And there still is a problem with @replies right now. They said they’ll fix it, but so far no results. 

So be very careful with it and maybe even copy those tweets somewhere so you don’t lose them.

Better than doing this, you could use a website to promote a contest and go to http://disqus.com , take one of those comment boxes and place them into your http://www.cif2.net website. You’ll have a very cool wall, like mine on  . It’s easy as a game !

There are also some very horrible issues with Facebook. Until now, I knew that you could not delete your Facebook profile. So what did they say ? You can’t delete them, but we randomly can !

My friend, Crisan Marius just had his profile disabled by Facebook. The reason ? Unknown ! Facebook just slapped him and I assure you he did not spam or do anything out of the ordinary with his FB profile.

I’m really curious how this will all go, I told him to contact them for support.

Social Media is a powerfull tool, but you just can not trust all your efforts of getting exposure on it. Websites and blogs are still the kings and that’s a fact !