Communication tips and tricks
Social Media Mega Project: The Sphinn Mini-Section
Back in the beginning of this year, a project was born: The Social Media Mega Project, initiated by Vivien at InspirationBit, and divided in several sections to be hosted by a group of bloggers. The final objective of this project was to gather bloggers insights about social media: how they use certain sites, why do [...]
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Why Do Chickens “Kotkodak”?
How do you call in English the sound of a chicken which has just laid an egg and is happy to announce it to the whole courtyard? In Romanian, this sound is something like “Kotkodak”… funny… in Romanian… as if Romanian chickens would ever need to learn English to speak with Londonese chickens… I suppose [...]
Why LinkedIn And Pen Names Don’t Go Well Together
I discovered LinkedIn a short while after I discovered blogging, and I thought it was such a cool idea, that I’ve started to build my LinkedIn profile right away. For those of you who don’t know, LinkedIn is a place where you can connect with people all over the world, a sort of who’s who, [...]
How Do You Sphinn Today?
Some years ago, there was an international project meant to ease communication across different countries of the world. It was called Esperanto, and it was supposed to be a language with words taken from many languages, in order to create a new language intelligible by everybody. These days, whenever I hear “can you digg this [...]
Disadvantages Of Presentation Software
Who doesn’t remember those presentations where lights are dimmed in order for the audience to be able to see the screen projection? If you do remember them then you surely also remember the dullness and the “falling asleep in a few minutes” feeling which spreads over the audience, while the presenter tries hard to finish [...]
Posted in Communication Tagged body language, communication techniques, presentation skills, presentation software 7 Comments
How to Learn Foreign Languages by Association
Did you ever experience the frustration of visiting a foreign country and not understanding the language at all? Luckily, English is pretty much international these days. However, when I visited China I had the surprise that many people did not speak anything but Chinese, so my knowledge of three languages was rather useless, as long [...]
Posted in Communication Tagged language learning, learn a language, learning, rosetta stone, study languages, tips 15 Comments
Two words to boost your popularity
Please, take two minutes and think of all the communities you’ve been a part to: school, work, friends, or whatever else. Do they have something in common? They all had their popular one (or few) figures, that guy or that girl everybody seemed to like and follow. How were they different? What makes some of [...]
Also posted in Family & Relationships, Personal Development Tagged motivation, popularity, respect 2 Comments
The One Blog of Today
Are you a blogger? Do you feel that you have something to say? Then you should check out OneBlogADay: a web venture analyzing web ventures. They publish an enterview with a blogger everyday, so you’ll have the chance to find out more about your favorite bloggers, and, why not, you could even have your blog [...]
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6 hot blog contests that rock
The 6 contests are over long time ago, but this is a new one which you are welcome to join: The first contest on EzMoneyOn.Net. For those of you who may not know, EzMoneyOn.Net is a joint venture of Diana and myself, aiming to help people making money online, by giving away tips, tricks, reviews [...]
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