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Biris Goran organized “IT Start-Ups: How To” Conference on 30 September 2009 at Novotel Hotel. Here is my presentation.
Thank you Dan Visoiu from Biris & Goran for inviting me at this event.
I want to use Twitter only to share knowledge, experience and for conversation. If you are looking to connect with me, let’s do it on Facebook.
That’s the reason why I will start a new experiment on Twitter which I call “Following 100”. Starting from this week, I will follow every Friday one person and I will make public the reason why. This will last until I have 100 persons in my following list. Then, I will continue to follow new persons every week, but every time I do it, I will give up on following someone who I believe is helping me less than the new followed one.
It means that in a while all people that I follow will be a real source of knowledge for me and my followers.
And about conversations… It’s interesting that you can start a public conversation with someone on Twitter without even following that person, but only searching for topics that you are interested in, in my case entrepreneurship, investment, start-ups, dreams, business, photography, wine, tango….
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These days, @paulocoeho and Scobleizer decided to bulk unfollow all their followers. I wondered why.
Usually, I followed back almost everybody who was following me but, many times I felt like I follow some users whose tweets I can not read and I found a solution, to create groups in order to watch only conversations I like.
Twitter is about asymmetric relationships and today I realized that my following behavior on Twitter was influenced by the paradigm of symmetric relationships used by other social networks like Facebook or Linkedin. But Twitter is different and let’s just use it as it is. You should follow only people that you like. People that like you can follow you without expecting to be followed back.
Starting with today I will have asymmetric relationships on Twitter. I will follow only people I like, from which I can learn something and I want people to follow me only if they feel they can receive value from my tweets.
So I will purge my followers today and start the following process in a brand new paradigm.
I have just written a post about how to send a delicious email and, in the same time, we daily struggle with the problem of managing all received emails and answer them in good time.
I receive more than 50 emails daily, but since last year when I started using the Inbox Zero method, none of my emails remains unanswered. Spend an hour of your time now watching this video and you will save many hours later doing something more interesting than managing your Inbox.
I have a principle, to respond to every received email. But I always take into account its importance in achieving my dreams and goals. Depending on this criteria, I answer them in a time space of between one day and two weeks. If your message is very important for me, I will answer your email very fast. If it’s not so important, I will answer it in maximum two weeks. This principle helps me to stay focused on my goals and also to help other people with an answer.
Our time is the most important asset we have, so I decided to check my Inbox only 2-3 times a day and only when I decide to do that. I have also quit pushing emails on my mobile phone.
And keep in mind when responding to an email to make it delicious as well.
How to be more efficient keeping emails delicious, short and to the subject?
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We are experiencing email communication daily and this service is already one of the most important tools used today.
There are a few principles that have already built up a common sense in this matter. So when you send an email keep these ideas in mind:
- Be sure about your reason/topic/problem to send an email and put as much as possible this reason/topic in your subject line.
- Keep your email very short, only two or three paragraphs. If it’s longer you better call the recipient and set-up an offline conversation, or an online one on Skype, video is always better.
- Think win-win, and always tell the other what are his benefits from this conversation.
- Address only one issue per email. If you want to discuss more problems, send more different emails.
- Write every email like it’s a public conversation. There is nothing that can be hidden.
Remember that more than 90% of a conversation is non verbal communication, so emailing should be only a tool to use for sending information.
Seeing someone experiencing parasailing is extraordinary. You can almost can feel the freedom. In my case, I don’t know how to swim, plus I am scared to death when i am thinking about water. For me, parasailing is an extreme sport. Besides that, i decided to give it a try, but when i saw Octav’s dream about Experiencing parasailing, fear started to haunt me again, almost convincing me to renounce.
Practice Parasailing
Photo by: Mariana Tomas
One of my most important dreams in life, is to overcome the imaginary fear that hold me captive, and I want to make my decisions based on motivations, not on fears. After you succeed, your life can be totally different and you can experience a very nice feeling of freedom and happiness.
OK, yesterday i did it, I fought against my fears, and when I was doing that, it was unbelievable: how simple it was, how great it was. It was a revelation.
Every time you feel you want something with all your heart, just do it, you will be surprised how simple it can be. So, no matter if it’s parasailing, a new business or an improvisation course, just do it!
