Last night, I was getting a bit depressed out of what’s going in the world, my country and my life. So, I posted on Twitter “I’m depressed .. say something uplifting” I have got various responses from people I know on Twitter but got one from someone I don’t know and it wasn’t a POT.
She was EleniHope who after reading her Twitter stream and FormSpring link there, I knew she is a 15 YO girl from Ohio who dedicated her time to searching Twitter for keyword “Depressed” and “I hate my life” and she goes into conversations with people to uplift their spirit and make them feel good again.
So, out of that simple gesture Eleni do on Twitter, late last night I started a site to get Tweets with words “Depressed” and “I hate my life” and will get similar words and combine them in a page, for people to get there and pick up a genuine conversation with these individuals and uplift there spirit.
The website is http://TweetHope.us and HashTag #TweetHope should be used to group people around the idea. I started a Facebook page and Twitter page for it, what do you guys think about the ideas and feasibility or expanding its use?
Worked on a website for a Unilever Egypt department, the website features include; Advanced File Management, Multiple Level User Authentication and Advanced JQuery User Interface too.
Worked on a blogging and social media strategy project for Dr. Nassar. In which a well-designed blog had been published beside facilitating the social media strategy and supporting in using the different social media tools.
Worked on CLEARmen online campaign, the preparations and management took place during the period from mid October 2009 till the end of December 2009. Tasks included website design, database development, members registration, Flash game, different flash Ads and creating social media extension for the campaign (YouTube & Twitter specifically).
As my entry in the contest to win a trip to Celebration of Entrepreneurship conference in Dubai, I posted the following video asking Mr. Arif Naqvi CEO of Abraaj Capital about supporting a network of shared workplaces in the region. I had been using the Hub Cairo and discussing its vision, objectives and future with Ulrike the founder of the Hub Cairo.
I firmly believe that the idea can be transformational not only in Egypt but in different parts of the MENASA region as Abraaj Capital defined it.
Hope to meet Mr. Arif Naqvi for our 5 minutes interview and discuss it further and very much looking forward to expanding my connections during the conference and get more information and experience about entrepreneurship in the region that will come in handy while working on Egypreneur
Also, very much looking forward to be a part of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt through Egypreneur. We’re having some progress that will be announced soon.
As the views does count in winning the contest I’d appreciate your RTs, likes and spreading the video as much as you can.
Worked on Clear “Sharapova” Campaign during the period from mid-February 2010 to mid-March 2010. Tasks included website design, database development, members registration, Flash & GIF Ad design for YouTube, Facebook Ad design and Managing the campaign Facebook page, including FBML coding.
Worked on Birell Online Campaign, managing both YouTube and Facebook accounts for the Campaign with design optimization tasks and FBML coding for the Facebook page, the campaign took place from the beginning of January 2010 to the end of February 2010.
Just after thinking for a while about four months passed from the “New” year. Yes I just remember that it was a new year, I felt so much guilty about a lot of activities that hadn’t been started and others that went extremely slow.
I’m using a new apprach kicking projects around, just by kicking it. I’m always waiting for the right time budgeting so much on preparations and the perfect time to launch, which will usually lead to waiting for the perfect resources which will never come.
I thought about that today, after being active for around half an hour on Egypt-Designers group, after waiting so much for getting the website perfectly suitable to the project, I preferred to announce it on its current status, you know default theme, blank forums and that sort of stuff.
So, I’m just kicking my activities and accepting the imperfections in my projects and in myself too, that’s so much like a self talk and announcement of kicking things around.
You know that feeling after getting out of the exam and looking to the exam paper! A mix of feelings, could be summed up in depression I guess! Yet, another video had been made a while ago.
In the last few days, I had been preparing to formally launch the blog and finish the final optimizations to both the design and functionality. Plus, planning for more accessible content.
We had a 31 confirmed guests to the event (Facebook Event), and 65 are already fans of the blog on the Blog’s Fans Page.
By now, you’re supposed to understand this is my personal blog, that means that any content I develop away from any business project will be published through that blog. Plus, all my social activities online will be centered with that blog.
So, by July, 1st. I’ll commited to constant updating to that blog with minimum 2 posts a week.
As you might know I had been busy during this week and a reason of being busy that you might don’t know was Prison Break. After finishing my exams I had this strange feeling of watching the rest of Prison Break as I watched season one only. And during this week I watched season two, three and four.
I really don’t remember much of what I watched and don’t really care that much, as I wanted just to be up-to-date with what’s happening in the world including what people watch, not to live like a freaky stranger.
What touched me the most was, actually two ideas:
The Ending:
How the whole story turned out, made me look to the story as a practical life lesson, a very deep life lesson. I saw it as a reflection of justice in the situations of people involved. I believe people are born alike in their desire for good or bad and life is about decisions we make. At the end life will never settle down except with the good for the good and the bad for the bad, either in this life or thereafter.
Any challenge that we pass with in life should be looked at this way, and how right we do in it, is what determines how good things will turn out for us.
Human Relationships:
Human relationship still a very mysterious subject to me. Decisions you take in life that involve others need so much weighting to what’s valuable, what’s worthy and what is not. The fundamental idea of the show is the sacrifice of someone doing good in his life according to our standards, to help his innocent brother out of prison. Then getting back to help team mates, whom had been his enemies at some point.
A situation and a phrase in the show, even made me discover things still inside myself, and related to some situations I had been through. May be because growing up with a clean tongue, I wasn’t able to say it when I was supposed to. The guy’s reaction when he knew that it was a set up, made me laugh, in evil.
“You whore! You’re a whore, and your mother was a whore, and her mother, and your father used to turn tricks at a gas station, cause he was a whore too!”
Hey, I know it’s just a TV show, but still time investment on entertainment can get back to you with thoughts deeper than you imagine.
This is just a random post celebrating my freedom from Prison Break. And might blog more thoughts about it when I have a better chance.
Had to get busy, real productively busy right now.
if you got dreams in your heart
why don’t you share them with me?
and if dreams don’t come true
I’ll make sure that your nightmares
are through
if you got pain in your heart
why don’t you share it with me?
and we’ll just wait and see
if it’s half what it used to be
and lay it down slow
lay it down free
lay it down easy
but lay it on me
if you’ve got love in your heart
why don’t you keep it with mine?
I can’t promise a miracle
but I’ll always be trying
and lay it down slow
lay it down free
lay it down easy
but lay it on me
This is just a quick notification that I’m working on MarwaElSherbiny.com a project supposed to be backed by volunteers to network the incident in which Dr. Marwa El-Sherbiny had been stabbed to death in a German court, her husband get severely injured and her 3 years old son witnessed the incident.
The site will be an up-to-date portal dedicated to Dr. Marwa, the updates of the incident and different feedback, articles, blogs from anyone have something valuable to say.
The site is being built with Joomla! in order to ease admin tasks and adding content for everyone.
Site sections:
About Us
About Dr. Marwa
The Murder (Detailed information about the case and its motives)
Formal Updates (Follow up with the case)
They Said (Blogs, Articles from anyone have something valuable to say)
Hijab (Illustrating the meaning of Hijab and why Muslim women wear it)
Community Builder (Members Profiles, Messages, Board .etc)
How to Support (What you can do for Marwa)
I hope to source the content in English and German, that’s why I’m contacting people who’s active or administering groups talking about the same issue. Hoping that they’ll be active on the site too.
Despite being shocked with the crime and the reactions, I didn’t blog about it YET, as I preferred to plan for a long term response that will have a continuous impact, other than a one time blog post. Also, to have sufficient accurate information and read different points of view.
Details will be published soon, If you’re interested in participating in such project, please Contact Me ASAP.
Was taking some Facebook quizzes and everything was going funny and okay, till decided to take that “What’s your true age” quiz, where I had been asked for my race:
Shouldn’t that be considered racism or Arabs and Middle Eastern people are classified as one of the above? Anyway, won’t take the quiz!! till getting answers!
I’m a Middle Eastern, Arab, Egyptian, why didn’t the quiz creator take that into consideration while making the quiz?!!
I had been investing so much time on FB lately, and just tonight get back to PHP with MySQL beyond the basics from Lynda.com which I started 3 weeks ago and had to stop to take care of my starting FB pages first.
Today, ending my career as a Facebooker and marketer, getting back to Geekdom! All projects pages are up & running with 120+ fans
Today, thought about a theme I sensed in everything I do lately, imperfect, while I’m capable of making it better. That’s why during that month, August, I’ll be trying to sort out the clutter in my life and start over especially with the business site relaunch with more determination and more organized.
I can frankly say, for me, it’s not about lack of intelligence, qualifications or even time. It’s just emotions which was driving me to a “Whatever!” and “Who cares” attitudes!
But, hey, you’ll still be impressed by the stuff I do, despite these imperfections.
An Arabic poet once said:
I never saw among people’s imperfections, and imperfection like, producing things incompletely while you’re capable of making it complete.
I’m finishing up a 4 sessions, English Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation course available online for free via MIT Open Course Ware, which is pretty amazing, I remember first time our professor told us about the Open Course Ware, I bookmarked it, but never had the time to check it out. And just went through these 4 sessions during the last week.
I already went through such English courses on my own before, so it was some kind of emphasizing on what I know, clarifying some ambiguous points, and some practising, plus of course added an in class experience. Of course, the way the class is being ran is totally different that the classes I attend here, so good to know how normal people are supposed to learn.
I highly recommend the MIT Open Course Ware to everyone, plus every knowledge available online for free. I’ll try to bookmark similar sources and make it available here, at least the ones I had been using recently, Insha’ Allah.
I had been watching TED talks a lot recently and it was really either touching or impressive. Sometimes was amazing to get to know such creative individuals and how they approach problems in their lives.
So, I highly recommend everyone to regularly check TED talks, you can subscribe to their YouTube channel too, in the mean time, I’ll be posting and commenting on the talks that touch me here too.
It was very interesting, being Cairo club ToastMaster for the first time last meeting, I had been a member since last March and delivered 4 speeches in the competent communicator track. I would like to utilize this opportunity to introduce my audience to ToastMasters, and encourage everyone to become a member or get involved in a similar activity.
ToastMaster is the leader of the session: introducing speakers, commenting on speeches and engaging attendees with the session while keeping track of the time.
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