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Five Things You Need To Do Immediately To Succeed With CRM

2010-02-24T04:09:00.000-08:00

Twitter hits 50 Million Tweets a day

2010-02-23T03:40:00.001-08:00

The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow

2010-02-20T07:31:00.000-08:00

The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow

Flow in the present moment.

Have you ever had a creative evening when time suddenly flew by? A day when you executed a difficult project at work flawlessly? A brief moment in time when your challenging exercise routine felt effortless?
All of these times you were in a state of flow.
Flow is a concept developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of the University of Chicago, who has studied the phenomena his whole career. Daniel Pink reintroduces the concept in his new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
Many people flow through their lives in an effortless fashion, while countless others have a difficult time achieving a flow state.

Why flow is hard to achieve
Flow is a moment in time when you’re both challenged at the activity that you’re doing, and when you also have complete autonomy in the task you’re conducting.
We engage in flow under your own volition, with a skill which we’ve had some amount of experience.

If you’re not flowing, it’s probably because you aren’t allowing yourself to be challenged, you’re completely overwhelmed, or someone else is holding you back.
The majority of my experience with flow has been with dance and writing. I’ve studied dance for many years, and one of the technical skills that dancers work on is called improvisation. Improv is very tricky in dance. You have to turn off your mind and simply dance with your instincts.

When you’ve mastered improv dance, you’ve reached the sweet spot between your brain transferring commands to your nervous system. There is no longer any thinking involved, as thinking in improv dance will make everything stop. There just isn’t any time for brainwork when you are constantly moving.
Csikszentmihalyi hypothesizes that these moments of flow occur because we’re simply activating too many neurological functions. Because of this we no longer have capacity to be aware of what functions we’re engaging in. So the ‘conscious of me’ part of the mind switches off, your awareness of yourself slips away, and you just do.

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Do you use Google Buzz?

2010-02-10T04:36:00.000-08:00

(CNN) -- Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tuesday, melding pieces of Facebook and Twitter into a new feature, Google Buzz.
Buzz, which will work through the popular Gmail service, will allow users to post status updates, photos and links to members of their network -- as well as pull in their activity on other sites like Twitter, Flickr and Picasa.
Google spokesman Bradley Horowitz said the service, which was rolling out to some Gmail users Tuesday afternoon and should be available to all in the next couple of days, aims to weed out what he called the clutter of other networking sites.
With networking sites, "there's obviously value there," he said. "It's a phenomenon that's real, but it's increasingly becoming harder and harder to make sense and find the signal in the noise."
By letting users post photos, links and updates openly, the tool would mimic Twitter's micro-blogging format. But users also will be able to make their content available to "friends only," more closely following the Facebook model.
At an event at the company's Mountain View, California, headquarters, Google also seemed poised to take a poke at the AOL Instant Messenger service, saying Buzz will be offered to companies as a tool for interoffice communication.
"It will change the way businesses communicate around the world," Horowitz said.
Despite the inevitable comparisons, Google spokesmen said they didn't set out to tread on anyone else's turf...(read more)

Infographic of the Day: What Crises Could Crush Us in 2010?

2010-02-05T02:40:00.000-08:00

A map connecting the myriad risks to the global economy.
Last weekend, the World Economic Forum held its annual meeting at Davos, and the theme this time was "Improve the State of the World." Which naturally meant coming to terms with the risks out there. Their economists came up with a comprehensive list and assigned probabilities to each--and also mapped the linkages between each one. Then they summarized all those findings in a handy dandy interactive map that's sure to delight paranoid conspiracy theorists everywhere: Read More...

Pew Survey: Teens Love Facebook, Hate Blogging, Are Always Online, and Don't Use Twitter

2010-02-05T02:34:00.000-08:00

Everybody goes online, everybody has a cell phone, and kids hate blogging and Twitter, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
The findings show that the Internet isn't just prevalent in our lives, it is our lives. Ninety-three percent of teens ages 12 to 17 go online, 75% of them own a cell phone, and 66% say they text. In fact, 58% of 12-year-olds now have mobiles, compared to 18% just five years ago. Sixty-two percent use the Internet to access information on news and politics, and some teens are even using the Internet as a guardian: 17% say they go online to research information about drug use, sexual health, and other topics that are awkward to talk about with real people...Read More

Having success with social media: correlation or causality?

2010-02-01T14:31:00.000-08:00

It’s very popular to blame violent movies, internet sites and games for violent behavior of violent youngsters (hmm where did that come from “youngsters”? think I’m getting old.) When there is a shooting in a school, some politicians or other activists think they can score easily by jumping on the barricades and yelling that we need to protect our children from all the violence in the media. Read more...

Traditional Media is losing Audience, Time and Advertising to Social Media

2010-02-01T14:00:00.000-08:00

Haiti earthquake: Tuesday news updates (CNN)

2010-01-19T07:27:00.000-08:00

Startups cash in on Twitter with pay-per-tweet

2010-01-19T07:20:00.000-08:00

In his Twitter stream from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last weekend, actor-director LeVar Burton beamed a different kind of tweet to his 1.57 million followers:

That message, which included a link to the electronics company's Web site, was a paid advertisement arranged through one of several startups that have discovered pay-per-tweet as a way to cash in on the popularity of Twitter.

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US troops land at Haiti presidential palace

2010-01-19T07:12:00.000-08:00

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Scores of U.S. troops landed on the lawn of Haiti's shattered presidential palace Tuesday to the cheers by quake victims eager for reinforcements in the sluggish global effort to bring food, water and shelter to the devastated country.
Thousands more U.S. troops are on the way and the U.N. Security Council was expected to approve a boost in its peacekeeping and police forces to help control outbursts of looting and violence that have slowed relief efforts.
Haitians jammed the fence of the palace grounds to gawk and cheer as the troops emerged.

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Flow-Time is Crowd-funding!

2009-10-23T06:54:00.000-07:00

Dear Readers, thank you for your interest in this blog...

We have started to Crowd-fund 5 new CDs:

'Song for All' (Pop music play-along book and CD)

'Claribbean-Vibes' (Contemporary Caribbean-Jazz)

'Clarinet Therapy' (Relaxing)

'Clarinet Therapy' (Communicative)

'Clarinet Therapy' (Motivating)

Crowd-funding is a way for fans and interested parties to become part of the process of the development of an artist and their projects. At Flow-Time we offer Crowd-funding by means of Share Packages in the company, a 100 Shares Options Package and a 1000 Shares Options Package, as well a copy of the items when they are ready...

Take a look at this excellent video of how a Crowd-funding model works...

Payments are easy and efficient pay directly by credit card or through your PayPal account...

To Crowd-fund £1500 and to receive a 1000 Shares Options Package in Flow-Time

Best Regards David Jean-Baptiste (Managing Director, Flow-Time Ltd)

Wall St Smarts

2009-10-20T02:33:00.000-07:00

The financial system nearly collapsed, because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.

“IF you really want to know why the financial system nearly collapsed in the fall of 2008, I can tell you in one simple sentence.”

The statement came from a man sitting three or four stools away from me in a sparsely populated Midtown bar, where I was waiting for a friend. “But I have to buy you a drink to hear it?” I asked.

“Absolutely not,” he said. “I can buy my own drinks. My 401(k) is intact. I got out of the market 8 or 10 years ago, when I saw what was happening.”

He did indeed look capable of buying his own drinks — one of which, a dry martini, straight up, was on the bar in front of him. He was a well-preserved, gray-haired man of about retirement age, dressed in the same sort of clothes he must have worn on some Ivy League campus in the late ’50s or early ’60s — a tweed jacket, gray pants, a blue button-down shirt and a club tie that, seen from a distance, seemed adorned with tiny brussels sprouts.

“O.K.,” I said. “Let’s hear it.”

“The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.” He took a sip of his martini, and stared straight at the row of bottles behind the bar, as if the conversation was now over.

“But weren’t there smart guys on Wall Street in the first place?” I asked.

He looked at me the way a mathematics teacher might look at a child who, despite heroic efforts by the teacher, seemed incapable of learning the most rudimentary principles of long division. “You are either a lot younger than you look or you don’t have much of a memory,” he said. “One of the speakers at my 25th reunion said that, according to a survey he had done of those attending, income was now precisely in inverse proportion to academic standing in the class, and that was partly because everyone in the lower third of the class had become a Wall Street millionaire.”

I reflected on my own college class, of roughly the same era. The top student had been appointed a federal appeals court judge — earning, by Wall Street standards, tip money. A lot of the people with similarly impressive academic records became professors. I could picture the future titans of Wall Street dozing in the back rows of some gut course like Geology 101, popularly known as Rocks for Jocks.

“That actually sounds more or less accurate,” I said.

“Of course it’s accurate,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong: the guys from the lower third of the class who went to Wall Street had a lot of nice qualities. Most of them were pleasant enough. They made a good impression. And now we realize that by the standards that came later, they weren’t really greedy. They just wanted a nice house in Greenwich and maybe a sailboat. A lot of them were from families that had always been on Wall Street, so they were accustomed to nice houses in Greenwich. They didn’t feel the need to leverage the entire business so they could make the sort of money that easily supports the second oceangoing yacht.”

“So what happened?”

“I told you what happened. Smart guys started going to Wall Street.”

“Why?”

“I thought you’d never ask,” he said, making a practiced gesture with his eyebrows that caused the bartender to get started mixing another martini.

“Two things happened. One is that the amount of money that could be made on Wall Street with hedge fund and private equity operations became just mind-blowing. At the same time, college was getting so expensive that people from reasonably prosperous families were graduating with huge debts. So even the smart guys went to Wall Street, maybe telling themselves that in a few years they’d have so much money they could then become professors or legal-services lawyers or whatever they’d wanted to be in the first place. That’s when you started reading stories about the percentage of the graduating class of Harvard College who planned to go into the financial industry or go to business school so they could then go into the financial industry. That’s when you started reading about these geniuses from M.I.T. and Caltech who instead of going to graduate school in physics went to Wall Street to calculate arbitrage odds.”

“But you still haven’t told me how that brought on the financial crisis.”

“Did you ever hear the word ‘derivatives’?” he said. “Do you think our guys could have invented, say, credit default swaps? Give me a break! They couldn’t have done the math.”

“Why do I get the feeling that there’s one more step in this scenario?” I said.

“Because there is,” he said. “When the smart guys started this business of securitizing things that didn’t even exist in the first place, who was running the firms they worked for? Our guys! The lower third of the class! Guys who didn’t have the foggiest notion of what a credit default swap was. All our guys knew was that they were getting disgustingly rich, and they had gotten to like that. All of that easy money had eaten away at their sense of enoughness.”

“So having smart guys there almost caused Wall Street to collapse.”

“You got it,” he said. “It took you awhile, but you got it.”

The theory sounded too simple to be true, but right offhand I couldn’t find any flaws in it. I found myself contemplating the sort of havoc a horde of smart guys could wreak in other industries. I saw those industries falling one by one, done in by superior intelligence. “I think I need a drink,” I said.

He nodded at my glass and made another one of those eyebrow gestures to the bartender. “Please,” he said. “Allow me.”

By CALVIN TRILLIN

Calvin Trillin is the author, most recently, of “Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme.” This piece appeared in the NY Times.

Google Apps Premier Edition account

2009-09-09T15:13:00.000-07:00

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Whether you are interested to join Flow-Time as a Distributor, a Franchise Partner, as an Investor, for your own company, or an an individual...

Allow us to set up your account!

The good news is Google are offering you a free 30 day trial...

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A Sustained Period of Growth on the Way!

2009-08-10T09:33:00.000-07:00

Hello readers…

All the global stock exchanges have increased their value substantially between January and June 2009 and that the new program to reform the US infrastructure and to enhance alternative, renewable and sustainable sources of energy will create millions of new jobs!

The New York (Dow Jones) U.S. stocks rose Friday to their highest levels since November as a better than expected jobs report boosted sentiment following a two-day pullback.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 172 points in recent action to 9428, having reached the 9400 mark for the first time since Nov. 4. Its financial components climbed, with JPMorgan Chase recently gaining 5.5% and American Express up 5.1%. Walt Disney also helped pull the index higher with a 5.5% rise. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 index climbed 18 points to 1015, and the Nasdaq climbed 39 points to 2012.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average

"I'm convinced that we can see a light at the end of the tunnel," Obama declared, saying his policies had helped unfreeze credit and a rising market was restoring value to battered 401K savings plans.

"We've pulled the economy back from the brink,"

Since Barack Obama has taken over the 44th Presidency of the United States of America, the market capitalisation of all the global markets has increased by 21.79% or US$6.748.183.000.000!

The monthly evolution of all stock exchanges between January 2008 with a Domestic Market Capitalization in equities of US$55,154,672,100,000 (US$55 trillion) and October 2008 of US$33 654 788,700,000 (US$34 trillion) resulting in a reduction between January and October 2008 of 39%

The Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock was on January 2008 at US$55,154,672,100,000

The Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock was on January 2009 at US$30,963,217,500,000 (less 43.86% in a year)

The Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock was on January 2009 at US$30,963,217,500,000

The Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock was on February 2009 at US$28'670'368.100,000 (less 7.41% in a month)

The Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock was on March 2009 at US$29,695,904.100,000 (more 3.58% in a month)

The Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock was on April 2009 at US$33,285,993.500,000 (more 12.09% in a month)

The Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock was on May 2009 at US$37,102,307,700,000 (more 11.47% in a month)

The Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock was on June 2009 at US$37,711,399.500,000 (more 1.64% in a month)

Between February’s Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock of US$28,670,368,100,000 and June’s US$37,711,399,500,000 the Domestic Market Capitalization of all Global Stock improved by 43.1% by August...This proves that we’re out of the recession and that we’re entering a strong growth period.

Some statistical data about all global stock exchanges can be found here, so people can check these statistics are true: World Association of Exchanges

There is much evidence, that the next six months and also the next five years, the growth will continue...

Thanks for reading…Best David

Tip Sheet: Make Music New York

2009-06-21T11:50:00.000-07:00

by Paul Caine June 19, 2009

Just in time for the summer festival season (well, close enough), we're introducing a new feature called Tip Sheet. It'll have the story behind the festival in question, as well as some notable highlights.

The Festival: Make Music New York, Sunday, June 21

Now in its third year, Make Music New York is dedicated to filling every one of the city's nook and crannies with music. Inspired by the French event Fête de la Musique, in which cities and towns across France promote free music during the summer solstice, Make Music New York founder Aaron Friedman decided to coordinate a day-long, multi-venue festival on the same day. Though, Make Music New York isn't really a festival at all, at least in the way we usually think about festivals. It's more like a mindset that everyone chooses to channel at the same time—the equivalent of thousands of people repeating, "Today I am going to play some tunes," while staring into their bathroom mirrors. But which of these bathroom mirror mantra reciters are worth trekking out to see? It's an especially tough question considering more than 850 acts are spread out across the city, but Decider is here to help: Read More... Tip Sheet: Make Music New York

Flow-Time USA Incorporation

2009-03-31T04:21:00.001-07:00

Flow-Time Ltd

2009-03-18T05:41:00.000-07:00

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