By Alina Popescu on Aug 6, 2008 in Business & Corporate, Customer Care, IT & Technology, PR & Marketing, Software | 5 Comments
If there is something everyone loves about Open Source software (FLOSS) is that every issue ever discovered with it is known, there are no surprises. All incompatibilities, if discovered, are out there and anyone trying out the software knows what to expect before they begin. The main benefit of such transparency is that customers are [...]
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By Alina Popescu on Aug 5, 2008 in A Book a Week, Book Reviews | 6 Comments
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the kind of book that would make you feel sad or even cry if you’re a little like me It’s a great story of how a 9 year old boy, Oskar, copes with his father’s death in the 9/11 tragedy, with his mother having a new friend, with [...]
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By Alina Popescu on Aug 5, 2008 in Just me, WOBM & Blogging | 6 Comments
Hi everyone! Some of you may have noticed Words of a Broken Mirror has been extremely quiet, it took me ages to approve and reply to comments, I wasn’t anywhere to be seen on Twitter and my contribution to other social bookmarking and news sites was close to nonexistent.
Yours truly has had a rough few [...]
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By Alina Popescu on Jul 30, 2008 in Customer Care, PR & Marketing, Tips & Tricks | 4 Comments
There a clear difference between work hours and after work fun time when it comes to your employees. Their personal life is something the company can’t control, it’s their private business and what there’s nothing an employer can do to control their activities. If they are high-profile figures in promoting your image, the story is [...]
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By Alina Popescu on Jul 29, 2008 in Business & Corporate, Careers, Featured, PR & Marketing, Social Media & Communities, Tips & Tricks | 4 Comments
I’ve met Robyn Bloom on LinkedIn, after answering one of her questions about getting beauty bloggers and journalists to write about her business, Purely Cosmetics and the line of natural mineral products she created. While talking to her, I wanted to know more about how life as a one-woman-show was in the beauty field. I [...]
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