Category: Journal
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My top 27 things to do before I die.
As a part of an exercise at Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence class on @Coursera. Prof Richard Boyatzis Asked to write down the top 27 things to do before we die. On a second thought, I decided not to share my 27 list, though, the general theme in my 27 list had been about “sacrifice” and…
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On the promise of TV Stardom, USAID-funded Bamyan Media abuses El Mashrou3 Contestants!
I had my blood boiling when I was told the story.. Publicly some of them seemed not to appreciate the experience for some reasons, but I thought it’s just the bitterness of losing a competition. Then, I was told.. Grabbing by the hand and threatening with a contract, the least can be labelled a “slavery…
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مين اللي فعلاً ورا برنامج المشروع؟
طويب, من ساعة ما كتبت أول مقالة عن ردود فعل رواد الأعمال عن برنامج المشروع, ناس كانت قريبة من البرنامج تواصلت معايا وشاركت معلومات مهمة هتفيدنا وإحنا بندور علي فعلاً هل البرنامج كان ليه تأثير ولا لأ, وبما إن فيه أكتر من أربع حلقات من البرنامج اتذاعت خلاص, أكيد ده بيدي مادة كفاية تفيد في…
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Why am I proud of my father today?
Today, my father came to update me with the result of a legal case that seemed to have a story. While attending a business networking dinner in London last September, I was sitting on the table with with a freelance writer who writes for the guardian, a lawyer who used to work in Egypt and…
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My 2014 Chief Aim is…
Derek says that telling someone your goal make you less likely to achieve it. Either it’ll get done and you’ll know it in good time, or it won’t and I will save myself the embarrassment. So, enough talking. Just do it!
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So, how would #ImpactLab do Impact Assessment to #ElMashrou3?
Well, after my last journal on: Among criticism from entrepreneurs, USAID-funded Bamyan Media launches Egypt’s first Reality TV Show. Some of my colleges at Egypreneur, thought it’s close to how it would look like as an Impact Lab report, especially as I confessed a background they feared the report might be criticized based on, and…
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Using the #NewBasecamp to stay organized!
It’s an ongoing challenge for most of us to remain organized, using 37Signals suite for all my organizations and project management efforts, I’ve created couple of projects to both manage my executive tasks across all organizations and another one to manage my personal life. These projects helped me to put everything I should do in…
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Microsoft Geeks Day, Entrepreneurship Session
So, I was invited by some awesome Microsoft Student Partners to speak about entrepreneurship during an event they organized called Microsoft Geeks Day. Being a Microsoft Geeks Day, I thought Bill Gates would be the best figure to discuss. The whole session was just a punch of videos with comments and discussions around them, that…
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Love, Crowds and Leadership
Life goes on, as usual, tough, troubling and confusing, but extremely incapable of changing few things, those who’re noble enough to love a concept, idea or a piece of land when they have absolutely all the right not to, will be the ones to stay with it longer and perhaps forever. It’s very rare for…
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Trust & integrity in business ..
Recently, I got disappointed with a few individuals and organizations who did what would normal people call preaching trust, but I’m really wondering what’s that called in the entrepreneurship sphere. Don’t we speak day and night about the positive energy entrepreneurship brings to society and that everyone and anyone involved with such positive energy activities…
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Events I attended during 2010
Facebook/Connect Ads Partnership GeekFest 1.0 AUC TTO Inauguration Event Ideavelopers – The Web Angels CoE2010 – Celebration of Entrepreneurship Ideavelopers – Mobile What’s Next? Google Days 2 & 3
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Job titles for startups; Manager, Executive or Officer
While expanding your business, getting more people aboard to be in charge of specific tasks, the question pops up. What should be their job title. Different companies choose different job titles to describe the same thing, here is my 2 cents about that. If I consider when someone to be in charge of marketing, business…
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Celebration of Entrepreneurship – personal thoughts
It had been more a month now since I attended the Celebration of Entrepreneurship and I can say that the couple of days really charged me with a good amount of energy and opened my vision to opportunities I didn’t know exist before. Since then I had been concentrating on Egypreneur and finding ways to…
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Successful Bootstrapping – Speech at Nile University
I was invited by Dr. Yasser Hosni of Nile University to give a speech about successful bootstrapping in Egypt at Nile University. An excerpt of the presentation is available below. Yasser Hosni, Ph.D., PE. President, Int. Assoc for Mgt. of Technology (IAMOT) www.iamot.org Co-Chair IAMOT 2011 Conference, April, 10-14, 2011 Miami Beach, Florida, USA Fellow…
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Do not wait ..
FreeRangeLife on Flickr قد حان الأوان .لا تعلق بناء حياتك على أمنية يلدها الغيب فإن هذا الإرجاء لن يعود عليك بخير . الحاضر القريب الماثل بين يديك و نفسك هذه التي بين جنبيك ، و الظروف الباسمة أو الكالحة التي تلتف حواليك ، هي وحدها الدعائم التي يتمخض عنها مستقبلك ، فلا مكان لإبطاء أو…
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First PodCast ..
First PodCast ..
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Practicing Parkour with EgyFlow
Hey Everyone, View on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1X4LicEU4 Last march, I started practicing Parkour with EgyFlow; an awesome Parkour team I first knew about via its facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=101307227731 despite the fact that I don’t have much time to invest weekly on Parkour, I’m maintaining a minimum of a session per week and enjoying it so far.…
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Egyptian Professionals, having a problem?
Just like every professional in Egypt – especially web professionals – I’m suffering from the unavailability or exaggerated cost of some services, which for me have to do with human rights before having access to professional services.
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Tweeting a work task for 12 hours
Hey Everyone, I just finished a work task for Lane-8 Creative Digital Marketing working on a web application for Unilever Egypt – the funny thing is that I shared the progress with some photos of my whiteboard and some ideas came to my mind while working freely on Twitter. Don’t know specifically why, but it…
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Saqqara Desert Horse back-riding
Hey Everyone, Friday, March 5th. I went with the amazing Weekedn Trips group in Cairo http://www.facebook.com/weTrips for horse back riding in Saqqara desert and enjoyed it a lot. Here is some videos I got during the outing. I tried to take footage while riding, but when it gets fast it’s completely ridiculous to take footage…
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#CairoTweetUp 20 February Felluca ride
Hey guys, I hanged out with fellow Twitter users February 20 in a felluca in the awesome river Nile recorded this couple of videos. View on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpe6buzK8wU View on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VikRYQfzWAs List of participants can be found on this Twitter list:http://twitter.com/gr33ndata/falucatweetup Good to be with you all guys. – Abdelrahman Sharing Link: http://abdo.me/b5w3ea
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Reaching Out (2) – Starting an Online Business
Hi All, This speech had been delivered by myself July, 21, at Cairo ToastMasters club.It was my 4th speech at the competent communicator track where my objective was “How To Say It” so while preparing this speech my main emphasis was picking the right words and forming the right phases and getting away from using…
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Me on DeviantART?
Salam Everyone, Hey congratulate me people, I made some progress with my DeviantART account, it’s funny that after so long I finally updated my Avatar!! For me – as I posted before about transition from a Geek to a normal human being (Post: http://abdo.me/2009/11/lifestyle-shift-can-we/ ) DeviantART should be a part of this transition. I remember…
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Paraliminal session for exams by Dr. Ahmed Emara [Arabic]
Hey Everyone, We all get stressed during exams times especially provided the education system and attitude we have in our country, Egypt. I used to get stressed during exams time as I prefer to focus on business and leave studies to the last few days before the finals, that’s very difficult with complex engineering subjects…