Last friday, i launched my new book about Linkedin. Filipe Carrera (www.filipecarrera.com) made the preface of my book. He came to this special moment along with so many friends, colleagues and family. I had a great time!
September 10, 2009
Tall Ship Race 2010 – Lifetime experience
Next year, i will probably have a lifetime experience. The possibility to sail a bord of a fantastic ship.
Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece – through the Black sea, the Bosphorus…
HISTORICAL SEAS TALL SHIPS REGATTA 2010
Organised by Sail Training International
The Regatta will comprise the traditional mix of races and cruises-in-company for a Tall Ships event organised by Sail Training International. It will begin in May and conclude in early June 2010, in time for those taking part to make passage to northern Europe for the annual summer series Tall Ships’ Races (organised by Sail Training International).
visit the special website – http://www.tallshipsraces.com/historicalseas
Visit also: http://www.sailtraininginternational.org
September 6, 2009
September – month for new beginnings
September is always an important and ever changing month in my professional life. at least till now!!
A lot of new projects and challenges come along, and my will to succeed is bigger than ever.
My projects are divided in several areas of interest:
- social media
- education management
- training
I only wish good health and energy to make this happen. The following months will have a lot of new things. So put an eye on my blog to see the new things.
July 6, 2009
Coming back from …
Dear readers,
It has been a while since my last post here at www.pedrocaramez.com
So many things happenned during this absence. My professional life had such an intense activity that something had to be left for another time.
July – my special month of the year – will have more fresh news from myself.
May 27, 2009
First group of JCI Trainers in Portugal
Last weekend, me and 10 other people became the first ever group of new JCI trainers in Portugal. The JCI Trainer course was FANTASTIC!
The amazing group of Portuguese JCI Trainers. Over 2 intensive days, we have outlined the major issues of any training program. Walter Labres, Ronald Govaaerts and Filipe Carrera combined forces to deliver the program and motivated everyone with an enthusiastic approach.
At the end, the certification was done and almost getting ready launch the first step toward the Certified Local Trainer status (CLT).
May 5, 2009
JCI Presenter – Porto, Portugal
On the 17th of May, i will be attending the JCI Presenter course in Porto, Portugal.
Filipe Carrera (Head Trainer – JCI Portugal) will deliver this course. This is an excellent oportunity to learn more from presentation skills by a quality trainer.
The JCI Effective Presentation Course is a full day course that focuses on the concepts of creating and delivering an effective presentation utilizing visual aids and strong delivery methods with a mind towards understanding the audience. Participants practice presentations during the entire course.
JCI Presenter should be taken by all members who want to expand their presentation skills in order to make better project reports and intervene during chapter meetings.
Length: Full day Participants: Minimum 6 and maximum 20
Contents
Module 1 – Opening: Welcome and Introduction Session. Participants are welcomed to the course and will speak for the first time during this session to introduce themselves.
Module 2 – Presentation Types: Participants will now tell the audience about their most memorable experience. Participants will learn the many types of presentations they may have to make in the future and the characteristics of each one with emphasis on Project Reports.
Module 3 – Audience Analysis: Very short module about the need to know who they will speak to, what they know, what they should be told and what pre conceptions of prejudices the audience has.
Module 4 – Presentation Content: This Module will teach how to prepare the presentation content in an orderly format that will keep the audience’s attention to your message. Participants will receive the task to work on a presentation for the afternoon.
Module 5 – Effective Delivery: This Module will show the different techniques for an effective presentation delivery.
Module 6 – Presentations: Each participant will deliver the prepared presentation to the audience. Head trainer will make remarks on improvements and evaluations will be done based on the course content and how the participant applied it to the presentation.
Module 7 – Closing: Review of course and presentation of certificates. An open forum and course feedback will take place. Closing will explain next steps in JCI Training.
more info: www.jci.cc
April 30, 2009
Serena Williams moves up on Top 10 Sports Twitterers
This final week of April, the top 10 of Sport Twitterers has a breath ofr fresh air – Serena williams has hit the board. Last week, i previewed this rising star to come up the rankings. Serena added 34,000 followers in a single week. Only the top 4 have more added followers per week. The reason for this has to do with a more tweeting activity by Serena that has call fo the attention of the twitter nation.
At the front, the question is how long will it take for Shaq to have a round number of a million followers? My prediction is – 10th of May!! At the back of the top 5, George Hincapie falls to 10th and Basketball player – Baron Davis continues his move to the top of the rankings – 8th place!
Basketball is still the #1 Sport @ Twitter.
1. Shaquille O’Neal (Basketball) – http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ – 846,233 (last week 773, 643) followers
2. Lance Armstrong (Cycling)- http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong – 744,124 (last week 687,060) followers
3. Tony Hawk (Skateboarder) – http://twitter.com/tonyhawk – 540, 429 (last week 483,948) followers
4. Paul Pierce (Basketball) – http://twitter.com/paulpierce34 – 216,217 (last week 168,746) followers
5. Michael Phelps (Swimming) – http://twitter.com/Michael_Phelps – 124,260 (last week 107,331) followers
6. Serena Williams (Tennis) - http://twitter.com/serenajwilliams. 44,456 (last week - 10,432) followers
6. Steve Nash (Basketball) – http://twitter.com/the_real_nash – 26,069 (last week 24,627) followers
7. Charlie Villanueva (Basketball)- http://twitter.com/cv31 – 23,198 (last week 21,955) followers
8. Levi Leipheimer (Cycling) – http://twitter.com/Levi_Leipheimer – 22,556 (last week – 20,602) followers
9. Baron Davies (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/Baron_Davis – 22,533 (last week 19,641) followers
10. George Hincapie (Cycling) – http://twitter.com/ghincapie – 21,403 (last week 20,859) followers
11. Andy Murray (Tennis) – http://twitter.com/andy_murray – 19,576 (last week – 18,770) followers
12. Chris Bosh (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/chrisbosh -18,093 (last week – 16,660) followers
For a complete list of athletes and teams on Twitter, visit http://www.sportsin140.com
April 25, 2009
Personal Branding – New Training in Porto, Portugal
More information: http://glowbrandingyou.blogspot.com/
Next month, i will be delivering a special seminar on Personal Branding with Esther Liska in Porto, Portugal.
It will be an opportunity to expand our concepts about several issues: impression management, personal branding, social media (facebook, twitter and linkedin), public speaking.
Come and grab your place! Participation is limited
April 23, 2009
Weekly Top 10 Sports Twitterers – Baron Davis leaps to 10th place
This week, the top 10 of Sport Twitterers has new guys on board – At the front, no changes but at the back of the top 1o, 2 Basketball players move ahead – Baron Davis and Chris Bosh. This is all man table – only Serena Williams will try to come on up the board http://twitter.com/serenajwilliams. 10,432 followers
Basketball is still the #1 Sport @ Twitter.
1. Shaquille O’Neal (Basketball) – http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ – 773, 643 (last week 657,183) followers
2. Lance Armstrong (Cycling)- http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong – 687,060 (last week 606,191 ) followers
3. Tony Hawk (Skateboarder) – http://twitter.com/tonyhawk – 483,948 (last week - 401,555 ) followers
4. Paul Pierce (Basketball) – http://twitter.com/paulpierce34 – 168,746 (last week - 105,252 ) followers
5. Michael Phelps (Swimming) – http://twitter.com/Michael_Phelps – 107,331 (last week - 77,276) followers
6. Steve Nash (Basketball) – http://twitter.com/the_real_nash – 24,627 (last week – 21,668) followers
7. Charlie Villanueva (Basketball)- http://twitter.com/cv31 – 21,955 (last week – 20,183) followers
8. George Hincapie (Cycling) – http://twitter.com/ghincapie – 20,859 (last week – 20,142) followers
9.Levi Leipheimer (Cycling) – http://twitter.com/Levi_Leipheimer – 20,602 (last week – 19,687) followers
10. Baron Davies (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/Baron_Davis – 19,641
11. Andy Murray (Tennis) – http://twitter.com/andy_murray – 18,770 (last week – 17,673) followers
12. Chris Bosh (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/chrisbosh -16,660
For a complete list of athletes and teams on Twitter, visit http://www.sportsin140.com
April 22, 2009
BNI New Chapter in Portugal – BNI LETHES
Today, i have co-organized the launch of a new BNI chapter in POrtugal, South Europe – BNI LETHES.
The event was gathered in Viana do Castelo – Portugal for a massive group of entrepreneurs, CEOs and managers of the District. The pure art of business networking was here for the very first time. Can you imagine moving more than 100 guests from a small city in Portugal at 6:45 a.m.?
The pictures was taken by one of the members. Design About
The energy was incredible and at the end the group was excited to have witnessed such a performance in terms of attendance to this event. Next week, come and join us at Casa Melo Alvim for a special breakfast.
April 17, 2009
Weekly Top 10 of Sport Twitterers – 17th April
This week, the top 10 of Sport Twitterers has a few changes. Shaq extends the difference from Lance. Again PAUL PIERCE has the best performance of the week with more than 47.000 new followers, moving him to 4th place. Impressive! Levi Leipheimer slows the rhythm and moves down to 9th place.
1. Shaquille O’Neal (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ - 657,183 (last week - 585,657) followers
2. Lance Armstrong (Cycling)- http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong - 606,191 (last week - 546,183) followers
3. Tony Hawk (Skateboarder) - http://twitter.com/tonyhawk - 401,555 (last week – 349,749) followers
4. Paul Pierce (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/paulpierce34 - 105,252 (last week 57,301) followers
5. Michael Phelps (Swimming) - http://twitter.com/Michael_Phelps – 77,276 (last week 60,894) followers
6. Steve Nash (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/the_real_nash - 21,668 (last week 19,298) followers
7. Charlie Villanueva (Basketball)- http://twitter.com/cv31 - 20,183 (last week 18,392) followers
8. George Hincapie (Cycling) - http://twitter.com/ghincapie - 20,142 (last week 17,170) followers
9.Levi Leipheimer (Cycling) - http://twitter.com/Levi_Leipheimer - 19,686 (last week 18,637) followers
10. Andy Murray (Tennis) - http://twitter.com/andy_murray – 17,673 (last week 16,654) followers
11. Ivan Basso (Cycling) - http://twitter.com/ivanbasso - 10,130 (last week 9,581) followers
For a complete list of athletes and teams on Twitter, visit http://www.sportsin140.com
April 16, 2009
World Voice Day – 16th of April
Today we the World’s Voice Day and believe it or not, i was speechless all day. Incredible!
Probably, my situation has cleared in my mind the importance of the voice to our daily lives. As a teacher and trainer, i was incapable of delivering lectures to my students.
Every year since 2002 on April 16, otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeons and other voice health professionals worldwide join together to recognize World Voice Day.
World Voice Day encourages men and women, young and old, to assess their vocal health and take action to improve or maintain good voice habits.
Read more in: http://www.entnet.org/HealthInformation/worldVoiceDay.cfm?CFID=8571489&CFTOKEN=76516715
Tips for a powerful voice:
April 12, 2009
NFL-style draft of experienced corporate leaders and MBAs
Have you ever seen anything like this before?
The Corporate Draft is an event for Fortune 500 companies, to draft (recruit) the very best leaders and managers in America. We must bring this concept to Europe! The Corporate Draft is an economic stimulus opportunity, using recruitment as its platform, with attending companies marketing their corporate strategies and economic responses to consumer, investor and labor markets.
Each corporate participante pays 30,000 USD for all Corporate Draft services include, very cost effective for the recruitment of any executive.
Check the Corporate Draft Gameday Program.
Another idea that brings the Sports expressions to the business world. Got to be an amazing experience!
April 9, 2009
Weekly Top 10 of Sport Twitterers
This week, the top 10 of Sport Twitterers has a few changes. Shaq extends the difference from Lance. PAUL PIERCE has the best performance of the week with 42 thousand new followers, moving him to 5th place. Incredible! Steve Nash moves up to 6th place. New athletes are beginning to twit, so we will see a lot of action on upcoming weeks.
1. Shaquille O’Neal (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ - 585,657 followers
2. Lance Armstrong (Cycling)- http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong - 546,183 followers
3. Tony Hawk (Skateboarder) - http://twitter.com/tonyhawk - 349,749 followers
4. Michael Phelps (Swimming) - http://twitter.com/Michael_Phelps - 60,894 followers
5. Paul Pierce (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/paulpierce34 - 57,301 followers
6. Steve Nash (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/the_real_nash - 19,298 followers
7. Levi Leipheimer (Cycling) - http://twitter.com/Levi_Leipheimer - 18,637 followers
8. Charlie Villanueva (Basketball)- http://twitter.com/cv31 - 18,392 followers
9. George Hincapie (Cycling) - http://twitter.com/ghincapie - 17,170 followers
10. Andy Murray (Tennis) - http://twitter.com/andy_murray - 16,654 followers
11. Ivan Basso (Cycling) - http://twitter.com/ivanbasso - 9,581 followers
12. Tyson Chandler (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/tysonchandler – 5,075 followers
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Update (thanks to @valerotti)
April 7, 2009
Dan Schawbel’s official launch – Me 2.0
It is official!
The book has hit the world and it’s now possible to buy at any major store - Amazon.
Dan brings some fresh air to the way we must see ourselves in this tough and competitive market. This is definately a must read and will go on to be a bestseller. All the best for you Dan. Visit this amazing webiste - http://personalbrandingblog.com/
April 3, 2009
Top 5 Sportsman @ Twitter
After a few requests, i present you the top 5 sportsman on Twitter. I have found a place to make this hall of fame. Please, give me more names to add to this list. The list has been updated with the comments of the readers.
1. Shaquille O’Neal (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ - 521,988 followers
2. Lance Armstrong (Cycling)- http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong - 495,245 followers
3. Michael Phelps (Swimming) - http://twitter.com/Michael_Phelps - 54,822 followers
4. Levi Leipheimer (Cycling) - http://twitter.com/Levi_Leipheimer – 17,914 followers
5. George Hincapie (Cycling) - http://twitter.com/ghincapie - 16,489 followers
6. Charlie Villanueva (Basketball)- http://twitter.com/cv31 - 16,373 followers
7. Steve Nash (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/the_real_nash - 15,875 followers
8. Paul Pierce (Basketball) - http://twitter.com/paulpierce34 - 15,744 followers
9. Andy Murray (Tennis) - http://twitter.com/andy_murray - 15,624 followers
10. Ivan Basso (Cycling) - http://twitter.com/ivanbasso - 9,134 followers
March 31, 2009
Stattweets – reference of the month
As my twitter mania comes stronger, i have become more and more interested in the Twitter application to sport organizations.
Most sports-related media i have seen, have a Twitter account but they will make massive overload tweets to your dashboard. This week, i found StatTweets! You can follow just the US teams from many sports, and can interact with each account to retrieve team and player stats dynamically. Let’s give Robbie (@StatSheet) some feedback about this project.
March 29, 2009
Pocket Projectors on the palm of you hand…
For all speakers, lecturers and overall people dedicated to training, coaching, sales among others, there are amazing new technology mini-projectors or Pocket Projectors that will create an enormous impact on your presentations.
AIPTEK V10 Cinema
3M Micro Projector
OPTOMA PICO POCKET PROJECTOR
March 29, 2009
Twitter for dummies…
Nowadays, my addicted activitiy on the web is Twitter. It’s so fantastic how a small thing can have such a huge impact on your daily lives. What i really like about it, is the possibility to hear and read relevant information provided by a group of fantastic people. But we must follow a few rules so we won’t have a Twitter overdose.
Photo credits: http://zeroinfluence.com
Problogger gave me a few ideas.
Glen Murray discussed the quality over quantity effect on Twitter. Personally, i have different groups and for those i would enjoy relevant twitterers that give me gold info about everithing. The best source in the world! This weekend, i have tried to follow a conference through the eyes of others by twittering us all data about it. Excellent!
Jen Genuine also provided some thoughts on a step by step process to undersantd the potential of this tool.
I must also credit the efforts of Dan Schawbel with his blog http://personalbrandingblog.com/ by adding so many information about the positive twitter effects on business, personal development, among others.
Another post from this topic specially for sport organizations.
