15 шеги за финансовата криза

1. “Купих акции. Продадох акциите, колата, къщата...“
2. “Пазарът достигна дъното и започна да копае.“
3. “Кредитната криза ме изправи на крака. Взеха ми колата заради ипотеката и сега ходя пеша“.
4.“Отидох да изтегля пари от банкомата. А той ми взе още 20 долара и ми каза, че в неделя ще ги върне“.
5.“Краят на 2009 г. Шоубизнесът бързо се ориентира в кризата. Вчера поканиха Бъфет и Гейтс да играят в “Стани богат“.
6.“Телевизионен зрител- основна професия на бъдещето“.
7. “Съпруга на банкер решава да го изненада в работата. Пристига, влиза в кабинета му и вижда: на коленете му седи секретарката. Мъжът невъзмутимо диктува: “И в заключение искам да кажа, господа, че дори в условията на финансова криза един стол за двама души в моя офис е недостатъчен!“
8. “Промоция: При покупката на тостер, получавате към него безплатна банка“.
9.“ Колко брокери са нужни за смяната на една крушка? Отговор: Двама. Единият да поръча новата, а другият да отнесе първата на борсата и да я продаде преди CNBC да са съобщили, че е изгоряла“.
10. “Китайците ни продават токсично мляко, токсични зърнени храни, токсични морски продукти, токсични бои. Да им подадем токсични активи, си помислили на Уолстрийт.“
11. “Съобщение за руската борса ММВБ: “Днес, 3 септември 2010 г., за първи път от половин година руската борса ММВБ отвори врати. Търговията продължи седем минути, а за да се избегнат възможни спекулации отвориха борсата през нощта. За това време брокерите успяха да свалят индекса с 26%“.
12. “Замениха смъртното наказание с ипотека с 25% годишна лихва“.
13. “Отива Бъфет при Гейтс и му казва: “Бил, дай няколко долара.“ Гейтс: “Защо?“ Бъфет: “Да си купя новия Forbes за да видя къде съм“.
14. “Син на трейдър чете финансов анализ. Влиза майка му и го пита какво чете. Отговор: “Фантастика...“
15. Трейдър се прибира: “Скъпа, днес спечелих 1 млн. долара“ Жена му: “ Ти? Честно?“ Трейдърът“ Не. Спекулации“.

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The financial crisis visualized

It cannot be described in more clear way than this http://crisisofcredit.com/. 10 minutes later (after the video), ask yourself : “Who is responsible for the situation we have? Global Financial crisis?
- May be the home owner?
- No, no, no! May be defaulting mortgage owners?
- No, no, no! May be Government?
- Hmmmm, how about the risk management of corporations, being greedy for bigger market share and higher profits.
- Take 5 and think about it!

There is a nice saying in Bulgarian, which I will try to translate in English:
"Не вината на този, който яде хляба, а на този, който му го дава!"
"We should not blame the one who eats the bread, but the one who is giving it to him"

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And from Iva:

Another pretty explanatory presentation, that has been rotating around Wall Street Journal guys for 2 years already:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3023380/Subprime-PPT

12 Real Exuces of People Who Were Late

Here are 12 of the most outrageous excuses employees have said for being late to work:

1. My heat was shut off so I had to stay home to keep my snake warm.
2. My husband thinks it's funny to hide my car keys before he goes to work.
3. I walked into a spider web on the way out the door and couldn't find the spider, so I had to go inside and shower again.
4. I got locked in my trunk by my son.
5. My left turn signal was out so I had to make all right turns to get to work.
6. A gurney fell out of an ambulance and delayed traffic.
7. I was attacked by a raccoon and had to stop by the hospital to make sure it wasn't rabid.
8. I feel like I'm in everyone's way if I show up on time.
9. My father didn't wake me up.
10. A groundhog bit my bike tire and made it flat.
11. My driveway washed away in the rain last night.
12. I had to go to bingo.

Found by Iva

Звездите ми го говорят

През тази криза...

Кока-Кола ще се слее с Пепси и ще преименуват колата на Копси.

GM ще започне да изнася коли в Япония, а на служителите си ще плаща в йени.

Тотото ще стане по-богато от правителството и ще поеме някои от неговите фунцкии.

Веригите за бързо хранене ще станат толкова влиятелни, че ще забранят продажбата на плодове и зеленчуци, което ще улесни пъкления им план да затрупат планетата с плът.

Служителите на здравно-застрахователните агенции в САЩ ще се разболеят и ще им се наложи да ползват собствените си услуги (липсата на такива) и ще загинат (поради невъзможността им да си платят сметките), което най-накрая ще сложи край на застрахователните агенции.

Ако и на вас ви говорят нещо звездите, моля, споделете.


Черновидетелката Ива

Round table “Financial PR during crisis”

On April 8th I was at the round table “Financial PR during crisis”. The event was hosted by the Bulgarian PR Society and supported by one of the local banks – Postbank. I was not surprised to see nearly 100 people attending this event – mainly PR and Communication head, but also reps of the PR agencies and media in the sector. I liked the presentation, particularly the one of Iliana Zaharieva, but I was disappointed by the discussions. Most of the attendees were shy and not willing to share. Most of the time we were sharing information that we already have and pretended that is all fine. The only bomb was thrown by Vassil Atanasov – Managing Editor “Business” with Economedia, who said that with a risk to destroy the idealistic spirit at the round table, the PR is actually not helping the media to do its job. This was not enough for the PR experts to finally get the mic and speak freely. Almost immediately the host announced a break, which ended the discussion.


After the break it was close to a disaster: most of attendees left, Rumiana Markova Chief PR Expert at the Fund for deposits presented a leaflet, which to my understanding she sees as the peak of her achievements, Diana Dimcheva with Synergon Holding decided to make a full report of her activities in house, which was supposed to be sharing of experience but to me was more like a reporting to her CEO. At least after the break we missed the prompting advices of the auditorium.

Still, end of the day, the event was useful. I personally did some networking together with our new partners with Grozdanov Communications Consulting. I met lots of friends from the sector: Hristina Mashkova, back to work at Investor after giving a births, Luci Marinova – my former colleague with Publicis, Alexander Durchev – head of All Channels Comm – leading Bulgarian PR agency, Vassil Atanasov – already mentioned him – Grozdanov introduced me to him, Vicki Blajeva – PR Manager at UniCredit Bulbank and Alexander Urumov – PR Head of the Bulgarian National Bank. Alexander Urumov had a very nice and inspiring speech and I find him quite interesting as a professional. I almost missed to mention Alexander Grozdanov and Dobromir Stoyanov with Grozdanov Communications – we were at the event together and we shared contacts.

NEno

Photo: by BDVO

I am sorry for the long e-mail

Yes, we should be sorry when we write long e-mails and anytime we use lots of words to say something that should be simple. There are at least two more people in support of my statement:

- Blaise Pascal who said: I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.

- Iskra Panova who wrote this article for Marketing Avenue.

Frankly I am among the people who write long, elaborate, e-mails with lots of info and I think it is hard for the recipient to comprehend the information and answer in once sentence. But I will battle this… defect.

NEno

TOP 15 quotations by Albert Einstein

It is good to pay attention what this great mind has left for us… beside the world famous E=mc2 ;o))

1. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
2. Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
3. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
4. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
5. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
6. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
7. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
8. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

9. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (NEno's personal favorite)
10. Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
11. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
12. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
13. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
14. We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.15. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
15. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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Web 2.0 - what it is all about?

Last week I visited a seminar on Online PR. It was organized by ABC Design & Communications – a company for web solutions and multimedia. So during the one-day program we covered a great variety of topics and one of it was Web 2.0. Frankly speaking, I heard about this new concept, term, definition but I had no idea what it is all about.
I will try to describe it for you, but I am open for add-ons. We have to note that it is not about software upgrade. Web 2.0 compared to Web 1.0 uses more sophisticated and in a way it is evolution of the online communications. It is also an observation of the Internet development stages rather than something that was purposely implemented. Web 1.0 includes basic online communication tools, which we all know: web pages, e-mail, search, forums, etc. Web 2.0 has now evolved to brand new tools which we can use as PR tools and implement communication strategies via them: blogs, social networks, social media, RSS, twitter, wiki (Wikipedia), Second Life (virtual existence).

I will go back to all these, but before that would like to emphasize on two significant differences between Web 1.0 and 2.0. Initially the content online was created from one very small group and was dedicated to a relatively big group. Now, with Web 2.0, we are witnessing how a group of many is creating content for even bigger consumer content group.

The second significant difference is that now the content is more credible due to the fact that it is created by users / every day people. Just the way I create content right now.

Blogs: from web and log = blog. We all know then, we obviously use them ;o))

Social networks: Facebook and Myspace are the most popular social networks. They have worldwide coverage, but there are also very strong local networks. For example in Bulgaria we have Atol, Narod, etc. Unlike forums, in the social networks people use their real identity.

Social media: for example YouTube and again there are plenty of local social media web sites. In Bulgaria we have vbox7. People upload video, photos, news thus feeding the communication cannel and providing information.

Wiki: Wikipedia is cool, but this can be use a PR instrument to communicate and reach auditorium that is online and wants to stay online.

RSS: This is an abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication. Users are receiving news, changes, updates of a web site immediately on thier e-mails.

Second Life (Virtual reality) has a population of nearly 25 million. This is three times the population of Bulgaria. During the 2008 elections in the States, Barak Obama had his virtual HQs. People could come and visit, learn information, support and even donate money (not virtual ;o))

Twitter: now this is really cool. In a short sentence you say how you feel, what you do and what are your immediate plans. Facebook has it and I personally use it all day. I see my friends also use it.

Well this is it from me. Keep surfing on the brand new and higher Web 2.0 waves ;o)))

NEno