I’ll present you my list of goals for the year of 2010.

1. Pay more attention to egganomaly, i feel like i’m not giving 100%, i’ll try to write often.
2. Leave my parents house and buy or rent one for me.
3. Give my first professional presentation about Web.
4. Finish one of my main projects on hold, probably one connected with my home town.
5. Adopt a more minimalist lifestyle, i feel that I’ve too much things that I don’t need.
6. Design a new logo and template for egganomaly.
7. Travel every three months.
8. Bungee jumping and skydiving.
9. Read at least one book per month.
10. Go back to gym.

And what about your list? I Wanna see your priority goals for 2010.

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Comment if you know the answer =)

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The presents wasn’t anything special, common socks, pants, shirts and other unusual things like a “Ring For Sex” Bell. Because i’m going to London next month my parents gave me money to support the trip.

I really hope that all my family rejoined in the next year.

Merry Christmas for you all.

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Like in the past years in January I travel to England, I love that country, principally London. My journey will start in Sesimbra, I’ll go by car to Setúbal, then i’m taking a train to FARO where I’ll embark on a plane to London(Stansted). I’ll stay in London four days, from 13 to 17, in my cousin house, she has a couch where I can sleep and that’s enough.

This time I’ll stay all the time in London, I want to visit some museums, watch some shows and probably any photography expositions available at that time. I’m thinking if i’ll ride the London Eye, i’m not sure yet.

In 17 January I’ll travel to Glasgow, where I’ll visit other part of my very big family. They live near Edinburgh, but since the flights to Glasgow are very cheap there’s no other best choice. They’ll take me at the airport so I’ll not spend any money in transportation to Edinburgh. I want to visit the Edinburg Dungeon, I’ve been there in 2006 and loved it! Its very dynamic, you follow a story and discovery dark secrets from the past. It’s not that scary but its a cool place to go.

The returning will be in 20 January, a sad day i presume.

The planning is not complete, I’m searching for cool places to go where I haven’t been yet.

With me I’ll bring Sofia Mendonça, an outstanding interior designer who enjoys life as i do. I’m very pleased that she goes with me.

This is probably my most inexpensive travel of all time, I’m spending only the necessary to reach places. Using less luggage is a bonus. Staying in family/friend houses is the best option ever, sure you’ll have less privacy but is a low price to pay for a 100% free bed.

I’ll take my Canon 5D with me, surely I’ll take a zillion photos

If you have a good suggestion leave a comment, thanks.

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I’m having no time to post and there’s a reason for it.
At this moment i’m in some projects that takes all my day, and the free time is only to sleep and eat.

In the next days I’ll try to post more and talk about all this projects, i hope.

If you need any help you can always send me an email and i’ll try to answer. I love email.

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I’m in google wave since the first wave of invites.
This week google presented me with more 30 invites for wave that i want to share with my readers.

To get an invite you just have to post a comment in this post and leave your email in the email box, i’ll send 20 invites to the first 20 who comment.

Google Wave is “a personal communication and collaboration tool” announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009.[1][2] It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.[3] It has a strong collaborative and real-time[4] focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages,[2] and numerous other extensions.[4] Initially released only to developers, a “preview release” of Google Wave was extended to nearly 1 million users beginning September 30, 2009, with the initial 100,000 users each allowed to invite from twenty to thirty additional users.

People Invited:

1. Renato Garrau (via facebook)
2. Margarida Guerreiro (via facebook)
3. Juan Suarez
4. April
5. Vitor Komura
6. mgenov
7. Pedro MIguel
8. Bruno Cardoso
9. Jose Deleep
10. kenneth
11. Jared
12. Mahesh
13. Farhan
14. MCIMaui
15. Gonçalo Santos
16. Luís Sismeiro
17. Bruno Garcez
18. Ricardo Gomes
19. Magnus
20. Hugo Lemos

I’ve some more invites but i’ll give them other time.

Thanks all.

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Method One: Break Down Traditional Barriers

If you were at a conference or a meeting, you wouldn’t just start pushing your business cards into other people’s faces. Before sharing business information about yourself there is usually some initial form of communication.

If you are linking to your own articles or promotional messages constantly, that’s like throwing ads into people’s faces. You can’t think of your links as billboard or TV ads (that people don’t necessarily want, but are forced to see anyway). The Internet world doesn’t work like other media. On the web, people have too many options to be held captive by an advertisement.

Be generous and allow yourself to break the traditional barrier of always promoting yourself. Give to others, rather than always asking. You will soon see exposure, loyalty, and referrals coming your way.

Method Two: Share Referrals and Link Out Often

When it comes to promoting your freelancing services, it’s key to be seen by others in your field. If you are a freelance writer who is too busy to take on any more work, refer a client who is looking for a writer to a colleague who is looking for work.

<>Be sure to tell the client to let your fellow writer know that you referred them. When the other freelance writer finds out that you referred them, they will get in touch with you. When time comes for them to refer a client to someone, they will think of you first. Sharing referrals is a good way to build loyalty from other freelancers in your field and get your name out there.

Another key to getting exposure and marketing your services is through blogging. As you may already know, some people create posts with “must follow” lists of “designers, writers,” and so on.

When you mention someone in a post, they usually come back to thank you for mentioning them. You can also mention others in your blog posts by linking out to relevant articles written by others.

Freelancers are a community of like-minded people who work in different fields, but have similar goals. Help them when they are in need and they will help you to grow your business.

Method Three: Be Transparent

It doesn’t matter whether you are a corporation or a one-man team, transparency in today’s world is key. When you are using different social media and networking platforms, make sure you allow others to see the true you. Be yourself and do not try to sugar coat anything you are saying.

If your office is in the basement and happens to be a storage area, do not tell others you have a gorgeous beach view. What’s the point of lying? Sure you might fool some into thinking that you are doing well, but in the long run lying is not going to help. Be yourself. Do not sugarcoat things.

If you are not knowledgeable about something, but want to talk about it, don’t act like you are an authority on the subject. Being genuine has bigger rewards for you and your freelancing business than being a “poser.” Let your true self be seen so that your potential clients can see not just the work you do, but also the real person behind the work.

Method Four: Embrace Giving

This is a tried and true method. The key to building a thriving community around you and your freelancing services is giving to others.

We are all busy. We all have our plates full. At times, we end up sleeping at our desks. However busy you are, try to squeeze in a few minutes to reply to an email that asks for your input or tweet back to someone who has a problem with something that you might be able to help with.

One of the best ways to keep your name visible on different platforms is to be there when people need you. When someone has a problem and they turn to you, be there for them. If you can’t be there, at least direct them to someone who might be able to help them. They will be grateful to you for your help and your helpfulness will eventually get your name out there.

One last thing that I would like to stress — do not ignore someone just because they are new to blogging, web designing, etc. Help them when you can because when they succeed they will remember you as the one who helped them learn the ropes.

Via freelancefolder.com/

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You’re Just Not That Into Your Hobby

Do you consider yourself a tennis player, but the last time you touched your racket was when Bill Clinton was president? Do you like the idea of being a scrapbooker but have never made a complete scrapbook? Are you keeping canvases for masterpieces you may one day paint, yet all of your paints are dried and your brushes deteriorating? Is your guitar missing strings and in a case at the back of a closet? Do you have areas of your home set aside or filled with stuff related to a hobby that you spend less than 10 hours on a year?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, you are just not that into your hobby.

It can be difficult to admit, but if you’re not averaging at least an hour a month pursuing a hobby, it’s time to let it go. The space you’re sacrificing in your home is too valuable to store things you don’t use. If you don’t have storage issues, it’s still worthwhile to get rid of your unused hobby stuff. Every time you walk past it I bet you think, “I wish I had more time to do X.” You don’t need that stress and guilt. If it were really important to you, you would pursue it.

Five steps for deciding if now is the time to ditch your hobby:

1. Identify all of your hobbies and all of the things associated with them in your home, garage, and office. You may benefit by collecting these items and laying them all out in your front yard or an open space in your home to see how much space you’re sacrificing.
2. List all of these hobbies and then estimate how much time you’ve spent pursuing each of them in the last 12 months. Be honest with yourself.
3. Any hobby with an estimation of 10 hours or less should immediately be moved out of your home. Pack up the equipment and head to a used sports equipment store or an appropriate charity. If the hobby stuff is valuable, photograph it and list it for sale on a site like ebay or craigslist.
4. Any hobby with an estimation of 24 hours or less should be carefully reviewed. If you went camping one day last year, you would reach the 24-hour mark for camping as a hobby. However, is one day of camping worth all of the space used to store your tent, sleeping bag, and all other accoutrements? On the flip side, if you spent one Friday night a month last year playing Bridge with friends and averaged about two hours of playing time a sitting, it’s probably worthwhile to hold onto a deck of cards.
5. Any hobby with an estimation of more than 24 hours also should be considered for review. You may realize that you’re spending so much time and space on your hobby that you’re neglecting things more important in your life, like time with your spouse or children. It’s okay to break up with these hobbies, too. In most cases, however, you probably have a healthy relationship with your active hobbies and you’ll decide to keep up with them. You still will want to evaluate how much stuff you have for them. If you have more supplies than you could use in a lifetime associated with that hobby, it’s time to weed through the collection of stuff. My rule of thumb is that you should never have more than one year’s worth of supplies for an intense hobby — and less than that if you can manage.

There is a caveat to my assumption that you’re just not that into your hobby that I feel I should mention as a footnote. The truth may be that you really like your hobby, but somewhere along the way you misappropriated your time and let it fall by the wayside. Instead of making chairs in your woodworking studio, you’ve been watching television. If this is the case, make new priorities and recommit to your hobby. Turn off the t.v. and head to your studio. Decide to re-evaluate that hobby in six months. If in six months, however, you’re still watching t.v., then it’s time to admit that watching t.v. is your hobby not woodworking.

via unclutterer.com

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This is a self-initiated project based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people. There are a few different versions of this text in circulation about the world’s statistics. I found the data very striking and neatly summarises the world that we live in. So I used information graphics to re-tell the story in another creative way. I designed a set of 20 posters, which contain most of the information. I used simple vector graphics that related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.

You can found the other graphics here.

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