December 21, 2007

ESLpod.com: highly recommended

Filed under: Education — Enrique @ 1:50 am

Hi there to you visitors of my blog. One of the main reasons that I have to do this blogging effort is to improve my English skills as I am going to study a masters degree at a English taught university. Indeed, I’m so happy because today I got the results of the Institutional version of the TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language) and my score was 537, which is closer to the minimum 550 points I need.

My weaknesses were the Listening Comprehension and the Grammar sections. Thus I will be taking the worldwide recognized TOEFL version (International) on January 12th, I started to look for audio material to improve at least the first of those weaknesses.

ESLpod.com logoIf you want to, I highly recommend you to take a look at the podcast produced by ESLpod.com which has a unique and effective method to train the ears for English testing as TOEFL, IELTS and many of others.
ESLpod.com podcast’s has the special contribution of Dr. Jeff McQuillan, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Educational Development.

Just to conclude, if you like it and find it useful, why do not you donate to those great guys who spent time to help us to get a better professional and life quality?

December 19, 2007

Small or big?

Filed under: Business — Enrique @ 3:14 pm

When it comes to think what will bring benefits to our professional career, personal development or that kind of important aspects of the labor market, the answer is closely related to the size of the workplace.

When talking about “size” we mean in first hand to the physical attribute of the company, and therefore to the visionary and innovative attitude of its.This topic came to my head while listening to a interview made to Bill Taylor by HBR IdeaCast podcast. Indeed, Bill has a blog at Harvardbusiness.org called Game Changer.

If you are interested, you could read the full article titled “How feedback changed the game for me” which is quite interesting.

To work at a big fully-empowered muscular company is a great opportunity to learn from many other areas despite yours. To be an employee of one of these might bring you security and calm to long-term financial worries. If you are one of those creative professionals who don’t hesitate by looking better changes to productivity, quality, service and then; a big-muscular company won’t get you realized only if it is based on innovative and leadership values.

I agree to work at mid-sized and small companies, which has a permanent focus on innovation and leading change. For example, I’m proud of a e-mail marketing company named Emma. Just take a look at the “history/people” section of their website and get an idea of what place is given to human capital, knowledge, quality at work and more.

Actually they have a blog to share their thoughts and e-mail marketing tips to clients, web surfers, competitors and everyone. Its a proof that any small, mid or big size company; can contribute to innovation and knowledge.

December 15, 2007

The purpose of this blog

Filed under: Uncategorized — Enrique @ 6:29 am

Hi everybody, this is Enrique from Mexico.

First of all, I would like to communicate you that I’m not a newbie for this bloging stuff.
Secondly, the most of the content here will be posted in english.

As my purpose is to get better skills in this language and to spread the content posted here to all the world

The subjects here will be related to: marketing, design, music, culture, society, culture and diversified personal analysis.

So, welcome to my blog.

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