[Interview] In The Bubble Of Karen Kakou: "my parents never knew their ways to successful careers, I had to figure everything out by myself"

[Interview] In The Bubble Of Karen Kakou: "my parents never knew their ways to successful careers, I had to figure everything out by myself"

1. Quick (but effective) introduction of the personage and her achievements? I am Karen A. Kakou. I am an Industrial Engineering graduate from the University of Wisconsin in the USA. Currently I work as a Manager in a renowned food manufacturing company, where I get to apply my analytical, continuous improvement and people management skills on a daily basis. My strength throughout my career has been to always seek the next thing to learn. I am a hungry for anything books and new knowledge. With my background- my mom never gone to college, my father barely knowing the ways around for a successful career, and no one to guide me in general, I had to figure everything out for myself. This may be the reason why I have always been thirsty for more to learn. This helped me in defying what the expected future for me was- a passable future, to strive for a more excellent future in which I live up to my potential. Today I could not be any happier because I am living the path of what was meant for me, and I never settled. 2. What are your main goals in life?...

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Breaking Through Pebble: from Mediocrity to Excellence

Breaking Through Pebble: from Mediocrity to Excellence

How Do You Shift from a Restricted Mindset to Thinking Excellence for Greater Success? In this briefing, I share a few tactics from my personal experience of exiting the realm of mediocrity to a mindset of excellence that leads me toward success. I also discuss some observations and principles that have been helpful in acquiring knowledge and acting on it....

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[Interview] In The Bubble Of Olivier Madiba: "my goal is to reach my maximum human potential and to help others to do the same"

[Interview] In The Bubble Of Olivier Madiba: "my goal is to reach my maximum human potential and to help others to do the same"

1. Quick (but effective) introduction of the personage and his achievements? I am MADIBA Olivier, 32 years old Cameroonian. I have a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science obtained at the University of Yaoundé 1. I launched 2 startups (MADIA and KIROO). I am currently CEO / Game Designer / Scriptwriter / Programmer at Kiroo which is the first video game studio in Cameroon....

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[Interview] In The Bubble Of Israel Yoroba: "I am president, elite serial entrepreneur, veteran blog trotter, catalyst for change in our generation"

[Interview] In The Bubble Of Israel Yoroba: "I am president, elite serial entrepreneur, veteran blog trotter, catalyst for change in our generation"

1. Quick (but effective) introduction of the personage and his achievements? My name is Israel GUEBO. Better known as Israel Yoroba. I am a Media Expert and Coach, and specialist in social networks. I am also President of the Génération Innovante association. Furthermore, I am a member of the Bureau of the Network of Online Press Professionals of Ivory Coast, I am in charge of training and self-regulation. I am a journalist by training and profession, graduated from the Superior School of Journalism of Lille, France. From my experience, I keep the most important ones. I trained the press service of the office of the president of the National Assembly, the communication department of the Presidency of the Republic and worked as coordinator of the digital communication for the Ministry of Youth. From Print to Radio and Web, I have just over 10 years of experience with International Media. For 6 years (2008-2013), I had been a correspondent in Abidjan for the Web editorial of the French channel TV5. As such, I covered the 2008 US elections, the 2010 presidential elections and the subsequent military-political crisis in The Ivory Coast. Between 2014 and 2017, I was chief editor of the "Studio Mozaik" Radio School, and later Head of the Hemisphère Media Production Office. That is the company that provides correspondence for TF1 in Africa and for France 24 in some countries of West and Central Africa. For a decade, I have traveled around Francophone Africa to train state institutions. In Togo, Benin, Burundi, Gabon, Guinea... I train Senators and Members of Parliaments for the use of new media in institutional communication. This is taking place as part of the Noria program, initiated by the Francophone Parliamentary Assembly (APF), an institution for which I am a consultant. I was also a web editor for the France 24 blog. In 2011, I did a brief stint at Radio France Internationale (RFI) on the program "L'atelier des médias". What I was most reknown for was the "Avenues", these local information sites with a presence in several African countries. Besides the Avenues, I launched, in 2013, the first Web Radio of information in Ivory Coast: Class FM (www.classe.fm). All this earned me several distinctions:...

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[Interview] In The Bubble Of Antoine Mian: "if one is not passionate, they miss out on life"

[Interview] In The Bubble Of Antoine Mian: "if one is not passionate, they miss out on life"

1. Quick (but effective) introduction of the personage and his achievements? Bi Sehi Antoine MIAN, I am a teacher-researcher in ICT. Currently Assistant Director of Techno Pedagogy at the Virtual University of Ivory Coast. From my experiences as Ivorian Web actor and blogger, I was able to integrate social media as Teaching Units into the educational model of the Virtual University of Ivory Coast....

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10 Marketing Tips For Promoting Your Next Blog Post

10 Marketing Tips For Promoting Your Next Blog Post

You created your blog a few months ago. You regularly produce content to supply the "few readers you have" but that doesn't seem to be enough. Your numbers are hardly increasing and you don't know how to boost your web traffic. The few Facebook and Twitter ads that you buy to promote your publications don't really help and you do not know what to do. Today I would like to suggest 10 tips that will help you to better promote your next blog post and develop your audience....

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10 Business And Management Skills To Own And Be Productive

10 Business And Management Skills To Own And Be Productive

Management skills tend to play a very important part in business. It is thanks to these skills that company directors can assign, assess and stay aware of the work completed by their teams. They decide, implement actions and take control of each situation. Their skills and roles should necessarily match their career ambitions. In this article, I suggest 10 skills in Business and Management to own in order to be productive and to be considered as a good Manager....

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[Interview] In The Bubble Of Nanda Seye: "it was essential to be very strategic and organised in order to reach the defined objectives"

[Interview] In The Bubble Of Nanda Seye: "it was essential to be very strategic and organised in order to reach the defined objectives"

1. Quick (but effective) introduction of the personage and her achievements? I am Nanda SEYE, Ivorian, in charge of private sector programs in a training firm. I am completing a training in Computer Engineering Option Networks and Systems in a school in Ivory Coast. I have experience in Digital Marketing, Project Management and Computer Network Administration. Also, I have a blog on ICT. What sets this blog apart is the fact that it educates and informs on ICT topics through humour. Hired as a Community Manager by a coworking space from 2013 to 2014, I managed to bring together the different ICT communities around this space and to organize several events that helped in establishing the reputation of the company. This was my greatest accomplishment because JokkoLabs was the first collaborative space in that country; the concept was therefore unknown to the public. It was essential to be very strategic and organised in order to reach the defined objectives....

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