Google DESKTOP

Have you ever needed to:

- Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly
- View web pages you've seen, even when you're not online
- Search as easily as you do on Google

?

ME 2!!!!! ;-)




Google Desktop Search is how our brains would work if we had photographic memories. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop Search puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails, and bookmarks.

By default, Google Desktop Search collects a limited amount of non-personal information from your computer and sends it to Google. This includes summary information, such as the number of searches you do and the time it takes for you to see your results, and application reports we'll use to make the program better. You can opt out of sending this information during the installation process or from the application preferences at any time.Personally identifying information, such as your name or address, will not be sent to Google without your explicit permission.

After downloading Google Desktop Search, you can search your personal items as easily as you search the Internet using Google. Unlike traditional computer search software that updates once a day, Google Desktop Search updates continually for most file types, so that when you receive a new email in Outlook, for example, you can search for it within seconds. The index of searchable information created by Desktop Search is stored on your own computer.
In addition to basic search, Google Desktop Search introduces new ways to access relevant and timely information. When you view a web page in Internet Explorer, Google Desktop Search "caches" or stores its content so that you can later look at that same version of the page, even if its live content has changed or you're offline. Google Desktop Search organizes email search results into conversations, so that all email messages in the same thread are grouped into a single search result.

More on...

http://desktop.google.com/

And as I always tell you...
Here on PerformYourMagic blog you can find Personal & Business Development Training, Team Building, Coaching, Consulting Services, free powerful tools and articles for Successful people... with Cristian C. Francu (Bucharest, Romania)

Cristian C. Francu’s Guarantee

"I will customize my presentations, consulting, and training programs to meet the exact needs and expectations of my customers.

I will continually improve my teaching to reflect the highest knowledge available to enable the development of the full potential of each individual and company I serve.

My mission is

- to inspire, motivate, train, teach and coach others helping them to build their own success stories. (This blog is build with this ideea in mind: to help as many people as possible to Perform their Magic)

- to support companies in their path towards excellence helping them to become 'built to last organizations'.

On the long-term, I set myself the goal to become a millionaire in dollars for what it will make of me to achieve it.

In the next years I intend to build my successs story, a challenging career and at least one 'built to last organisation'.

I am sure that life is consistently testing us for our level of commitment and for our determination to achieve our goals and dreams.
I am sure that the life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment and determination, great passion and adaptability, and the will to act proactively until they succeed.

This kind of proactivity, commitment and determination can move mountains if it’s constant and consistent.

That’s why I know 'Sky is the limit' and that is why a Training Program is only a starting point on our path towards excellence.
After that we only have to Perform our Magic”

Cristian C. FRANCU
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“Sky is the limit! Just PERFORM YOUR MAGIC!”
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MindSmith Trainer
Personal Development Educator
Public & Motivational Speaker
Personal Coach
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Phone/Fax: +4 021.232.81.15 - home
+4 021.312.99.74 - office
GSM: +4 0723.540.139
E-mail: cristian.francu@trainers.ro

cristian.francu@klevertravel.com

Here on PerformYourMagic blog you can find Personal & Business Development Training, Team Building, Coaching, Consulting Services, free powerful tools and articles for Successful people...

VIP's Annual Presentation

I am proud to invite you all tomorrow at the 2004 VIP's Annual Presentation.

The event will take place in A.S.E, the Caderea Bastiliei Building (6, Romana Square), in the ‘Amphitheatre 1’, at 12:00 hours, on the October 15 2004.

It will be something to remember...


Here on PerformYourMagic blog you can find Personal & Business Development Training, Team Building, Coaching, Consulting Services, free powerful tools and articles for Successful people...

A group photo

I' d like to share with you this Group picture with some of my friends and Partners at the VIP's 5 Year Aniversary at Crowne Plaza - 13 December 2003.


From Left to right you can see Laura, Lucian, Irina, me, Mihai Botea, Alina, Horia and Doina.

HOT NEWS! free OXFORD Scholarship ONline

Sensational news:

For our Readers - The Successful people - ONLY until OCTOBER 31 2004, the SWIS LIBRARYS CONSORTIUM offers FOR FREE an User name and a password for the OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP PORTAL http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/

Oxford University Press published here the CONTENT of more than 750 great Books

www.oxfordscholarship.com
>Username = gksh1
>Password = scholarship

IT is as I always tell you,

Here on http://performyourmagic.blogspot.com/ you can find Personal & Business Development Training, Team Building, Coaching, Consulting Services, free powerful tools and articles for Successful people...

MIT Sloan School of Management - Courses

One good friend of mine, Mihai Seceleanu has a special blog: http://www.start-up.ro

And he shared with us a fantastic online resource for Training:


Online Business Courses ... provided for succesful people FREE by MIT Sloan School of Management in their OpenCourseWare section.

As Mihai noticed, this is a #16 MBA university, according to the global survey done by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2004.

The courses cover topics like Game Theory for Managers, Organizational Processes, Early Stage Capital, Logistics, Leadership, Strategic Management.And also plenty of other sciences like Anthropology, Chemistry, Economics, Nuclear Engineering, Political Science.

Here you can find Personal & Business Development Training, Team Building, Coaching, Consulting and powerful tools for Successful people...

Who rules?

They Rule...

http://www.theyrule.net/ is a web site that allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004.

The data was collected from their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate as long companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards. They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the 'US ruling class'. It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same directors. Some individuals sit on 5, 6 or 7 of the top 500 companies. It allows users to browse through these interlocking directories and run searches on the boards and companies.

A user can save a map of connections complete with their annotations and email links to these maps to others.

You must try the saved popular maps...
That can be really interesting.

They Rule is a starting point for research about these powerful individuals and corporations.

Either you are a fan of the conspiracy theory or just an interested entrepreneur or professional...'they rule' can prove to be a powerful tool. enjoy!

You can also read the new They Rule weblog which has links to related sites.

For Succesful people...

The Gmail virtual drive

IN order to Perform your Magic in a more efficient way, you, the proffesional problem solver need some useful professional tools to help you in your work...

This is for sure one of the many I'll present here, on the Perform your Magic - The Romanian Personal and Business Development Blog...


http://www.viksoe.dk/gmail/

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer.

GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

Ever since Google started to offer users a GMail e-mail account, which includes storage space of a 1000 megabytes, you have had plenty of storage space but not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you can easily copy files to your GMail account and retrieve them again. When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it generates an e-mail and posts it to your account. The e-mail appears in your normal Inbox folder, and the file is attached as an e-mail attachment. GMail Drive periodically checks your mail account (using the GMail search function) to see if new files have arrived and to rebuild the directory structures. But basically GMail Drive acts as any other hard-drive installed on your computer. You can copy files to and from the GMail Drive folder simply by using drag'n'drop like you're used to with the normal Explorer folders. Because the GMail files will clutter up your Inbox folder, you may wish to create a filter in GMail to automatically move the files (prefixed with the GMAILFS letters) to your archived mail folder. Please note that GMail Drive is still an experimental tool.

There's still a number of limitations of the file-system (such as total filename size must be less than 40 characters), and it doesn't make full use of the secure internet protocols available.

But you can have both on your Computer and online your most important files...And that can prove to be very useful for many of us!

For the Succesful people...

TheMindSmith Group

The MindSmith Group is a team of young and dynamic training, coaching and consultants professionals, doing their jobs very well.

We the MindSmiths have university education, work experience, management and communication skills, a positive attitude and a fantastic energy aspiring to satisfy all the wishes of our clients and partners.
We use highly trained consultants and facilitators with backgrounds in business, team building, organizational development, HR and education.

Our purpose is to provide training, team building, coaching and HR consulting services of superior quality and added value in order to improve the life and results of our trainees and to support the client companies in their path towards excellence, maximizing the efficiency and productivity of their workforce.

Our mission is to meet the everyday needs of our client companies and to understand the aspirations of our trainees, in order to respond with special, individualized and quality Training, Teambuilding, Coaching and Consulting services.

We seek to be the best in the industry and at what we do. We learn both from our success and our mistakes. We believe in you and in ourselves and we understand that there is no such thing as ‘failure’, but only results - good or bed results. We strive to achieve the good ones and see the bad ones as just another step towards success. We inspire people to follow their dreams and achieve their goals and we enable them to achieve their highest expectations.


In our consulting approach we realized that even if the customer isn’t always right – it should and must be always treated right.

We assure you that we always work according to our core values and code of ethics ensuring that we offer added value to all our employees, clients and shareholders.

We work with our client organization from the early first assessment to identifying the existing problems, needs and expectation, developing the solution according to the client’s strategy, implementing it and measuring the results.

We never try to sell you something just for the sake of making a sale. It has to fit with your goals!

We want to become your trusted advisors - the MindSmiths forging your future.

The MindSmith Trainings

• Personal Development
  
  The goal of the Personal Development program is to improve the individual, to take the person’s abilities to new levels. Starting from discovering the inners self, going trough emotional intelligence to finding the equilibrium with the inner self.and becoming a professional human being. The next step takes the individual to better organizing his/her life, be it professional or personal, short term or long term. The natural development of this point is to take control of your life in such a manner that other can follow you on you road taking us in the concept of leadership, or, at least, social integration of the individual. The blend of leadership is even better felt when development of people around you, who now are in leadership positions, is taken as the first priority of you life, so you become a mentor or a coach, more than a friend, to your companions.
  Personal Development programs are aimed to support individuals achieving the capacity of controlling their future and transforming their dreams into reality, whereas this future is derived of a powerful dream. The main target of these programs are
  the individuals from ‘built to last organizations’, whose personnel is striving to become better and better, for themselves, for the progress of their team and the welfare of the company, as well as freelancing individuals with high expectations from life.
  
  
  From Energy 2 Success
  Step 1: Discovering Yourself
  Step 2: Building the energy within/ Positive thinking
  Step 3: Building the success
  Personal Development Agenda
  Time Management
  Negotiating Your Future
  Leadership
  Basics
  Developing the skill
  Taking Feedback
  Taking working to friendship/
  Building and enjoying the interpersonal work relationships
  How to … - when Coaching / Mentoring
  Failure or Success - Focusing on the solutions
  How do you handle fear
  
  Let us help your people make the personal, spiritual and professional growth changes they’re longing for!

                      Cristian C. Francu
MindSmith Trainer, Personal Development Educator and Coach

• Organizational Development
  
  Organizational Development programs are tailored to the specific of your company and are designed to improve the overall company. The main trainings in this area are connected to the core attribute of the effective team integrated in the overall picture of the effectiveness of the organization. We refer to the team as being the first, most important element of the company because the teams are the only mass performance system that can perform in a predicted way. In the shadow of the coin we find that not prepared teams are one important factor to the downfall of many businesses.
  To ensure the wellbeing of a company we took the approach also to the meetings problems, with creativity and overlapping problems, and to the promotion of leaders, and decision makers from within. The final training theme from the Organizational Development program is aimed to better understanding and use of the project management tool. The whole program has managed to prepare teams to serve as the basis of all the company benefits.
  
  
  Building Effective Teams
  Step 1: Selecting / Recruiting
  Step 2: Team Building
  Step 3: Motivating / Investing in Performance
  Step 4: Evaluation / Giving Feedback
  Step 5: Conflict Management
  Step 6: Team Consolidation / Design the Future
  Effective Meetings
  Developing and Promoting Leaders
  Project Management
  Step 1: Basics
  Step 2: Advanced
  Step 3: Developing the skill
  
  

• Business Development
  
  Whereas the first two programs were targeted to fulfill the needs of the individual and of the organization, the Business Development programs have a busine$$ orientation focused on “partnership building”. Business in our vision means achieving goals while building, maintaining, developing and improving the relationships with the stakeholders. The main goal of such programs is to make profit. Every program is tailored on demand and made fruitful for the functional departments of a company. We cover Sales, Marketing and some specific aspects of Public Relations, as well as business relations in general
  In the construction of this area of development we start from the market needs and prospects.
  The specter of trainings has two different targets: the entry level employees or the new entrepreneurs and the middle or top management professionals. All our trainings have a ‘basic’ area of development, taking the journey from understanding the principles to good practical use. The public speaking, ethics and etiquette are those trainings targeted at professionals who need the most important details of these specific areas. In effect, the Business Development programs come to establish professionalism and proficiency after the completion of Organizational Development programs.
  
  
  Sales
  Step 1: Basic Selling skills
  Step 2: Developing the skill
  Direct Sales
  Consultative Sales
  Hot Sales
  Sales Ethics
  Negotiation
  Step 1: Basic Negotiations skills
  Step 2: Developing the skill
  Negotiations Ethics
  Etiquette for business meetings
  Taking ‘ Market Feedback
  Looking for New Opportunities
  Business Ethics
  Etiquette
  Etiquette in business
  Public Speaking
  Step 1: Meetings
  Step 2: Large gatherings
  Step 3: Events
  Step 4: Motivational speaking
  

TEAM BUILDING CAMPS

We're starting...

We're haveing fun...

And we have some Projects...

Working together...as united TEAM

Always trusting and supporting eachother...

We share our thoughts and feelings...



We take some pictures...



And then we have to go home...

The MindSmith TEAM BUILDING Services

Get ready for some extraordinary team building challenges that require your people to explore creative solutions, practice and improve working as a team - in a fun and unforgettable atmosphere.

The MindSmith Group offers you the widest range of team building activities – from some indoor training to the well known rope courses.

We are ready to travel throughout Romania and internationally, and we can handle groups starting from 10 to 200 persons.

Our ‘Team Building Camps’ are specially designed in order to help the group understand the problems that block effective communication and resource sharing and to take action and avoid them. As a result we get your team to work together more effectively, enjoying their day to day activities.

Our Team Building Solutions are always tailored for the Client Company and team.

We custom tailor any activity to work with your objectives. We don't try to sell you something just for the sake of making a sale. It has to fit with your goals!

We will customize the Team Building activities, presentations, and training modules in order to meet the exact needs and objective of the customer.

We can develop full Team Building Camps (with transport, accommodation, meals, training & team building services included) or provide only the added value of our team building services at your location.

We use the experiential learning process which produces results faster than any other form of learning.

The special MindSmith Team Building approach is based on the ‘Activity - Debriefing’ modules using a simple and efficient model called EIAG.

THE MindSmith EIAG Team Building Aproach:

EXPERIENCE – first the team faces some challenges that require people to explore, practice and improve working as a team in different situations.

IDENTIFICATION – after the ‘team building game or activity’ we identify a specific behavior or a specific incident that happened during the group activity.

ANALYZATION – then the trainer leads the group exploring the effects of that specific behavior or incident. We start from the each individual internal reaction, analyze the individual external reaction and behavior and share some individual assumptions and conclusions.

GENERALISATION – after the group experienced a challenging situation, analyzed their behavior and results, draw some conclusion and discovered some ‘best practices’ for that situation, our trainer helps the group to generalize and transfer their conclusions for the specific team building activity to some real world situations. This is the part when every person involved in the team building realize what and how much he/she has learned from the specific, sometimes ‘weird’ activity.

We help people know themselves and the other team members better and to discover themselves in out of the ordinary situations.

We use highly trained facilitators with backgrounds in business, team building, organizational development, HR and education.

We help companies produce business results over and over and over again. Because we are the MindSmiths…

In the VIP Team Building Camp 

Cristian C. Francu's Biography

• Consulting & Training Experience
  
  MindSmith. – Trainer, Motivational Speaker, Personal Development Educator, Personal Coach
  Responsibilities include public and private sector training and consulting, professional speaking and guest lecturing.
  
  Urban Climbing – Trainer and Facilitator
  Responsibilities include public and private sector training and team building.
  
  Event Horizon – Team Building Facilitator
  Responsibilities include public and private sector team building and consulting.
  
  VIP – Volunteers for Ideas and Projects – HR Manager
  Responsibilities include recruiting & training activities. Motivating and appraising.
  
  Topics and trainings:
  
  “Follow your dreams– The Power within you”
  “Performing your Magic – from energy 2 success”
  “KTB – Kondiment Team Building”
  “Team Building Camp”
  “Leadership – everybody’s business”
  “Failure or Success - Focusing on the solutions”
  “How do you handle fear”
  “Discovering Yourself – the NLP aproach” “From motivation 2 enthusiasm – the journey towards success”
  “What leaders realy do”
  “Selecting and Recruiting”
  “The 360° Feed-Back”
  “VIP Team Building Camp” – outdoor & indoor event”
  “Leadership”
  “Great Groups-Great Missions”
  “The Vision Camp”
  “Keep the spirit alive”
  “Presentation Skills”
  “Negotiation”
  “Public Speaking”
  “Business ethics”
  “Emotional Intelligence”
  “Consultative sales”
  
  Clients:
  
  “VIP – Volunteers for Ideas and Projects”
  “CST Pas Intins”
  “Mentor Grup”
  “Kondiment Solutions”
  “Urban Climbing”
  “CHF Romania”
  “Econosofia”
  “Personal Development School”
  “BOS Romania”
  “Univers Publishing House”
  “Klever Travel”
  “Scouts Romania”
  “AdVice”
  “Assertive Solutions”
  “Business Club”
  “eWay”
  “SEC Romania”
  “Romania in 21st Century Summer School”
  “Chiar poti” program
  “Classic Bar Team”
  “Open Courses on Career & Personal Development”

• PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
  
  Kondiment Solutions, number of employees: 30
  October 2003 - Present
  Project Manager
  Responsibilities:
  • Implementation, launching and development of a Travel Portal.
  • Sales, PR, Branding & Business Development, HR
  
  Major Achievement:
  Cristian has developed one of the most reliable Romanian providers of online travel services, the first choice online travel provider when traveling to Romania for more foreign partners.
  He developed the brand and the brand Identity of KleverTravel.com. He closed partnerships with the best travel services providers in Romania.
  
  
  MindSmith , number of employees: 5
  December 2003 - Present
  MindSmith Trainer, Personal Development Educator, Public & Motivational Speaker and Personal Coach
  Responsibilities:
  Development and presentation of training programs consulting, professional speaking and guest lecturing.
  
  Major Achievement:
  The “KTB – Kondiment Team Building”, “The VIP Team Building Camp”, ”The CHF Retreat” - a team building program for 80 people programs & “The Personal Development School”, “Leadership”, “From Motivation 2 Enthusiasm – the journey towards success” programs. The trainees gave Cristi a sensational positive feed-back.
  
  
  Univers Publishing House, number of employees: 8
  June 2003 - September 2003
  Advertising Manager
  Responsabilities:
  Coordinating the sales of advertising space in 2 American Science Magazines –“Scientific American” and “Discover Magazine
  
  Major Achievement:
  Cristian developed a new coherent sales strategy. He closed new partnership and a special barter deal.
  
  
  VIP - Voluntari pt Idei si Proiecte, number of employees: 55
  
  September 2003 - Present
  Chairman of the VIP Board of Directors & Alumni Coordinator
  •Leading and organizing the Board meetings
  •Coordinating the VIP Alumni Network
  
  June 2002 - August 2003
  President
  • Coordinating the activity of VIP’s departments – Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Public Relations and Finance
  • Coordinating the projects and the project managers
  • Coordinating the relation between VIP and its Clubs
  • Assuring the financial stability and legal continuity of VIP
  
  February 2002 - July 2002
  Project Manager of ROMANIA IN THE XXIst CENTURY Summer School
  • Coordinating the activity of 13 people involved in this project.
  • Coordinating the Sales, Marketing and PR campaigns.
  • Inviting top Romanian leaders to this event
  
  July 2001 - July 2002
  HR Manager
  • Coordinating of recruiting & training activities. Motivating and appraising.
  • Providing leadership and a competitive advantage in these areas.
  • Member of the VIP Executive Board
  
  September 2000 - September 2001
  Marketing Officer
  • Adding value to our brand
  • Assuring brand awareness and a strong positioning of our projects and clubs
  
  Major Achievement:
  Cristian assured the financial stability and the legal continuity of VIP in a ‘rough‘ period with many cash flow and personnel problems. He organized and coordinated one of the most successful editions of the "Romania in the 21 Century" Summer School. He developed the organization’s Clubs. He coordinated a recruitment process with more than 600 applicants. Cristi represented and promoted VIP in two national TV shows. He developed a complex training program for the new members and a new assessment procedure.
  
  
  March 2000
  "Youths Tourism Fair” Project Manager
  
  Cristian has organized and coordinated one of the most successful edition of the only Students Tourism Fair in Bucharest
  

• EDUCATION
  
  October 1999-September 2003
  Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest
  Faculty of Commerce,
  Tourism and Services Management
  - Graduate with diploma - Bachelor Degree - mark 10
  
  Over the for years as a student at the Academy of Economic Studies Cristian has successfully combined studying marketing and management in the field of Tourism and Services with a continuous need to improve his knowledge of marketing & sales management, HR and PR, both from theory and practice, and also to develop extracurricular activities and internships. He always managed to be in the Top 10% of his class and his Diploma Thesis: “Leadership – the competitive advantage of the companies in the 21 Century” was the starting point of his soon to be published first book.
  
  September 1995-September 1999
  "Jean Monnet” Theoretical High School - Bucharest
  - Graduate with diploma - Baccalaureate Diploma - mark 9,21
  
  ****************
  
  Cristian C. Francu won the 1st Prize at the Communication Olympics organized by Ethos and Orange Romania.
  
  He has been appointed as a honorific President of the “Pas Intins” Tourism Club and he is a member of the “Romania in the 21st Century” Community
  
  Cristian is also a member in the GlaxoSmithKline Business School Alumni, HR School Alumni, VIP Alumni & ASE Alumni associations.
  
  
  He is fluent in romanian as a native speaker and in english.
  
  
  Cristian C. Francu’s Guarantee:
  “I will customize my presentations, consulting, and training programs to meet the exact needs and expectations of my customers. I will continually improve my teaching to reflect the highest knowledge available to enable the development of the full potential of each individual and company I serve.
  My mission is to inspire, motivate, train, teach and coach others helping them to build their own success stories Performing their Magic, and to support companies in their path towards excellence helping them to become 'built to last organizations'.
  On the long-term, I set myself the goal to become a millionaire in dollars for what it will make of me to achieve it.
  I am sure that life is consistently testing us for our level of commitment and for our determination to achieve our goals and dreams. I am sure that the life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment and determination, great passion and adaptability, and the will to act proactively until they succeed. This kind of proactivity, commitment and determination can move mountains if it’s constant and consistent. That’s why a Training Program is only a starting point on the path towards excellence. After that we only have to Perform our Magic”
  
  Cristian C. FRANCU
  “Sky is the limit! Just PERFORM YOUR MAGIC!”
  
  MindSmith Trainer
  Personal Development Educator
  Public & Motivational Speaker
  Personal Coach
  -------------------------------------------
  Phone/Fax: +4 021.232.81.15
  GSM: +4 0723.540.139
  E-mail: cristian.francu@trainers.ro
  
  

For Succesful people...