After my last post, where I was constantly reaching 1000 visitors a week I came down to the magnificent number of 3 visitors last week…

This was due to unplanned downtime. The problem was caused by storage server (changed the IP address) and then I lost the password that use to login with registrar provider. My problem is that I use a password generator and memorize passwords… This time I totally forgot.

My rate of posts decreased as unfortunately I broke my wrist and my foot on a Football game (soccer!!)

Thanks everyone for the messages warning me that my blog was down. I really appreciate it

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1000

That is it! I reached 1000 visitors last week (1008 to be precise).  Not surprisingly this happens when re-started to post more often in the blog.

Only last month, and according to Google Analytics, I had visitors from 106 countries or territories. The top countries visiting my blog are:

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• India
• Portugal
• Followed by Germany,  Philippines, Australia, Ireland and France

I posted about how to improve a website ranking, internet marketing, cloud computing, effective communication, strategy,  user experience I and II, product management, Sales suggestions,  provided a couple of presentation tips, talked about my native country plus other things that you can check out by either searching or visiting the archive.

If you want to know how many visits I had when I start just ask Google for “what is the loneliest number”. The calculator will answer you.

Thanks to everyone that visited me

EDIT: To honor my Indian visitors I added Hindi as one of the languages where you can translate the blog automatically.

EDIT 2:     As of August I have over 2200 visitors a week . I definitely need to post more often. Thanks everyone for visiting my blog

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I remember that I came across this video in 2002/2003.

When recently I was moving the information from my old computer to a new hard drive I found it and uploaded it to Youtube.  It is a well known video and you can find several other entries with it. However, I`ll share it anyway.

Hope you like it

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2009 is over and  another downturn is behind our back (we hope!). Last year I set up my resolutions and this year I’ll do the same…

Personally,  I can say it was a great year with very strong professional development where the challenges were overcome successfully. I’ve done a bit of traveling across Europe and the US, met new friends and learn a bunch of new things, both professionally and personally.

It’s time to set personal and professional objectives for 2010:

• Visit family and friends (Portugal) more often;  I’m keeping this one…
• Travel to Asia or the Caribbean (Who knows, maybe both?); I’m keeping this one…
• Master a new language (Russian); I’m already in Trinity College (lower intermediate level) and I’ll keep working on this one;
• Keep working hard.. keep getting results ;
• Eat less fried food; This is going to be hard..
• Run more, specially when playing football;
• Post more on my blog; I’ll keep this one as I failed miserably in 2009
• Eat Nando’s more often with my friend Keith ; It’s the exception to the eat fried food objective
• Have fun!

I wish you all an excellent year of 2010 full of adventures and success!

EDIT: In case you need tips for your 2010 resolutions check This year I will… Some are quite good

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I recon that jpprufino.com is not the easiest name to remember but unfortunately joaorufino.com was taken. Recently I managed to buy joaorufino.com and now you can access the blog using both addresses.

(I know these are not great news but it makes me happy)

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