Currently, I am working in a firm that has 65 employees. It is based in Paris, on the street called Rue Maubert, in the 15th arrondisement. Its business is to sell children’s software.
It gets a federal subsidy to hire interns. That is why I got this job of sales representative. At first, my function was that of junior marketing manager, but I changed.

We sell a wide range of products branded by Youngsoft. We have many expenses to afford regarding marketing. Our display advertising in the metro is one of the most expensive. Our human ressources department also costs a lot of money. We create our own ads thanks to our writing staff, and we create the user’s guides, as well.

Our results for the three first months of this year have all been very good. Our market has a great potential right now, and that is why we are making huge profits.
We’d like to sell our products in Tahiti because we think overseas customers  would be interested in buying them.
To sum up, thanks to our ethics and thanks to our interesting specialized field, we should have a successful future.

I sent a letter to the UN last year to force them to act for the populations who still have to stay in the Tchernobyl area because they had no money to live somewhere else.
Unicef is working on the issue but it is not enough.

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Why do people tend to transfer their angers on objects that they break down violently?

Yesterday, I had a lunch with somebody and couldn’t be at the right place at the right time.

Someone gave me a call, I was so angry that I broke the phone. Fortunately, Darty has a very good service and replaced the phone immediately. Great for me… anyway why did I do that?  Even if I tend to have a lot angers I should not act this way.  But I think I did it because it was the only way not to kill myself.

Moral of the story:

Vive Darty. 

In France we usually talk about the “web 2.0″ to describe the participation of the users (no longer called audience) to the content of a website. In fact the word crowdsourcing would be much more accurate and suitable!

I will, paradoxically, use an example of crowdsourcing to explain the word:

Wikipedia give a satisfying definition:
Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task, refine an algorithm or help analyze large amounts of data.

Wikipedia is edited by volunteers… then it’s crowdsourcing!

The word was first coined by Jeff Howe in a June, 2006 Wired Magazine article[1]. Though the term is new there are examples of significant crowdsourcing projects as early as the eighteenth century. In 1714, the British Government offered a public prize for a solution to the longitude problem. In the 1800s, the Oxford English Dictionary was written from volunteer contributions of millions of slips of paper. Recently, the Internet has been used to publicize and manage crowdsourcing projects.

Other examples of crowdsourcing:
Procter & Gamble posts problems on a website called InnoCentive, offering large cash rewards to more than 90,000 “solvers” who make up this network of backyard scientists.
Public Insight Journalism, A project at American Public Media to cover the news by tapping the collective and specific intelligence of the public. Gets the newsroom beyond the usual sources, uncovers unexpected expertise, stories and new angles.
ESP Game, allows people to collaborate in labeling images.

Bless all english folks