Etisalat chose an idea which has been performed in an EXCELLENT way, bgd chapeau!. Vodafone came with an offer and performed it well, when I first so the Police Station commercial, I was amazed, masha2 Allah. Mobinil and the whole new network which is something old btw, got an excellent performers and a great idea to deliver the whole thing. Cocacola and Pepsi chose a performer to present a product, although I think pepsi has got the idea from the performer himself :), so it has the lead here (with Cocacola I mean).

I started to search around, I found some of these commercials on YouTube, so I thought of gathering all together, check them - I couldn’t find the AVEO Commercial, although it’s great -:

Etisalat

Vodafone

Mobinil - I found only one, although I have seen another and kamasheto told me there is another one -

Pepsi

Cocacola

Chrome Memory Management

I was amazed!..So, try to have a look at the whole story.. and you have to watch this video..

I’m really waiting for the linux version, I think it will be extremely fast because of linux task management settings which I think can highly be utilized with such application.

The last day, one of the most inetersting training days, we started with Business Writing, and the guy was OUTSTANDING. He is from England I think, he knows exactly the content needs to be delievered and how to professionally do the job. I can give him 15 of 10 for this GREAT session. Then came Pizza Station, Fedex and Axon ’s General Manager in Egypt, a 25 or something years old Architectural Engineer who has 4 companies in that las 4 year. A proven example on Entrpreneaurship, I was really ineterested listening to him asking him how could he do that in just 4 years. He is a good example for young business men in Egypt and I hope one day I can do something like that. The day ended with MIE Competion next steps and milestones’ session by Mr.Tamer Darweesh the MIE Chariman. We have a deadline on next November 28^th, Rabena ma3ana and please pray for us. Then came the closing session, which contained some funny stuff, like the movie in which all people are asleep in Dr.Safa’s Session :D, some poems from talented MIE competitors, and Certificates for the teams won on the Ethics competion held on the first day.

The Summer Training, an event I’m really happy to attend, and really proud that I joined the whole competion from the begining. I wish we can pass it to the end and reach the final 5 with the great milestones which we will have to pass in-sha2-Allah.

The next day, we completed what was started the day before, the presenter is a scientist in his field really, we had a lot of VERY useful information. How to search for a good idea to be implemented in you field of interest and how to do a market research for this idea. How to convince a sponsor and how to push him to sponsor you, it was really outstanding. This thing that was really EXTRAORDINARY is to have Mr.Safa Moustafa, the presenter of the sescond session on this day. We have met him on the first day in a session about People types and how to deal with everyone of them, but this time it was about 6 hats of thinking and how to organize, decide which hats to use and to wear ;). The session had a lot of messages inside. Can’t talk about Dr.Safa himself, he is great, I hope we can host him in one Scope of the CAT organized ones. He will really make us all think different about everything, even he will just come to have a conversation without a specific session topic. Briefly, it was the best session in the training!

Then comes today, the 7th day in the training, “Sponsored or not to be Sponsored”, an interesting name of the first session, a confident presenter from MIE, he is the founder of the idea and he came today to share us his experience and give us more tips in such topic. It somehow contained some stuff from the Marketing Research Session, but the interesting part is to how face to face start a conversation with the man of charge in the sponsor’s company. How to introduce youself, your idea, your team and the competion itself. One may ask, what’s the difference between the “Marketing Research Session” and this one; the first one introduced how the sponsor think, and how you should consider his market while talking to him, beside the whole Marketing Research topic, but this second was all about how to initiate a conversation with a sponsor, “talk” to the sponsor and deal with him through your idea’s marketing.

We still have two more days to end this training, and start the “searching for the sponsor” milestone, mainly if we couldn’t get a sponsor, we won’t be able to complete the whole competion so it’s really a great challenge. Pray for us.

For the first day, we were asked to create 9 teams, 12 different members from all universities per team and to start working on a case study which will have the IEEE Code of Ethics document applied to. The team had to choose a presenter to present the answers of the case study in 3 minutes, and to be judged in another 2. I was my team’s presenter and Al-7amdolelah it was really good, except for the last question which was about “my team members’ names” and it was a mess then :D, because I didn’t know anyone except Ahmed Sameh. We had a great show, and I think we were the only team who had a show, other teams had a technical presentation more than a showy one.

Today was another great day, I was sitting in my place when one of the MIE-2009 organizers which was reposnible for the event asked me to have another presentation about anything I can choose, and I chose Linux and it was really a great one, astonshing audience with how easy you can transform Linux’s GUI to a Windows’ and the desktop effects done by compiz-fusion. I had a great feedback about the 10 mins presentation and some folks from there asked to a way to start using linux and I was really happy to guide them.

Al-7amdolelah, Mansoura University has proven its existance in the Training and it’s still doing great stuff up there.

May Allah help all teams!

Monday, comes TCDP (The CAT Documentation Project) meeting, I really wanna thank Mohamed Safwat who will relaunch the project, he is a very active guy who is starting his life in CAT, May Allah bless him and give him patience . Back to depiak, and the Web Development Course meeting on Tuesday, I have to discus appointments and course contents and project. This will really affect the week after next, because the course will start then and mostly we will be having an everyday class for 2-3 hours!

New thing to mention, is My Graduation Project Team Meeting, which comes just after the Web Development course one, where I have to discus some ideas regarding the project and introducing the team members to each other. Also we should add discussing the MIE thing which might affect the next month totally, cause I might travel to Cairo/Alex to have the project’s training period!!

Wednesday, PixiCAT’s workshop, Digital Painting. I hope it will be excellent, I really wanna see PixiCAT back again. I wanna achieve a dream I always dreamed of once I joined CAT. Then just after, PixiCAT management meeting which will be a battle between their management. We will have to elect new positions and start actual working.

Thursday, left for emergencies, I know something will pop-up suddenly and I will put it on Thursday. Sure, we have to add my personal life, work and study. Pray for me!!

Edit: Although it’s not working properly, but Google Calendar ROCKSSSSSSSS!

I really knew by chance, when I was charging using the 10 EGP valued card, when I have been told that I will have the offer applied to my number in 24 hours, that was on Saturday 02^nd of this month. So, I told AnGel, My Mother, Biko and Psycho. AnGel got her card at night I think and she got the offer, but for my mother when she got her card just yesterday, she found that the offer is finished and it won’t apply for any extra numbers. I really got astonished, and I wondered why?!

I even started to think about the offer. I use “kalamna“, in which SMS costs 30 Piasters and a minute from a vodafone to vodafone 20 Piasters and for any other 40 Piasters. So, for me 1000 SMS costs 300 EGP and I think this is the least SMS price in all vodafone systems - “Super Dardasha for example, 39 pt -.

I was talking with my AnGel today, when we started to calculate, based on the following statistics - We Assumed -:

• Egypt Population: 70 Million - Which is less than actual number with almost 11 Million ** -
• Vodafone Users are: 10 Millions - Which is less than actual number with almost 5 Million *** -
• Only 500,000 Vodafone Users knew about the offer in the first 2 days - actual days offer was valid -
• And 9.5 Million Vodafone Users knew about the offer after it’s done and they didn’t know it’s done, so they went to charge their SIMs.
• 1000 SMS / 30 Days = almost 33 SMS/Day
• Average “ACTUAL” SMS/Day = 15 SMSs

So, 15 SMS/Day * 30 PT = 4.5 EGP and in 30 Days we will have 135 EGP, that will be used by only 500,000 people, that will result 67,500,000 EGP that vodafone might lose.

For the rest 10 Million Vodafone users, which will buy only 10 EGP card, which will result in 95,000,000 EGP, so vodafone will gain: 95,000,000 - 67,500,000 = 27,500,000 EGP!

* I’m not proving anything, just can we have a look at Vodafone’s next year “ACTUAL” final report?!
** Reference: CIA Web Site
***

Vodafone Egypt now boasts a team of more than 3500 employees serving more than 14.1 million customers (Mar. 08) nationwide.
Source: Vodafone Official Web Site

For the whole previous year, I was doing my best, although I knew it’s not my best, but at least I was trying. It was like a proof to a lot of people that I can do it! . A wish, next year to have the same results or may be better, just a try to enhance the overall graduation grade. I know I have no chance to have a job in the university - as a tutor I mean -, but it will help in my future career as an advice I got from a dear friend of mine.

One coincidence that were really strange and really amusing, that I got my results with by birthday which I celebrated with my Family, AnGel and Friends - except Sameh and Kamasheto for personal circumstances for each - and it was really a great day and and really amazing. Thanks all