Mais Gousous recieving the shield at the parade

Akhtaboot - The Career Network has been honored by Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan during the opening ceremony of the Second Annual National Technology Parade (2009), which was held at the Princess Sumaya University for Technology campus on May 11th and 12th, 2009.

The steering committee of the Second Annual National Technology Parade recognized Akhtaboot, alongside a number of local and international companies, for its commitment and contributions to shaping the Job market in Jordan while providing job seekers and fresh graduates with thousands of job opportunities each year.

Mais Gousous, Marketing Coordinator at Akhtaboot, representing the “Akhtaboot Cares” initiative, received an honorary shield, which was presented by Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan. The parade was held under the patronage of Her Royal Highness and was funded and organized by UNIFEM and the Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT).

Mohamad M. Khawaja, Deputy Director at Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship, said: “we are glad to see Akhtaboot’s support to this national event by bringing students and recruiters together prior to graduation, so that students could build their professional network and understand the needs of the job market in order to develop their skills and competencies accordingly”.

The Technology Parade comes in response to the global drive towards capitalizing on the innovative potential of students to provide technological solutions to challenges facing businesses, governments, civil society and local communities in the different areas of the world.

During the event, Akhtaboot interacted directly with the students, both graduates and undergraduates, through offering them advice on how to best use Akhtaboot’s website www.akhtaboot.com to increase their chances of landing the job that’s right for them, while collecting CVs from graduates wishing to join Akhtaboot’s team.

Queen Rania is descovering the power of the social media.

After 14 months on YouTube, I was wondering if Queen Rania wants to discover the power of social media and networking tools on the web one after the other when I saw her on Twitter a week ago (now with more than 40,000 followers). Apparently I was mistaken, Queen Rania is working on her online presence using more than one social media at once.

When I checked HM’s page on Facebook, I figured out that I was missing something that’s happening on the background. A page with more than 21,000 fans who are increasing rapidly. In addition to adding her twitter updates on the page’s status, Queen Rania is starting discussion topics there, mentioning on of them: “How can we build and broadcast cross-cultural dialogue?”. She also uploaded and still uploading some collections of photos on that page.

The interactivity factor on the Facebook page is impressive, and I’m regretting the couple of days I missed without being there. But the question that I and the people around me are asking; who is updating those media tools?! Is she Queen Rania personally who’s doing so or there is a team that is taking care of it, I’m really curious about it and I hope to have the answer one day.

On a different note; today I realized that the Queen’s page on Facebook was owned by my cyber friend, Mohammad Mansour AKA TripleM and one day he found that he’s no longer the admin of that page. Basically Queen Rania stole her page as it’s supposed to be her property

YouTube and the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival have partnered to give the best young creative minds a chance to attend Cannes and compete in the Young Lions Film Competition.

At midnight on 15 May (GMT), YouTube will release a brief on www.youtube.com/canneslions for a 60-second ad for a major charity. Anyone born after 27 June 1980 can submit an ad to this channel until midnight, 17 May. The more creative the better.

Making the video is just half the job. Entrants will have two weeks to drive as many people to their YouTube video as possible. Embed it, blog about it, tweet it – whatever it takes.

At the end of those two weeks, our panel of judges will pick two winners, based on creative execution of the brief and the videos’ views, ratings, comments, votes and overall online footprint. The prize for the two separate winners is an all-expenses paid trip to Cannes to take part in the Young Lions Film Competition. They will be teamed up in Cannes to form Team YouTube and compete against 37 other teams from around the world. Teams are issued with a mobile phone and have just 48 hours to shoot and edit a 60-second commercial on behalf of a charity.

I will be waiting for the 15th to see the brief and take my chance to work on it

On March 30, 2008, Queen Rania Al-Abdullah launched her YouTube channel with a video that was aiming to break stereotypes. Now after 14 months Her Majesty has 19 uploaded videos on her YouTube channel with an excellent viral effect.

Today, I got an email from someone that’s saying: “Queen Rania Uses Twitter”. I signed in to my twitter account and searched for Queen Rania, I found her profile there with a lot of updates during the last few hours, actually the first update was posted yesterday. Until now Queen Rania on twitter has 2,993 followers and the number is increasing rapidly each time I refresh the page.

By reading Her Majesty’s updates, everybody on Twitter is up-to-date with a lot of posts that include some personal information about her family and general information about everyday’s events.

This is one step ahead by Her Majesty to be more involved with people and society.

Few months ago, it was my biggest mistake when I visited the website insidejo.com and wrote a review about it. Because it’s forbidden for me to give my opinion about something if it doesn’t meet the expectations of the service provider.

Now “insideJo - Jordan Maps” is online with the same concept of Google maps, but basically for Jordan. But I will ignore the whole website at this point because I don’t need to say any word that might make the employees of a company try to compare their website design with this blog design (I think the design of this blog looks better until now though).

Shame on you, who ever you were, to be an Arab Jordanian who launched such a project with a map that shows Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon… etc. without the name of Palestine!!! I don’t know what is the reason behind not writing Palestine. But whatever it was, it shows that because of such people we are loosing our mother country.

Enjoy your new website without the honor of seeing Palestine name on it. And I can’t wish you luck at all because you have done a huge mistake that will affect you directly. And I will take the initiative to make you feel the importance of the country that you have ignored.

Done21 is trying to help us to get rid of Internet Explorer 6 and all of its problems. They are providing a JavaScript code to simulate an IE yellow notice bar which prompts users to upgrade to IE8 (the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer) . A while after Justin Hileman has edited the code to encourage users to download Firefox and use it instead of IE.

I hope that this will help us to be able to work as web developers without thinking of IE6 as the bottle nick that always comes to our ways.

A quick thought that came to my mind that answers a lot of people about one question, apparently we can’t figure out the answer of some of those questions until we experience specific circumstances. I believed in the answer for a long time, but now I will spread the world with it.

Do real friends exist? simply yes they do. But what is a real friend? Basically; a real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. A real friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. A real friend is the one who is worth ten thousand relatives. A real friend is you who stood beside me during the worst days of my life.

I’m trying to figure out the way to say thank you, but there is none that helps me to express how much I’m thankful. You are such a great man and one in a million, or maybe a trillion.

It has been 4 months now since my friend Hadi Nasereddin launched his website (www.hadi.me), and until now I can’t see the website showing on google’s result, not even if I googled the same URL! At the begging I thought it was an SEO problem as it’s a flash website but later on when I pointed another .com domain to the same website it got indexed in 2 days.

I created a webmaster account for the same website a couple of months ago and until now the status says that the website hasn’t been added to google’s index although we tried to submit it more than once using the URL submit form of google. I’m not sure what’s the problem exactly but apparently google failed in indexing any .me domain or they are not consider it until now as it’s a new one.

We are waiting until it happens, by the end of the day that’s too bad to be a google failure.

Apple has launched a beta version of their new software for iPhone (3.0) and putting everything else aside, the best part is that Apple finally added the Arabic language support.

The iPhone is already being sold in 4 Arab countries Jordan, Egypt, KSA and UAE. It’s also supposed to be launched sometime soon in Qatar.

It has been a while for me and a lot of the people around after we started the new life that comes after finishing our studies. Hearing from here and there and after listening to a lot of people around; I figured out that there are two sorts of people, most of them waited for the life to find them and some of them were trying hard to find themselves.

Most of those people have a sense of incompleteness, as if there is a hole in their existence. They say that there is something missing from their lives.  Maybe they are right? I figured out that creating a life that is right for others but is not for you then you will have this feeling. You will feel like your life is incomplete and in that case you are definitely in touch with the truth. Really there is a part of you that is not being expressed.

Finding yourself is an enlightening experience. You become self-sufficient. You can do things for others without any expectations of any return. You are no longer a needy child and you become grateful for all those things people have done for you in the past. Finding yourself is a time of developing a belief system that can carry you through the rest of your life. When you love yourself and who you are, you will enjoy both life’s pain and pleasures. How do you know you’ve found yourself? You will be able to help others find themselves. Finding yourself is not easy, but how can you be yourself if you’ve never felt connected to who you are, and you want to find whatever makes you you.

The only way to get rid of this feeling, and experience your life as full and complete, is for you to create a life that is right for you. In other words, you must be yourself.