I decided to start a new series on this blog about what happened in the small world of search advertising during the week. It will mostly be a collection of links to interesting articles. The primary goal, for me, is to retrieve quickly articles. I hope this series will be useful for more people than… Read More »
I am quite happy to have received an invite to the Yahoo! | Bing network contextual ads (powered by media.net). I just migrated my websites to use these ads. I don’t have yet information regarding the profitability of this network, I should be able to come back with some numbers in a couple of weeks… Read More »
I have been thinking for a while about my next certification, however I wasn’t able to find one certification where the courses would not overlap too much with my work or my family life. Luckily, I have been contacted by uCertify to review their tool, and was offered access to one course! I decided to… Read More »
It has roughly been one year since I took on my new role at Microsoft as a PM. This shows up quite a bit on the number of blog post added here. During this year, I learned some fundamentals behaviors that help me do a better job. Clean inbox Outlook is incredibly powerful to handle… Read More »
In my daily work, I am often negotiating with people. Either close colleagues or remote partners working on the same project. I noticed that my negotiation skills varies a lot depending on who I am talking with and on my personal emotional state. Going into negotiation late in the day after a stressful week is… Read More »
Some high profile website (Facebook, Linkedin) have enable infinite scroll (automatically displays following pages when the user scroll down) on their pages. This is mostly because infinite scroll is supposed to increase user stickiness to a site. One obvious problem with infinite scroll is that the ad placement needs to be updated. Without infinite scroll… Read More »
I am now a Bing Ads Accredited Professional, I successfully passed my exam (even if I took two days to complete it). The exam is 100 questions but if you are working on online advertisement it should be relatively straight forward. I used this code DGLEZ2DDKE to take the exam for free! 0 Kudos… Read More »
I am starting a new series of posts pulled out of a book I recently read. The book was written by Michael Watkins and titled “The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels “. The book is about enabling transitioning leader to reach the breakeven point (when leader contributed as… Read More »
So you want to be a program manager at Microsoft? I have just been through the interview process, multiple time actually, so I can share some of the findings I made. The typical interview process at Microsoft is based on 4 interviews (and a 5th one if you did well enough to the previous interviews).… Read More »
Nice blog post from Dorie Clark, she share 5 tips to avoid hurting your cause when trying to persuade others in the workplace. Painting a black-and-white scenario: do not idealize your approach nor demonized the other’s point of view or ideas. Offering your opinion when it hasn’t been requested: try to engage positively with your listener.… Read More »
After 4 years as a software development engineer in test I had the feeling that I needed a change. I was driven into testing because of my passion for customers and high quality software, time taught me that both can also be achieved from the program management perspective. My personal skills set and my preferences… Read More »
This post is the last one of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, not to annoy people, specification, how to improve your communication and about the middle game strategy… Read More »
If you are lucky enough to be using the new Visual Studio (VS2012), then you probably have noticed and disliked that the menu bar was yelling at you. In the net etiquette, writing in ALL CAPS is equivalent to be yelling. If you want to fix this, well it is possible! I just read on… Read More »
This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, not to annoy people, specification, how to improve your communication and about the middle game strategy. The… Read More »
This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, not to annoy people, specification and how to improve your communication. The middle game strategy refer to… Read More »