Posted on 21 October 2012. Tags: 4 months, apology, attempts, human rights organization, internship, Leadership, niche area, Organization, power struggles, research, Resume, Study, support, undergraduate student organization, university
I recently went to a conference to set up a particular human rights organization at my university. It is exactly what I research and a bit of a niche area of study, despite it’s importance. It currently does not exist at my university. However, a girl last February did the same as I, but when she came back she didn’t do anything. She said she passed deadlines to set anything up and couldn’t find support. However the deadlines have been open for sometime now, and I also would have to find support so I think that is ridiculous. So now I am doing these things actively and she is leaving for an internship overseas for 4 months as I launch it. However she expects to have the titles as founder and president of this organization. I’m feeling at a loss as how to deal with her. She is entirely unhelpful and unresponsive to any of my attempts to talk to her or ask her questions. She even asked for my resume through a facebook page she made for this cause when she returned from the conference last term. I did eventually get her to meet with me, though she was 20mins late for our meeting without apology. She seemed to know very little on this subject, and wouldn’t be someone I would pick to help in any scenario. I am not used to petty power struggles and just want to do some good things before I graduate in a year. Does anyone have any advice in dealing with a situation like this? I really would like credit for all the long hours and efforts I will give this organization, and not have this person take credit for all of this while she lives overseas.
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Posted on 26 August 2011. Tags: Abandoned, attempts, click, computer, computer system, email access, email groups, group members, long vacation, pull down menu, reminder, reply, saying, Working, Yahoo
I’ve read messages on here that are 2, 3 and more years old saying that Yahoo is working on a way for members to take over Yahoo email groups that are abandoned by their owners. It seems like it would be simple to do with these steps created by Yahoo:
1. Create a button for members to click to tell Yahoo’s computer system that the members think the owner has abandoned them.
2. When 2 group members have clicked on that “I’m abandoned” button, Yahoo would automatically send an email message to the owner asking them to reply to Yahoo with a special code or to a special website
3. If no reply is received from the owner, repeated email attempts to contact the owner would occur once per week for 2 months (in case they are on a long vacation with no email access).
4. If no reply is received from the owner during that 2 months time, the people who told Yahoo about the abandoned group would be made owners of the group.
A good option would be for the members to be able to vote for one of their own to take over the list of an abandoned group. This could be done by adding a “I vote for the following people to be in charge of this group” box, next to the button for members to click to tell Yahoo’s computer that the members think the owner has abandoned them.
1. Yahoo could have a pull-down menu of all members in that group, to be selected by the members reporting the abandoned group.
2. Yahoo should send an email (with a reminder a week or two later) to everyone in that group, telling them that 2 members reported that the group had been abandoned. These messages could give the name, ID and/or email address of the owners, asking all members to contact them, if they know them, urging them to assign someone else to be the owner, or become an active owner again.
3. The people with the three top number of votes from the group members would all become owners of the group. Hopefully with three owners, there would be very few abandoned groups in the future.
I ask again, is Yahoo really working on a way for members to take over an abandoned group?
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Posted on 03 August 2011. Tags: ALL, attempts, beef, Haters, idea, main goal, Protest, Scientology, tom cruise, tom cruise scientology, Wikileaks, wikipedia, YouTube
I first ran into Anonymous on Youtube after watching Tom Cruise Scientology vids. I am not affiliated with either organization AT ALL! I have read (most) of the info on Wikipedia about Anonymous, And also Chanology but I don’t really get it. What is their main goal? Also what is their beef with Scientology? I totally disagree with Scientology but what is Anonymous’ protest against them about?
Please no complaints about how I categorized this question…I really have no idea what section it should be under, thanks!
What I really want to know is…what is their ultimate goal, and where does the wikileaks come in? I know this is a complex and unorganized question, sorry, but I think to adequately make sense of it for me I will need a looooong answer. Thanks for your attempts, no haters please, I really just want to understand.
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Posted on 03 September 2010. Tags: attempts, friendship, good friends, morning, new friends, niche, person, relationship, Ridiculous, sophomore, sort, way
Not to seem full of myself, but I’m the kind of person who’s really kind and loyal and trustworthy to everyone. If a friend needed me to come pick them up somewhere at 3 in the morning, I’d more than likely be there for them.
To make a long story short, I have a group of friends who I’ve had sort of an on and off relationship since my junior year of high school. We’re sophomore in college now, but with time these issues (for me) have only gotten worse.
I stopped hanging out with them because I didn’t feel like I belonged in their “niche.” The things that made them laugh, barely made me giggle.
I guess because of this they’ve never bothered to invite me places outside of school, even up to now. Three of my good friends belong to this group, and even though I’m not close with the others, I still wanted to see them and hang out with them every once in a while.
I’d make attempts, asking what was going on and when, and they’d always say they didn’t know but that they’d let me know, come Monday to find that they’d been to the beach that weekend, or they’d been to so and so house and had a party.
When I told my friend how much it hurt that they never invited me places, she told me that it was a two way street if you want to hang out with people, and wondered why I waited for her to invite me…
…but I guess I was being silly by assuming that asking what the group is going to be doing was the reasonable thing to do if you want to hang out with someone.
She finally admitted that because we don’t hang out/talk as often, she never thinks to invite me to the places they go. And she doesn’t feel like just inviting me somewhere with them will change anything.
I pretty much ended my friendship with her and my two close others friends, because I am certain they feel the same way that she does.
Was/Is this the right thing to do? Do I need to move on and find new friends? Am I expecting too much out of people?
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