How To Created an Online Course on Udemy with Free and Open Source Software

Udemy is one of the platforms where I upload content and courses and plan to use it more in the future. Recently I’ve found a blog post about using great free resources for creating Udemy courses – screencasts with audio, lecture notes and an eBook.

Here are totally free resources to use for creating udemy courses.

Recording Screencasts with Kazam

For recording screencasts (recording actions on the desktop), you can use use Kazam. It is available in the Ubuntu software center. You can save the output as H264 (MP4).

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These shorcuts were useful

CTRL + SUPER (Win) + R – Start recording

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The Virgin Group of companies is in the testing with “every employee can take a vacation anytime and for any amount of time”

The followers of my blog knows that Richard Branson is my favourite entrepreneur and he continue to amaze me with what he is building around the Virgin brand. In fact, two of my goals are: 1. to share the stage with him and second to spend a week with my family on Necker Island. And, currently I have more that 30 goals to accomplish in the next period.

Richard Branson in his Hammock on Necker Island
Richard Branson in his Hammock on Necker Island

In the past few years, Netflix has become the runaway market leader in the streaming video sector.

One clue as to how they intend to remain there this time comes from a very well-advised and downright courageous initiative they adopted that rewrote the book – or to be more precise, threw it away – on something very near and dear to the hearts of most workers around the world: their annual vacation day entitlement. Continue reading “The Virgin Group of companies is in the testing with “every employee can take a vacation anytime and for any amount of time””

The 8 Threats To Be World Class with Robin Sharma

I took aside a couple of hours to update my blogs and will continue after the lunchtime with cald calling and real estate listings. Usually when I do this, my ears are plugged in some beautiful music – house or hip-hop, meditation or motivational – strategy things. Today my ears are connected to a webinar by Robin Sharma – follow this link to view it, where he speaks about The 8 Threats To Be World Class and The Icon’s Decline. I have to say that one of my interests in listening this is to gain new insights about keeping the … Continue reading The 8 Threats To Be World Class with Robin Sharma

18 Days To Go Until The Berlin Marathon

The calendar says that there are 18 days to go until my next marathon – I will run Berlin for the first time. As usual now, I’m running for charity suuporting Children with Cancer Uk and White Cross Foundation from Romania. I was a little lazy with the training in the last 4 days so I must come back on track.   I’ve also started a fundraising campaign for Children with Cancer and I will be please to offer training and coaching in exchange for your donations. All the funds will go directly to the foundation and you can find … Continue reading 18 Days To Go Until The Berlin Marathon

What Is Invoice Finance And When Should You Use It?

Simply put, Invoice Finance refers to the short term loan provided by various financing companies to supplement a business with working capital. When a business provides a product or service to a company it issues an invoice to the buyer. Depending on the nature of business, there can be several situations when the business receives the payment in a time of 30-90 days. While the payment is being processed, the business would often require working capital to maintain itself for those 30-90 days. Invoice Finance is a loan provided by financial institutes utilizing the unpaid sales invoices as collateral.

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How To Fail Forward #mindsetgiveaway – The Audio Version Of The Book Failing Forward By John C. Maxwell

Today I have a special surprise – the audio version of the book Failing Forward by John C Maxwell. What’s most interesting about this book is that it offers a new perspective on Failure which should be something to push you forward and not keep you from taking action. Continue reading How To Fail Forward #mindsetgiveaway – The Audio Version Of The Book Failing Forward By John C. Maxwell

How to be an entrepreneur in the business of living

Today it’s 30th of August, officially the end of “summer” as most of us know it, the potential end of the summer holidays season and so on. This is it if you think in a reactive way. But, if you are proactive then today is a new day when you can make a dufference, you can improve something in your life with 1%, you can shift 0,5 mm in the direction of your dreams.

For adrianniculescu.com is a special day because it has a new tagline which was refined in the last 5 years which were my rookie blogger years. And … the tagline or pitch if you want, label or else is … “Entrepreneur in the business of living”. Continue reading “How to be an entrepreneur in the business of living”