When function and creativity fused, you get great values for your furniture. This are new furniture pieces for a constantly shrinking spaces in the future homes. Great ideas to learn from, adapt, use and apply.

At her Harvard University commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.” In her speech, she highlighted the fringe benefits of failure. For leaders of tomorrow she advocates, “We do not need magic to transform our world, we carry all the power we need inside of ourselves already, we have the power to imagine better’. JK Rowling penned the bestselling Harry Potter page-turners — a spellbinding, seven-installment fantasy of wizards, warlocks and decidedly British texture that brought her from rags to riches. A single mother who battled poverty and depression as she struggled to launch her writing career, Joanne “JK” Rowling was to become perhaps the most famous contemporary fiction writer in the world, with her Harry Potter series of children’s books — a chronicle of the adventures of an adolescent wizard of the same name. The fourth volume of the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was the fastest-selling book in history. Since completing the series, Rowling has put her fortune toward philanthropic projects dealing with poverty, multiple sclerosis and other issues through her own Volant Charitable Trust.

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

The EDC held its annual retreat and planning exercise last Jan 8 and 9, 2010 in the picturesque  River View Resort not far away from Tha Ngone bridge. All EDC staff led by the Managing Director, Ms Thiphaphone Phetmany and the partners participated. The entire event was managed by a team led by Visay SAYYAVONGSA, EDC’s head of Digital Media. The agenda for this year’s event are as follows; (a) review of 2009 achievements and missed opportunities, (b) trends and prospects for 2010, (c) what can we do and What we want to do, as well as (d) detailed planning activity. The partners also met and finalized the 2010 EDC plan. Read the rest of this entry »

September and October have been a busy month for EDC team to help people in different organizations to work better and to access to the new job opportunities, especially when the labor market becomes more and more competitive.

We have completed training on the “classic” topics like

Financial Management and Project Cycle Management (PCM) and also new and challenging

topic like How to write a good CV and get yourself ready for a job interview.  TIGO Department Heads and financial staff enjoyed learning more about accounting and financial management system while NTPC departing staff are excited to prepare themselves for new jobs