1. Write a new business plan idea each quarter
2. Wake up one hour earlier and go to sleep a hour earlier than in 2007
3. Subscribe to The Economist, Time Magazine, Wired this year.
4. Read books about Airlines Industry
5. Use often my new Sony DSCT70B Digital Camera and buy a Flickr Pro account
6. Spend less time typing in Instant Messaging applications, using Twitter as alternative channel
7. Use Skype for booking conference calls
8. Fly only with Miles and More partners in order to use Fly Award points to flights.
9. Not trying to beat my air-travel stats from 2007 (16 Take-Offs)
10. Learn cooking and finally get a driving license this year.

Some weeks ago Olof Palme International Center in cooperation with IPKO Institute organized for Western Balkan partners the Project Management Training in Skopje (15 - 17 June 2006) where I gave a presentation about:
Ipko Institute, a success story, and its role in education management
Download the presentation

Following this event was Regional Network Meeting (18-20 June 2006) as continuation of the entire OPIC event.
IPKO Institute helped on organising this event this year, for more information here

Telecom Slovenia has bought 75 % of Ipko Net. Ipko Net is the leading Internet Service Provider in Kosova. Telecom Slovenia has invested 19.5 million euros in the Kosovar company, out of which 10 million are a direct investment, to ensure further network building and modernization in the two upcoming years.
Source: Telekom Slovenia, IPKOnet

Recently I got invitation to attend Microsoft Tech Update which will be held in Grand Hotel in Prishtina on Tuesday 09.05.2006, presentations will cover technology concepts on helping emerging business in Kosova.

The agenda also includes presentations about Microsoft Dynamics Navision and CRM. I’m waiting to see also the live presentation of Microsoft Windows Vista the upcoming operating system developed by Microsoft. There will be also some presentations about Microsoft SQL 2005 and SharePoint Server

After an excellent winter vacation, christmas and new year’s parties that includes lots of special visitors who came to visit me in Prishtina, I can say that I entered 2006 ready as never before.

I’m going to start this year with some expectations i have so far and with some news to my readers. This year I will definitely blog more often than last year, my stories will include ongoing development, researches, new stuff, new media stories, traveling and fun.

Xpert - European Computer Passport training program. Date is not scheduled yet but will be in end of January 2006.

LIFT 06 (Life, Ideas, Futures, Together) conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
Really interesting conference with good speakers, Among them there will be Cory Doctorow,a Boing Boing superstar who just left his day job to become a full-time writer now, he will be speaking about Digital Rights Management at LIFT 06 Conference, Régine Debatty from We Make Money No Art, Robert Scoble from Microsoft. More you can check the LIFT 06 conference program

During all this time not to forget I will be still working in IPKO Institute R&D Department, lecturing and coordinating Going Online module for Crews at IIMP (IPKO Insititute Management Program) which now is located at American Univeristy in Kosova.

I traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia this week to contribute in International Project Management Training Seminar that was organized by Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office in Ljubljana.
The program included speeches from different experts in International Project Management field and the program included interactive sessions in Logical Framework Approach, Evaluation of Projects and writing a Competitive Project Proposal for EU Framework Program.

Modules:
Module 1: Implementation of Project Strategies through Research Projects – Logical Framework Approach
Module 2: Project Planning
Module 3: Organisation of the Research Project
Module 4: Project Control & Financial Issues & Project Leadership
Module 5: Funding schemes for International Research Projects relevant for SEE countries
Module 6: Communication/Dissemination of research results

IPKO Institute new website is launched, now its redesigned and its compatible with all browsers. The technology used is mainly in XHTML and CSS, together with some JavaScript to support all platforms. Go and explore it at www.ipkoinstitute.org. If you have any suggestions or feedback please email me, I would really appreciate it.

I would like to thank the supporting team behind me: Alban Gerguri, Fisnik Kastrati and Kushtrim Sogojeva.

This week I’ve also lectured to Crew 3 IPKO Institute students about the Blogging Community, and how the Blogosphere was spread out in world wide web. Also an interesting workshop was part of the lecture where all the students created their own blog using the Blogger.com as a blogging software.

Check out their blogs: Nijazi Rexhepi, Lulzim Abdullahu, Edona Cana , Arber Krasniqi, Kujtim Talla, Miranda Shala , Albert Kolgeci, Krenare Mati, Pranvera Lipovica, Vigan Maxharaj, Asdren Xerxa, Ahmet Rushiti , Ilir Morina, Merita Mustafa, Jetnor Gashi

This week I was lecturing HTML 4.01 to Crew 3 students of IPKO Institute Management Program. Two days I spent doing lecturing and workshop with different local sites and three days teaching coding and developing basic web-sites.

For five days students managed to publish their personal websites under main domain of their site http://crew3.ipkoinstitute.org

What I expected they achieved, within a week we have 15 more students online with their personal websites, I think that this is mayor achievement for presenting our quality students.

Enjoy surfing their personal sites at http://crew3.ipkoinstitute.org