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	<title>Philippe Andraos &#187; Self-promo</title>
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		<title>The REAL power of social media &#8211; or can Facebook save a life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 19:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking about social media has become so mainstream my head hurts every time I hear about an upcoming conference on &#8220;how to use social media in a business context&#8221; or when I see an article in an business paper with the title &#8220;the power of social media&#8221;. I was telling myself get over it, social [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talking about social media has become so mainstream my head hurts every time I hear about an upcoming conference on &#8220;how to use social media in a business context&#8221; or when I see an article in an business paper with the title &#8220;the power of social media&#8221;. I was telling myself get over it, social media is here to stay, it&#8217;s been done, it works, bravo.</p>
<p>But then a story like this happens, and I realize that the power of social media is a big deal after all.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.philippeandraos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/philippe_el_hage.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-273" title="philippe_el_hage" src="http://www.philippeandraos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/philippe_el_hage-277x300.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="210" /></a></p>
<p>A couple of weeks ago, someone close to me who grew up with a severe heart condition saw his health deteriorate fast. His doctors all agreed: <strong>only a heart transplant can save him</strong>. The only things is, Philippe El-Hage lives in a Lebanon (where there isn&#8217;t enough equipment to perform a heart transplant) and he does not have medical insurance. It order to live, he has to go to Paris to have his operation, which is to be paid in full by his family. Needless to say, they don&#8217;t have the required 220 000 euros (minimum) to pay for the surgery.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.philippeandraos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/a_heart_for_philippe.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-274" title="a_heart_for_philippe" src="http://www.philippeandraos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/a_heart_for_philippe.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="175" /></a>This is where Facebook comes in. The groupe <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127928617219284" target="_blank">Un coeur pour Philippe</a> was created in the morning of wednesday May 19th. Two and a half days later, there are over 3,600 members (by the time you read this, the figure will probably be  much higher) many of whom have made donations through <a href="https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=uKfNrIkfI9JVEBSEcAryvZmLCUMqwpc1NCDBVcjwpu2dFgLXyF_RBQ7L1X4&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f22d2300ef60a67593b79a4d03747447e6b625328d36121a1" target="_blank">paypal</a>. We don&#8217;t have exact figures yet, but we know the donations are in the tens of thousands, if not more than a hundred thousand dollars. Events are being organized throughout Lebanon, in Paris, Montreal etc&#8230;</p>
<p>Can Facebook help save a life? If yes then all I can say is that in the end, social media does deserve all the hype. The REAL power of social media is not just in allowing people to connect or allowing businesses to create awareness their brand or product. It is still about <strong>gathering people from around the world to support a just cause</strong>.</p>
<p>If you want to help, join the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&amp;tid=423545801409" target="_blank">group</a> and donate through this <a href="https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=uKfNrIkfI9JVEBSEcAryvZmLCUMqwpc1NCDBVcjwpu2dFgLXyF_RBQ7L1X4&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f22d2300ef60a67593b79a4d03747447e6b625328d36121a1" target="_blank">paypal page</a>. Thanks!</p>
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		<title>Intercolonial Trade within the French Atlantic World, 1708 &#8211; 1763</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pandraos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another random post, but I&#8217;ve been wanting to publish this one for a while now. In a (not so distant) past, I was a Master&#8217;s student in McGill&#8217;s history department, destined to become a gentleman and a scholar. Then I discovered the world of interactive media and all hell broke lose.
In the meantime, many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yet another random post, but I&#8217;ve been wanting to publish this one for a while now. In a (not so distant) past, I was a Master&#8217;s student in <a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/history/" target="_blank">McGill&#8217;s history department</a>, destined to become a gentleman and a scholar. Then I discovered the world of interactive media and all hell broke lose.</p>
<p>In the meantime, many people have told me that they would like to read my Master&#8217;s thesis (technically, it&#8217;s a Research Paper though), and I have always thought that I&#8217;d rather publish it on the Web in the hope that one day it might be useful to someone. If you&#8217;re a historian and you read this, feel free to <a href="http://www.philippeandraos.com/contact/" target="_self">contact</a> me. I love to talk about history and I&#8217;d love the share my limited research with you.</p>
<p>My paper was written in the spring of 2007 under the supervision of Professors <a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/history/faculty/faculty/dew/" target="_blank">Nicholas Dew</a> and <a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/history/faculty/faculty/studnicki-gizbert/" target="_blank">Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert</a> and was entitled <em>Intercolonial Trade within the French Atlantic World, 1708 &#8211; 1763</em>. Frankly, it was a fascinating and under-studied topic that allowed me to combine my interests for Economic History and the History of the Atlantic World during the era of European Colonialism.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a pdf version of my paper: </strong><a href="http://www.philippeandraos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Philippe_Andraos_MA_final.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>Intercolonial Trade within the French Atlantic World, 1708 &#8211; 1763</strong></a></p>
<p>And a summary for those too lazy to read it (it&#8217;s OK, you don&#8217;t have to pretend to want to read a 50-page paper just to be my friend):</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Between 1708 and 1763, metropolitan officials tried to promote a system of intercolonial commerce between French possessions in the Americas because of France’s inability to provide sufficient supplies to its colonies. The goal of this policy was to create a self-sufficient economic sphere within the French Atlantic World. While legal intercolonial trade rose to significant levels during the eighteenth century, it was overshadowed by the great quantitative superiority of illegal contraband commerce between British and French colonies. Because of a variety of structural factors, as well as a series of inefficient policies, illegal commerce was more profitable for French colonies than legitimate intercolonial trade, and this eventually led to failure of the ‘Colbertist’ economic system that had prevailed in the colonies since the 1670s.</p>
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		<title>5 raisons de me choisir comme blogueur représentant les Pays-Bas lors du mondial 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pandraos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vous avez peut-être entendu parler du concours de Radio-Canada, qui cherche un blogueur pour représenter chaque pays participant à la Coupe du Monde 2010? Personnellement, je trouve que c&#8217;est une excellente initiative qui démontre comment une grosse organisation peut faire du Web participatif afin d&#8217;augmenter à faible coût la valeure ajoutée qu&#8217;elle apporte à son [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vous avez peut-être entendu parler du <a href="http://fifa2010.radio-canada.ca/" target="_blank">concours de Radio-Canada</a>, qui cherche un blogueur pour représenter chaque pays participant à la Coupe du Monde 2010? Personnellement, je trouve que c&#8217;est une excellente initiative qui démontre comment une grosse organisation peut faire du Web participatif afin d&#8217;augmenter à faible coût la valeure ajoutée qu&#8217;elle apporte à son public.</p>
<p>Cet article a donc 3 objectifs principaux (oui, j&#8217;adore les listes chiffrées&#8230;):</p>
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<li>Démontrer au comité de sélection de Radio-Canada que je mérite le rôle de blogueur représentant les Pays-Bas pour la Coupe du Monde 2010.</li>
<li>Prouver à ces mêmes personnes &#8211; et à ma blonde &#8211; que je suis tout à fait capable de bloguer en français (je n&#8217;ai pas passé dix-huit ans de ma vie au <a title="CMF" href="http://www.mariedefrance.qc.ca/go/index.cfm" target="_blank">Collège Marie-de-France</a> pour rien!)</li>
<li>Expliquer (enfin!) à mes amis et connaissances mon obsession pour l’équipe nationale des Pays-Bas.</li>
</ol>
<p>Voici donc les 5 TRÈS BONNES raisons de me choisir comme blogueur officiel des Pays-Bas pour le mondial 2010:</p>
<ol>
<li>Bien que ma famille ne soit pas d&#8217;origine néerlandaise (mais alors là pas du tout) ma soeur s’est mariée à Rotterdam. J’ai donc passé deux mois aux Pays-Bas au courant de l’été 2001 et ceci n’a fait qu’amplifier mon amour pour ce pays.</li>
<li>Je suis probablement la seule personne au Québec qui possède l’immonde maillot orange fluo de l’équipe nationale néerlandaise qui ne s’est pas qualifiée pour le mondial 2002. La preuve: <a href="http://www.philippeandraos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0373.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-247" title="IMG_0373" src="http://www.philippeandraos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0373-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="300" /></a></li>
<li>J’ai failli me faire casser la gueule à cause de ce fameux maillot le 9 juin 2008 alors que je courrais au milieu de la Petite Italie après la victoire des Pays-Bas 3-0 face à l’Italie. N’ayant pas appris de mon erreur, j’ai répété la manœuvre en face du <a href="http://www.montrealplus.ca/montreal/venues/le-massillia-fr" target="_blank">Massilia </a>sur Parc quatre jours plus tard alors que les Pays-Bas ridiculisaient la séléction française 4-1.</li>
<li>J’ai passé près de deux ans de ma vie à prendre Feyenoord à <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Manager_2005" target="_blank">Football Manager 2005</a> pour essayer d’en faire une équipe championne d’Europe. Je pense que le jeux est truqué, car malgré tous mes efforts, je n’ai jamais pu passer les quarts…</li>
<li>Mon DJ préféré est hollandais (<a href="http://www.tiesto.com/" target="_blank">Tiësto</a>), ma bière préférée est hollandaise (<a href="http://www.grolsch.com" target="_blank">Grolsch</a>) et mon joueur préféré est holandais (<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_van_Persie" target="_blank">Van Persie</a>). Si ça existait, mon joueur de hockey préféré serait hollandais!</li>
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<p>Si vous n&#8217;êtes toujours pas convaincu que je suis le candidat idéal, pensez à ceci: quel autre non-hollandais serait capable d&#8217;adorer cette équipe avec autant de passion alors qu&#8217;elle nous a si souvent déçue, notamment au Mondial 2006 avec une défaite en huitièmes face au Portugal, et à l&#8217;Euro 2008 avec une défaite en quarts face à la Russie&#8230; ?</p>
<p>Sur ce je vous laisse avec les moments forts de cette fameuse leçon de soccer que nous avons donné au Français, ce 13 juin 2008:</p>
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