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This article was first posted on LinkedIn on October 4, 2019. In order to be in control of your eCommerce, you need to know if you are making progress toward your goals, if there is an area of marketing activities or a website performance that should concern you, and how your campaigns are performing compared to the... Continue Reading →
I'm not a huge fan of YouTube videos, but this series of 5 episodes by Tom Davis caught my attention and kept me glued to the screen for a couple of hours. The challenge Tom selected was to cross an entire country, Wales, in a straight line. The line was carefully selected on Google Earth... Continue Reading →
This article was first posted on LinkedIn on October 28, 2019. During our professional life, most of us have attended hundreds, if not thousands of meetings. Meetings are part of the work and corporate culture, in particular, in the US. According to Steven Rogelberg, an organizational psychologist at the University of North Carolina, most professionals attend approximately... Continue Reading →
This article was first posted on LinkedIn on October 14, 2019. Improbable things happen a lot! This notion is not always intuitive but is true nevertheless. Jordan Ellenberg, in his book How Not To Be Wrong: Power Mathematical Thinking, tells the Baltimore Stockbroker parable to help us understand this concept. Improbable things happen a lot!Franco Folini Just... Continue Reading →
Are you considering to hire a runner? I'll give you 10 reasons why your next employee should be a runner. Runner are committed, resilient, well organized, and they come with a positive attitude.
I recently completed the online class for Machine Learning offered by Coursera in collaboration with Stanford University. The course is spread over 12 weeks, but I was able to complete it in only four weeks successfully. The course instructor is Andrew Ng, a legendary figure for Machine Learning in Silicon Valley and in the world.... Continue Reading →
Notes for my speech on August 27, 2019 at the Toastmasters Club Toast of Berkeley. The cave I discovered as a kid is just a few miles from home. In this speech, I will talk about Homo neanderthalensis, commonly known as Neanderthal and how our perception about those early humans changed over time. I’ve always... Continue Reading →
Il 23 agosto 2019 è andata in onda una puntata di Codice, la trasmissione di RAI 1 dal titolo "Digitale: illusione o religione?". Della lunga intervista che Matteo Di Calisto aveva registrato qui a Berkeley, a casa mia, nel montaggio è sopravvissuto solo un brevissimo spezzone di circa un minuto. Chi fosse interessato può trovare... Continue Reading →
This article was first posted on LinkedIn on August 19, 2019. There are so many oddities in an interpreted language like JavaScript. I'm sharing a list of my favorites. To make this article more accessible, I skipped the more complex quirks, the ones requiring a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its syntax. I'm also skipping the complex... Continue Reading →
Table topics I wrote on August 13, 2019 for the Toastmasters Club Toast of Berkeley. For my last meeting at my local ToastMasters Club (Toasts of Berkeley), as Table-Topics-Master I wrote a list of topics to randomly assign to each participant. As theme of the evening i selected The Best Salesperson Ever. Imagine you are the best... Continue Reading →
This article was first posted on LinkedIn on June 25, 2019. We all know that improving page speed will benefit the performance of our eCommerce. But exactly why? Is page speed changing the user behavior or making our website performing better on SERP? The short answer is: both! Until a few years ago, the way we all... Continue Reading →
Today, I completed the LinkedIn certification "SCRUM: The Basics." SCRUM is an important professional tool that I want to ensure I can handle properly when working with a team.
Today, I achieved the LinkedIn certification titled "Management, Top Tips." This accomplishment reflects my commitment to professional growth and skill enhancement within the management field, demonstrating a dedication to staying updated with best practices and strategies in leadership and management on a prominent professional networking platform.
How to compare off-the-shelf and proprietary eCommerce platforms? This is a very important question, the first you will have to answer before everything else. When creating an eCommerce system, one of the first steps is to decide if we want to build or buy the software platform and CMS (Content Management System). For small-medium businesses,... Continue Reading →
Puntare la ruota della mia fedele Kawasaki Versys 1000 LT verso l'Oregon e il selvaggio nord americano! Questo è il tema della mia ultima escursione motociclistica.Siamo a metà maggio, l'estate si avvicina, ma il caldo californiano ancora non è arrivato. È il momento perfetto per spolverare la Kawasaki Versys, dare un po' d'olio alla catena e... Continue Reading →
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J0GGQXY?ie=UTF8&tag=ffbooks-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=B01J0GGQXY I got interested in the book When it was Dark, written by Guy Thorne and first published in 1903 because it was mentioned in a speech by Christopher Hitchens as an example of what people believe would happen to the world without religion. In my opinion, this Christian novel is quite an interesting reading.... Continue Reading →
Domenica era una giornata soleggiata. Dopo un lungo inverno insolitamente piovoso, finalmente il sole Californiano è tornato a splendere offrendo una perfetta per escursioni in bicicletta, moto, a piedi. Non potevo non approfittarne e così mi sono avventurato lungo il bike-path che costeggia la baia di San Francisco percorrendo questa bella ciclabile che porta da... Continue Reading →
https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B07NXTP4QJ?ie=UTF8&tag=ffbooks01-21&camp=3414&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=B07NXTP4QJ Il volume La lettera di Gertrud di Björn Larsson è stato pubblicato meno di un mese fa dalla casa editrice Iperborea. Il libro si presenta in un avvincente formato stretto e alto che si presta molto bene alla lettura.In questa breve recensione vi risparmio il riassunto del libro che trovate ovunque. Passo subito alle... Continue Reading →
A very limited selection of pictures taken at night in the San Francisco bay area.
This article was first posted on LinkedIn on October 29, 2018. Finding the best way to display the price of a product in a price tag on an eCommerce product page can be challenging. A/B testing can certainly help you in finding the best solution for price display design, but it is essential to understand why specific... Continue Reading →
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