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2007-06-29T23:46:00.001+02:00

[blogging hype on]
This is a video I simply had to blog about! It shows how essential blogging is becoming in this hip Web 2.0 based economy and that this simply has to be done to be recognised as part of the service based internet community. Phil seems to be offline, maybe he should have blogged more often! Blogging itself is the key to enhance your service portfolio and to continue to be up to date, do not miss a day in the blogosphere or you could miss the latest trend.
[blogging hype off]

Funny post of the day

2007-06-18T13:03:00.000+02:00

How To Properly Place New Employees:
1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.
2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door.
3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.
4. Then analyze the situation:

If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department.
If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.
If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering.
If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning.
If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.
If they are sleeping, put them in Security.
If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.
If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.
If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.
If they have already left for the day, put them in Marketing.
If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.
If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Senior Management.
Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Government.

[http://answers.yahoo.com]

Barcamp Hamburg

2007-06-14T02:03:00.000+02:00

Am Wochenende war ein Ausflug zum Barcamp in Hamburg angesagt.
Nach einer Nacht im Zug bin ich am Morgen direkt zur Location; gerade pünktlich zur Sessiongestaltung.
Bei den Themen gab es ein breites Spektrum wie z.B. Erfahrungen beim Outsourcing von Softwareentwicklung (verwandt.de), Berichte und aktuelle Herausforderungen beim Podcast.de Portal, Launch einer Event-Orga Site (wevent.org) oder generell Businessmodelle im sog. Web2.0.

Unmengen von Bildern gibt es bei der Flickr Gruppe.
Trotz der fachlich interessanten Vorträge ist doch das eigentlich besondere an einer solchen Veranstaltung vor allem die Teilnehmer und die Themen. Das wurde auch schon in anderen Blogs erwähnt, einen sehr gelungenen Videozusammenschnitt für die Barcamps Frankfurt und Hamburg hat Chilly the Hit erstellt.

Link: sevenload.com

Einen Dank an die Sponsoren!

Strassenschilder

2007-05-27T19:57:00.001+02:00

Strassenschilder

Rösti

2007-05-27T19:44:00.001+02:00

Rösti

Grüezi

2007-05-27T19:43:00.003+02:00

Grüezi

Gassen

2007-05-27T19:43:00.001+02:00

Gassen

Sommerliche Temperaturen

2007-05-27T19:42:00.001+02:00

Sommerliche Temperaturen

Zürich Hbf

2007-05-27T19:41:00.001+02:00

Zürich Hbf

Hammering Man - Basel

2007-05-27T19:40:00.001+02:00

Hammering Man - Basel

What a surprise to see a sculpture in Basel which I knew from Frankfurt, The Hammering Man.

Night of the museums, Frankfurt.

2007-05-07T00:58:00.001+02:00

Night of the museums, Frankfurt.

The submitted picture, a photo of a band performing the last song of a gig.

24hours

2007-05-04T19:48:00.001+02:00

24hours

Tomorrow: Photoblogging-day

Preparing for the weekend

2007-04-20T16:46:00.001+02:00

Preparing for the weekend

Sending out a message

2007-04-18T23:43:00.000+02:00

[via vowe]

Sommer Sonne Sonnenschein

2007-04-15T15:11:00.001+02:00

Sommer Sonne Sonnenschein

Der Sonnenschirm ist aufgeklappt und endlich Gelegenheit das Sommer T-Shirt anzuziehen; die ersten beschweren sich bereits über die Hitze, Papperlapapp kann man da nur sagen. Schnell noch eine Runde gebloggt dann geht´s raus an die frische Luft 8-)

Lesser posts (?)

2007-04-12T01:18:00.000+02:00

The next days there is much to do and finish so posts will get less unless the results are ready.

Weinberger on Web 2.0

2007-04-07T19:12:00.000+02:00

[via elektrischer-reporter]

Globalization: Did You Know?

2007-04-04T21:11:00.000+02:00

[via Basman] [originally done and commented at the fischbowl]

Ludwigsburg

2007-04-01T16:31:00.001+02:00

DSC00750

A walk around between two meetings.

Sehr schön. Very nice.

2007-03-29T22:18:00.000+02:00

Moby [via Neukunden-Magnet]

Social Web Breakfasting

2007-03-29T17:14:00.000+02:00

Web 2.0 und Bloggertreffen bei Croissants und Kaffee war heute morgen in Frankfurt angesagt. Thema war der Einsatz externer Blogger als Unterstützung in der Unternehmenskommunikation. Der Pro-Blogger Oliver Gassner hält einen Vortrag wie er für Kunden bloggt und was es evtl. zu beachten gilt. Die Frage ob sowas funktionieren kann steht nicht an. Eine Einbettung des Themas in die schon bisherigen Möglichkeiten des klassischen Marketings findet leider nicht statt, so dass es zwar inhaltliche Fragen zu dem Thema gibt, die jedoch eher an der Oberfläche bleiben. Spannend sind dann doch eher die Gespräche in den kleinen Runden mit den anderen Teilnehmern, wo das Thema deutlich kontroverser und inhaltlich angemessener aus unterschiedlicher Blickwinkeln beleuchtet wird. Auf die Frage "Bloggen Sie?" die Antwort "Nein, für sowas habe ich keine Zeit." zu erhalten hat mich überrascht. Öfter finden sich Vertreter kleinerer Unternehmen die anfangen sich mit dem Medium zu beschäftigen und dabei merken, dass schwer ist die Frage nach dem Warum & Wie für alle Beteiligten zufriedenstellend zu beantworten. Ob das Thema bei einer Agentur oder bei einem Mediumspezialisten am Besten aufgehoben ist, ist selbst ein Diskussionspunkt. Ich denke gerade kleine Firmen sollten die Möglichkeit eines direkten Dialogs nicht outsourcen, sondern selber mit dem Medium am und mit den Kunden lernen.
Die Veranstaltung war dank der Unterschiedlichkeit der Gäste ein Erfolg.
Ach ja, keiner redet über Second Life :)

Location specific presentation

2007-03-27T01:22:00.001+02:00

Location specific presentation

Phänomenal!

2007-03-26T01:15:00.000+02:00

Wenn das mal kein Phänomen ist; jetzt habe ich doch tatsächlich nach all den Jahren surfens im englischsprachigen Raum die lokale Blogszene entdeckt!
Als angeblicher "Spontaner Idealist" finde ich diesen Artikel und das Video dazu klasse.
Spontan habe ich mich deswegen zum Social Web Breakfast angemeldet, hoffentlich sind nicht nur technik-afine Gäste da sondern auch Vertreter von Kunden, für die ist sowas nämlich eher gedacht und hilfreich. Die Ankündigung liest sich jedenfalls interessant.
Ansonsten gibt´s die Woche viel zu tun; updates folgen.

On Content

2007-03-18T21:22:00.000+01:00

"No, I don´t want you to make a photo right now." she told me after the dinner in a restaurant I usually would recommend visiting due to it´s nice atmosphere, the food and the very friendly employees.

Which made me think on how blogs may be like restaurants in the way that what is presented is as important as how. Which leads to the question what could be added to the already so vastly amount of statements/conversations going on.

When browsing today I surfed through this one which lead to this one with a presentation on the topic and also I found this all having a connection to here again in a wider context.

So it could be e.g. a list of links, adding content to the conversation or a personal statement.
Finally it´s the sites content which makes it interesting to the readers who puts in their time and interest to read it and come back. And also that the content presented is said in a way that is acceptable to the readers even when no consesus is reached, which enriches the conversation by providing different point of views.

Nothing new; but why do so many write? Just to write or also to be read?
And why do we like to have conversations? Just to talk or to technically exchange information?

A major part what makes human communication remarkable is obviously in the non technical part which is expected to be meaningful for the participants. So for my part I have choosen this essay like approach and not a conversational one which gives me more freedom in form and content than a theme oriented one.

"It´s 99% luck."

2007-03-04T20:57:00.000+01:00

An interesting article I recommend reading is today from David Maister whose blog I regularly read: http://davidmaister.com/articles/4/103/
He writes about personal styles of employees and he muses on whether those preferences, which he compares to animal stlyes are flexible or not. Imho I think that strongly depends on the background, experiences and vision people follow. The most interesting part of the article is that neither of the styles receives a "label" putting some sort of judgement on it but is described to clarify which decisions have to be made when dealing with human resources.

Browsing through some old entries I found an update with an interview of Warren Buffet Darren Johnson did, where he describes the concept of "circle of competence" and the importance to stay in it.
In my area this has been a mixture of software development and project marketing, with effort being put on survival against outsourcing trends. Now I am following the trend and you can find my profile here.
[via darrenjohnson]