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		<title>Semsterstart: Management &#038; IT Donauuni</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Studienstart in die nächsten zwei Semester.<br />
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit bei zwei Masterstudiengängen.<br />
Management und IT in Heilbronn und München von der Donauuni Krems. </p>
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		<title>HANIEL and &#034;The Generation Facebook&#034; #xorg09 #digitalmindshift</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dieter Zirnig]]></dc:creator>
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<p><em>Haniel, a german company with more than 50.000 employees is noticing social changes and different style of communication within his younger employees and managements. Christoph Böringer, member of the board, is explaining the company&#8217;s developements and solutions in the direction of internal social networks. He is talking about &#8220;The Generation Facebook&#8221;, the need for internal and external transparency, the need for change and their internal &#8220;HANIEL Family Net&#8221; &#8211; Social Media starts internally. </em></p>
<p><strong>HANIEL</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.haniel.de">HANIEL</a> is a german company with more than 50.000 employess. It is aconglomerate with a strong family-based-structure behind. This means, that leading and acting employees are out of the family.</p>
<p>The company started 1765 in the industry, moved to shipping, mining and is now positioned as a comglomerate, focusing on pharma-industry (Celesio, 55,81 %), recycling and trading with ressources (ELG, 100 %), cleaning and hygenic (CWS, 100 %) and trading (METRO, 34,24 %) (Source: <a href="http://www.haniel.de">www.haniel.de</a>)</p>
<p>Today, HANIEL consists out of more than 800 companies &#8211; generating turnover of more than € 26.4 Mrd. in 2008.</p>
<p><strong>Christoph Böninger</strong></p>
<p>Christoph Böninger is one of the leading heads of HANIEL. He is member of the board of management and was talking about his business, challenges and changes at the <a href="http://www.digitalmindshift.com/index.php/2009/11/22/digital-mindshift-x-organisationen-berlin-2009-xorg09/">X-Organisationen in Berlin in November 2009</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Generation Facebook and Social Changes</strong></p>
<p>One of the challenges within the company is the &#8220;younger generation&#8221;. Böninger was talking about &#8220;<em>The Generation Facebook</em>&#8221; and says, that he is defining employees under 40 years as the &#8220;younger generation&#8221; &#8211; more than 53 % of all participators are &lt;40.</p>
<p>Böninger explained, that there are changes within the social behaviours of the younger generation: People are more open, want to know more things, reflect more and ask more questions and are acting in clouds.</p>
<p><em>For example, they want to have clearness and more transparency in defining positions &#8211; want to know in detail, why uncle A got the position as a manager instead of aunt B.</em></p>
<p>I was happy to hear, that the company is noticing social changes and Digital Mindshifts and acting in the way, that they are changing behaviours and generate special treatments for younger generations.</p>
<p><strong>Haniel Family Net &#8211; Social Media starts internally<br />
</strong></p>
<p>So, HANIEL is developing his internal organization, structure and behaviour in different and new ways. He said, that they need to be open and transparent in both ways &#8211; internally and externally &#8211; for staying successful and are changing their behaviours.</p>
<p>HANIEL implemented a sort of &#8220;internal Facebook&#8221; within the company: The HANIEL Family Net.</p>
<p>With this internal social platform, &#8220;The next generation&#8221; can collaborate and share latest informations around the company. Employees can get in contact with other family-members, are able to communicate and receive informations about further activities and opportunities in upcoming business-roles.</p>
<p>Böninger says, that this is necessary for younger people, as they are communicating and receiving informations in complete different ways &#8211; and this makes it even much more easier and efficient.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Successful families spend as much on governance and ownership education as they do with their most talented managers.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>All-in-one, I learned and I am happy to hear, that HANIEL is implementing internal social networks, for connecting employees and different communication-behaviours together.</p>
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		<title>Holiday 2.0 &#8211; A digital-holiday-mindshift.</title>
		<link>http://sugarmelon.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/07/holiday-2-0-a-digital-holiday-mindshift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dieter Zirnig]]></dc:creator>
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<p><strong>2000</strong></p>
<p>A couple of years ago &#8211; around 2000 &#8211; I spent my wonderful holidays in Greece. I shot my photos with a nice Analog-Camera and digitalized them with my scanner at home to pushing them online on my webpage a few weeks later.</p>
<p><strong>2001</strong></p>
<p>In 2001 I had a digicam with me and shot my photos to put them online at home, as soon as I arrived.</p>
<p><strong>2007</strong></p>
<p>In 2007 &#8211; when I was in Vietnam and Cambodia I was fascinated, that there were so many Internet-Cafes. I sucessfully tried out to post live-images from my old Nokia-phone (which worked) to my blog as well as I uploaded quite every night high res pics from some internet-cafes.</p>
<p><strong>2009</strong></p>
<p>Now, we are having 2009 and I am shoting photos with the iPhone and Smartphone to push them online live &#8211; and to receive feedback live via Twitter and Facebook.</p>
<p>I am much more fascinated by the fact, that I am currently sitting next to my tent on the camping 10 km east of Palermo in Sicily, using my Compaq Mini-Notebook and (net-)surfing with Hutchinson DREI like at home &#8211; which means no roaming fees &#8211; pushing photos from my digicam online even more faster &#8211; from &#8216;&#8221;home&#8221;.</p>
<p>I am fascinated. An old-fashioned tent combined with a high-modern technical equipment.</p>
<p>Where is the USB-connector to the tent and cooker?</p>
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		<title>&#034;Please help us&#034;, the Moustache Brothers – Why systems like &#034;fortresses&#034; can open (Myanmar &#8211; Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://sugarmelon.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/04/digital-mindshift-moustache%e2%80%93brothers-myanmar-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dieter Zirnig]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In <a href="http://www.digitalmindshift.com/index.php/2009/09/02/digital-mindshift-myanmar-1/" target="_self">Part 1 of my thougths around &#8220;Digital Mindshift&#8221; in organisations and systems like &#8220;states&#8221;</a>, I was writing about the &#8220;<em>passive opening</em>&#8221; of states due to the internet.</p>
<blockquote><p>Although governments can regulate internet-accesses and information, inhabitants are learning behaviours like how to interact and are noticing, that the are other and &#8220;new&#8221; opportunities and ways of communication for them &#8211; even it will take years. But a certain kind of &#8220;The <a href="http://www.digitalmindshift.com/index.php/2009/08/19/digital-mindshift-the-fortress-is-opening/" target="_self">Shift</a>&#8221; will come &#8211; powered by the inbitants and supported by the real and digital networks and communities, which support informations. Because the internet is going to define its own borders.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>The Moustache Brothers in Mandalay/Myanmar</strong></p>
<p>One example: In Mandalay/Myanmar I met three famous comedians <strong>Par Par Lay</strong>, <strong>Lu Zaw</strong> und <strong>Lu Maw </strong>from &#8220;<strong>Moustache Brothers</strong>&#8220;<strong>. </strong>They are performing at their home a sort ofcomedy, classical Burmese dance and are critizizing the totalitarian Burmese military regime, which is completly forbidden in Myanmar.</p>
<p>They have been in prison a lot of times and are not stopping in fighting and performing for democracy and keeping on informing tourists and locals about the real situation in Myanmar (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moustache_Brothers" target="_blank">read more about The Moustache Brothers on Wikipedia</a>).</p>
<p><strong>When I was interviewing them, they told me, that Social Media like Blogs, YouTube, Flickr are helping them to survive and helping to change the situation. As long as we are talking about them, as long as we are are sharing insights and news about them, they can go on and going on for a shift and developement.</strong></p>
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		<title>Digital Mindshift &#8211; Why systems like &#034;fortresses&#034; can open (Myanmar &#8211; Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dieter Zirnig]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Im April/May 2009 I took a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sugarmeloncom/sets/72157617035835655/" target="_blank">trip to Myamnar</a>. I travelled through the country and got the chance to reflect and compare interesting facts in direction of technology, society, communication and internet/social media.</p>
<blockquote><p>I noticed a &#8220;Digital Mindshift&#8221; in many directions, as I realized the influence of internet in many regions of Myanmar: The state is opening in a <strong>passive way</strong>. On one hand, the state and military government is holding off and slowing-down information for their citizens in the &#8220;real world&#8221;- on the other hand, due to the internet &#8211; in the virtual world -, there are ways to opening communication, receiving information and generating new know-how.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Digital Evolution is too powerful and finds its ways in every regions of the world. I felt, that the Digital Communication can break borders of a state &#8211; &#8220;<a href="http://www.digitalmindshift.com/index.php/2009/08/19/digital-mindshift-the-fortress-is-opening/" target="_self">The fortress &#8216;state&#8217; is opening</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>On the last day of the journey, I put my conclusions together and made a short video in the middle of Yangoon (former capital of Myanmar) and shared my views, shifts and changes as an initial speech at the <strong><a href="http://h40054.www4.hp.com/innorama" target="_blank">Innorama</a></strong> Event at HP Austria.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.digitalmindshift.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/02/digital-mindshift-myanmar-1/">Please read the english and german transition below. </a></em></p>
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<p><strong>Digital Mindshift from Myanmar (Transcription to English), May 2009</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Welcome to Innorama &#8211; welcome to Innovations and Ideas. My first thoughts and words are coming directly from Yangoon, recently the capital of Myanmar in SEA. Here I am spending my holidays and exploring the country.</p>
<p>I love foreign countries and cultures. I like getting in contact with new people and &#8220;viewing back&#8221; and reflecting from a new country to existing processes and habits and questionizing them. With time, I am enterin new ways and opportunities and I am finding more possibilities doing things differently. After a longer periode in foreign countries, I cherish the own culture in Austria.</p>
<p>When I am noticing, how the daily life is getting solved in other countries with less on ressources, than we in Austria are having, I am always getting most motivated in querying habits, processes and things. I also say, that such a journey is much more worth than some of those offered &#8220;Management-Workshops&#8221;.</p>
<p>Myanmar is a journey into the past. Long, long time ago, Myanmar was a metropolis &#8211; thousands of years ago, life started in these regions. Today, Myanmar is a military-dictatorship and isolated by the rest of the world. There is no freedom of opinion like in our regions for burmese people. On critical placed statements to the political system, you can expect prision and hard labor-camp up to 34 years. Myanmar is on place 170 (out of 173) within a ranking for freedem of press and -opinion in the world. As there is de facto no personal-property, the regime can arrange your eviction.</p>
<p>Before I started my journey, I was confrontated with some interesting statements from friends and colleagues: &#8220;Dieter, you are going in the underground on a voluntary basis?&#8221;, &#8220;Dieter, you are getting a guide on your side, who is watching and following you day and night.&#8221;, &#8220;Dieter, Myanmar &#8211; no way!&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ha! Nothing of it was true &#8211; try it yourself, find it out and make your own experiences.</p>
<p>During the weeks I had no mobile-phone-network, although I had the possibility to buy a SIM-card for 100-200 US-$. I saw Internet-Access in all larger cities &#8211; not much, but there were some opportunities for around 0,50 &#8211; 1 US-$. I was surprised, that I got access to pages like Facebook, BBC, CNN, Google or YouTube, wich I thought have been closed for the inhabitants.</p>
<p>As there is no stop for the Digital Evolution, there are a lot of Changers and Drivers, which are generating opportunities on their own risks and Burmese people are offered Proxy-Server outside of Myanmar for getting connected with the rest of the world.</p>
<p>A licence for a mobile-phone is up to 2.000 US-$.<br />
An average sallery in Myanmar is around 750 US-$/year.<br />
A licence for a cable-phone and Internet is around 1.500 &#8211; 2.500 US-$ &#8211; without even buying a computer-system.<br />
Satellite-TV is between 200 and 2.000 US-$ &#8211; depending on government (at the moment, there is a sat-ban in discussion).</p>
<p>There are opportunities for learning and developing. Government is not investigating in the education infrastructure, neither motivating their population to get active in learning and bringing the country forward. I learned, that some guys who are going for progress and developement are put in prison. The country is set under pressure and is loosing connection to the rest of the world.</p>
<p>There is a tag, which came in mind, when I was travelling through Myanmar: &#8220;Brain Dry.&#8221;</p>
<p>The lack of progress is evident in all areas. I want to hightlight a showcase of building streets. The road: Men and women are carrying, crushing, sorting stones and paving them by hand to roads. Tar is getting cooked and boiled in old tonnes, followed by paving the street by hand, and &#8211; sometimes &#8211; leveled.</p>
<p>Myanmar was a wonderful journey into the past. The comparison with &#8220;home&#8221; was heartening  and scaring, when I was noticing the amazing technological capabilities &#8211; also in direction of &#8220;how to build roads&#8221;. I realized, that it is very much important to look beyond one&#8217;s own nose and to use any chances of reflected progress and learning: In our regions (Austria) we evolved in one direction, where our ideas, thoughts, innovations and creative-approaches found space and room with the result of generation new possibilities. All in one, we are trying day-by-day, to make our life more easier.</p>
<p>Some of us have the freedom to change, share enthusiasm and motivation, develope things, setting up new processes, reflect situations to make them more successful. We can reflect and continue to evolve and continue learning in the direction we want.</p>
<p>We can give existing and new things new opportunities.</p>
<p>For me, Innovation is sharing motivation and enthusiasm. Taking responsibility in own hands to realize impossible things &#8211; taking morals and ethics into account.</p>
<p>Innovation. We can generate this ourself. Personally, this is one of the most important things for me. And this generating, developing and thining can&#8217;t be stopped by company-freezes, financial-crises, limitations, etc.</p>
<p>Realize own ideas and opportunities.</p>
<p>We are having the great luck, to use all technological and social capabilities in our country to help us in realizing our ideas.</p>
<p>We are having freedom of speech and the freedom to share and contribute. Professionally and in our private life. And the Internet is supporting our freedoms. Social media, new networks and new unimagined possibilities and opportunities like Blogs, Facebook, Twitter to connect are build bridges and change our social, societal and economic structures. The way we are communicating is changing rapidly &#8211; we are experiencing the Digital Mindshift with new opportunities, challenges and chances.</p>
<p>We can block, we can sit and wait, we can criticize. We can close our eyes and make progress bad.<br />
Or we can play with new opportunities: take part, share, trying out, learning, using, developing, thinking, generating, failing, applying and building together a better life &#8211; I like that.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Digital Mindshift aus Myanmar</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Willkommen zur Innorama &#8211; zu Innovationen und Ideen. Meine Einstiegsgedanken und -worte kommen direkt aus Yangoon, der ehemaligen Hauptstadt Myanmars in Südostasien, wo ich seit einigen Tagen Urlaub mache und das Land erforsche.</p>
<p>Ich schätze und liebe fremde Länder und Kulturen. Vorallem das Erleben und Spüren erlaubt es mir, in Kpontakt mit neuen Menschen , aus einer anderen Perspektive &#8220;zurück&#8221; zuschauen und bisherige Strukturen in Frage zu stellen. Es eröffnen sich wieder neue Wege und Möglichkeiten und regen intensiv zum Nachdenken und &#8220;Anderstun&#8221; an. Ich lerne nach längerer Zeit in fremden Kulturen immer wieder neu und mehr die eigene Kultur in Österreich zu schätzen.</p>
<p>eine Reise motiviert mich immer Dinge zu überdenken &#8211; wenn ich sehe, wie das tägliche Leben in anderen Regionen der Welt mit weniger-zur-Verfügungstehenden Mitteln gelebt und bewältigt wird. Ich denke, so eine Reise ist auch wervoller als so manch angebotenes &#8220;Managementseminar&#8221;.</p>
<p>Myanmar ist eine Reise in die Vergangenheit. Hier in dieser Region war einst der Ursprung des Lebens &#8211; vor langer Zeit war hier eine Hochmetropole. Heute ist Myanmar eine Militärdiktatur und größtenteils von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten. Es gibt keine Meinungsfreiheit für Burmesen, die wir kennen. Für öffentliche kritische Äußerungen am politischen System stehen drastische Gefängnisstrafen an der Tagesordnung: 34 Jahre hartes Arbeitslager sind keine Seltenheit. Myanmar rangiert auf Platz 170 (von 173) im Ranking der Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit. Es gibt de facto kein persönliches Eigentum und das Regime hat Vollmacht über Besitz und Delogierung.</p>
<p>Vor meiner Reise wurde ich mit wilden Aussagen konfrontiert: &#8220;Dieter, Du gehst freiwillig in den Untergrund?&#8221;, &#8220;Dieter, Du bekommst einen eigenen Guide, der auf Dich Tag und Nacht aufpasst.&#8221;, &#8220;Dieter, Maynmar, das geht ja nicht.&#8221;.</p>
<p>Denkste, nichts von dem ist wahr &#8211; selber ausprobieren, erleben und herausfinden.</p>
<p>Handynetz hatte ich die ganzen Wochen keines, hatte aber die Möglichkeit, mir für ca. 100-200 US-$ eine SIM-Karte kaufen. Internetzugang gab es in fast jedem größerem Ort &#8211; spärlich und auch langsam &#8211; für ca. 0,50 &#8211; 1 US-$/Stunde. Aber immerhin &#8211; mit Zugriff auf alle Seiten, auch jenen, die von der Regierung gesperrt worden sind. Burmesen surfen über ausländische Proxyserver, mit denen Zugriffe auf Seiten wie BBC, CNN, YouTube, Facebook und Google &#8211; die unter normalen Umständen nicht möglich sind &#8211; möglich sind.</p>
<p>Die digitale Entwicklung lässt sich nicht aufhalten und Veränderer/Mitgestalterer sind jene, die genau dieses Risiko auf sich nehmen und Grenzen überschreiten und Dinge möglich machen.</p>
<p>Die Lizenz für Mobiltelefonie kostet hier fast 2.000 US-$.<br />
Das Durchschnittsgehalt für einen Burmesen ist ca. 750 US-$/Jahr.<br />
Eine Lizenz für das Festnetztelefon und Internet kostet 1.500 US-$ &#8211; exkl. Computerausstattung.<br />
Satelitten-TV kostet hier zwischen 200 und 2.000 US-$ und steht derzeit knapp vor einem Verbot.</p>
<p>Es gibt die Möglichkeiz zur Kommunikation und Weiterbildung. Nur wird von der Regierung in diese Bereiche nichts investiert und noch wird die Bevölkerung motiviert, die Möglichkeiten und Innovationen zu nutzen. Ganz im Gegenteil &#8211; der Fortschritt wird aufgehalten und mit Gefängnis bestraft. Das Land wird unterdrückt und verliert den Anschluß.</p>
<p>&#8220;Brain Dry&#8221; lautet das Stichwort dafür.</p>
<p>Der mangelnde Fortschritt ist hier in allen Bereichen ersichtlich. Der Straßenbau: Männer wie Frauen schleppen, zertrümmern, sortieren Steine und pflastern sie mühsam zu Straßen. Mit in Tonnen gekochtem spärlichem Teer wird per Hand asphaltiert und &#8211; wenn überhaupt &#8211; planiert.</p>
<p>Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit und der Vergleich mit &#8220;zu Hause&#8221; war ermutigend &#8211; wenn auch erschreckend: bspw. zu sehen, welche technologischen Möglichkeiten und Freiheiten uns für den Straßenbau zur Verfügung stehen. Was Weiterentwicklung, Fortschritt und das über-den-Tellerrand-blicken bringt: Wir haben uns in eine Richtung weiterentwickelt, unseren Ideen und Vorstellungen Platz und Raum gegeben, ausprobuert und neue Möglichkeiten geschaffen &#8211; es uns ganz einfach immer wieder leichter gemacht.</p>
<p>Einige von uns haben die Freiheit, Begeisterung und Motivation, Dinge, Prozesse, Situationen zu verändern &#8211; anderes und leichter, effektiver zu machen, genützt. Wir können nachdenken, überdenken und uns weiterentwickeln und weiterlernen &#8211; nicht stehenbleiben.</p>
<p>Neuem Chancen geben.</p>
<p>Innovation ist für mich Motviation und Begeisterung zu teilen. Verantwortung in die Hand zu nehmen, unmöglichliches möglich machen, weiterzuentwickeln und Moral und Ethik berücksichtigen.</p>
<p>Innovation. Das können wir persönlich selbst machen, das sind für mich eine der wichtigsten Sachen. Und diese unabhängig von IT-Freeze, Finanzkriese, Budget-Freeze, Limitierungen, etc. Mitzugestalten und nicht stehen bleiben.</p>
<p>Eigene Ideen verwirklichen.</p>
<p>Sich nicht aufhalten lassen und die Möglichkeiten, die wir in einem hochmodernen, hochtechnologisierten Land zur Verfügung haben zu nutzen.</p>
<p>Wir haben Meinungsfreiheit und die Freiheit zum Mitgestalten. Beruflich als auch Privat. Und das Internet unterstützt unsere Freiheiten. Social Media, neue Vernetzungen und neue ungeahnte Möglichkeiten und Chancen. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter verbinden und bauen Brücken und verändern unsere sozialen, gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Strukturen. Die Art zu kommunizieren erweitert und verändert sich &#8211; wir erleben den Digital Mindshift mit neuen Möglichkeiten, Herausforderungen und Chancen.</p>
<p>Wir können blockieren, abwarten, kritisieren, die Augen zu machen und &#8220;schlecht machen&#8221; &#8211; oder mit den neuen Möglichkeiten spielen. Spielen, Mitgestalten, Ausprobieren, Lernen und Anwenden &#8211; das mag ich.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Digital Mindshift: The fortress is opening.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dieter Zirnig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Mindshift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Brand Ambassador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee 2.0]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am often talking and discussing about 2.0-stuff and trying to describe my visions and current ongoing changes in our society, business and private-life best.</p>
<p>So, when I am talking about the &#8220;<strong>Digital Mindshift</strong>&#8220;, I am often using the <em>metaphor of a fortress</em> to visualize my conception: The fortress is opening.</p>
<div><strong> <a rel="”lightbox”" href="http://www.digitalmindshift.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/digitalmindshift.thefortressisopening2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-31" title="Digital Mindshift - The fortress is opening" src="http://www.digitalmindshift.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/digitalmindshift.thefortressisopening2-350x338.jpg" alt="Digital Mindshift - The fortress is opening" width="350" height="338" /></a></strong></div>
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<p><strong>The old fortress</strong></p>
<p><em>Gates are closed</em></p>
<p><em>Simply</em> imagine an old fortress: Grey, muddy and inaccessibly. The gates are closed and it is impossible to have a look, what&#8217;s happening inside. The fortress has no windows and is seperated from the outside with a moat. Take care, there are some crocodiles swimming in it!</p>
<p><em>Intransparent way of communication</em></p>
<p>You do not see any people, no emotions and it is quite difficult to get in contact with the inhabitants and with the outside- sometimes an envoy is announcing latest informations to the staff and the rest of the world, but all-in-one, it is quite intransparent, closed and stucked on fix hierarchies and processes.</p>
<p><em>Does it sound exorbitant?</em></p>
<p>This maybe sounds a little bit exorbitant, but it may give a description about communication in closed system like companies, industries, affiliated groups, stores, states, governments, parties by their management, press-speakers, employees &#8211; it helps to describe the <em>Digital Transformation</em>.</p>
<p><strong>The fortress is opening</strong></p>
<p><em>Systems are opening &#8211; Web is connecting</em></p>
<p>The closed system with their people, employees, managers and clerks in it are recognizing the opportunities of today: The internet with a communication-structure, which is completly different to still existing communication-models. People are getting used to Social Media, which are giving them a transport of their voice out of the fortress.</p>
<p><em>People communicate and raise their voices </em></p>
<p>This voice is independent of fix hierarchies and processes of companies, parties, stores or families. It is the first time, when people can raise their voice immidiatly on many different platforms in many different ways: Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums, Chats &#8211; and this in a bidirectional and simultaneous way.</p>
<p><em>Faster than internal corporate communication</em></p>
<p>Faster, than a PR-message is published and approved internally through different hierarchie-levels, press-agencies and processes.</p>
<p><em>The Employees 2.0 are becoming Digital Brand Ambassadors.</em></p>
<p>The fortress &#8211; the company &#8211; is getting vulnerable, open and transparent: People feel empowered to create their own opinions and ideas and to communicate and share them with others. The doors are open, the dialog with the world outside is getting generated. The fortress is getting its color and humanity (back). No fear in communicating own opinions &#8211; no crocodiles are in the water; they are replaced by boats and sailing-ships, which support the flow of information and communication.</p>
<p><em>Classical hierarchies are falling &#8211; clouds are created</em></p>
<p>The fortress is getting a true face with many different opinions by many interesting people, which are all together transforming a institution to a next digital open level. Currently known hierarchies are falling, processes have to be defined in a new open, flexible way, our working-behaviours are changing into&#8230; &#8211; but more to this in another post.</p>
<p>This is the <em>Digital Mindshift</em>, powered and driven by employees, customers, clients, management within a fast growing 2.0 Digital Ecosystem.</p>
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		<title>A BarCamp 2 in Bratislava Review</title>
		<link>http://sugarmelon.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/a-barcamp-bratislava-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dieter Zirnig]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-551" title="Angelo from http://www.mjam.net at Barcamp Bratislava" src="http://www.sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_0305-450x302.jpg" alt="Angelo from http://www.mjam.net at Barcamp Bratislava" width="450" height="302" /><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-550" title="Barcamp Bratislava" src="http://www.sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_0286-150x100.jpg" alt="Barcamp Bratislava" width="150" height="100" /><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-549" title="@boading at the Barcamp Bratislava" src="http://www.sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_0298-150x100.jpg" alt="@boading at the Barcamp Bratislava" width="150" height="100" /><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-548" title="Peter, organizer of the Barcamp Bratislava 2009 with the Barcamp T-Shirt. (sugarmelon)" src="http://www.sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_0283-150x100.jpg" alt="Peter, organizer of the Barcamp Bratislava 2009 with the Barcamp T-Shirt. (sugarmelon)" width="150" height="100" />   It was Saturday, 21 February 2009 when the second <strong><a href="http://www.barcamp.sk" target="_blank">Barcamp in Slovakia</a></strong> opened its doors for the community in Bratislava. I was looking forward to meet the guys again, who attended the <a href="http://www.barcamp.at/BarCamp_Vienna_Oktober_2008" target="_blank">Barcamp Vienna at HP last October 2008</a>. The event was very well organized by Pavol Magic, Peter Jančárik and some other guys. Thanks a lot, it was great to join!</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratislava" target="_blank"><em>Bratislava</em></a></strong><em>, capital of the 1993 founded state </em><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowakei" target="_blank"><em>Slovakia</em></a><em> is only a one-hour-drive or around 80 km away from Vienna. It is the same distance like Vienna &#8211; Krems, Vienna &#8211; Retz, Vienna &#8211; Gloggnitz or Klagenfurt &#8211; Spittal. In our heads it is still as far away as Klagenfurt &#8211; Ljubljana &#8211; if not even more far away.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The <strong>BarCamp Bratislava</strong> was at a learning institute Gapos in the city of Bratislava. Quite easy to find by car &#8211; thanks to iPhone and Google Maps, which were running without using Data-Roaming as Google Maps cached the map and GPS continued to following. There have been more than <strong>130 people</strong> attending in Bratislava &#8211; most of them out of the region Bratislava. The community is surrounded in Bratislava and there is yet no other Barcamp in Slovakia or other kinds of sozialising events.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I was surprised, that not more geeks from Vienna joined. It would have been very interesting to leverage and to collect interesting experiences &#8211; how guys in other countries see the developement in the online-area and where they are within the &#8220;evolution-timeline&#8221;.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>There have been 19 sessions in up to 4 rooms at the same time <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/sugarmeloncom/3297290194/in/set-72157614160026929/" target="_blank">with interesting topics</a>: Enterprise 2.0, Systemno Biznis, Affiliate Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Connect and Search, three session around &#8220;Social Media&#8221; and many more.  Most of the sessions were unfortunally helt in local language.</p>
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<li>It was very interesting to follow <strong><a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/profile/balazs-bodo" target="_blank">Bodo Balazs&#8217;</a></strong> session &#8220;The pirats of the pirats of the Carribean&#8221; from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. His session was around data-privacy and illegal filesharing.</li>
<li><strong>Angelo Laub</strong> presented his startup <a href="http://www.mjam.net">http://www.mjam.net</a> and the possibilities for Slovakia. It was interesting to share thoughts with him, when we were driving home.</li>
<li><strong>Daniel Kostan</strong> from Czech Republik was talking about social media in general and showed us, what is happening at the moment in Slovakia. Daniel was talking about Facebook, MySpace, XING, LinkedIn and about the future of social networks. I was wondering, why Twitter was missing in his presentation. After asking, I got informed, that Twitter is not yet used in Bratislava/Slovakia as a communication tool and that not many people are aware about the possibilities.</li>
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<p><strong>And this was the most interesting part:</strong> To see the cultural and social differences between two countries and to notice different approaches.In this case f.e. as Twitter is one of the most important communication-tools within Austrias Online-Community, Twitter is not yet used in Slovakia. </p>
<p>In Austria, a lot of information is running via Twitter and it is very well accepted and developed. I did not notice this kind of &#8220;Digital Lifestyle&#8221; before and think, that it is a special developed social experience in Vienna.</p>
<p>Also the number of meetings, events and discussion-rounds within this community is extremly well developed. If there are BarCamps in Austria, nearly everyone is going to twittering, blogging, shooting pictures, making videos to upload them as soon as possible. I missed this kind of sharing and lifestyle in Bratislava as well as sharing infos and driving discussion on areal-time digital-basis f.e. via Twitter.</p>
<p>I noticed one thing. The amount of collectiv information in social media pages, events, discussions and meetings in Austria is very high. We are understanding the digital way and using social media for our needs. <strong>It is a part of our daily life.</strong> On the other side, the amount of real doings like f.e. startups is quite low.</p>
<p>It is interesting to follow the activities in Slovakia within the next months. Which directions and ways they are driving it and using social media and the knowledge to connect, share, leverage, network and grow. Thanks a lot, I am looking forward to your next BarCamp this year! See you there!</p>
<p><strong>More links</strong><br />
<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/sugarmeloncom/sets/72157614160026929/" target="_blank">Images Barcamp Bratislava by sugarmelon</a><br />
<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23bcb09" target="_blank">Twitter Messages around Barcamp</a><br />
<a href="http://www.barcamp.sk" target="_blank">Barcamp Slovakia</a></p>
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		<title>Barcamp Bratislava: 21. Feb. 2009</title>
		<link>http://sugarmelon.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/19/barcamp-bratislava-21-feb-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dieter Zirnig]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_543" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/sugarmelonbarcamp-bratislava.jpg" alt="Sugarmelon at Barcamp Bratislava 2009" title="Sugarmelon at Barcamp Bratislava 2009" width="450" height="299" class="size-full wp-image-543" srcset="http://sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/sugarmelonbarcamp-bratislava.jpg 450w, http://sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/sugarmelonbarcamp-bratislava-300x199.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sugarmelon at Barcamp Bratislava 2009</p></div>
<p>Am Samstag, 21. Feb. 2009 findet in Bratislava ein <a href="http://www.barcamp.sk" target="_blank">BarCamp</a> statt.</p>
<p>Ich freu mich schon darauf und bin gespannt, wie ein BarCamp im 80 km von Wien entfernten Bratislava abläuft.</p>
<p>Bin aufs Feedback gespannt und freu mich schon auf einen Tag in Bratislava und auf das Wiedersehen der Leute, die im Oktober 2009 beim <a href="http://www.barcamp.at/BarCamp_Vienna_Oktober_2008" target="_blank">BarCamp in Wien</a> teilgenommen haben.</p>
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		<title>Neuwal. Der Stillstand der Vögel &#8211; neuwal.com</title>
		<link>http://sugarmelon.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/10/neuwal-der-stillstand-der-vogel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dieter Zirnig]]></dc:creator>
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<p><em>Update from my posting on </em><a href="http://twitpic.com/3btl" target="_blank"><em>twitpic.com/3btl</em></a></p>
<p>Ich hab ein neues Projekt für die kommenden Tage, Wochen und mehr als zwei Monate: <a href="http://www.neuwal.com">www.neuwal.com</a> &#8211; alles zum Thema Neuwahl in Österreich. Ein bisschen anders betrachtet. Mit Interviews, Meinungen, Statements, 2.0 Updates, was sich wie wo tut und was wie wo auffällt.</p>
<p>Freu mich über Feedback und Postings.</p>
<p><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/line02.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-113" title="line02" src="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/line02.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="1" srcset="http://sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/line02.jpg 400w, http://sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/line02-150x1.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a></p>
<p>I am having a new project for the next few days, weeks and more than two months: <a href="http://www.neuwal.com">www.neuwal.com</a> &#8211; everything to the new elections in Austria. Views from a different angle. Interviews, Opinions, Statements, 2.0 Updates, what is happening here and there&#8230;</p>
<p>Looking forward for feedback and postings.</p>
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		<title>twittipp: A try, filtering tips during the Euro08 with twitter.</title>
		<link>http://sugarmelon.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/04/twittipp-a-try-filtering-tips-during-the-euro08-with-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dieter Zirnig]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp04.jpg"></a><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp02.jpg"></a><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp021.jpg"></a><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp03.jpg"></a><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp05.jpg"></a>I am often starting online-tipp-games under my friends due to several events (f.e. <a href="http://www.sugarmelon.com/euro08/">www.sugarmelon.com/euro08/</a>), if there are elections or there are sport-events. Usually I am having special created &#8220;HTML-pages&#8221; with input-fields, checking, and this whole HTML-Request-Resonse-Registration-Thing. I created Awareness usually with E-Mail, Skype or other messaging-systems. I wanted to find other possibilities.</p>
<p>I created <a href="http://www.sugarmelon.com/twittipp" target="_blank"><strong>www.sugarmelon.com/twittipp</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>Avoiding media-breaks and staying in one medium.<br />
</strong>I asked myself &#8220;<em>Why having a &#8216;media-break</em>&#8216;?&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Why jumping from an e-mail or a messaging-tool to a webpage?</em>&#8221; I was searching for the shortest way in delivering and getting information within the same &#8220;medium&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>The solution was twitter: Request and Response in one medium.<br />
</strong>I implemented a small application, based on twitter. I sent out a twitter-message, that user should send their result to &#8220;Germany-Spain&#8221; and tag it with<strong> #euro08</strong>, <strong>#twittipp</strong> or directly to <strong>@<a href="http://twitter.com/twittipp" target="_blank">twittipp</a></strong>. This test was fullfilled within a small target-group in Vienna.</p>
<p><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp021.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-75" title="twittipp by sugarmelon.com" src="http://www.sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp021-450x299.jpg" alt="twittipp by sugarmelon.comtwittipp by sugarmelon.com" width="450" height="299" /></a><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp01.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-72" title="twittipp by sugarmelon.com" src="http://www.sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp01-150x100.jpg" alt="twittipp by sugarmelon.com" width="150" height="100" /></a><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp03.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-76" title="twittipp by sugarmelon.com" src="http://www.sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp03-150x100.jpg" alt="twittipp by sugarmelon.com" width="150" height="100" /></a><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp05.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-77" title="twittipp by sugarmelon.com" src="http://www.sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp05-150x100.jpg" alt="twittipp by sugarmelon.com" width="150" height="100" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Implementation and some special cases: Avoiding double and impossible votes.<br />
</strong>I used PHP, twitter-functions and summize, for filtering the responses. I tried to catch special cases like</p>
<ul>
<li>avoiding double-votes,</li>
<li>impossible votes, which are &gt;10 goals on each side and</li>
<li>giving an overview about the average results/tipps.</li>
<li>filtering tipps and automatically recognition of winning-team (f.e. 4-2 for spain will be transformed into GER-ESP 2:4).</li>
</ul>
<p>One of my targets was also getting in dialog and touch with the user and send <strong>him a twitter-message back</strong>.</p>
<p>Twitter overtook the registration-process, I had access to username, etc. Twitter also managed datahandling and datamining. Twitter is working as a powerful multi-dimensional entry-field.</p>
<p><strong>Resume: The test worked wonderful.<br />
</strong>The test worked perfectly, although, not a lot of people attended this game (10). The filter via summize worked, although there was a breakdown for more than three hours sunday morning.</p>
<p>Twitter-User <em>josue</em> from Spain was amazed, that his tipp was filtered to sugarmelon.com/twittipp by fortune and noticed this on his twitter-feed:</p>
<p><a href="http://sugarmelon.com/blog2010/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp04.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-73" title="twittipp by sugarmelon.com" src="http://www.sugarmelon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/twittipp04-150x100.jpg" alt="twittipp by sugarmelon.com" width="150" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>There have been some questions, why I do not have implemented such a thing before and only at the last game. The answer is clear: I was afraid about spending too much time with twittipp during the Euro. I know myself&#8230; I would have spent day and night with this application&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Next time again. Thanks for testing and participating!</strong></p>
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