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// October 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // art, conferences, dance, links, speaker, teach, thought, Video
Today is the start of the Amsterdam Dance Event here in Amsterdam Holland. To take a moment before you go out this weekend and enjoy dancing, music, clubbing or whatever you feel like with music this weekend have a look at these 2 great talks. One is from Bobby Mcferrin at the World Science Festival and the other is from Itay Talgam at TED. (more…)
// October 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // activism, conferences, friends, links, speaker, teach, thought
Steve Francis just came over happy about how his presentation on Transparency went today. It was a real great experience talking with him over the past weeks about the topic and helping him put it into a story to present. I learned a lot about how transparency networks started back in the Yugoslovian War and have now trickled down into today’s social networks with transparency. Over this time I suggested some books for him to read, one in particular really sunk home. It was Rod Beckstrom’s “Starfish and the Spider”. Even though I really love my copy I loaned it to Steve to read. Why do I love my copy? Well Rod signed it for me after we had an amazing talk one night at the DLD a couple years back. Anyway, Steve read it, had epiphanies like everyone does who reads the book, (yes it is a great book you should read it) and told his old CO about it. Turns out his old CO and Rod are already talking together. Amazing how the tribes across the world’s mix. I had such an epiphany with a video Steve now shared with me. David Logan talking at TEDx about Tribal Leadership. An excellent talk, especially if you have read Seth Godin’s book on tribes. Yes you have a lot of reading to do if you haven’t read these books. Anyeway,s enjoy the video and I hope it inspires.
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// August 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // thought, twitter, Work
I have been setting up some new twitter accounts for some projects and I just realised something new in the process. When someone starts on twitter first time they get 20 people to follow already. But then again, they don’t have any followers yet. Quite depressing. But wouldn’t Brands just love to be one of those first 20 brands you engage with. And it would be so easy for Twitter to take wads of advertising dollars just to place @cocacola as one of your first friends on Twitter. Then all coke has to do is have a team of twitters hired to talk to people when they first sign up and engage with the brand. Hell, this could be a job for college students indeed. Twitter while studying and earn money as a Coca-Cola twitter employee. So there you are a free advertising idea which will
// August 17th, 2009 // 12 Comments » // life, thought, Work
It seems that I am to creative to get a regular job. My whole life I’ve always been in startups. Even as a teenager. I never really understood why it was. Until lately that is. I’ve been looking for work too pay off enormous debts from bankruptcies at Mobuzz.tv and Xolo.tv (notice there is nothing to link too on those 2 sites?).
Only time I travel is if it is getting paid for by a speaking job or something, which I then couch surf and hang out with some of my great friends all over the world. So don’t feel to bad for me. In that sense I’m blessed. But I digress. I’ve been looking for a job, and I keep getting these type of rejections. Like this one I just got in:
I saw you application for Producer Interactive Media. Thank you for that. To be frank: I don’t think its the right job for you. You seem way to creative and enterprising for this type of work that is basically organizing, negotiating budgets, making plannings etc. You probably thought It was much more exciting….
