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Dave Snowden visits Denmark

2011/03/24

One of my greatest heros and sources of inspirations, Dave Snowden, will give do a full day seminar @ CBS Executive in Copenhagen on how to Lead Through Complexity, on 8 April 2011. Dave works with subjects like social complexity, systems thinking, narratives, sense-making and neuroscience, and he applies these to Management. Cool stuff!

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to partake on the day, as I’ll leave for Mexico on the 7th for a big wedding :-)

I would love to see a lot of other people go though! You can read more about the event here:
Læs om seminaret – IN DANISH
Read about the seminar – IN ENGLISH

If you don’t know Dave’s work yet, the Google him, and you’ll see! Or get in touch with me, and we can have a chat about ideas.

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A Mash-Up: Speed Up Typing On U’r iPhone!

2009/09/18

This idea is kinda old (i.e. older than 24h, several weeks actually. Wouw it’s ancient!). Sorry guys, sometimes I just forget sharing, but what do you think? How do you like the recipy?

  1. Take an iPhone (or rather its finger touch keyboard software)
  2. Add T9 predictive text input, but think QWERTY!
  3. Finish with the cleverness of Word Clouds, and

Voilà! You now have a QWERTY keyboard on your iPhone that predicts what letters you are most likely to press next, and enlarges those keys, making them easier to press with your big fat thumbs (…mine are).

Still don’t get it? Someone help me make a little flash animation of it please! :-)

Apple, when you make this update to your software, keep me in mind, aye? ;-)

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How to write an e-mail that’ll be read (A Commentary)

2009/04/23

On the Harvard Business Blog David Silverman suggests in “How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It” how you in 10 steps “ensure” that people will read your e-mail. I felt compelled to comment (and I’ve included a few comments from biz writer John Simmons too. Read him!), because I don’t quite think David’s approach cracks the nut. For one he suggests 30-50 revisions, if you send your e-mail to more than 10 people?

Here’s what I think!

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Top 5 Lists of free tools for SMM, buzz monitoring & finding “bla bla…”

2009/04/13

The Cluetrain Manifesto shouted it out loud to us in ’98: “Listen to the conversations taking place on-line. Now!” We all (well, those of us in the know) replied: “Yes, that is so true…”, and for the next 10 years we did almost nothing about it. We call ourselves Internet marketing gurus and stuff, and give each other awards. Can I have the one for “Greatest Hypocrite”? Any other takers?

1st Prize for Hypocracy

1st Prize for Hypocracy

Here are the 5 best compilations I’ve found that list free tools for SMM, buzz monitoring and tracking, reputation management, social web search, ego-searching in cronological order:

  1. Smashing Magazine, November 24th, 2006 (Links checked: May/09 2008)
    Web 2.0: Buzz-Monitoring and Tracking

    This is a cool list. In a sense it is almost ‘old school’ (I mean: 2006! Wouw!), yet relevant even today. And check out the comments! Many are brand new. Not many blog posts are able to live well for 2.5 years. I bow in respect.

  2. Mashable.com, December 24th, 2008
    Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation

    Some good ones, but w. some flaws e.g. filtrbox isn’t really free, and a Top 10 is just too superficial. Still, worth checking out!

  3. BuzzStream Blog, post by Jeremy Bencken on February 24, 2009
    Social Media Monitoring on the Cheap

    Few but top quality links. Some directly to SMM tools, some to other ‘on topic’ blogs. Also links to some commercial tools.
  4. interactive insights group, March 30th, 2009 by Robin Broitman
    How-To: Search the Social Web – Ultimate Toolkit [MY FAVORITE!]

    This is a very very elaborate list of tools that even I have to do some more work on. Each tool is briefly introduced, and though the list isn’t even exhaustive, it is really inspiring.

  5. masternewmedia.org, March 30, 2009
    Buzz Tracking And Social Media Monitoring: Best Tools To Do Ego Searching And Find Out Who Is Talking About Me – Mini-Guide

    Yes, this is a mini guide (especially compared to the former no. 3) that has an OK comparison table for the mentioned tools. My eye for detail and style, values the post, but the blog itself is a big messy :-) and too ad-heavy.

Yup, I may have missed some that have popped up in the past two weeks, so please post those links in your comments.

Soon I’ll give you a full run down of the commercial services. That’ll be couple of dozen in the US, and a handful from Europe. Would a Google Map be nice?

Kim M.

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