Monthly Archives: April 2006

April 30, 2006
Communication

Kashmir og kreativiteten

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Kasper Eistrup & Mads Tunebjerg bedre kendt som Kashmir deltager aktivt i debatten omkring fremtiden for efterskoler. De mener begge at deres egen tid på Kastanievej Efterskole, hvor de startede deres band, har været en betydelig faktor i forhold til deres succes. På Kastanievej Efterskole là ...
April 29, 2006
Communication

Hvem er i den anden ende når dine (skole)børn surfer på Arto?

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PÃ¥ det seneste har der været en (endnu) større debat om børn og unge teenageres brug af bl.a. børne-forumet Arto, hvor børn kan finde “Venner, fællesskab og underholdning”, som det hedder pÃ¥ siden. Debatten gÃ¥r pÃ¥, hvordan en del unge teenagere gennem sitet er kommet i kontakt ...
April 28, 2006
Design and Identity

Make Your Next Analysis a Cocreative Identity Project

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Imagine you wanted to know more about your customers/users in order to develop a better service or to create better communication. Then imagine you went through a proces that would not only let you know a lot more about your customers through first-hand experience but would even wind up creating you ...
StagisLife

To day is a good day

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Today is the day where we sent out the first directmail that informs about our report on continuation schools. In spite of truble with the transport and some lost packages, we recieved the result of last weeks layouting and long hours, and it´s looking great. So for me, the rest of the day is gonna ...
April 25, 2006
Communication

To Name a Few Organizational Blogs…

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As promised I have search for some interesting examples of Danish corporate blogs. There is not that many to choose from yet, but to name a few: Ã…rstiderne(online shop – organic vegetables), Arken(art museum) and Patent – og Varemærkestyrelsen. Internationally Denmark is not in the for ...
Design and Identity

IKEA Rules…

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Ikea, the Swedish furniture chain has been voted the world’s top retailer in a new global poll. The survey was carried out by Business Week magazine and the Boston Consulting Group and ranked Ikea as world number one for innovation in the retail industry, ahead of global giants such as Wal-Mart an ...
Communication

The door to a different world

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The other day I was looking for a specific jeans brand on the google website, but in stead of the official brand website, I enterede a lot of chatrooms, personal weblogs and so on. And that was when I realised a couple of things. First of all I didn’t allways understand the language that was [ ...
April 24, 2006
Communication

Hvorfor ikke udnytte hjemmesidens fulde potentiale?

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Beslutningen om at tage på efterskole bliver ikke taget fra den ene dag til den anden. Der ligger mange overvejelser bag, og i den proces er det især efterskolernes hjemmesider der står for skud. Det er her både elever og forældre søger hen for at få et indtryk af de enkelte skoler. Det betyd ...
April 23, 2006
Communication

When You Don’t Know Who You Are Trying to Reach

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Organizations, politicians and individuals communicate in ways that they each understand which works to perfection when it comes to maintaining self-understanding and identity. But problems arise when their need is to create a community which is what communication is all about (commune = being toget ...
April 22, 2006
Anthropology and Culture, Design and Identity

Visiting the IT-University and my recollection of Maeda and Design By Numbers

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Yesterday I posted a picture from IT Universitetet in Copenhagen on my moblog on hq23. Mach replied and explained how it all went down. The students can no longer continue the digital conversation in the public space at IT-U which is sad. It was such a great idea: On some of the screens the students ...
April 19, 2006
Anthropology and Culture

Becoming an Innovation Culture

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Was just reading a case discussed by Edgar H. Schein who was at one point helping an organization create an innovative culture as the client management felt the need of flexibility in order to answer to the changing environment. One of the factors keeping the culture from becoming more innovative wa ...
Communication

Ar(gh)la!

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The last few weeks I have scanned the daily press for articles about blogging – because the journalists are finally catching on to the trend – and it seems they are nearly convinced that blogging is here to stay. This is positive news for me, because I´m going to use the next 6 month wr ...
April 10, 2006
Creativity and Leadership

London

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Just a quick post to let you know I´m going to London for my Easter break. I love going there because it´s a good place to spot new trends. One trend I will be keeping an eye out for is Being Spaces, extensions of peoples living rooms where you can hang out, work, network and […] ...
April 4, 2006
Communication

The best communication channels for the purpose

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One of the main conclusions in the new Stagis report “Hvorfor efterskole – og hvorfor ikke?” is that the main condition for choosing the continuation school life is that you know what this kind of life is all about. What’s it like to live far away from your parents? What acti ...
StagisLife

Here we go again…only faster this time.

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Here we go again. We have to be faster, brighter and more efficient. And we have to keep it going for a longer time than before. I’m referring to some of the welfare issues released by the Government today and especially those regarding the students – a segment to which I belong. I feel reli ...