Monthly Archives: September 2006

September 27, 2006
Anthropology and Culture

We all play the Ego Game

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During my two months in Stagis, I´ve participated in several business meetings. Some have been interesting, some have been educating and yet some have actually been fun. But what these meetings all have in common, is the presence of what I call The Ego Game. The Ego Game is a game of lies and decep ...
Communication

The Advertising Man

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The other day at Stagis a colleague came back from a meeting and said that someone called him an advertising man (reklame mand). Its safe to say that he didn’ t see it as a compliment because we who live and work (maybe in a bobble?) in this world of communication and consultants think adverti ...
Branding

Authentic playground…?

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Last monday Nikolaj and I went to a meeting in Billund with LEGO System A/S. I don’t know if any of you have visited the place – not “Legoland” but the “Headquarter”? It is possible to be mistaken about the two. When arriving you enter a large hall with a desk where it’s actually diffi ...
September 26, 2006
Communication

Barriers to Corporate Blogging

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In writing my thesis I am getting under the skin of the corporate bloggers in Denmark. I have just talked to a guy from a big Danish council about how blogging could be interesting for them as an organization – but he wasn´t convinced;-) The feed back Im getting from the corporate bloggers I ...
September 25, 2006
Talks and events

Podcast 3: Nikolaj Stagis and Jonas Kjær, On Corporate Bloggging and Relatoins

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Friday I spoke with Jonas Kjær, who is writing his master-thesis on the effect of corporate blogging. He is researching to what extend the relations created through corporate blogging are connected to the company or to the individual writing the blog-posts. So he’s interviewing me and discuss ...
September 22, 2006
Communication, StagisLife

Finding time to blog

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Phew… Another bussy week whizzed by. It’s difficult to find time to blog when everything is going fast. I am working on my master-thesis about authenticity in organizational identity and trying to help clients use their potential as well as they possibly can and then we’re running ...
September 12, 2006
StagisLife

Spain

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Hi! So, this is my first time writing a real blog on Stagis and I’m very excited about it. I’m looking forward to this whole blooging experience, which is something I’ve never tried before, and I suspect I’ll be posting more or less regularly on Stagisblog. However, you will ...
StagisLife

The flight united 93

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I went to the movies the other night and saw United 93 a highly recommendable piece of work directed by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy 2004, Bloody Sunday 2002 and Theory of Flight back in 1998). The movie is about the flight united 93 that was hijacked by terrorist and later crashed near Sha ...
September 7, 2006
Communication

The media is the new court system and you’re the judge!

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A few days ago I was watching “Operation X” on TV2. The program exposed the “safe-chat” consultant Rudy Frederiksen as a cheat who appeared publicly as a consultant counselling children and parents about how to navigate safely around the internet without meeting scary old men ...
September 6, 2006
Communication

Why aren’t there more corporate blogs in DK?

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I have just finished a really interesting phone interview with Maja Møller from Arla. I asked her the difficult question; why are we in Denmark lacking behind when it comes to companies using blogs in their communication? We could not find one answer but agreed that it might have been a slow start ...
Jobs

Does anyone care about grades anymore???

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After 5 years of studying most students are looking forward to getting out there – getting their first job and becoming part of what other people refer to as the “real life”.(I wonder what we have been living for the last 30 years?). Before they (or should I say we) are completely ...
September 5, 2006
Anthropology and Culture, Creativity and Leadership

Managers are hiding while new opportunities disappear

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As you can se elsewhere we’re trying to get a number of managers to gather around a big project (that we’ve been working on for 7 month). And at the same time as Amanda was writing the post about Bendt Bendtsen (whom she and I and everyone we know – except Villi, he couldn’t ...
Communication

I (hope) I get by with a little help from my friends…?

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I need to get a meeting with Bendt Bendtsen Nothing fancy. Just a meeting. One hour should be enough to tell him about an extremely interesting project, which he must participate in – contribute to – and simply support! Is there anybody out there who happens to know a short cut to Bendt? ...