Monthly Archives: April 2007

April 29, 2007
Creativity and Leadership

Music for one apartment and six drummers

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“Music for one apartment and six drummers” on YouTube by tishcro I just got this little piece of art that Jytte from the KaosPilots sent me. Reminds me a bit of the Blue Man Group that I saw about five years ago at Luxor in Vegas and somehow also the legendary Honda Accord Commercial. Ma ...
April 28, 2007
Communication

The virtual me

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Yesterday I read an article in Politiken which stated that 50 % of your identity is available to the rest of us online. Abelone Glahn states in the article that if you don’t exist online then you nearly don’t exist at all. We have previously discussed the importance of corporate blogging ...
April 27, 2007
Creativity and Leadership, StagisLife

Co-creating with Björk + STAGIS’ new blogger

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Björk – one of my favorite artists and Possibly Maybe the greatest nation branding and marketing spin Iceland will ever experience, paving the way for so many artistic goodies from the small nation far North in the Atlantic. On May 7th Björk’s much-awaited album Volta will hit the shops an ...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

New CSR opportunity for innovation and knowledge-leaders in Denmark: Specialekontoret

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Today Nanna and Marta launched the Specialekontor-website. It’s the first public annoncement of an ambitious socially responsible project we’ve been working on during mid-2006. This year we are aiming to make it become a reality! About a year ago our sociologist Katja had finished her di ...
April 24, 2007
Communication

Real money in a virtual world

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Second life. What can I say? I am seduced and frightened at the same time because of this 3D virtual world. The numbers on the list to the left speak for themselves – the community has many members, who spend and earn a lot of money in Second Life. Even though this is a very […] ...
April 23, 2007
Communication

tv turnoff week by adbusters

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It’s “tv turnoff week”. Started today. So… turn it off. It’s not going to make you happy anyhow even though you might think so (especially if you’re living in Denmark – you’re supposed to be among the happiest people in the world, says new european res ...
April 22, 2007
Communication

Master thesis on the relation between blogs and customer relations

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A friend of STAGIS, Jonas Kjær, gave in his master thesis at Roskilde University about a month ago. He has been studying how blogs can help to develop or keep relations between companies and customers or other stakeholers. During the fall Jonas interviewed me and Birgitte as well as two of our clie ...
April 21, 2007
Anthropology and Culture, StagisLife

Are the loosely coupled networks the most reliable after all?

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Recently one of my trusted colleagues through seven years had her last day at work in STAGIS. Her name is Camilla. She’s been doing a great job working with our financial matters together with myself and various team members. And for quite some time Camilla has been the person with the longest his ...
April 20, 2007
Talks and events

Concerts in Tivoli!

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So, one of the things i really connect with summer is concerts on Plænen in Tivoli, Copenhagen. And tonights my first one this year! (It’s Moi Caprice playing, and they’re awesome ! You should come check it out if you’ve got the time 🙂 ) Anyway, it struck me that, one of the th ...
April 18, 2007
Communication

+ communication = winner

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In my previous post I asked the question: Is it really that simple that brands win when they help others to win? This morning I came across John Dodds blog and he actually answers my question in some way. He says the following about why marketing (or communication) works: It matters simply because b ...
April 17, 2007
Communication

Who’s the winner?

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Surfing the Internet this morning I stumbled over this blog, What’s your brand mantra?. Not a frequently updated blog since the latest post in from January! But nevertheless I find the following quote from this post very interesting: Brands win when they help others win. I find this very true ...
April 16, 2007
StagisLife

Spring weekend

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Springtime in Copenhagen. Can’t help loving it! ...
April 12, 2007
Communication

Authentic souvenirs

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Souvenirs photografed in their real locations. That is surely authentic. Photographer Michael Hughes has photographed a selection of travel souvenirs in their real locations. See the entire selection in the gallery. ...
April 2, 2007
Talks and events

Podcast 4: Lecture on authenticity in organizational identities

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Last week I was lecturing on how organizations can map their authenticity. The lecture was part of Roy Langers course at RUC where I’ve been so fortunate to participate twice this winter. We recorded the last lecture and you can hear it here as a podcast. It’s rather long (maybe too long ...