Mind at Focus Research & Learning Lab

Do timelines kill creativity?

websensei — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:37:28 +0000

a wonderful video send by a colleague after we have held our first creativity and innovation workshop at his university. I truly love the message, but I wonder: Would the results be even better if there is no timeline? I have my doubts. Nevertheless please take your time and watch a brilliant story.

Gaming can make a better world?

websensei — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:10:55 +0000

Why gamedesign might be the next innovation pattern

websensei — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:01:34 +0000

Eric Zimmermann argues that the world is moving into an age that is characterized by Play, The Ludic Century. Submarine Channel talked to the prominent game designer during Think, Design, Play, a conference organized by the Utrecht School of the Arts. Watch!

Little boxes

websensei — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:56:36 +0000

was a song in 60s the by Malvina Reynolds. I did know until my colleague started humming the song while we were working on a new course on creativity and innovation patterns. I loved it so much, since I always declare “we need to get rid of the box”, that I choose we will use as an opening theme of the course itself.

You´ll find the lyrics here to sing along with us

The creative spark

websensei — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:48:46 +0000

is the title of a wonderful collection of TED talks on creativity. Please visit http://www.ted.com/themes/the_creative_spark.html and listen and watch such thought-provoking speakers as Amy Tan, Rory Sutherland, Tim Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert, Ken Robinson, and Sunni Brown and many more. Get inspired and inspire others!

Great Decisions – a VC storytelling session at the Evernote Trunk Conference 2011

websensei — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:37:57 +0000

Tim Ferriss, Guy Kawasaki and Roelof Botha talk about their different approaches for their VC decisions.

the 10x Club – how internet startups can be evaluated by VCs

websensei — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:03:58 +0000

Bill Gurley wrote a detailed blog post about All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club which I stumpled upon, literally using the service. It is a purely financial perspective on Internet startups, but it gives a comprehensive overview of a VCs evaluation scheme. Have a detailed look on the article, just to summarize the 10xClub is all about (according to Bill Gurley):

Sustainable Competitive Advantage
The Presence of Network Effects
Visibility/Predictability Are Highly Valued
Customer Lock-in / High Switching Costs
Gross Margin Levels
Marginal Profitability Calculation
Customer Concentration
Major Partner Dependencies
Organic Demand vs. Heavy Marketing Spend
Growth

Where good ideas come from

websensei — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:41:08 +0000

The chance favors the connected mind worth watching

Social Media Monitoring Tools

PRclass11 — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:44:44 +0000

Assignment 4: Social Media Monitoring Tools

To monitor the social media concerning our study programme “Communication and Knowledge Media” I’d like to refer to a previous post that already mentioned that “we’re” not represented in the most popular social media plattform – Facebook. Also on Twitter you can hardly find anything about our bachelor’s programme. So therefore it is inevitabel to set up a fanpage @ Facebook and an account @ Twitter.

I think at this point, it’s not neccesary to discribe Google Alerts, so my tool of choice for monitoring is sysomos Facebook Page Central(FPC). To use this tool, you only have to connect FBC to your FB page. It provides :

automatic notification when a new comment is posted
Auto-moderation
- create a list of keywords and if found in a comment, you’ll be notified
- auto delete unwanted posts per keywords
Reports about:
- number about posts and comments
- level of engagement
- sentiment
- actual topics
- most active fans
Workflow management
- assign moderation responsibilities to your team

More information can be found here: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/11/01/facebook-page-spam-control-analytics-and-more-via-facebook-page-central/

In my opinon, Facebook Page Central is a mighty tool to monitor all activities on your fanpage and it would be a great tool to be administrated by our universities marketing department, because FBC let you manage multiple Facebook accounts.

The company also provides different tools for social media monitoring like Synomos Map and Heartbeat. MAP stands for Media Analysis Platform and let you gain insight and intelligence about conversations, why they’re happening and who’s driving them.

Main Features are:

Comprehensive and Spam-Free Database
Key Influence Indetification
Detaild Geographic and Demographic Data
Automated Sentiment
Measureable Metrics
Competitive Analysis

A con of the tool is that the demographical data isn’t always complete, but that’s because e.g. blog owners don’t fully specify their demographical data.

Island schafft eine neue Verfassung mit Hilfe der isländischen Öffentlichkeit

PRclass11 — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:19:17 +0000

Island will die veraltete Verfassung erneuern mit der Mithilfe der Bevölkerung. Dabei können die Isländer in Social Communities wie Facebook oder Twitter die Vorschläge der Regierung diskutieren und ihre Meinung kundtun. Somit können sie einen aktiven Beitrag zu ihrer Verfassung leisten. Ca. 2 Drittel der Isländer sind auf Facebook registriert, wodurch der Großteil der Bevölkerung erreicht werden kann.

Was haltet ihr von dieser Idee? Ist es gerecht internet-affine Menschen zu beteiligen und jene, die nicht so viel mit Computern und Internet zu tun haben, auszuschließen?

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Hierzu ein Artikel von orf.at:
http://news.orf.at/stories/2062983/2063023/