I'm not the inventor of this "quality triangle" - but after giving it some thought as to what my most valuable lesson has been as a project manager so far, it must be something that I actually learned while still programming: Quality is not a factor you control, thus
What the hell is an edgling?
Yet another private beta I'm signing up to ;)
Mod My Life sounds too crazy to go unnoticed -
Is this the way reality tv is going to be in the future? What happens if you run in to a person controlled by someone else - how do you maintain control of your own actions in relation to that person???
I Blogmagasinet #16 var der opfordring til en afstemning om bloggratisavis - se resultatet her
Fordelingen er kort fortalt
Got a new job at The Voice as a webproducer! I'm really exited about it and can't wait to get started.
It's going to be an interesting December for me - starting it off being in Africa, then home to a Christmas party at The Voice, and the the following Monday my very first day - wow!
For at kunne koncentrere snakken lidt, har Bloggratisavis projektet fået sin helt egen blog - frit for enhver at være med i og det glæder jo også resten af konceptet:
Bloggen
Vores DIGG klogn aka Syndikatet
Håber at vi ifb. med de mange politiske indspark ifb. med valget får nogle gode blogposts med til første udgivelse - så op i gear, og smid de gode posts i systemet!
UPDATE:
Blogmagasinet interviewer Jeppe Kabell om Bloggratisavis
Jeg vil også opfordre folk til at deltage i den lille afstemning i højre side på Blogmagasinets side "Hvad siger du til bloggratisavisen?"
Tidligere blev Bloggratisavise nævnt i Beocast - læs min kommentarer og lyt.
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Vores egent Willumsgaard2.0 er jo stillet op til Folketinget for NA - se hans nye blog her, måske der er et par gode posts der kan gafles i ny og næ...
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Jeppe Kabell gjorde mig opmærksom på at det yderst spændende og svært definer bare projekt bloggratisavis bliver vendt og drejet af Joachim Oschlag og Jesper Balslev i deres Beocast #5 - alle ca. 20 min!
De har nogle gode pointer, som jeg støtter op om:
- Det dør, hvis det bliver for meget røde-mor-kollektiv-alle-skal-være-med-i-alle-beslutninger
- Det lever hvis der er en form for hård kerne af "smagsdommere" der udvælger og publicerer
At Digg-klonen Pligg, godt nok åbner op for at alle kan være med, ser jeg blot som en lav indgangsbarriere (eller ikke eksisterende), for at være med som smagsdommer - jeg tror over tid, at der vil være en semi-dynamisk kerne af folk omkring projektet, som sørger for at der bliver gjort opmærksom på og stemt på de blogsposts der findes ude i den danske blogosfære.
Mht. den brainstorm der har været på navnet - så er det så absolut ikke udtryk for at alle beslutninger skal tages således, men for simple ting som (er sekundære) et navn, så er en brainstorm jo perfekt, og noget ALLE kan være med i. Og jeg vil opfordre folk til at stemme - også uden at komme med nye bud :)
Og helt rigtigt, så er det bare om at komme ud over stepperne, og få smækket et issue#1 ud, så vi kan se hvad det kan blive til i fremtiden. Og nej, hvis det skulle gå hen og dø, jammen så er det sådan det går, og så har vi prøvet det med :)
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Just a shout out to get some Linklove for a couple of blogs I'm participating in:
100idears (in danish)
My brothers new blog about ideation, ideageneration, innovation - how do we do it?
He's involved in a lot of different innovative projects in his job, and i kindly asked him to start blogging about it! It's still new, but it should be interesting to get an insight in the idea-process of the danish library.
Jeg gjordet det selv - bloggen (in danish)
A new blog I started a few day's ago - it meant as a help to self-help (if you can say that in English). I'm not an expert in the home improvement department, but I've done my fair share of house renovation - enough to share some insights weather it be about making your paintings stick to the wall or fixing the radiator before it gets too cold out there.
You can submit a question, issue or whatever you want me and others to help show and tell - all in the name of making you go "Jeg gjordet det selv!" (I did it myself!).
SHARE A BRAINWAVE
This is pure linklove, because i find this a very intriguing concept - and I would suggest you participate in what ever way you would like.
A free Blog "news" paper - project (in danish)
This is a project which is gaining momentum - and I'm very exited in where it might end - go have a look, read the whole thing - especially the comments, that's where the juice is.
I'm taking part - so could you.
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There is actually 2 of these - one for the e-mail and one for the phone number, both of which you HAVE to select in order to get the free trail of Live Meeting. I can't believe that i actually went through with it - if somebody call me, I will through a fit!
I did not see this coming Karin, but thanks.
If you went - "what the hell is this", here is the Meme and the Memetag wikipedia explanation.
So let me just jump right into it... Here's 8 things about me - Kåre Mulvad, ´78 male, CPH@DK@Earth:
1. I've found the love of my life: Louise, we tried having a house 25km from Århus, 2 cars and 2 cats Vegas and Bastian. Sold the house when we where finished revamping it - now we live in CPH 1112 - the best thing we ever did!
We miss having the cats - and I tell you, having those buggers running around you made both of us real animal lovers. Having cats though you have to make the choice to accept birds as collateral damage.
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I've been saying this for a while - with no backup but my own network to look at - the true innovative ideas is not (only) coming from the well educated portion of the employees. Without finding a paper to support that idea but a lot of other voices in the blogosphere, I tried to do a picture search on flickr on "innovative" and this picture came up.
It has a slightly different approach to the sources to innovative ideas (as the title says), but interesting fact here is not that employees are top scores here. What's more interesting is that the second, third, forth, fifth AND sixth place are EXTERNAL sources - something a lot of companies have not realized yet.
I think today this list in most companies (if asked) would read: Employees, Internal sales and R&D (in that order)
Where the Sales dep. by historic reference is taking the "external vibes" into the company... well it does to some degree i guess, but i doubt it does so in the amount of ideas combined in the external sources listed.
Reasons for not recognizing (some of) the external sources:
Customers - "They don't know what's good for them?"
Competitors - "They would just steal our ideas!"
Do you have "quotes" for the other external sources ??
Read the article related to the picture here
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Incidentally, research has also shown that while verbal brainstorming in a single location often brings less creative results than individual creativity, on-line brainstorming using web based tools is more effective than on-site brainstorming or individual brainstorming.
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Although the exact process is not clear, it seems that the biochemical process of the brain restructures memories before storing them during the night. This restructuring most likely allows our minds to see problems in new ways and so bring new solutions to them. (Ref: http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/21/sleep.creativity.ap/index.html)As stated in the article - sleeping on a problem is not exactly new, though this gives me a clue as to why i often describe my "most creative" period as being in the shower each morning.
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A site review is basically an
unstructured inspection by a third party, typically focusing
on the site's usability and aesthetics.
Page: [Page name or entire URL]
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Careers that could fit Kåre Mulvad includes
Actors, journalists, writers, musicians, painters, consultants, psychologists, psychiatrists, entrepreneurs, teachers, counselers, politicans, diplomats, television reporters, marketers, scientists, sales representatives, artists, clergy, public relations, social scientists, social workers.
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... or why Wiki when you can mind map?
I should hurry to say that I'm not for one and against another - they are two powerful tools in their own way. And that is exactly what I'm wondering about - when is one better than the other. I remember to have read some comment somewhere (typical of me to forget), about using wiki's as a mind mapping or brainstorming tool.
In lack of a mind mapping software installed (like Openmind og Mindmanager) I'll do it on a simple and also powerful manner... a list:
Mind map pros:
- creates overview
- quick to use
- generates a lot of keywords
- visual image of complexity
- related keywords
Mind map cons:
- lack of information
- a screen is only that big...
- hard to use on the Internet (i know there are some online mind mapping tools around - just check out the tools section on Innovationtools.com)
Wiki pros:
- all the information in one place
- related information
- links to non-existing information (wiki pages)
- born to be used on the Internet
Wiki cons:
- lack of overview
- not quite as fast (despite it's name)
Sum of it all
I think it's not all black and white... i all ways miss the nice visual overview whenever it's not there - and it could be in a lot of places in the business world today. We are so busy making lists and so on, but they aren't well perceived in peoples minds and aren't that easy remembered...
The ( ) stuff in my list above might suggest a wiki would have giving me more space and structure to elaborate, while the shortness and quickness of the list (aka. the mind map) gave me the overview to go in depth with each and every keyword - if i witched to do so...
I would say that a wiki with a mind map overview would be a killer app. - anyone with some Apollo (or adobe air) knowledge up for a challenge?
Comment
There are definitely more pros and cons to put on each of the above topics, so pls. do so if you feel the urge...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Buzan
This summer in Copenhagen a bunch of cows are invading the city space - read the official explanation here.
At the moment they are moving the cow's out from their "storage" and that is actually a funny thing - because it makes the cows much more alive!! Suddenly a cow is standing in your way...
I don't know exactly for how long the cows are staying, but that is not the important thing here... the focus is the public space, and making people see and interact with it.
On the http://www.cowparade.dk/ they came up with the idea that if you saw a cow, you should take a photo of it and send it to them... that's great, but i thought if they kept moving the cows around making it more live - the competition would be all that more exciting, also encouraging people to explore their own city in new ways.
Well for now - if you spot a cow - take a photo of it and send it to: konkurrence@cowparade.dk
For some years now I've been saying it would be great when power became wireless, and i think maybe a year ago i read something about someone actually in the process of creating a device for you to put on your cellphone og laptop battery, enabling it to be charged through an induction type pad... wich then could be installed in various place like your office table...
Telling about it, people normally said " what if i obstructed the wireless power - would you get electricuted?"
Well Read the press release from MIT and see the picture... looks cool...
You can also visit their webpage
It's probalbly not going commercial just yet - it's not that power efficient - YET!
The issue
You know the constant FYI-emails, IM's and so on, from people in your network, just letting you know they found some interesting stuff for you to look at. Based on their perception of you and what you'd be interested in. Sometimes you'll receive the same FYI 3-4 times - from different people, just adding to the information overload / spam!! The FYI's combined with your own information scouting can take up quite a substantial time during a day... some days you might feel behind on information, because you aren't able to cope with the large amount.
The Combination
I do my share of FYI's to people in my network, being sales leads, or input to projects I know people are working on, to plain old spare time interests. And some (of us) are just better at finding the information than others. Combine this with the "Personal shopper" concept, found in various implementations around the world. Best known in Denmark as a Christmas event in bigger retail stores - helping the men picking presents for the entire family - and wife.
The new concept
Through customizable categories on a website and personal meetings, defining people profiles, making sure that only the right and relevant information comes at a time YOU want it. Having scoters keeping an eye on the information’s of interest in numerous places, giving you the update you need when you need it. The amount of information and time between each update should be highly agile, enabling for quick shifts depending on the current state of "need of knowledge" Maybe topping the information update with information summary’s on requested subjects. Enabling a company to have a start-up meeting on a subject, which is to be attacked?
Microsoft Surface
I remeber seeing or hearing about something like this a couple of years back... it's was a vision about mobiles becomming so powerfull that their small dimensions of screens would become the biggest obstacle. Therefore some guy og group forsaw that in the future mobiledevices would be able to lend screen-space on large table-top or whiteboard like screens.
And now Microsoft went and spoild it all by saying something like... i love you ;)
Naa, just kidding - that is pretty cool - that's my new cofeetable right there!!
You know the storage rooms on trainstations and some shopping centers, where you drop a coin (10-20 DKK) to store your bag for a period.
I never have coins on me, so I though, why not let me store my stuff for free in exchange for some info...
The process:
1. I put my bag in the storage room
2. Closes the door
3. Locking the door by typing a password of my choise
4. Leaving....
5. Comming back, wanting to get my bag.
6. typing the password
7. If the password is correct, then I'm asked to answer a questionnaire of some kind.
could be:
- Polls about Politics or city plans
- Popular music/art...
- Semi personal: What was your purpose of your visit to this city
- Product related questions
The cost of having the storagerooms are sponsored by the questionnaires.
The questions shouldn't take too long to fill out, and should be anonymous.
I recently moved to the "big" city of Copenhagen. Comming from the comfort of a house with adjacent garden, toolsheet and plenty of room for my powertools, i suddently found myself having trouble dooing the simplest things. No room for my workbench, and no place where i can make a bit of a mess without the girlfriend gooing through the roof.
Then i remembered this:
http://www.springwise.com/lifestyle_leisure/sewing_cafe_in_berlin/
The idea i simple, in this sweing cafe you get multiple things: Social network, help, machinery (if you don't have your own), space and storage.
Projecting this idea onto my missing garage/work-space i'm thinking of a Work-café where you can come in to make the new shelf, fixing your bike, reparing the chairs and so on.
The place should provide:
- Storage space for your projects and own powertools
- Crowd ordering of materials to get good prices
- Ordering from house-suppliers to get special deals
- Tools to lend if you don't have the rigth tool for the job yourself
- Community workstations for everybody to use (maybe book online)
The cafe will provide a social network you seldomly get in your own garage, and the comfort and safty of collective skils to ensure you in undertaking large/new projects.
You all know the feeling. The hazel of setting the aircomdition just right in your car. When first entering the car, sweating because of the hot summer weather you crank up the airflow and setting the degrees to freeze!
After a few minuts you are in sub zero temperatures, and now you have to turn the temp. To the prefered 20. Putting it to 20 from the begining is of course also a possibility. But your skin temperatur changes all the time and 20 may not be the correct temp. for long. So you have to change the settings again.
The idea:)
In house inspections, they have surface heat debtors which can register temperatures on surfaces. Connecting such a device to the aircon. In a car could automatically set the temp. Most optimal relative to your given skin temperatur.
The problem:
When lisening to music on the way home - in the car, the bus, the bike or where ever you might have some sort of personal radio-music device. Often when i listen to the radio i hear tracks I'd really like to buy - but since i'm busy doing other stuff than writing down the artist name, album and track name/number i never get around to buying the cd's.
The solution:
A bluetooth or other wireless or USB-enabled device which records the digital-id for each number i'm listening to. Alternatively it only records the id's when i push a button on the device.
I'm seeing this device as a USB-key. This is because more and more car-radios has USB ports, and because you can install programs directly to the usb key.
Uppon accessing a computer, the digital-id's can be transformed into a download list, or a list of the cd's for me to buy in an online store.
There is actually two products in this idea. 1. the usb-key (or just the program) and 2. the online store which has a record of the digital-id's
Background:
All tracks played today has a digital signatur. (RDS)
I've been looking into this - and it turns out that the RDS-forum has an article on the underlying technology required.
http://www.rds.org.uk/rds98/rds98.htm
RT+ will allow the radio receiver to "understand" the broadcast Radiotext. Understanding means, the radio station can tell the receiver,
Jeg beskyldes ofte for ikke af kunne huske, og måske til tider virke en anelse perpleks. Det kan for så vidt også være sandt nok. Og det skal jeg ikke bortforklare og undskylde – Jeg er nu en gang som jeg er.
I forbindelse med læsning af Microsofts hvidbog om den digitale arbejdsplads gik det op for mig, hvorfor en del af min manglende huske evne kommer til udtryk som den gør – små (ligegyldige) detaljer. Ligegyldige er mit indtryk af dem, og altså mit filter der således sortere disse for mig uvæsentlige informationer fra. (Tryk på overskriften for at komme til den engelske version af hvidbogen - som egentlig er en Bill Gates tale - Jeg har også en pdf...)
Når jeg skal forklare en af de evner jeg selv syntes at besidde – at skabe overblik over ellers komplekse ting. Så er en indre visualisering oftest svaret. Da det jo foregår inde i hovedet og jeg ikke selv har de grafiske evner til at lave en tegning der kan vise det, må jeg henlede opmærksomheden på det udmærkede program MindManager. Programmet danner mindmaps, og de representerer et logisk billede at mit indre overblik.
Dermed er det ikke sagt at min hjerne er som MindManager og omvendt. Hjernen fungerer langt mere komplekst end noget program nogen siden kan modellere, og programmet kan også ting med det elektroniske mindmap som jeg ikke kan med mit indre…
Jeg tror at evnen til at kunne skabe overblik til dels fås ved at ofre lidt af detaljerings niveauet.
Det kan lyde som en dårlig handel, men hvis man tænker modulært og vælger at fokusere på det rette niveau på det rette tidspunkt, så får man alligevel detaljerne med. Eller som en gammel lærer sagde til mig ”En elefant spises en bid ad gangen”.
Cafemiljøerne danner infrastruktur for en helt ny innovationsbevægelse af “high-tech-nomader”.
Jeg har kommenteret på bloggen fra CW på bla. nedenstående aspekter.
Disse cafemiljøer er i dag alle udstyret med high-speed wi-fi (trådløst internet), og danner en helt ny underliggende infrastruktur med top vibrationer, for en helt ny innovationsbevægelse af “high-tech-nomader”, der primært bekender sig til mobile teknologier og web 2.0-tidsånden.
Hvad, den nye high-tech nomadebølge i San Francisco-området også viser, er, at infrastrukturberebet til stadighed bliver bredere og bør forholde sig til potentielle brugsværdi-optimeringer af eksisterende fysiske rammer, mobilitetsadfærd, de praktiske rammer omkring nye arbejdsformer og sociale netværksdannelser.
Share selected photos from the weekend trip to the forrest, child birthday or yesterdays party with your co-workers on a public digital photo-wall showing your photos alongside your co-workers.
This is done to spark co-worker relationships and a great way to get to know your co-workers in depth. Rather than just hearing about the kayak trip - see it. Use the photos as an offset to a much more personalized conversation with the person next to you.
So now i've put a feed from my own personal online photo-wall - look at the bottom of the page, or click here
Also i put a del.icio.us tag-cloud up, wich features tags from my favorite links - and a link to the collection. - to the right...
All done in the name of merging ;)
Imagine if a brainstorm was not carried out in a closed office-spaced, only for the invited...
Imagine an open-space - hallway space, where brainstorm topic and boundaries are posted on the walls, enabling the team brainstorming to get even more input from people passing through... what if that one person that came by your brainstorm was the one with the key input to launch you to the next level ?=!
One topic at a time of cause
The brainstorm owners present of cause
And an active core of people brainstorming, making it into an active environment...
I'm a yes man... and that is not allways good, because i tend to have a lot of tasks on my table at all times.
But it's not always visible how many or if they are looked at in a timely manner...
Thinking about the red and green balls you see in a lot of "innovative" offices, where you put a green one in a bowl if you have a good day or a red if you have a bad...
Having a clear tube where you stack a ball for each current task , making it very easy to see how many you have.
The stacking of the balls makes a first-in-first-out approach to task solving easy to controll. Different colors can represent different types of tasks. A task can be worked on over a number of days, putting the ball back in the stack when done for the day. A DAY ball, making it visible how many tasks you have for that day...
On my way home i heard about another rape attempt on a girl... got me thinking if there was somekind of way to make it harder to actually getting to the rape part - something that would give the girl time enough to react, get away or call for help.
Thoughts:
There has been some talk about food-stores having a more responsible role in the public health. Here in DK some has even removed meet with over 12% fat...
From that i got the idea of the store offering you 10 alternative reciepts on your way out, based on the stuff you just bought +/- one or two products...
That way people could get more variated meals .
A bit of an add-on idea on the previous shopping bag for the fast and indecisive
I don't have the money for a real frame, and I don't have an office where I'd put up a frame... I'm not the kind of guy who has such things on my desk.
But nonetheless i'd like to have a picture of my girlfriend on my computer desktop, having the same features as the real life photoframes... does it exists ? I havn't found one yet...
closest was this guy:
Coin-operated
Just a small idea of having a kind of follow cam, as you see it in shoot-up games today, making it possible for outsiders (outside of SL) to have a look and see what SL is and what is going on right now.
Could be a list of SL-residents wich you could follow arround, if they where signed up on some sort of list...
Go-cards - we all know... Small simple idea is to have Go-cards pre-addressed to political parties, making it easy to let them hear your voice.
Could be combined with a poll on each card, giving the party something in return for listening to your ideas and complaints ...
Why is it companies keep their ideas so tight that they tend to die or get overtaken by others before they are developed into quality products ?!
I've meet more than one person that was good at brainstorming and getting bright new ideas, but only one or two had the same passion for DIVERSITY as I do.
It's with ideas as it is with solution-solving and development in general - it only gets better if more eyes look at it.
So why not have a simple public idea-bank ? - Imaginatory if you will ;)
The thing is - I know that most of my ideas might never develop much further than what you see on core.makebelieve.dk - BUT having a public idea inventory where ideas flourish and idea creators are complemented on their ideas, now that would truly set the scene for an innovative country...
Thinking i Creative Commons can be used to controll use of ones ideas ?
Is this what i mean...
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/home/
Connect a panel with 5-6 (i don't remember how many they have) stars (as Ipod) to your Ipod, where you can push any number of stars during a number to give the current song a star rating.
The actual rating of any current song will be displayed while playing. Leaving the stars turned on does not alter the rating.
Create a baseline playlist wich can be interupted by placing RFID-tagged items in a queue like rak, where each item is coded to a specific song (each song has an globally ID)
The added song are then integrated temporally into the playlist.
A CD-cover holder connected to an ipod, where the order of the cd-covers decides the frequence of songs from that cd. The higher placement, the more often a song from that cd will be played.
It's a buildt on the well known favorite-star function in Ipod.
Inspired by a Springwise spot regarding a restaurent with no kitchen, but a collection of menu-cards from the nearby fast-food supplyers, I though of having a restaurent where you brought your leftovers - for others to enjoy while you enjoy leftovers that are not your own.
Now i know a lot of health issues is envolved here !!! And I'm not a judge when it comes to the reality of implementing such an idea.
Because of the health issue, i thought that the main issue for most people would be trusting the other "food supplys" so i came up with the idea that the food your shared should be with your friends, so the restaurent should support both a eat with your friends get togeather to eat, and a get offered what your friends might have submitted ... and only what your friends have submitted.
Food should ofcause be free, only paying for any heating or preperation nessasary.
Now again i know the idea is loos, so i put a charity angle on it - make a leftover restaurent for the homeless. People would then donate last nights leftovers to the restaurent, wich would then serve it to the homeless anytime of the day.
Again donating dry-goods would also bee a good place to do this, dry-goods has the quality to stay fresh for a long time, and homeless would be able to carry it with them to the streets. Dry-goods can also be sent to poor countries.
