Business magazines are shouting “the roles of leadership should be changing!”
Self-development consultants and coaches: “You should have clear goals and know your strengths and weaknesses if you want to find a better balance in your life and succeed.”
Education “Lifelong learning is inevitable.”

Some really neat new things are [again] taking place due to the summer happenings in Dar es Salaam and what is growing now after them. Also other interesting things are happening in Tampere because of some re-organizing of things. More about these all when there’s something solid to tell.
Some interesting events related to Africa are also taking place during this Fall, links to a couple of those below to all interested in the topic.

Charlotta from AaltoES, did a great summary of my talk on Wednesday. If you are interested what I had to say, go read it.
I also mentioned a couple of slideshows or videos to watch, here are direct links to them.

I’m giving a talk today for a bunch of young and energetic startups that are part of the Summer of Startups program.
I’m going to talk about a few topics related to tech startups that I know something about. It’s a bit random selection of topics, but I thought it would offer a better background for a free-form discussion after the talk than a very focused one topic talk.

I’ve been interviewed by Dario Salvelli for Wired Magazine about Finland and the recent announcement (1st of July 2010) of the legal right for every Finnish citizen to have access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection.

I’ve an academic interest on a topic of big company management. An armchair variety of an academic interest, to be precise.
What they teach in management schools? That question has intrigued me for a long time. Either they teach wrong things or getting thousands of employees to stay motivated and work efficiently is a really tough if not an unsolvable problem.

Silver coins have been in usage in this world for a very long time. They were used as part of the monetary system and were considered precious all the time. Silver was always considered along with gold as a precious metal and even today in the present day market silver has a very high demand. Though gold is also used as bars in bullion its usage for other purposes is very less and but silver has become a necessity in many industries now. This is the reason why silver deposits are depleting very rapidly.

7.45 Social Media Marcomms Strategy: Robin Gurney altex marketing (English) Robin details the questions you need to ask inside your company before engaging in social media and suggests some metrics for measuring the business value.

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What has bothered me lately is the talk “which technologies to use in order to gain the ‘must’ layer of social media in our thing”, regardless if it is in the business sector or the educational sector. I believe in some cases this discussion to be pointless.
Like someone wise has once said, it’s the right questions that take you further.

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Episode: VMC #221 – Better Video For Your Business – # Tips by Steve Garfield

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The things social media professionals and experts should gradually start asking themselves are:
What’s there to be done now, in the current situation? and
How could I educate and develop myself for the future? when there’s less and less people asking you those same two questions “Why should I go to social media?” or “What’s the use for it?”.