Monthly Archives: February 2011

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My takeaways from Copenhagen Startup Weekend

Picture by Jeppe Liisberg I used half my saturday mentoring Copenhagen Startup Weekend.  It was crazy cool and left me floatin’ on a creativity trip, just from spending around 5 hours at the venue, together with the teams and the … Continue reading

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The scandinavian “female entrepreneurs who do startups” list

So a couple of days ago, Fast Company launched a “25 women-run startups to watch” list. Today I am advisoring the Copenhagen Startup Weekend teams – so this is the weekend of startups for me.  Anyway the Fast Company article … Continue reading

ROI tip 51: finding your strengths and using them in your work

Featuring the incredible Mads Qwist. You can see more of the fantastic Return on involvement videos on the facebook page

My thoughts on my personal technological revolution

The last couple of days there has been a discussion going on in the danish twitterverse about a blogpost where he was sad about the social media/technological revolution (in danish) -because it made him and his family sit in front of … Continue reading

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Can there be a social web without lotteries ?

I don’t really like lotteries. I think they are incredibly mainstream, and I don’t do mainstream very well. I constantly deal with them, because it looks like it has become a commodity; that it’s the way to involve people on … Continue reading

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Tools you need to DIY your facebook page (and save a gazillion dollars)

So – how many of you business owners out there have thought about getting some agency to set up your facebook page? Maybe a ‘welcome’ tab under your facebook page, saying that people should sign up for a newsletter? I … Continue reading

Why to use the social web strategically – no matter who you are

Last week I was on danish TV talking about two current cases in Denmark. The first was where a minister says some pretty bad things about a professor from Copenhagen Business School. The second one is a battle between an … Continue reading

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The complete creativity 100 – 3: What doesn’t work in one context – might work in another.

This is the 3rd article out of 100 about creativity – you can see the total list here (3 years old). As you might know, i decided to elaborate on the oneliners in the list- and here goes number 3: … Continue reading

Why do you fail to show who you really are?

Suddently you get this urge inside of you thinking “that wasn’t my point” or “that’s not me”. Face it: you feel misunderstood by your surroundings. Here’s what probably happened: -You haven’t communicated clearly. -You portraited yourself more like a supermarket … Continue reading

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Hi I think you ROCK – “can I get you to do stuff for me for free?”

The day before yesterday it happened again. I received an email that just oozed with “no pay for a lot of work”. It didn’t mention it exactly, but the mail wanted me to do a speaking gig and they said … Continue reading