Henriette Weber

two things that has shaped me as a business owner and a creative ideahead… Agile development and Pinko marketing..  read the original blogpost.

there was a 6 words story meme a while back, which stated great things in 6 words. I think it was originally featured by wired – but I don’t remember really.. anyway here’s me and JC Fischers 6 words story:

“babysteps will get you there too”…

read the original blogpost here

one of the funnest things I have done as an entrepreneur was BarCamp Copenhagen. I can see that the first was launched on the 15th of August 2006. I so want to do more of those at some point =)

here’s some words from the original blogpost:

“BarCamp is a mashup of minds and ideas – every participant has to show a 3 minute presentation – of something they want to share ( could be anything really)”

original post here …

I want to ask all bloggers to post a picture of themselves from 1999 on flickr…
so tag blogposts/images with 1999 – and lets see how lovely we we’re 7 years ago.. it’s just fun… I am going to look through my drawers and scan mine in right away..

well last blogpost I gave you my expectations of les blogs 2 – here’s my afterthoughts from the les blogs 2 conference in 2005.

now when the bloghosphere is cooking over with the “Mena Trotti vs. Ben Metcalfe” issue that happened at les blogs ( Im not going to link to it – just look at technorati) – I want to adress some issues that was completely absurd to me at the conference.

first I want to be a real good kitten and say that the crowd was interesting, variated and lots of people conversating ( I never managed to get to talk to any french people btw). but the networking part of the conference was excellent – there could have been more youngsters though.

I mean – you could always talk about the lack of food – so the first obstacle to start a conversation was removed.

anyway there was nothing especially remarkable on day 1. except I liked Nikolaj Nyholms
question saying to the “fon” guy on the panel ” now, DIDN’T you delete comments?”
and the french guy from monputeaux.com the blogger who was putted to trial by the city he lives in.

the evening party was (except for the lack of food and a bar running out of beer after 1½ – 2 hours) real nice. I got to talk and mingle with a lot of excellent people from all over the world. my point of being there exactly…

day number two was a bit better and Ben Hammersley kicked ass as always, Hugh Macleod and Anina
did real good. I don’t know how I would have reacted on a panel with Hugh Macleod and Mark Canter – so you go girl.. ! excellent.

but in a retrospective, these two talks are all that I found made me wonder, and take notes -the rest was panels and I had to stop liveblogging it – the structure was nonexistant. the moderators did not do a good enough job- sorry guys.. my opinion

now the absurd parts:

I am in PR myself, and it was so completely ironic that you had the head of Edelmans ( one of the sponsors – and one of Europe’s biggest PR companies doing a speech where she claims that they are in control of PR blah blah blah… and you have 300 hungry people sitting there.. that’s not exactly what you will call good PR is it – it’s basic PR – it’s what needs to be in order.

Also Mena Trotti doing a keynote on ethics in the blogosphere, lashing out after a blogger who is not of the same opinion as she is.

to me, she was the perfect example of a business leader who tries to control the organic and uncontrolable, and I wasn’t impressed…

anyway I will stop here, but it could have been a whole lot better – and a lot more interesting, and please stop doing panels all the time ?

Because a lot of the people I love to hang out with (i mainly meet them at conferences)  are going to be in Paris for Le Web next week – I thought I would share my expectations for les blogs 2 (which was le web in 2005)
So I am flying off tomorrow evening. Paris naturellement, encore un fois !.. just the thought of going back there makes me sizzle, and I promises myself to prove myself competent in the french language ( which I know I am)..

so what are my expectations about Les Blogs 2.0 ?

first off all I must admit that I am not as prepared as I wanted to be – Ohh well I call myself a social person don’t I – so I guess I will be fine!

well my biggest fear is that I am ( like at reboot) going to be the only one amongst people who is not connected to the WIFI…

my expectations is not an eyeopener, but an eye-widener, I want to learn more from some of the best in the field, especielly evolving PR/marketing – perhaps even networking and communities.

and I just want to feel the buzz,that’s what’s it’s all about.. just kids in a playground really… being creative, inventive, innovative…

conversations and people. that’s my expectations.

And then I want to go to Atelier Renault for lunch and hang out at Marche de Vanves.. if it is open on wednesdays…

the little shops at the foot of the hill at sacre cæur – has always made me feel alive..

I could babble on forever, I would need more then a week in Paris to catch up on nostalgic times…

This post is from the 10th of november 2005 – and it’s some thoughts I am still asking myself, they where even a chapter of my book on Return on Involvement anyway here it is – again =)

here it is. my silent revolution manifesto – I’ve worked hard on this and I am currently developing into an essay ..

The silent revolution is a movement WITHIN people to cope with the everyday information overload due to consumerism and marketing.

Nowadays we get so much information that there is no way that we can cope with it.

Not convinced? take a look at your inbox, or television or kids. Add your rss feed and your personal network. Stir it up with the products the media wants you to buy. Add a little touch of whatever the society wants you to be like  and you are almost there

Every company in the world wants you as its target group. They customize and scale themselves across branches and media  just to get in your head !

In the world of today (and tomorrow) you will always be pressured. Deal with it!

What we need now is the best tools to make more time available  and they are currently being developed and marketed.

As a PR person, by now I know, that the chances of getting through to your audience via mainstream media ( TV, Radio and newspapers) are almost nonexistant.
Its deathexpensive too.
And it doesnt succeed.

There is nothing new under the sun. Companies are desperate looking for growth, and still, everybody ( including your neighbor) wants to sell you something.

I know, you want to sell something too.

So what happens?

People start to make their own media, global mikro companies, freelance companies etc.

You can even start your own bank now.

Everything is possible.

I had completely forgotten I had written this – it has a lyrical/poetic touch to it and I re-fell in love with it instantly. it’s from the 7th of october 2005  - Here we go again:

I am here to learn
It excites me to be capable of learning and use what I have learned
It excites me to know that I am nothing and day by day I get smarter and smarter
I need to use this knowledge to change the world
What knowledge have you got ?
What knowledge do you want to give to the world ?
Products do not excite me
Brands do not excite me

Interaction is what I do, every day
I am not a networker to benefit
I am a networker to give
To pass it on
To make people smarter
To hear their voice getting euphoric

I am an ideatank
Every person is
Stating you�re not, is your biggest enemy
You

Other people are the most significant part of my life

I want to
Give
Share
Listen

To network is to contribute

Networking and contribution will change the world

Take the focus of yourself , your business

Recognize what knowledge you have that you can share with other people

Sharing is very selfish

Everybody knows that what you give is what you get

This blogpost is a rant from the 8th of may 2005 entitled “new media and old media” – I still feel somewhat the same – the old media has gotten better at it though – but they still have a long way to go…

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I have been doing some thinking again – it sprung from my danish women network where some of the members are real busy telling the network when they are in danish magazines. Frankly I am so very tired about these really cool women, displayed by the media, the way the media wants to display them. so the “old” media – such as newspapers, magazines, tv etc etc – they ask you questions.. you answer. they control the conversation…

they have the power – they ask the questions. they “scope” the interview or article or whatever.. anyway..

new media – whether it is wiki’s, blogs, podcasting or whatever puts you in charge !
you do the thinking – you scope the questions, you put out there what you genuinely want out there… and your customers ( and fellow networkers ) will answer – read you, know you !

you will be more reliable than you could ever be in the normal media.

you will be more visible…

remember: you only get what you put out there .. if you don’t ask the questions you really wont get the answers….”

I love christmas and calendars, and this year I have decided to do a blogpost each day on both henrietteweber.com and toothlesstiger.com – or wait not exactly do a blogpost -but reuse one of my old blogposts….

the first retrospect  is from the 28th of june 2005 and called “why should every company have a blog?” – here we go:

“- first of all the when you do marketing for you company – you push your fine products out the consumers, this does not work anymore.. everything has gotten saturated

- with a blog – written by a blogger or a CEO ( doesn’t really matter) you show the customers the transparency of your company – that you are willing to hear what they say.. go ahead pop them some questions ! ask them about your products, and Im telling you they will answer.

this also creates a one-on-one customer satisfaction – especially if you show them that you hear what they are saying – talk about CRM for dummies !
this is the most effective customer management you will ever see… even though you are not managing anything at this point.

so why not compete on transparency ?

another question might be that ” why you should listen to what your customers are saying – and if you need a filter for what they tell you ? ..
well for people to comment on things you blog they must have been touched by what you have written! – they are thinking about it, absorbing it and reviewing it…”