It’s been a while since I have updated you about the project. The boat will sail this summer and this blog is going to be filled with updates when the spring starts to come and we can get to work on the boat (and it’s not snowy and freezing here).. it’s a HUGE project, but it’s soo much fun and we are so motivated… I have forgotten to tell you that we found the mast and the sails for it are “looking” ok (im afraid they’ll rip apart when they are set). And a motor update: We have a sponsor for the whole of the motor into consideration (guys we need to get that rukwubben protocol working for the iphone app) so Pan can be flashy and glamourous and everything it’s not – yet =).

Also I want to thank you so much for your support in this HUGE irl startup/upcycling project – it means the world to me, and the project is so purposeful, I am looking so much forward to taking everyone of you out sailing this summer =) If you are interested in knowing more and helping out,  you can follow the project on this blog – otherwise there’s a  facebook page for Pan and we are also in the process of setting up a webpage for it (oh and if you want to help out with any of it, please let me know =).

So this morning while I was pulling my daughter on a sleigh to the kindergarden – I thought about it being time for me to change the name of the title of the blog. The old title has been there for a while now (I think ruffly  3 years ?) and looked like this. I totally recall that I was so inspired by my film studies and film history that I wanted it to be something with Avant-garde and the belle epoque. It’s something that I firmly believe we still are living – other people call it a paradigm shift – which it also is, but I think “la belle epoque” is so much more glamourous, creative and me =).

Before I had that title, this blog (which has almost always been placed at henrietteweber.com – apart from 2 months to begin with) was called “only the real is unreal” which was me totally rambling about anything. While i still do that from time to time I think it’s important to evolve the blog as much as you evolve over time…

Hence, new blog title – oh and a lot of other cool new things coming up as well.

Picture by the fantastic Lisbeth Hjort

A rose is still a rose =). Anyway this morning I decided that today was the day that I would launch my newest idea/product/way of life: Sessions. With me. Online. and in order to properly launch this I need a name. My first idea was the name “unplugged” but it doesn’t go that well with the online connection thing. I have had so many ideas, and I feel the name of the sessions is right out there, but I can’t grasp it right now. I want to make it rock n’ roll and me.

Therefore i decided to put together a (ta-da) competition where you can do two things to win an online (still unnamed) session with me. So help me find the perfect name and leave it in the comments here or where you normally connect with me.. (also if you can’t come up with anything you can still enter the competition by signing up for my newsletter (pretty creative no ?). Most of my readers has a pretty good idea of how I am/work and look from the outside..

So guys –  help me out with a name and I will eternally grateful =)

So shift09 was pushed ahead to april 16-17th 2010 so now it’s shift10 (and you should all come to Lisbon with me, because shift is so much fun, so sunny, and so filled with brilliant thoughts).

It’s a conference where I have had the role as “super duper advisor” for a couple of years – which is a cool role to have and it’s a fantastic creative way to work…

Anyway now it’s shift10 – and I STILL want to do a Shift transportation crusade as I mentioned before.

The shift10 transportation crusade has one purpose and one purpose only: to get you to think about the way you travel to shift or any other conference – or if you go a tad bit deeper – how you can save the world yourself… by thinking out of the frames and upscaling old habits/things to new ones.
Like driving a car/train to Lisbon (which is 3 days each way instead of 3 hours from copenhagen).

btw if you’re coming from anyplace else than Copenhagen – and you still want to go, get in touch and I will see if I can work something out, facilitating the network and other things…

I was surfing through my feed this morning and one of my favorite blogs: White hot truth by Danielle LaPorte wrote about the “help haiti blog challenge” that a friend of hers, Kelly Diels had made. it’s basically an idea that you give yourself to Haiti – and donate some of your work for it. Now here’s what I want to chip in with:

I will donate 50 % of every order (books, strategies, training, workshops, consulting, speaking -  you name it -everything), I land in within the next  2 weeks to  a charity helping out in Haiti.

And I hope you will do the same. At some point soon – the medias spotlight will be gone from Haiti, yet it’s still a tragedy over there – and we still need to focus on it in order to save lifes in one of the poorest countries in the world. Blogs can help this out. Creativity can help this out. We can all do more.

So help me out as well ?

ps. crossposted on ToothlessTiger.com (and everywhere else)

I have a very good friend, John Grant, who is probably one of the most knowledgeable persons on this subject that I know, and he convinced me ages ago that the real change is not going to come from the politicians.

We need them as well, but the real change is going to come from the companies and from the people. We can change the market. We can become vegetarians or have 2-4 days of no meat at home. We can change supply because we are the demand. The thought has also crossed my mind that a weak agreement at cop15 is the best thing that can happen – because there’s a hope in me that’s certain that it might leave a part of the responsibly with the people, and people will feel more obliged to help out as well.

I saw a danish tv-documentary a while back where kids walked the streets of Copenhagen asking grown ups “why they had destroyed the planet”. Everybody felt super guilty and hurried on – and not one person looked into the camera. Nobody knew why. It’s just a part of the system. And I think it’s changing and escalating more and more – and it’s about time.

I often say in my talks and workshops that I firmly believe that within 2 -3 years it’s going to be really hard to be a company that is not “doing good”. I have a firm belief that the transparency in social media is going to enhance that as well. If you don’t do good, if you’re not responsible, if you don’t care about anything but the money, if you don’t connect, if you aren’t in the same room as your peers (in social media and IRL) you’re non-existant and your clients will find alternatives, or even better the alternatives will come to them via social media – the products will find them, and the “bad companies” won’t really be an option. I know it’s kind of idealistic, but I really think it’s where we are heading…

All in all, I am disappointed, but optimistic… I can see both pros and cons and I think it’s a huge deal that it’s finally, finally finally being taken seriously – also on a political plan. It’s not at all what I wanted, but I can see a good thing in spreading the responsibility and not just leaving it up to the politicians. And basically I am happy that we didn’t have to loose the maldives or the netherlands before it was taken totally  seriously, by the leaders of the world as well.

We have every reason to be disappointed – and we could have asked for more, but I am still confident that this is a huge step for mankind and I am happy and hopeful at the same time – the future looks brighter in my optic, and it’s about time…

“babysteps will get you there too”…

read the original blogpost here

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)”

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..