I ran into Andy Lopata aka “Mr Network”, the author of “Recommended: How to Sell Through Networking and Referrals” and made a short video about it.
The book does something that I like, it tells us how to stop cold calling and start building relationships when it comes to sales, and using referrals and recommendations, driving your business and ideas, step by step.
That is worth a salute!
Media Evolution made a video at SSWC about the participants thought on “How big is your market” markets and the language used approaching the question as an intro to the conference on innovation and growth in new media channels, held the 24-25 of August in Malmö.
A nice video featuring in order of appearance: Björn Jeffery (CEO, Toca Boca), Emily May Green (Developer, Skriva På), Jonas Hombert (Former CEO Jaycut / now RIM), Martina Elm (Community Manager, Trip Birds) and Jonas Lejon (Serial Entrepreneur).
Social Swedish Web Camp 3 at Tjärö Nature reservoir, Sweden 2011 gathered developers, thinkers and other internet enthusiast to share their thoughts on the ecosystem around the Swedish scene, ideas and culture around the future state of our internet.
Emily Green and I hosted a SkrivaPå tech session about Haskell, we´ll she did most of the talking on functional programming, functors and monads, and i continue looking t tutorials on sundays. I introed a short talk about SkrivaPå and most of that info can be read in the blogposts here, and the talk can be found on SlideShare.
Pernillan asked me to participate in a talk on how to do an internet un-conference (like GeekGirlMeetup.com) together with Kristin Heionen + Thomas Wennström (who arrange SSWC) and Stellan Löving who arranges Webbcoast in Gothern burg. A lot of questions were raised of how to organize un-conferances and personally I believe control is an illusion, what you can try achieve is adaptability to change and clear communication of the state of the project and how much effort is needed/spend in projects.
A happy and fun thing i observed was PM Nordqvists Twitter printer, that he built during his maternity leave, just for fun.
Talking of fun, this year i did not jump the cliff, like the first and the second year, as i didn’t think it felt like much fun, but mostly pressure. Clapping pressuring hands before i jump wasn’t what I opted in for, I just did it for fun. Altho i was happy to see the fun continue in a good tradition.
The most appreshiated sponsors were as always Binero with morning coffee, chasing away the sheep, and the guerrilla pillow sponsors.
The riots in London have been going on for about three days now, spreading to other cities in the UK. Wether its opportunistic gangmembers or random bored kids in need to bee seen, feel authority or just happy get another kettle from Argos, or even stealing a plasma television into their (!) Audi it is indeed a bit wierd being in London at the moment, when everything shuts down, you cant buy food and you fall asleep to more police-sirens than usual. However this quote seems adequate (via Catherine).
“When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty and shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up and express their anger and frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Martin Luther King