Next month, Ulrike Schulz and I are giving our first joint talk at Campus London on How to become your own brand influencer. It will be a workshop on how to build yourself and your personal brand in a way that it also helps build your company, or the company you are working for. Because you, and the people in your team, are your company’s heart and soul. And if people like you, they will also like your brand.
Reflections
Why everyone needs to learn how to code
I just spent one week in Barcelona together with 100 other Swedish ladies learning how to code, as part of the coding camp initiative Tjejer Kodar. I attended the “How to become a hackathon pro” course and my focus for the week was on understanding the basics of Python and learning how to gather and visualize data from different APIs. Others learnt everything from the basics of web development and hardware development to how to build games in React and C#.
Hackathons – solve a challenge by bringing different perspectives together
A hackathon is when you bring a group of people with different perspectives together to work with and innovate around a given challenge during a limited time. Traditionally, hackathons have been used to describe an event where developers and programmers are brought together to work on developing prototypes. Today, the event form can be used to bring together all kinds of professionals to work in groups with others that have a different background and skill set, to come up with new angles on a given challenge through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Citizen journalism – a case study
Yesterday evening, I was about to head home from Stockholm to London, when terminal 2 at Arlanda Airport was evacuated due to what turned out to be a small fire in one of the cafeterias that set of a fire alarm. Everyone had to leave the terminal and wait outside the building for a rough two hours, resulting in several delays.
During this wait, I decided to post a tweet on what was happening, with the hashtag #Arlanda.
Snapchat and Instagram most popular social media among young Swedes
Yesterday, Internetstiftelsen i Sverige (The Internet Foundation of Sweden) released new statistics on how Swedes use social media, as part of their yearly report “The Swedes and the Internet”. (more…)