David tagged me in his online habits survey - so here goes :
What site do you visit first thing in the morning (after your blog)?
Actually I don't visit my blog first - I think it's gmail and then possibly some social networking site and 2 - 3 categories in my feedreader. Also I tend to visit
greengirlsglobal.com for whom I have been blogging for a good while now. Then my clients sites to start my working hours for the day.
Name a service that you recently discovered and like?
Hm. that would be
podcastmachine,
actics and
IRL- but a little disclaimer is that a couple of friends are working on them (I am working on IRL myself - and I think it's a brilliant idea). They do have a huge thing in common though:
Vision to change the world, awesome. I don't know if it's a service but I am really into the
365days group on flickr these days. It my little creative project...
A blog whose design has impressed you?
My very favorite blogdesign (still) is
la petite claudine - I simply love her header - and her blog...
A widget that would really help out but which doesn’t exist yet?
I think all kind of practical proximity widgets has a long way to go still. They really have to be convenient for the users though - otherwise I don't like widgets...
The last 2.0 book that you’ve read?
I am currently reading
presentation zen ( the book), and I finished
Clay Shirky's "here comes everybody" back in April - oh and I am terribly happy for my
"how to be a rock star freelancer" book.
An online service that you think will become indispensable?
I really hope that
actics will come indispensable, or
dothegreenthing - basically services that makes you change the world.
A service that should exist because it’s sorely needed?
I don't know if it's a service - but a decision making mechanism that can change the world without have 50 politicians agree upon something before there's action. I think the world really needs that now. Decisions and actions - no more talking. But services that encourage actions are sorely needed. Services that makes people change their everyday patterns for more sustainability are sorely needed.
i think ethical proximity is gonna be huge in the future.
A blogger or net-entrepreneur whose work you admire?
I really admire people on their way up struggling, who succeeds in the end because of hard work. I admire
J C Fischer for putting out
his book ( he even made a dedication to me in it !!!!) and I truely and utterly admire
Laura Kiralfy who is my partner for the
inreallife.dk network for her creativity and her ways of action. Otherwise I will say
Chris Messina - for his work with both Barcamps and Coworking... rock on guys.
Im passing the survey on to - well
Sanjay (who we are interviewing for
Geek Army Knife tonight) and to
Elmine
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so I am fresh out of reboot10 - which was an inspiring blast of vision.
one of the things that was a major inspiration to me was Peter Rukavina's session on "working for free". It moved me deeply to see how involved Peter was in his local community and how he liked to do stuff for free - for a greater cause of his own (fx. deciding to do the mailinglist of the local coffee shop to attract more customers, so it won't close down and he could have his favorite coffee everyday).
It makes sense to me because Peter are doing these initiatives to make himself happy. Really this is a wonderful thing actually springing from a selfish wish to maintain the status quo - or changing it for the better of his local community.
This presentation showed me how proactive you could be about your surroundings, and how much action and passion you can put into the things you would like to see prosper.
I will see what I can fix out here in Hvissinge - when things comes up I will let you know.
While I was in the session I had an idea of a "working for free" wiki, working to encourage these things.. I don't know how it would work in practice though.. it just stroked me as a great idea =)
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Ever since I first heard the term " return on involvement" I have been wanting to investigate it further... I love that some smart people (who I have no idea who is - sorry) says that the future of business is going to be more about return on involvement than return on investment.
Return on investment to me is something lucrative that you put into a company with the purpose of getting more value back, than the money you put in.
Return on involvement is some engagement that you put into a company and you get more value back, because you engaged in the company.
wheres return on investment binds itself to a company or to investments, return on involvement can be added to everything. The action you need for this to work is actually just to show up and participate, whether it's on the internet, at conferences, at events, in projects, in interesting subjects you like. as long as you are involved in something - if you follow good'old networking practice, you will have a return on that involvement - excellent.
So how do you measure it ? - I have been thinking a while about this, and to me it's quite simple.
1. if you are at a conference. Talk to people. Be prepared. Get cards. Use cards as leads to find them elsewhere online. Make a deal with yourself that you will get at least 30 leads after a conference.
30 leads is a very good return on involvement that you get just by being present.
2. if you are on facebook or in other communities ( big timeconsumer of employed people - and heck, also freelancers). be proactive. make listings for your company. Have an official page. Bring in your blog. Make a strategy what the facebook group is for ( very important)... talk to your fans. send them updates =)
with a clear focus on the group on facebook, your return on creating these events/groups/gatherings of people could be quite large... You just have to be proactive about it.
So if you get a functional group with 100 + members that you can talk to and tell about your process and ideas - i would say that's a very good return on involvement...
3. if you are on a mailinglist or you read a blog - Contribute ! Comment ! - the return on involvement here is traffic back to your own site... everytime you leave a link somewhere, and if you leave it frequently - people will find out who you are etc etc.
the return on involvement here can be pretty high - as long as you keep out the commercial messages and focus on the conversation in itself (subject, opinions etc)...
so go out there and involve yourself =) - it's gonna be worth it... and if somebody want you to measure involvement - just do it.. track it in every way. Have a pen and paper and write down how involved you are and how much time you use on it.
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