Why don’t you just do what you love?

February 3, 2011 By 1 Comment

What do you do for fun? Play wow? Travel? Listen to music? Watch countless of youtube clips? Whatever it might be, it might be the key.

There is currently a quite popular Facebook app that allows you to check how many hours you’ve spend browsing Facebook. I have not tried it myself, mostly because I think the number is scaringly high ;) But it got me thinking on how many hours I’ve spend browsing the web in general and how much I have to thank that in my work. There are few development questions that I cannot associate to previous experiences for my own casual surfing.

Isn’t this a proof for that I’m really doing what I was meant to do? Think about it, if you spend hours watching tv or playing wow it might be a reason for it? What did you learn while enjoying yourself on other things?

I think we all know a bunch of people who are clueless about what they want to do in life. Isn’t this where we should start advising them on? If we listen closely enough I think it is evident in most. Yet we look at what we know and try to find suggestions for them based on that.

Totally lost track of my initial posting idea, but I find this ideas worth putting out there.

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Everyone else created their own daily – so I did it too!

January 26, 2011 By 5 Comments

After being featured in countless of “daily’s” made by people via paper.li, I cannot say anything else but that I was curious and very skeptical. Yet, my curiosity won and I created my own “daily”, though for now it is called What’s up!

Honestly, I have not really figured out the benefit with it yet, exempt for giving people who don’t have Twitter a place to read many of the things I read in a place with nice layout. If you have twitter and/or google reader and follow me you get a screened version of what I read… I only share what’s worth sharing after I read it my self. This streams everything that people I follow share, of which for most people is information overload.

Anyway… I will give it a real shot, after all, I did not see the point of Twitter either from the very beginning. ;)

ps.. here is the address http://paper.li/AnnelieNaes

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Do we all climb a digital staircase?

January 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Can we classify how digital a person is based on the accounts and digital products a person has? Some discussions about a similar idea got my head spinning. And I cannot decide or picture if such a staircase exist? Do I make sense.. probably not. Let’s exemplify!

If a person has a smartphone can we then take for granted that they have Facebook? If a person has a tablet, can we assume that they have a smartphone? you see were I’m going with this. Do you have to climb a digital staircase to adapt to new technology, or can my grandfather who does not have a computer understand the iPad? Probably he can understand it after sometime, but he would probably not see the same usage as someone his age who have used computers and maybe even have Facebook

If there is such a stairway, where does Skype enter? Or Spotify? Is there digital items that are excluded from such a staircase? Perhaps the kindle is more of an alternative for people who like to read than a step up from the browser reader?

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No more excuses – with this app I have to get the iPad

January 11, 2011 By 2 Comments

2010 turned me in to an Apple fan! Iphone and Macbook and I was hooked. (Though sometimes I’ pissed at them!) Actually I think it was the transfer from school to working that did it, but never the less. Since the iPad was released in Sweden I’ve been trying to make excuses why I shouldn’t buy it. Simply because I’ve spent way too much money on technique products this year. But now I’m out of excuses. I simply need it because of this app:

I have to admit that it is a disappointment that you cannot create prezis on the app. (at least not from what I can see in the comercial) But hopefully that will come in time. Until then I have to get an iPad to spread my Prezis!

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I don’t think that open questions are the key to comments

January 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

When I began blogging I was always told to end my posta with an open question. To open up for comments and other people’s opinions. Like the student I am, of course I did this, most of the time at least. It felt logical, people could comment by answering the question.

But today when I got the suggestion in another context I could not help but questioning it. I cannot show that I’ve got more responses on the posts that have ended with a question. It is almost the opposite. People have felt more of a need to comment when I’ve made statements in the blog that they have disagreed with. That has been what has created disucssions. Discussions that I’ve learned from, which was the over all goal when I started this blog.

So from now on I’m going to dare to make more statements and don’t end all most post with a question.

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Facebook Places and LBS in Sweden

January 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

About a year ago I began doing the research to write a thesis on LBS (Location based services) which turned out to be a quite interesting choice as the services what just taking off in Sweden. This week it became mainstream as Facebook finally released Facebook Places in Sweden. Most my friend began using it immediately as Smartphones are extremely widespread in the country.

Both the fact that places is a part of facebook and the common use of iPhones have created a major boom on the use of smartphones in Sweden. A while a go I meant to write a post about H&Ms adds on Foursquare, as they have been one of the first companies to advertise on the LBS platform. So I would not be suprised if they are the first company in Sweden that we will see why advertise on Facebook places.

I find the release of Facebook places exiting as I will finally have people around me knowing what I talk about when I say LBS or Check-ins. Though I have got a few to many questions about how to “Check-out” from facebook places, people, it is not a hotell :) However, my concerns are that now when facebook places exists I wonder what will happen with foursquare and gowalla?

I have not read up about how Facebook places have affected their standpoint in the US. However, I doubt that the situation will be comparable here in Sweden. This because the services was far more used in the US before the entrence of Places, than they have been in Sweden.

Personally I might stop using Gowalla because of this, as I’ve mostly preferred Foursquare anyway. The reason why I kept using Gowalla has been that more of my friend have used the service as it has been more common in Sweden. And that argument will definitely fail from now on.

Eitherway, it will be interesting to see how the entrence affect the use of other location based services and how the secutiry debate will continue in Sweden. Will we get a swedish version of pleaserobme.com. The future will tell.

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What Will You Do in 2011 that you have putting off for too long?

December 20, 2010 By 1 Comment

Hello, everyone! My name’s Patrice and I blog over at Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman. I’m pleased to be swapping blogs with Annelie today for the 20 something bloggers blog swap! Here’s a little about me:

I’m 21 years old, a college student and sorority girl (Alpha Chi Omega!). I’m studying Communications in school and hoping to go into social media marketing.

Make sure to go check out Annelie’s post on my blog, “Write it down-< to get it done (2011 edition)“.

So, the theme of the blog swap is “Action: What Will You Do in 2011 that you have putting off for too long?”

Ahh, the loaded question! Every year around this time, we start to think about what we failed to accomplish. This was supposed to be the year that I lost weight, finished school, volunteered more, gave to charity. Whatever it is, we’ve all been there. And in a couple of weeks on January 1, we will once again pledge to change our ways: This year I will lose weight, I will volunteer more, I will be a better friend. Maybe you make a list, maybe you’ll blog your resolutions, or maybe you’ll just keep them to yourself, but changes are you too will resolve to do something different next year.

My list would look a little something like this!

What about me, you ask? Well, of course I could make a whole list myself. Lose weight, do better in school, be a better sister, friend, daughter, etc. I could go on and on and have a list a mile long of things I could have done better this year and that I could do better next year.

However, in the last year I’ve learned a lot about how short and precious life is. After my younger sister was diagnosed with cancer, I realized that life really is short. You never know what’s next for you.

So this year, my resolution is to carpe diem, “seize the day”! I am resolving to live every day to fullest. To appreciate the little things in life more. To live every day like it’s my last. I am often guilty of not taking time out of my day to appreciate the little things. To live every day to the fullest and not wish it away. Because every second counts, you know!? Life is short, so we have to live it up before we can, you know!? So that’s what I’m gonna do!

Photo Credit: http://www.clipartguide.com/_pages/0511-0811-1015-4072.html

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Write it down and get focused

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

When I saw the statistics of my website today a post which I had forgotten about peaked. It is a post where I talk about work and school and what my answer was to the question “Would you drop out or not, if you got your dream job?”

I wrote this post in March last year, little did I now that less than 6 month later I would be doing what I wanted.

”My ideal situation if this would happen would be to start working and finish my degree while working. As I have been working all through school, I know that this is possible though it might need some schedule management.”

This all might seem a bit corny. But I remember writing this and thinking about how much I wanted to get a ”real” job. And not only work which did not relate to my degree.

I guess what I’m trying to say, that even though telling people that what you’re doing right now is not what you want to do is difficult. It could be well worth it to let yourself and people around you know what your focus is.

Just a thought..

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3 reasons to why the new facebook profile rocks! (According to the users)

December 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Do you remember all the comments, groups and pages that used to be when every Facebook made any significant changes? With the home feed o the profile? When they moved, added or removed things? Which made the users have the relearn what they knew. There have been quite a few of them.

This time, however, I have seen none. I’m talking about the introduction of the new profile. This could have been because people just got used to not having an impact on the development of the network, but I don’t think this is in. I thing it is because of the changed roll-out logistics. Instead of changing profiles in bulk (And let the swedes wait ;) they let the users decide on when they wanted to update their profile. Which have lead to people actually asking on how to make the change.

This is how twitter did it too a while back when they started rolling out the new layout. But as their changes have rarely (since I got on twitter at least) caused any big fuzz, this way of changing did not make as big of a difference on the reaction.

So what conclusion can we make from this? Quite a few, letting the users make the change have quite a few advantages:

  • The geeks (me) that are not in the first bulk change does not feel left out.
  • We do not risk any crash by rolling it out to everyone at the same time.
  • And bet of all the users that is normally skeptical towards changes, feels like they are the one making the change.

Of course there is other time when this can be applied even when we are not talking about the bigger social networks. It could be a good thing when launching a website or a new product. – Add the new, but have the old one there for a while in the beginning.

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Can good social skills make it more difficult to make confrontations?

December 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

What is the perfect balance with having good social skills and be able to take a difficult discussion?

I’ve realized that I think I’m better at the second. I’m not afraid to take up a subject for discussion which others might be uncomfortable with. Sure I might be super nervous before and need to ask for advice on how to bring it up, but I always try to not avoid the subject just because it feels uncomfortable.

I have not always been like this, it is coming more and more and I realize that it is a protection mechanism that comes from what I see around me. I see people change their behavior and feel bad about thing that other people do, which they don’t have the courage to bring up. This triggers me to bring it up my self, to protect others.

I know this can be a good capability, because most of the time people usually feel better after having issues like this brought to the table. Yet, I cannot help but wonder if I should work on my social skills before I take up subject like this. I definitely now people who are a lot better than me on social situation and know what to do and say to make the people around them like them and feel comfortable around them, while I can seem harsh in my approach to things. My concern however is that when you have “too” good social skills, will you have the courage to bring issues like this up?

I don’t know if there is any better answer to this than “it depends on the situation,” but I would like to hear someone else’s opinion on the subject.

Photo credit: Kirsty Pargeter

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