So much I want to write about, because of the manymany new ideas, ways of thinking, methods etc I discovered during my first week at CityLive.
Above all the marketing and business model part is new to me, since I worked in a research environment at my former job. One thing I discoverd today (and is possibly not new to a lot of you, but yes it is to me), is the fact that there are ‘three kinds of platforms’. More information via this interesting blog post.
It’s quite a lot information to deal with this first week. Completely forgot how that felt after 3,5 years at my former job.
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February 16, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Hannes Couvreur
Hi Dorien,
It’s been a while since we took these journalism classes in Brussels. Just had a seminar with Stephan Kolgen who “namedropped” you during one of the coffee breaks.
What an amazing job you did the last three years. Great work! Keep up the writing. I’ll try to keep up reading from now on.
Cheers,
Hannes.
February 18, 2008 at 3:07 pm
doriennmien
Hi Hannes, thank you very much
It’s been a while indeed! I’ve been following you on twitter for a while. Do you have a blog as well? And what was the seminar about?
February 18, 2008 at 3:22 pm
doriennmien
Ja lap, hoe stom kan een mens zijn, gewoon op uw naam klikken et voila: de hannes couvreur-blog
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February 20, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Hannes
Seminar was about Culture in the new Networksociety aka how could cultural organisations use new network media. Quite interesting, especially because you notice that people are still looking at internetnetworks from a classic cultural background.
I recently read a book from a guy who did a little thought experiment about computergames. Just imagine that computergames were invented before books. And then suddenly these ‘books’ are there. How would we look at them? (Asocial, stupidly linear, non-interactive, time-consuming,…). It made me realize how much our views on new technologies are influenced by our habits towards older media.
And the same goes for internet, I guess.
February 22, 2008 at 10:04 am
doriennmien
@hannes: nice point, guess we would hate books indeed … or not, because who knows what we need at a certain point in time??…Very difficult if not impossible however to put our culture and habits (in other words our identity??) aside. We always compare to what we already know, hmmm can reflect on that for hours and hours I think