Week 13

On Monday we had Katja Järveläinen from GAPPS as lecturer.
She told us what Gapps does and about their projects. More inspiring was the part of her lecture: thoughts on future of work and leadership.

I learnt about the 1in1-method. It means that you have to prepare a one minute long presentation about one hour lasting lecture. Our group had to prepare our presentation about giving constructive feedback to our lecturer Katja. We thought she did everything very good and there was nothing negative about her lecture. She was inspiring, she spoke English fluently and so everyone understood and she was excited about her topics.

(Picture from: http://www.wheel.ie/leadership)

On Thursday one of our coaches lectured to us about content marketing. What I thought was really good was that he gave and showed us a lot of examples.

Most interesting on Thursday was other students presentations. Topics that they had chosen was Podcast, Tips for filming, How to give a good presentation and Digital timeline.

Two that did stand out was tips for filming, because it was well done and I don’t know anything about this topic. First they showed their own video about their tips and after that they showed a few good videos.
 The second one was Digital timeline. It was fun to hear how everything have changed in 40-30 years and when did new phones and electronics come out. They also showed a lot of nice videos!

-Nora

Week 12

Hi,

This has been again a crazy week.

On Monday we had two lecturers, Jaakko Alasaarela from ZEF Solutions Oy Camilla Tuominen from Emotion Tracker Oy. I wasn’t able to be present on the lecture but I heard they were so inspiring. Some of my friends said that Jaakko Alasaarela was one of the best lecturers during this course.

Wednesday we went with our group to the Taivas+Helvetti event, witch I wrote about in the previous blogpost.

After that we had a meting with our team to do the task related to thesis.

We also had a few meetings during the week to develop our ideas related to Taivas+Helvetti.

On Thursday two of our coaches lectured to us. One of the topics was SEO. Even though we have had a few lectures about this topic, I have learnt something new every time. For example this time I learnt about the differences of On-site SEO and Off-site SEO.

(http://www.mglmarketing.com/seo-search-engine-optimisation/)

-Nora

Taivas+Helvetti

Kirjoitan tämän blogipostauksen suomeksi, sillä tapahtuma johon tiimin kanssa osallistuimme oli suomeksi ja näin on helpompi.

Osallistuimme siis Taivas+Helvetti tapahtumaan keskiviikona 18.11. Ohjelma alkoi aivan täydellisellä aamiaisella klo. 8. Musiikkiesityksen kautta siirryimme kuuntelemaan neljän yrittäjän tarinat.

Aiheina oli innostus (Innojok Oy), kansainvälistyminen (Finlayson) ja digitaalisuus (KLOK).

Itse pidin eniten Jukka Jokiniemen tarinasta. Hän perusti Innojok Oy:n sen jälkeen kun hän sokeutui vuonna 1993.  Hän todellakin oli erittäin innostava, sympaattinen ja huumorintajuinen. Hän on myös sanonut, että ”mikään fyysinen vamma ei ole niin  vaikea kuin asennevamma”.  Mielestäni erittäin hyvin sanottu! Hän on hyvä esimerkki siitä, että lähes mikä vaan on mahdollista kun vaan jaksaa uskoa siihen.

Viimeisenä mutta ei vähäisimpänä oli huumorintajuinen ja erittäin hauska Risto Lähdesmäki. Hän kertoi siitä mitä vaaditaan jotta pärjää yrittäjänä Silicon Valleyssä. Hän oli erittäin inspiroiva ja rohkea jättäessään suomessa kaiken taakseen ja lähtiessään Piilaaksoon.

Lopuksi oli varattu puolisen tuntia aikaa ryhmäkeskusteluille. 

Tapahtuma oli mielestäni erittäin mukava ja siitä jäi todella hyvä fiilis! Osallistuisin mielelläni uudestaan tällaiseen tapahtumaan ja suosittelen muitakin osallistumaan jos on mahdollisuus, ihan huippu juttu!

-Nora

Week 11

Hi!

This week was the week I had been waiting for the whole autumn. This week was all about Law Issues.

I’m so interested in law that I actually ones was considering to start studying law. I was so excited on Monday to start the lecture. I am disappointed that my English vocabulary is so poor that I wasn’t able to understand a lot on the lectures.

However I thought it was very good that we got as task to think about actual cases and as example Marjaana gave, that’s a good way to learn. The task was challenging although the tasks was in Finnish and it took a lot of time to do them, but it was interesting and I learnt a lot.

Marjaana told us about what kind of legal right for example a minor has. As example we had a minor boy that had bought something expensive without asking his parents. His parents didn’t accept his shopping and they have the right to require that the product will be refunded because the minor has bought it without his parents approval.

On Thursday we went through the tasks we got on Monday. I’m sure that I would have learnt a lot more, if the lecture on Monday would have been in Finnish.. It’s a bit pity that I didn’t understand most of the stuff Marjaana talked about, but I have to try to study about these topics more at home.

-Nora

Week 10

Hi,

On Monday we had two lecturers. Sofia Auranen told us her story, from school to being onboard and what she did there and then about her current job. It was so interesting to listen to her and inspiring to think what you can do after graduation. What was left on my mind from her presentation was: “Get out of your comfort zone” and “Learn new things for the joy of it”.

I’m not going to write anything about the second lecturer because I’m afraid to tell too much. But we received a task witch our group did on Wednesday and presented to the “client” on Thursday and they liked our presentation and our ideas!

On Thursday we had a lecturer, Arto Kuuluvainen from M3 Research. He talked about sports branding. I have a lot to do with sports and I watch a lot of sports partly due to my boyfriend. It was so good that Arto gave a lot of examples. I think I will look at sports branding differently in the future.

We also had a meeting with out partner company, Taivas + Helvetti, where we presented our ideas. Kari from the partner company liked a lot many of our ideas but one was best of the best. I don’t want to tell you too much about our plans yet, but if all goes well this will be something big and soooooo cool!!

-Nora