A semi-coherent log for Martin Sønderlev Christensen – mixed with snipets of fun, critical thinking, love of all things connected and other browseworthy items.

så er der web K-dag.

Jeg har den store glæde for, endnu en gang, at stå for den faglige entreprise på den kommende K-dag om web. Denne gang i selskab med den helt igennem uovertrufne og langt ud over det sædvanlige webvidende og engagementssmittende (forsøger at overgå dette) Andreas Johannsen.

wwweb k-dag

Kom og deltag, here’s the beef:

    Du får overblik over de nyeste tendenser og over, hvad det betyder for dit website
    Du får hjælp til at kaste et kritisk blik på dit site
    Du får værktøjer til at sætte fokus på videreudvikling og webstrategi frem for daglig drift
    Du får ideer og råd til, hvordan du kan gøre sitet bedre
    Du får input til, hvordan du kan inddrage brugere og kunder på sitet
    Du udvider dit faglige netværk

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vi søger.. igen.

I Advice Digital (hvor jeg arbejder) søger vi nu to nye medarbejdere.

MÃ¥ske er du en…

Digital rådgiver
Som digital rådgiver er du med til at udvikle digitale forretnings- og kommunikationsstrategier, tilrettelægge procesforløb og gennemføre digitale projekter i teams med projektledere, designere, programmører og tekstforfattere.
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eller en…

Projektleder
Som projektleder i Advice Digital får ansvaret for tilbudsgivning, budgetstyring, tilrettelæggelse og gennemførelse af webprocessen. Og i mange projekter får du også ansvaret for at udvikle strategier og omsætte dem til kreative webløsninger, der er dokumenteret i brugerscenarier, wireframes og prototyper. Det vil naturligt give dig meget kundekontakt og en del intern styring i projektteamet. Lyst og evne til at arbejde tværfagligt er derfor en forudsætning.
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bibliotalkr

Efter at have givet et oplæg ved konferencen “Sociale teknologier i fremtidens bibliotek 2.0” afholdt pÃ¥ Danmarks Biblioteksskole blev jeg interviewet til computerworld. Interviewet som kan høres her slÃ¥r jeg nogle krøller over hvordan bibliotekerne kan og bør tænke mere pÃ¥ at inddrage brugerne i deres tilbud pÃ¥ nettet. Interviewet har pÃ¥ computerworld fÃ¥et overskriften “Brugerne skal styre fremtidens bibliotek”.

Hmmm… Hvis det er essensen af hvad jeg sagde, sÃ¥ lad mig her rette det brugerne skal, kan og vil sandsynligvis ikke styre biblioteket i fremtiden. Det er præcis den farlige side af 2.0 tænkingen, jeg forsøgte at tale i mod. Det er denne “enten eller” retorik, som er meget ødelæggende for hvad man rent faktisk kan og skal med de nye sociale teknologier. Det giver vel ligesÃ¥ meget mening at sige, at “Brugerne skal styre fremtidens togtrafik” (selvom det mÃ¥ske ville være et friskt pust). Brugerne skal være med. Bibliotekerne skal Ã¥bne deres tjenester og data op, og begynde at tænke mere pÃ¥ hvad internettets sociale grundstruktur er og kan gøre for deres services, end blot at digitalisere den tjeneste de leverer i dag.

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Min pointe i oplæget var faktisk, at biblioteket sikkert ikke forsvinder fordi vi fÃ¥r mere brugerdrevne tjenester, og at bibliotikaren kan være med til at gøre internettet bedre. Brugerne kan naturligvis selv lave deres egne samlinger og det gør de i rigt mÃ¥l, udfordringen bliver derfor ikke at fÃ¥ brugerne til at styre bibliotekerne, men rettere at lade brugerne styrke bibliotekerne, og omvendt. Det sker ikke medmindre der kommer nogle mere Ã¥bne kontaktfalder end dem vi kender i dag. Som Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, som jeg iøvrigt har lÃ¥nt et par inspirerende punchslines fra, tidligere har sagt, sÃ¥ er bibliotekerne “nørder i distrubtionsformen: papir”. Bibliotekerne stÃ¥r som jeg ser det overfor mange udfordringer i forhold til at forstÃ¥ og bruge sociale teknologier i deres service. I særdeleshed skal man alvorligt revidere og genforhandle bruger-relationen. Bibliotekerne har qua deres store og historiske binding til fysisk distribtution dybest set et lettere anstrengt forhold til brugere. Let karikeret kunne man sige, at brugerne meget let bliver mis-brugere. I det fysiske bibliotek er det sociale altsÃ¥ typisk noget negativt, mens det pÃ¥ nettet kan bruges til noget godt. Tænk pÃ¥ google som bliver bedre af at man bruger det, eller last.fm som den ulitmative musik-bibliotikar. Hvad lærer biblioteket af mig nÃ¥r jeg har lÃ¥nt noget, og hvad kan andre bruge min brug til!

SÃ¥ hvis jeg skrive overskriften selv ville det nok være “brugerne kan styrke fremtidens bibliotek”. I øvrigt kan den diskussion fint starte pÃ¥ voresbibliotek.dk som netop i disse dage slÃ¥r dørene op for undergrunden af idéer og diskussioner omkring netop dette.

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Tænkte at det måske var interessant for dig!

I Advice Digital har vi specialiseret os i bruger- og målcentrerede webløsninger. Vi koncentrerer os om strategi, design og kommunikation i kreative processer, der både involverer kunder og brugere. Det har vi succes med og søger derfor tre nye medarbejdere: En rådgiver, en projektleder og en informationsarkitekt.

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Adios 2007 – Olá 2007

2006 is closing down. It sure has been exciting, yet at times a pretty bumpy ride. On a personal note, I successfully defended my Ph.D. in 2006. Got hold of the Doc title, Oh Yeahh. Finishing really felt nice, although it was a quite exhausting and somehow nerve wrecking exercise. Ending 3 intense years (and some) of work was to me very strange. I have also started on my new job, also very challenging in the best possible way, and great new colleagues to match it. Great, love it.

2007 looks to be just as exciting, however I hope a little less stressful. I’ll to continue developing the User Centred Design domain on my job, and already I looking forward to work on some interesting projects in the first months. Also I’m very excited to return to the ITU as an external lecturer. Together with Kasper “floc” Kofod , I’ll be teaching the course “Social Software design and implementation” in the spring. The course still needs a lot of framing, as it is the first time it will run, but we’ll be focusing on both theoretical perspective and try to design for social interaction.

I think it is save to say that 2006 was the year where “the new” social, democratic, user involved, driven and generated… what else… internet finally got massive traction, for better (there are a lot of new things going around) and worse (the 2.0 buzz is thickning considerably) ending in Time Magazine announcing that “you” (read: we) are the person of the year in 2006 – congrats by the way! Next year we will surely see how strong this “you, me, we” trend is, and we will start to see some of the consequences of and within the web 2.0 endeavour (it’ll need to prove that it is worthy of the attention). One major challenge, I think, will come to traditional media and corporate communication. Traditional ways of communicating, to innovate, to work etc. will become “stimulated” by the possibilities and challenges of the massive emergence of social software and personal media. A lot of this also goes into some of the interesting projects I’m involved in at work – so I’ll probably have some more insights throughout 2007. And I’m really looking forward to get to dwell into the area of “social software” together with hopefully a talented and a motivated bunch of students.

I’ll try to think more out loud in the line of this in the coming year. I promise.
Also, if anyone has some suggestion for or know of a list of mandatory or formative literature and/or central posts, case studies etc. on the whole social software web 2.0 – Please throw it in a comment or two!

Happy New Year all!

Image Credit Andy Smith

I FUCKING MADE IT




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This blog is about to restart

As faithfull readers of this blog will notice, after my last design kind of deconstructed itself, I have made yet another redesign of the blog. Yes I know! Seems like all I do around here is arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic…. This time I went for at little more clean and modern look and feel. Adding also some Ajax functionality here and there, see for instance the shelf+ (in the menu). Read the rest of this entry »

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