Some Social Media websites

Here's some online articles I've found:

• Global Neighbourhood blog: Defining the term 'Social Media'
• Global Neighbourhood blog: Social Media & Government
• Wikipedia: Social Media
• Social Media Today

Meeting - March 23, 2010

More topics to research:

• What makes Turku special from the rest of the world?
• What are the growth possibilities for Turku?
• Turku tourism touring
• What is exciting about Turku?

Why we do what we do:  Here are some blogs that help explain why the Innovations Course is set up this way:

• Teemu Arina
• Team Academy
• Peter Senge
• speaking about Team Academy

TED

TED

Ted.com- theres a video by Seth Godin called standing out
Ted.com- Malcome Gladwell called spaghetti sauce

also if you find anything else from either of these authors they would probably be good!

Meeting 10.03.2010

So it begins! Our business is Hirvilampi and our assignment is to look 5 years ahead. What vision do we see for Hirvilampi? How can our business modify over the next several years (in a realistic and feasible manner) to become a destination? Where people come to Turku because of Hirvilampi, not where people come to Hirvilampi because they're going to be in Turku.

Task for the coming 2 weeks

• Familiarize ourselves with the company before the futuristic meeting on the 23rd of March.

Suggested reading in general that may help with concepts and understanding social media

• Seth Godin's blog
• Tom Peters: Reimagined (here) and Crazy Times Call For Crazy Organizations (here)
• Robert Waterman: What America Does Right (here)
• Rowan Gibson: Rethinking the Future (here)
• Tom Kelley: The 10 Faces of Innovation (here)
• Robert Sutton: Weird Ideas that Work (here)
• Jim Collins: Good to Great (here) - did I find the right one?

*the links are usually to summaries or websites that sell the books to help us get an idea of what they are about.