Tomorrow I’ll be attending three seminars in the morning. I don’t have a lecture at Hyper Island until 1.30pm, so this will be perfect. All the seminars are in Swedish, and the ones I’m attending are held at the Marinmuseum here in Karlskrona.
The first seminar is about conflicts and how to communicate. I think this one can be very good and when I read about it, it reminds me a little about the UGL course I took when starting at Hyper Island. Glenn Carlbark will be the speaker.
The second seminar is about branding and everything around branding. Joakim Eklund and Viktor Ehrenberg will be sharing information about starting up a business, what qualities to embrace in a company, how to communicate through the right medias, and how to create a strategy.
Tomas Lydahl will be talking at the last seminars, where he will tell us how to get our clients to brag about us. This can be hard, since it is the disappointed clients who talk the most. Satisfied clients might not say anything, and they might not use your service the next time even if they where happy with your result.
I’m very excited about what I’ll hear tomorrow. There are 13 more seminars going on, some at the Marinmuseum but also some at Hyper Island. Check out the list and sign up here.
Published on September 28, 2009 9:59 PM.
Filed under: Hyper Island, Inspiration, Private Tags: branding, communication, conflict, Hyper Island, Karlskrona, Marinmuseum, seminars, UGL
I wont attend the presentation technique at Hyper Island these three days (Wednesday – Friday). I’m going to New York instead. Tonight (Wednesday) ELSAandME is having its first fashion show and I will be there.
ELSAandME is the fashion company my friend Maja started in April. She needed someone to build her a website and I was the one doing it. After the website I created a blog and I also designed a newsletter. There has been a fashion show (guest designer) and a trunk show, and more people is getting interested in the company. I’m very excited to be a part of this journey and the fact that I was in on it from the beginning. And to see my friend grow has been amazing.
I’ll arrive at Newark at 1pm and then I have to go straight to LES – Lower East Side, where the fashion show will be held. The show starts at 7pm, but there is a lot of things to prepare. Models, mak-up, hair, clothing, music, runway, cameras, flyers, people, press, entertainment between walks, etc.
I might Bambuse the show, but I’ll definitely take tons of photos.
Published on September 16, 2009 9:17 AM.
Filed under: Private Tags: clothing, ELSAandME, fashion show, New York, website
Today I’m going to Kalmar. I’m going there to give a speech at a Cultural Care AuPair meeting. I’m invited as an ex-aupair and I’ll talk about my year as an aupair and I’ll also interview the girls and boys who are interested in the aupair program.
I’m excited about this and I want to inspire, help, and support the ones who chooses to go, because I know how emotional and fun it can/will be for them. It will be such an experience and it can really take them where ever they want to go. At least that is how I feel.
Published on September 13, 2009 9:36 AM.
Filed under: Private Tags: aupair, Cultural Care, experience, interview, speech
I love the fact that the age in my class is so spread out. There are people who just graduated high school, some 23-24 year olds, and some 30-34 year olds. We all have different experiences and different views on life, but it also reminds me of what I did and wanted to do when I was 19.
When I graduated high school I didn’t feel like I was finished with school, so I actually studied two extra years. I then took some of the same classes I’d just taken to get a better grade, but I also took my first HTML course.
I lived with my boyfriend at the time. We wanted to get a dog, looked into getting a new car (I didn’t have a drivers license by then). I wanted to be a lawyer and that’s why I wanted the better grades so I could apply to the law programs at Stockholm university.
It’s cool to look back on this time because it is so different from where I am now. At the same time…I would still like to take a few law courses. And that first HTML class was a good decision back then since coding and design has been following me through the years.
Published on August 30, 2009 10:57 AM.
Filed under: Private Tags: age, Design, HTML, law
It’s been an intense beginning at Hyper Island with both UGL and Team Building, but I feel that I’ve balanced it out. Since I moved to Karlskorna I’ve been away two weekends to see family and friends and that’s been really good for me.
The weekend before the UGL course I took the train to Halmstad to see the family I nannied for in New York. I hadn’t seen them in two months by then and it was the best weekend of this summer.
Last weekend, the weekend after the Team Building I took the bus to Kalmar where my father, his wife, and my sister picked me up to continue to Öland. We spent the weekend camping and I realized it’s been way to long since I did that with them.
I really am happy to be in Sweden. Sure I miss New York, San Diego, and San Francisco and everything and everyone that comes with it, but I find it resting and peaceful to be living here now. And there is nothing I want more then to be a part of Hyper Island.
Published on August 24, 2009 7:12 AM.
Filed under: Private Tags: Halmstad, Karlskrona, New York, Öland, team building, UGL
I’ve been in Karlskrona for a week now and I really do love it. My family helped me move last Saturday and there has been something going on every day. I’ve unpacked and the apartment really feels like home. Some of my stuff I also had in my last apartment in San Diego, so that might be why. I’ve met up with my friends who I got to know while they lived and worked in San Diego. I also found a trail where I can run and it’s about 5K.
A lot of people from my class got here Friday and Saturday, so we all met up and partied a little. It’s nice since 12(!) people live in the same building sharing three apartments.
Published on August 1, 2009 3:39 PM.
Filed under: Private Tags: apartment, friends, Karlskrona, running
