Auravox

Except me. My LinkedIn profile is still faceless. I went searching in the achieves for that cool, trendy, back lit picture of myself. Nada! - not one single picture of myself amongst 10Gb of pictures. Every time I found one of myself, it was with a grimace. Like this one. Dammit. From now on I’ll stop making faces when people take my picture. It all ends and begins with today!

I’m probably very yesterday by not being on Facebook. But you know what? - you too will be so the day before today when something bigger, better, faster than Facebook comes along ;-). And that will happen. So I’ve made the tjois to only maintain this blog, LinkedIn and the rest of my life. Not in that order.

The public art galleries, large picture halls, I guess
The eyes they see Evangelists, evil’s agents
Atheism it has me, I Matthias
I am that is, Vin Diesel
I end lives in the dormitory, the dirty room
Mother-in-laws, Woman Hitlers
The German soldiers, Hitler’s men are dogs
Evangelists, evil’s agents
Eleven plus two, Twelve plus one

Bonus:
In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten: “To be or not to be: that is the question, whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”

From here. Good luck to all my colleagues currently working on their micropresentations.

First time I’ve actually seen one of those Danish produced “Jensen” cars…
Can’t find anything about them on the net though.

I’m being entangled in a web of mystery and strange coincidents. And I like it.

First off I saw this picture. Initially I thought it was related to Just and this project. I actual posted a comment on the picture and… nothing. Dead silence. But fair enough, not all comments deserves an answer.

Then, today, I was on the receiving end for one of those mysterious black poster containers seen on Flickr. I didn’t connect the dots between the Flickr image and the poster container right away - but when I did I felt strangely manipulated and part of something bigger. Or something.

So what does the container contain? A poster. Yep, that’s right. A poster in a poster container. A beautiful poster, very cool, very iconic, very webding’ish. The only hint of the poster’s purpose in life is a discrete domain name, teedot.com. Naturally, I ALT+TAB my way to Firefox to look it up.

Ok. Poetic teaser text, read aloud, promising more to come. And a black dot. That’s it besides an address. No unraveling the mystery here. So I’m forced to look up the company’s address to figure out who’s behind. Bingo! - Flashpeople. A slight unraveling of the mystery now that I have some of the plot players in place - Just and Tony. Definitely flash by Tony and poster design by Just. And the company is located at Flashpeople’s playground.

Now all I have to do figure out what the hell it is they want…

On a side note, I’ve probably just gone through all the calculated steps that either Just or Tony have bulleted on some whiteboard somewhere.

Viral marketing and Human Resource Management. They’re both hyped. That being said, they are actually tied closer together than I thought. Or should be. Both can have a significant impact on the public opinion of your brand. Viral marketing tends tries to effect in a positive manner, as intended, whereas HR Management can effect in a negative manner, as unintended. This switches on my own personal Lomborgisme - if the end result of an investment in viral marketing is to effect public opinion towards your brand, shouldn’t that investment be countered to the negative effects of poor HR management? In other words, if the negative effect of poor HR management outweighs the positive effect of viral marketing - then perhaps you should drop the viral costs and use them in your HR department instead.

I know. Viral marketing is easier to control. Easier to load with a specific message. It’s proactive or reactive, depending on the purpose. HR is something completely else. It’s defensive in regards to the aimed effect on public opinion. You can’t control when things go horribly wrong, you can only try your hardest. At this point, someone who accidently dropped by this blog will think: “Hey dude, good HR management can also surround a company with a positive buzz”. And he would be right. Except from the fact that it’s the negative stories that stick!

Now, if someone out there are about to write their business school thesis, consider this for a subject: “ROI considerations on viral marketing versus HR spend” - I would read it.

So. Anyway. This guy below got fired for his poetry at an Apple employee talent show: