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Damn it’s cold outside. Subzero degrees in Copenhagen as we approach the weekend. Brrr. Good thing we are working with such burning hot topics, well in fact we a fired up by working with people that try to change the world bit by bit. So bring it on winter.

This week beside general busyness on our projects and Thomas going to Berlin to participate on a workshop for the Official artwork for the London Olympics in 2012. Magnus and I had a very interesting workshop with Martin Ferro-Thomsen, founder of Issuu.com,  about his current start up project conferize.com - that promise to change the way the conference business work. We are helping Martin and Conferize.com along with the social design on the...

This week another of our interesting clients went from stealth mode to public sign up. The project now have an official name and the site is up at shareleap.com. Shareleap.com like Conferize.com is on a grand misson changing the world by making business more transparent and collaborative. One could say, they are trying to redesign influence. 

Shareleap.com promise to change the possibilities for small investors and shareholders to influence large companies, allowing them to share and synchronize ideas and opinions, in order co-create or endorse agenda proposals. individually small shareholders are ultimately powerless, and the general assembly in most companies are designed to keep small investors out of power. If connected through a social platform like shareleap.com, small...

Working with start ups is such a thrill for us, we find that our competences and experience in working with social design and social business models, really is making an immediate difference, because we are in the creation and execution phase all the time. There is no layers between the product and the business + working with people who are running 10 times faster than anybody else, to keep up with their own ideas and ideals is just inspiring...

Reflecting on this weeks work, we see a new pattern in terms of innovation coming from the start up scene, from people who truely believe they can change something that is broken. We see the best ideas come from people that are outside "organisations" because they can work more agile and prototyping than larger corporations and traditional agencies are able to do. One area in particular that I see as an emerging space for this type of...

In fact think about the recently announced IPO of Facebook, which promise to become a top 10 IPO introductions of all time - estimated to generate 100 billion dollars, certianly by far the biggest for any social network site ever. Interesting (and a little scary) Facebook has done nothing but to create the platform and to own the relations - a lot of them. If Facebooks userbase is worth the astronomic amounts is beyond me to judge. However...

Returning to the point. Platforms. Niche platforms. Major disruption will come from start ups and inventors creating “niche” platforms around specific areas of interest. Facebook, Twitter and Google+ is going to be to generalized and to broad for capturing all the potential action, it will probably be the “backbone” of a lot activity. But my guess is we wil see a continual rise of a mulitude of emeging niche platforms - like shareleap.com and...

Just to say, in Socialsquare, we are spending a lot of time in our projects as well as in our methods thinking about the design of digital and social platforms, and how they are changing valuechains and businessmodels, by making markets  more transparent, distributed and scalable. In fact we are working on an event where we’ll share more of these insights, so stay tuned for more. And do drop by or set up a meeting with us if you are...

Have a cool weekend.

Happy new year to everyone.

First week of 2012 is coming to a close and everybody at SQ is back from their respective festive and greasy Christmas coma.

Magnus has started a fitness spree and is refusing to eat anything but carrots at the lunchtable. Later today all the SQ’ers is heading of to our annual new years party and 2012 build up - that will include a mixture of oysters, steaks, wine … and Fernet Branca (if Kim is to decide).

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A little late weeknote, as our last week was extremely busy - and not least very offline and physical, as we moved our office from the Meatpacking District to Slotsgade 2 on Nørrebro. We are very happy to be back where it all started, and this time we think that we have found the perfect spot for our office - both in terms of location (we love Nørrebro) and in terms of office space. We’ll be able to have our activities such as workshops...

December 2. Christmas is around and we are entering the last month of 2011. It's a busy times.  If the Elf's in Santa's workshop, where working with laptops, stickynotes, whiteboards and videocameras, the Socialsquare Headquarters would be the epicenter of Christmas.  Christmas is the month of traditional and last week Magnus started a new tradition in Socialsquare: Weeknotes, where we tell what has happened during the week. 

 

First of are we are obviously very glad that our new site is up and running. Emil and Nicolaj has been busy getting things to work, and will obviously keep tuning the site. Do comment. Be gentle :)

 

This week we have been busy continuing our work on several projects. Kim and Magnus have made some interviews with some experts in relation to our "farm" project, where we are trying to rethink the physical farm in a digital context. Amongst the interviews we had a very visit by a former employee Andreas Lloyd for a talk about how he and a bunch of other are organizing a ecological food collaborative in Copenhagen food collective, and Andreas...

 

Jonas tested out a new format for our research, toke the camera  and went on the street and caught some public opinions, and is a planning a upcoming thoughtleader meeting where we will invite some of the best and brightest to meet and talk about how internet is disrupting business, and how organisations needs to change the way they work. In this vein Kasper is researching thsi theme mapping concrete examples and tendencies on digital...

 

Magnus has been workshopping in the CBI project (community based innovation), where Socialsquare is a partner. And finalizing our strategy project for GEA. 

 

I have been spending on our project with DJØF and our collaborators WOGN. we are working with a group of members that has started blogging at detgodearbejsliv.nu. During the week I was visiting Kunde&Co participating as an expert in digital participation for a client, great fun and lots of ideas how to create participation. Lastly I ended this week reviewing a clever bunch of students at Copenhagen University, that has been working with us to...

 

Finally we are also happy to say that we will be working with saxo.com again, in a very interesting project. 

 

Have an excellent good weekend.

 

 

 

 

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