Back again!

Hi guys!

 

It’s been such a long time. I’ve been so busy with my work and personal businesses so I haven’t really been able to keep up with this blogging stuff. But now I’m back for good :).

 

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During this week, Ilkka held us a lecture about digital strategies and pointed out for example how to act when you fail or make a mistake in your business. I think this lesson was pretty eye opening for most of us and I honestly personally liked his lecture a lot. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of sending one of the points of the lecture I had noted (we were given a task during the lesson) to one of the people important to me, though.

 

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We also had one of the digital coaches lecture us about digital marketing. It was quite interesting as well.

 

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The most interesting part of the week was when I decided to attend Pitch & Beer with a few of my friends. The pitches were pretty inspiring and well prepared. Also two of my friends pitched their own business idea there and I thought they did pretty well with their presentation.

There was also a task for this week to give feedback to five other blogs other than the ones of your teammates and write the feedbacks on your own blog. The feedback was suggested to be both positive and constructive. The blogs I chose were the ones from Kevin Puusepp, Tapani Marttala, Sonja Blomberg, Ria Ratia and Kristiina Jantunen.

Kevin’s blog Digital Laurea is visually wise almost perfect. It’s colorful and intriguing and makes the reader have high expectations about the rest of the blog. He has only made two blog posts so I’d recommend him to blog a bit more often, though.

Tapani’s blog Digital World on the other hand is simple and easy to understand and is easy on the eyes color wise. He made the chapter switches pretty well too. I was a bit disappointed about the lack of pictures.

Sonja’s blog is called Digital World and it has a pretty darkish layout (which I like a lot). She has an enchanting way of placing the pictures and the texts in her blog. This way of arranging the posts makes them look pretty column like. Too bad the pictures are pretty small.

The posts made by Ria in her blog Lost in Digitalisation are simply amazing! She has such good quality pictures and writes professionally as well. I also like the layout and the fonts used. It was difficult for me to find her newest blog from the site.

And as the last one, Kristiina’s blog Digital Business. The background of her blog is calming and simple which are pretty good features on a blog. She also writes quite well, though her chapters differ length wise a lot.

 

Whew, there was so much to write about :). Well see you next week, pals!

 

-Sonja

 

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My Cultural Baggage

Good evening all!

 

Sorry for posting this a day late, I’ve been so busy that I just couldn’t make it. So sorry.

Anyway, last week we had some group presentations about different cultures (eg. work cultures, cultures of different countries) etc. The presentations were pretty interesting actually with all the videos and different aspects. My group didn’t go speak at the front because the ones to go to the front were decided through lottery. The most relatable parts for me of the culture lecture were the Iceberg Model and the different behavioral patterns depending on which culture you come from.

By the way, I’m still hoping there would be a part in this course which would teach us how to make a good promotional video and which platforms to use. I don’t know how to make videos or how to edit them so this kind of info would be really helpful.

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I’m also wondering about couple of parts of this course. For example, what confuses me a lot, is that every single time some group makes a video or some individual makes a good blog post they get praised quite publicly. Well yep, there’s nothing wrong at being awesome at making presentations. And it’s also okay to do whole heartedly your blog post. I admire those who do. But what about us average students then? Are we actually that much more invisible just because we still don’t know how to make perfectly edited videos or because we didn’t catch the actual meaning of these blogs at the beginning of the course? I know this might sound a bit harsh when I know (or at least I believe) you are doing your best as lecturers, but it still makes me feel less competent just because I’ve never been that good with technical stuff. Hence what I wrote earlier about hoping for a lecture to basically teach me ”techniques to get a good grade in this course”. I also hope you would give me feedback as well, because I won’t know if I’m doing poorly. All I know is that I ’m not good enough to be ”praised on the wall”.

Ok, but enough sobbing now. We also discussed about ”cultural baggages” during the lessons and our homework for the blog was to make our own individual cultural baggage. So, below is mine.

 

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We are shy and quiet at first (well, these are just stereotypes, people differ) and we’re also a bit cautios of strangers. For example a little bit of small talk at a bus stop is okay for me with a stranger, but if the conversation keeps going and I’m not too fond of the person I’m talking with, I must say I feel pretty awkward and uncomfortable. We are also hardworking and pay taxes loyally. We’re honest (not rude for God’s sake!) and we’re also faithful friends and family when people get to know us.

What did you think of my cultural baggage?

-Sonja

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