Merry christmas from Goofy and me - offline until 6th Jan

Dear familiy and friends,

I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year. I will be heading off for Asia now and will be offline until 6th Jan.



All the best - until next year :-)

Social Media in Europe and Germany

I found a great video on social media in Europe and Germany on one of my favourite blogs:
http://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2009/12/16/bilder-sagen-mehr-als-tausend-worte-aspekte-des-web-visuell-aufbereitet/



So keep on watching and more important using the web 2.0 while the web 3.0 is on it´s way. More to follow ...

Cool blog on funny scientific tricks

Have a look at this cool blog on funny scientific tricks at:
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/

Just to give you an example (this is the related youtube channel):



So keep on playing and learning - it is the same anyway :-)

On marriage from Kahlil Gibran

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Oxford learning lab

Nici found this great link of the Oxford Leraning Lab with a lot of great papers and videos:

http://oxlearn.com/default.aspx

So keep on learning and keep on sharing the best links you find!

Slideshare playlist

Here is the link to my slidehsare playlist:

| Get your SlideShare Playlist

This is the playlist for beyond budgeting:

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Check out slideshare. It is a great knowledge sharing tool.

DANKE von Paulo Coelho

Ich danke allen, die meine Träume belächelt haben.
Sie haben meine Fantasie beflügelt.

Ich danke allen, die mich in ihr Schema pressen wollten.
Sie haben mich den Wert der Freiheit gelehrt.

Ich danke allen, die mich belogen haben.
Sie haben mir die Kraft der Wahreit gezeigt.

Ich danke allen, die nicht an mich geglaubt haben.
Sie haben mir zugemutet, Berge zu versetzen.

Ich danke allen, die mich abgeschrieben haben.
Sie haben meinen Trotz geschürt.

Ich danke allen, die mich verlassen haben.
Sie haben mir Raum für Neues gegeben.

Ich danke allen, die mich verraten und missbraucht haben.
Sie haben mich erwachsen werden lassen.

Ich danke allen, die mich verletzt haben.
Sie haben mich gelehrt. im Schmerz zu wachsen.

Ich danke allen, die meinen Frieden gestört haben.
Sie haben mich stark gemacht, dafür einzutreten.

Ich danke allen, die mich verwirrt haben.
sie haben mir meinen Standpunkt klargemacht.

Vor allem danke ich aber all denen,
die mich lieben, so wie ich bin.
Sie geben mir die Kraft zum Leben!

Danke.

XING question application

I just learned a new functionality in XING. When you add the application XING Questions, you can post questions which can be answered by all XING Question users. I always used Twitter for this, but I definitely prefer the structured approach of XING.

To all my XING contacts: Please add the XING Question allplication to your profile, so that I can start asking stupid questions to you also :-)

Another application, you can add to your XING profile is slideshare. Have a look at my profile, to see how it works.
https://www.xing.com/profile/Thorsten_Jekel

Have a happy christmas time :-)

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Tablets will replace e-book readers

For all of you who still think that the current e-book-readers are cool, have a look at this preview:



Apple is one of the players in the market who are currently working on these next generation media players.
So I am desperately waiting for these new toys for the boys and enjoy my Sony e-book-reader in the meantime.

For those iPhonies of you who cannot wait any longer: there is a kindle client for iPhone available at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=ms_sbrspot_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000301301&pf_rd_p=498990411&pf_rd_s=center-22&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0015T963C&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0TRFBVTHG79ME9E3W06N

So keep on pimping your brain :-)

Harvard Business School youtube channel

This is one of my favourite youtube channels:

http://www.youtube.com/HarvardBusiness

Far better than regular TV :-)

Martinjak & Platzhirsch in Vienna

This was my program last saturday night:

Dinner at the Martinjak (http://www.martinjak.com/a/) opposite to the Vienna opera.

They have excellent Austrian food and I was lucky to get a personal explanantion of the restaurant concept and a testing of the Zirben Cocktails, as I had dinner with Cindy Luissser, who is doing the marketing for them.

After that we just went next door to the Platzhirsch (http://www.platz-hirsch.at/index2.html) , which is a really cool club disco.

On Saturday, they definitely play the music I love for dancing.

I was very lucky, as Cindy has a very good connection to the managing director of the Club. So we came in without queuing - with VIP treatment. Thank you very much again for this Erich.

But even without this very special treatment I received, both locations are great for having a wonderful evening in Vienna and you can also rent the club for events.

A really cool location with a great boss and team. Check it out!