E-Estonia – Is the digital utopia for real?

Eesti Vabariik – the Republic of Estonia 45,339 Km2 and a population 1.3 M people which like a ten time less than Paris or London. They have a complex and interesting history (actually most countries have an interesting history – but maybe it is a personal taste.)  But what is really interesting is how Estonia use the digital to organise their society. E-residency E-voting E-school E-police E-etc.  It looks quite a digital utopia…...

May 23, 2017 · 2 min · Johann Savalle

10 laws of project management

Augustine’s Law A bad idea executed to perfection is still a bad idea Corollary: A good idea poorly executed is of no use to anyone  Lakein’s Law Failing to plan is planning to fail Eisenhower’s corollary : Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.  Fitzgerald’s Law There are two states to any large project : too early to tell and too late to stop Corollary: Projects have momentum, once started they become increasingly difficult to stop...

May 22, 2017 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

3 elearning platforms you probably never heard of

We always talk about elearning through the lense of MOOCs and self-study management. WordPress (Sensei, Learndash, LeanPress, WP-Courseware), Moodle, edX, Blackboard, Canvas, Sakai and others come out as the solutions mentioned over and over again.  Here I wanted to show you three different directions for education and elearning needs.  HR Driven: JollyDeck JollyDeckis an HR driven elearning platform to help managers and training departments develop and deploy internal learning strategies....

May 22, 2017 · 2 min · Johann Savalle

Donation options – the canary

justSomeUX is a series where I share some interesting UX / UI and smart copy for your inspiration (and my archive of references). Asking for donations is never easy. Well, the Canary found a nice way to phrase it. >Interesting Donation UX Why is good? It gives perspective Make you realise that spend money more on dumb stuff so you might as well give them so of it

May 21, 2017 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Finish your ideas

We all have ideas. Sometime we don’t even realise we do, as we don’t always pay attention to the flow of our mind. Some ideas come and pass and never come back. Some stick around. Sometime we turn these ideas into action. But even then we seldom finish them.  Parkinson’s law Parkinson’s law is a project-management rule of thumb stating that : “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”...

May 21, 2017 · 3 min · Johann Savalle

How big is Google?

I was working earlier on a post on privacy, then realised I cannot even start to give a proper introduction to it without laying down some facts first. So, there will be no jumping straight into the subject of privacy, centralisation of the internet, and how politics is affecting the internet as a whole. Instead, we will take a couple of posts to really define the current state of the internet, also give an historical perspective, before diving into the core of the subject....

May 21, 2017 · 3 min · Johann Savalle

Everything is a remix

The quote above is a funny, yet very accurate introduction to the topic developed in the documentary by Kirby Ferguson : Everything is a Remix. (side note: If you care who said this quote go check this link to figure out why nobody really knows.) Everything is a remix explores the concept of originality in creativity.  Never heard of it? Please, take the time to watch it below....

May 20, 2017 · 3 min · Johann Savalle

Do what you can’t

They did not know it was impossible so they did it — Mark Twain  Rules, somehow, always, seems to be a barrier to innovation.   Status-quo is cultural protectionism The status-quo creates artificial scarcity. Because it promotes the lack of initiative It supports business as usual. The status-quo is opposed to disruption, to change, to innovation. It is opposed to improvement. It is the systemic manifestation of the resistance....

May 17, 2017 · 2 min · Johann Savalle

Milgram experiment, company culture, work ethics

Or why “do as you are told” is a bad idea. In 1964, Stanley Milgram back then a young researcher at Yale University, published the resultsa famous experiment known to this day as the Milgram Experiment. The set up is simple: The subject of the experiment takes part himself in a (staged) experiment supposed to study the impact of pain on memory and learning. For this, he is asked by the experimenter to administer increasingly strong electric shocks to a test subject for every wrong answer....

May 16, 2017 · 4 min · Johann Savalle

Millennials are a myth

Millenials (people born after 1980 and before 2000) are defined as : lazy entitled unattached not motivated by money want more holidays more horseshit The point of this post is to share a truth more and more commonly agreed upon: Millenials are not real. “Millennials” as a concept is mainly a huge pile of crap. And I just stumbled upon wonderful talk by Adam Conover, and I think he made the point pretty brilliantly so please what the talk down there....

May 14, 2017 · 3 min · Johann Savalle

justAnExample – Newsletter email confirmation – Powazek

justAnExample is a series where I share some interesting UX / UI and smart copy for your inspiration (and my archive of references). Here today we have a newsletter done by Derek Powazek– veteran startup guy now growing vegetables in a farm.       Why this is good : Transparency Empathy Humor  Transparency Sharing his lack of clarity, being very honest from the beginning is a good way to get your people to trust you....

May 12, 2017 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

The elearning (r)evolution

Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education The lady from Courseratells you how it is done and what they have learned. Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education The guy who founded the Khan Academytalks to you about what online video can do for schooling and education.

May 3, 2017 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

A fews things to pay attention to on LinkedIn

#1 – Pay attention to your photo Your profile is 21 times more likely to be viewed if you have a profile photo. That’s also the first thing people will use to get a first understanding of who you are. So, make sure your photo is clean and broadcast the kind of feeling your want – not just the photo you had available while doing your account. #2 – Pay attention to your headline Your LinkedIn headline matters because :...

May 1, 2017 · 2 min · Johann Savalle

Beer, Conversation and Bridging the Opinion Gap

We are all different. Color, Race, Religions. Different brands of toothpaste. Different opinions. Lately, having different opinions is starting to turn into a real issue.  Up to a point where people can’t even have a conversation about it. (Arguably, this was always the case, just that now, it seems it is getting harder to just ignore others’ opinions)  It is not always easy to to discuss. Open conversations are hard....

April 28, 2017 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Constraints, Creativity, Startups, Funding

When options are limited, people produce more solutions – not less. When people are limited they try to improve and optimise.  The opposite is true. It is known as Parkinson’s Law : “Work expands so as to fill the time available for it’s completion”  Well, seems like what is true for time budget is also true for financial budget. The more money there is available the more money you will use for your project....

April 26, 2017 · 3 min · Johann Savalle

LinkedIn – Social Media 101

Everyone knows LinkedIn – yet not everybody use it to its full power (and I totally include myself in this “everybody”). Linkedin has a lot of potential and here are some interesting tips I would suggest you have a look at. Some history & stats Founded in Dec, 2002 (When Windows XP was still at the top of its hype) Launched in May, 2003 (yes, you were a couple of years younger…)...

April 25, 2017 · 4 min · Johann Savalle

Up your LinkedIn skills with 3 talks on LinkedIn Strategy

Paul Copcutt: LinkedIn -Where your sales and marketing meet And also how can piñada and LinkedIn help to sell accounting services… Become a LinkedIn Search Ninja Spend 3 days to find valuable information on LinkedIn search. Found it. Social Selling by LinkedIn with LinkedIn This lady kicks ass. Very good video on social selling.

April 25, 2017 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Art is about creating perspective

Design is about solving problem Art is about creating perspective Both place the human dimension at the center of their craft It is never about the tool or the medium per se It is always about the experience Imagination is the trigger Pulling the trigger take you out of this world Use text – images – sound – video – animation – sculpture – theatre – anything. Take the weapon of your choice....

April 20, 2017 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

The dystopian future of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

I am a big believer that technology is neither bad nor good. Technology is just a tool than enable our capacity to be more of what we are already. We can use technology to solve problems. Potentially, we can create a better society. But it is not up to technology but how we use it.  Recently – Virtual Reality (VR) Augmented Reality (AR) are more and more trendy. Everyone is super excited about where all this is going....

April 17, 2017 · 2 min · Johann Savalle

Make shit happen

#Make shit happen Get out and shout your truth to the world You might be wrong but you will never know until you get it out Breaking news: the world will go on with or without you – so better you become an active part of it. #Just do it Just move on and create. Make new things happen. Try out. Produce. Experiment. Throw things out to the world and see what sticks....

April 15, 2017 · 1 min · Johann Savalle