Trying out some interesting social applications

Have been looking into & trying out some interesting applications:

Moozement – social training log  – recording basic info exercise with the friends – creating social support  &  pressure
Kiva -  micro lending community, where we have established a group with friends, offers possibility to directly support entrepreneurs in emerging countries
Thinglink – social application for design enthusiasts [...]

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Midsummer Celebration & Social Media

Midsummer is extremely important time for celebration for Finns. People flock into summer cottages and celebrate the long, light summer nights. No matter what is the weather, people leave the cities and head towards lake side cottages, festivals, camping sites – being close to lakes & nature, seems to be essential.
For nearly 20 years, we [...]

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Special spaces & special patterns & contradictions

Special places and patterns can be very delightful.
In our holiday in South Africa – patio by Ivory Tree Game Lodge and peaceful place by swimming pool at Kristiina’s house offered special places for morning yoga.
The special places can be every where, but do we recognize them, do we take time to enjoy them and do [...]

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Changing … sometimes it is sudden, sometimes is takes time

The environment can change so quickly – one day we had over 1/2 meter snow – and everything was changed. From the darkness to magical winter wonderland…
… and them after few days nearly all had melted, back to darkness, rain and slush.
So in the middle of this dark season – my old computer decided to [...]

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Learning in Monkey Style

This week there  was an interesting article in the Finnish Science (Tiede) magazine about Japanese snow monkeys – Macaque. It was rather funny to see that, these monkeys have learned enjoy bathing and they actually have their own spas built for them, so that they would not enter onsens in their neighborhood.

What really triggered [...]

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Sharing & Learning

Sometimes my friends or colleagues ask how do I keep up with – family & friends, work & studies, garden & hobbies etc. And do I spend most of my time by computer… Have not really measured that, but yes lately I have spent quite a lot of time [...]

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Celebrating with the past – Senior High 25 year party

This weekend we will have an opportunity to meet with old friends in Hämeenlinna. 25 years ago I graduated from Hämeenlinnan Lyseon Lukio. And now it is time to get together with class mates and old teachers.
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First there will be a session at [...]

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Thinking of values – and Dalai Lama

Joe’s blog post some weeks ago reminded me of Dalai Lama, Joe had been reading an article of Dalai Lama’s visit to Seattle. And I suddenly remembered how I briefly encountered His Holiness when he visited Finland last autumn. We were in the same flight to Germany. Sometimes we pass by people in life [...]

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Circles & flows – and how we don’t step into the same river twice … or do we?

Shared with Flock – The Social Web Browser
http://flock.com
It was really nice to find David’s, Doug’s and Luis’ comments on my blog – funny warm feeling, like I had entered a circle of friends. Thank you all !!! You all have been my guides into Web [...]

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Learning about Web 2.0

Trying out sending a blog post with a picture from Flock… Using the picture from Rendez project.
And this seems to work like a dream… yet an other new thing that I’ve learned from David Ing, my personal guide into web 2.0 world during the Rendez project and long before that. During [...]

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