Sitra report and the upcoming article in Futures journal 4. March 2010, 16:03

“A Social Media Concept and Strategy for Public Leadership and Management Programme”, has now been released as a Sitra report.

My article “FutureSelf: Emerging Digitized Life Patterns and A Personal Future Simulation System”, which focuses on the mapping of personal futures has been accepted to one of the most acknowledged journals of future studies…

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Personal futures and the center of future gravity 23. February 2010, 11:46

Today, future-oriented acts and thoughts are exposed to personal and collective interpretation and analysis in an unprecedented manner through various digital environments and channels. The center of the future gravity becomes visible and detectable through our physical and non-physical multilinear existence…

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Insights on social media and leadership - featuring in Taloussanomat 6. January 2010, 14:25

I was asked by Taloussanomat (a leading Finnish economic magazine) to comment how participation in social media affects corporate communication and leadership/management practices. The main points could be summarized in the following way: An effective and fruitful participation in social media – from an organization’s or management’s point of view – happens through ingenuous and deliberate dialogical presence in the suitable social media environments…

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The Future Momentum - Readings & Links (48-50) 15. December 2009, 14:22

Selected readings online (week 48-50) including e.g. the future of artificial intelligence research, insights on the biological origins of morality, reflections on the ongoing/upcoming post-media era, the anatomy of “feeling”, critical view on the role of design research in innovation by D. Norman and the emerging culture of open communication…

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The Future Momentum - Readings & Links (44-47) 20. November 2009, 15:05

Selected readings online (week 44-47) including e.g. insights on intention economy and its concrete effects on human behavior and thinking, the appropriate safety measures and standards of cloud computing, the future visions of self-organizing architecture, opinions about the essential qualities of an “innovator”, and some thoughts about the role of sustainability in design thinking/practices…

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