Marcus Kuhn // I'm a 25 year old business student from Switzerland, currently residing in Singapore, with an interest in both technology and business.
Looking at these facts and numbers it is just astonishing how fast Social Media has conquered the Internet. As most of the time adoption has started in the USA but right now it is spreading viral world wide. And the growth probably isn't slowing soon.
Businesses can and should profit from this shift and so can you and me. We should be prepared.
With Joyce as our guide we ventured into Singapore's China Town, found delicous food and had great fun.
About a year back a friend asked my a hypothetical question, what I would do if I had a lot of money? What problem would I try to solve? And I surprised him with my answer: I would build a University, my University :-)
I see a lot of potential for education to solve the majority of humanities problems and over the last year i have given the idea some thought. But now I need your input:What would you change in education in general and University education in specific to improve on toady's system?
I truly believe, that today's approach to teaching at institutes of higher learning is flawed. Everything is put on PowerPoint slides and pushed into a twelve week semester etc. So, if you could rethink the system, take a novel approach to education, what would you do? (Radical ideas are more then welcome, maybe even a suggestion to shift the paradigm, to redefine the problem)
You can comment to this post, drop me an email (marcuskuhn@gmail.com), send me a message on Facebook (facebook.com/marcuskuhn) or even send a flash of genius via Twitter (twitter.com/marcuskuhn). Not only ideas are welcome but also other materials and interesting reads.
Picture by teddY riseD
It has been a while since my last post and I'm sorry for that. But today I have another tip on how you can improve your productivity.
Dropbox is an amazing little tool which allows you to automatically, seamlessly Backup your files into the cloud. Once you install Dropbox it syncs a folder in your regular file system up to the cloud and the best thing: You don't have to do anything it just does it, no matter if you use Windows, Mac OS X or even Linux. This means no more lost files, your Harddisk corrupts, no problem, just sit at another computer and use the automatically backed up file which you can access via Dropbox's website.But Dropbox isn't just a Backup solution and I'm sure there are many more ways how Dropbox can be used to do new things (e.g. Communicating out of locked down Iran!?)
The free Version gives you 2 GB of storage space which you can extend by recommending the tool to others. 2 GB is more than enough for all your documents etc. I also wanted to Backup my pictures and therefore use the 50 GB subscription which is US$99. In my opinion a good deal.
So, you can create an Account here: https://www.getdropbox.com/ (If you want to give me and yourself a little more (250MB) space you can also use this link)As part of my Knowledge Management Class at Nanyang Technological University my team had to prepare a presentation on Web 2.0 Tools and how they can be used to manage knowledge.
Within the slide show I use Posterous to show how easy it is nowadays to share knowledge because of the developments many summarize under the Web 2.0 label. This is the post I sent from within the class to demonstrate it live :-)
Our ride to University today was abit more adventurous than other times... and the reason for it was that it was raining like hell. I took a short video and a picture to show what its like when there is a thunderstorm here in Singapore...
I couldn't see anything beyond the windshield, I hope the driver could.
So, today was a normal day and I decided to take quite a few pictures, especially because I was at SMU today for the first time. First I was great by a warm message in the MRT (Mass Rapid Transport, even though I think the rapid is quite an exaggeration ;-) But it is a very dense and reliable public transport system and that has to count for something).
So, we went to Kuala Lumpur this weekend and had a lot of fun. Above you can see the pictures I took, not quite a complete picture of our activities but a nice insight into what we did on Sunday and Monday.
A parody, but one that strikes home.
