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Marcus Kuhn  //  I'm a 25 year old business student from Switzerland and one of the co-founders of connex.io. I have an interest in both technology and business and try to connect those two worlds.

Jan 31 / 6:53am

Creating a Viral Marketing Campaign - Mother Earth Strikes Back

As a project a group of five Students, including myself, set out to create a viral video. Before we could do so we had to come up with something we were passionate about, something we could help by raising awareness. After a lively debate we ended up with the environment. Sounds like cliché but it is something that was really near and dear to us and there was the small thing that the Copenhagen Climate Conference was happening at that time. We thought it would be a nice fit, riding the Copenhagen wave. Obviously we are too late now but the issue still is important, especially with the disappointing result of the conference.

As a next step we had to come up with our campaign and create a video, and we did.

We decided to let "Mother Earth" do all the work and let "her" scare people that are wasting energy. But see for yourself:

We have a Facebook Group and a website. Maybe you can help us by sharing those two things & maybe the video with your friends.

And once we are done with the project I will update you on what we did, what we learned and what we would do differently next time.

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Filed under  //  csr   energy   marketing   offences   projection   responsibility   social   university   viral   wasting  

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Sep 27 / 10:46pm

Redesigning education

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.

I will collect all the ideas and thoughts and post them in the form of another blog post.

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