<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512</id><updated>2011-11-30T06:45:41.259-08:00</updated><category term='teamwork'/><category term='good marketing'/><category term='education'/><category term='relaciones públicas'/><category term='consumer'/><category term='technology'/><category term='coolhunting'/><category term='social commerce'/><category term='the flow'/><category term='design-thinking'/><category term='lamardepeces.com'/><category term='maestro market'/><category term='advertising'/><category term='inspiration'/><category term='consumer internet'/><category term='truquillos'/><category term='arte'/><category term='creativity'/><category term='sustainability'/><category term='nuevas tecnologías'/><category term='barcelona'/><category term='just for fun'/><category term='online marketing'/><category term='social networking'/><category term='ecommerce'/><category term='madrid'/><category term='internet'/><category term='wisdom of the crowds'/><category term='ideas_that_stick'/><category term='blogs'/><category term='startups'/><category term='marcas'/><category term='facebook'/><category term='design flops'/><category term='publicidad online'/><category term='brands'/><category term='storytelling'/><category term='politics'/><category term='business models'/><category term='quote of the day'/><category term='entrepreneurship'/><category term='communication'/><category term='communities'/><category term='life lessons'/><category term='networking'/><category term='macroeconomics'/><category term='passion'/><category term='personal development'/><category term='Spain'/><category term='innovation'/><category term='marketing'/><category term='design'/><category term='architecture'/><title type='text'>seemingly unconnected</title><subtitle type='html'>A Blog on Communication, Marketing and Inspiration by Santiago Rodriguez de Miguel</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>128</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4217534733061122361</id><published>2011-10-16T13:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T14:22:45.910-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social commerce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecommerce'/><title type='text'>Social commerce I</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="textwidget"&gt;&lt;p&gt;En &lt;a href="http://es.privalia.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Privalia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he tenido la fortuna de liderar una de las primeras iniciativas de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Social commerce&lt;/span&gt; (o &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Social shopping&lt;/span&gt;), más concretamente &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;f-commerce&lt;/span&gt; o comercio en Facebook, en nuestro país y en el sector de los clubes privados de compra: la &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/privalia.es?v=app_111251102233251"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fan Shop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. El Social commerce es un tema en el que veremos interesantes desarrollos y sobre el que seguiré posteando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La incorporación de la esfera social ha mejorando nuestra experiencia en muy diversas actividades. Por Ejemplo, las fotos: con Facebook o Picasa, Flickr o instagram podemos compartir nuestras fotos con amigos y conocidos, o incluso darlas a conocer a gente desconocida. Podemos comentar, crear álbumes de manera colaborativa, geolocalizarlos, etiquetar a las personas que aparecen en ellos, etc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De igual modo la actividad de comprar se enriquece cuando incorporamos la dimensión social. El social commerce es por tanto la intersección de dos campos en auge. El &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ecommerce&lt;/span&gt; y la mencionada esfera &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;social&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Por un lado la e&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;sfera social&lt;/span&gt; se compone de elementos como la posibilidad de crear comunidades, realizar comentarios, ratings o críticas de producto, acceder a información de los miembros de tu red, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Por otro lado la actividad de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;compra (commerce)&lt;/span&gt; no se reduce a poder ver y pagar los productos. Si lo analizamos con la mente abierta veremos que puede incluir muchas actividades desde la búsqueda de información hasta el servicio post-venta.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿Una definición más académica del &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Social commerce&lt;/span&gt;? Me parece muy sencilla y descriptiva la de &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://socialcommercetoday.com/"&gt;Social Commerce Today&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;Social commerce: Helping people buy where they connect and connect where they buy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"&gt;The use of social media in the context of retail&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Si no, siempre tenemos la de la inevitable &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_commerce"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Social commerce is a subset of electronic commerce that involves using social media, online media that supports social interaction and user contributions, to assist in the online buying and selling of products and services&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;Continuará...&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4217534733061122361?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4217534733061122361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4217534733061122361' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4217534733061122361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4217534733061122361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2011/10/social-commerce-i.html' title='Social commerce I'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3280294872789773858</id><published>2011-10-16T10:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T10:41:53.247-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='barcelona'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='architecture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><title type='text'>No todo se ha inventado ayer</title><content type='html'>A veces nos parece que todo se ha inventado ayer, especialmente a los que trabajamos en Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy tengo una de esas sorpresas que guarda tu ciudad y que me recordó que los que vinieron detrás ya hacían cosas que pensamos son fruto de nuestra moderna sociedad. Lo mismo sentí hace muchos años en el British Museum contemplando el sofísticado instrumental del maletín de un médico en tiempos del Imperio Romano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curioseando en la &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_los_Santos_Justo_y_Pastor_%28Barcelona%29"&gt;Iglesia de Sant Just&lt;/a&gt; me encontré este dibujo en la lápida de uno de sus feligreses, fallecido en 1781&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dYJBP48dQg4/TpsVde2jyUI/AAAAAAAAQe0/e_vkQZOEdLk/s1600/chocolatero.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dYJBP48dQg4/TpsVde2jyUI/AAAAAAAAQe0/e_vkQZOEdLk/s320/chocolatero.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664144552590821698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El dibujo representa una tableta de chocolate. Joseph Roses y Malla, vecino de mi barrio y conciudadano de Barcelona, era chocolatero de profesión.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A la salida de la plaza me encontré con un corte de pelo que me resultó familiar. Pero, ¿no eran cuatro??? John, Paul, George y Ringo ¿no????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4TKopkGK7LU/TpsWNK9mTFI/AAAAAAAAQfA/XfoB_jbSshE/s1600/sant%2Bjust%2Bbeatles.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4TKopkGK7LU/TpsWNK9mTFI/AAAAAAAAQfA/XfoB_jbSshE/s320/sant%2Bjust%2Bbeatles.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664145371885358162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3280294872789773858?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3280294872789773858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3280294872789773858' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3280294872789773858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3280294872789773858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2011/10/veces-nos-parece-que-todo-se-ha.html' title='No todo se ha inventado ayer'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dYJBP48dQg4/TpsVde2jyUI/AAAAAAAAQe0/e_vkQZOEdLk/s72-c/chocolatero.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4611010142488669513</id><published>2011-09-25T13:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T14:16:08.122-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cosas que han pasado en un año</title><content type='html'>Bueno, realmente en algo más de un año desde mi último post. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La principal cosa que ha ocurrido es que he dejado de escribir. ¿Motivos? Por un lado, el ritmo del día a día, contra el que es difícil luchar. Por otro, he podido escribir de asuntos muy interesantes pero relacionados con  lanzamientos y proyectos que lidero o en los que estoy involucrado en mi compañía, y que es lógico que no desvele.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;En cualquier caso me gustaría retomar la actividad. Aún no sé a qué ritmo y como al comienzo de este blog, seguiré explorando distintos temas, siempre alrededor del &lt;b&gt;marketing&lt;/b&gt;, el mundo &lt;b&gt;online&lt;/b&gt;, la &lt;b&gt;innovación &lt;/b&gt;y la &lt;b&gt;inspiración&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Como decía, cosas que han pasado en este año: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;En mi empresa: definición de estrategia y establecimiento de políticas y procesos de &lt;b&gt;Social media&lt;/b&gt;, desarrollo  de aplicaciones pioneras en el campo del &lt;b&gt;social commerce&lt;/b&gt; (f-commerce) y de la atención al cliente en &lt;b&gt;redes sociales&lt;/b&gt;, ampliación del equipo, estrategias de &lt;b&gt;marketing online&lt;/b&gt; y &lt;b&gt;adquisión de usuarios&lt;/b&gt;...todo ello en una empresa, joven y abierta, con espíritu proactivo y multitud de retos a los que hincarles el diente.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Participación en mesas redondas, conferencias y similares: guardo especial buen recuerdo de un evento organizado por Arcadi Mayor con Alex Puig, Victor Puig y Trina Milán en la Cámara de Comercio de Tortosa, además de otras participaciones en Expo-ecommerce, The Brandery o Barcelona Bdigital.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vuelta a la docencia: he colaborado con el &lt;a href="http://www.icemd.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ICEMD &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;impartiendo un webinar sobre la integración de los &lt;b&gt;medios sociales en el ecommerce&lt;/b&gt; y con un curso práctico online sobre &lt;b&gt;cómo sacar el máximo provecho a las redes sociales&lt;/b&gt;. Si estás interesado en esta u otra formación, contacta conmigo porque podría conseguirte algún descuento. Oferta formativa aquí: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://comunicados.icemd.com/esam.dll/t?a0=2&amp;amp;c1=248188&amp;amp;c12=89&amp;amp;c3=103543&amp;amp;e1=1086912&amp;amp;u2=WOFN&amp;amp;m=0&amp;amp;f1=3&amp;amp;k=FGMR" target="_blank"&gt;OFERTA FORMATIVA 2011-2012 (PDF)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Temas que podrán venir en los próximos días: &lt;b&gt;social commerce&lt;/b&gt;, "en Social media predicar con el ejemplo no es tan fácil como hacerlo desde el púlpito", e &lt;b&gt;innovación&lt;/b&gt;, como siempre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H0s2mykmE8M/Tn-ZkJgnU6I/AAAAAAAAQeY/odeNrZBTgds/s1600/calvin_hobbes_640_480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H0s2mykmE8M/Tn-ZkJgnU6I/AAAAAAAAQeY/odeNrZBTgds/s200/calvin_hobbes_640_480.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;imagen tomada de&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://brainstomping.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;http://brainstomping.wordpress.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Después del parón no sé si tendré muchos lectores...a los que sigáis por ahí, se agradecen comentarios, sugerencias y peticiones.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4611010142488669513?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4611010142488669513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4611010142488669513' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4611010142488669513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4611010142488669513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2011/09/cosas-que-han-pasado-en-un-ano.html' title='Cosas que han pasado en un año'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H0s2mykmE8M/Tn-ZkJgnU6I/AAAAAAAAQeY/odeNrZBTgds/s72-c/calvin_hobbes_640_480.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-354379656339155008</id><published>2010-11-08T15:19:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-08T15:32:39.150-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advertising'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/TNiH6bPjrbI/AAAAAAAAPmU/MejXHEyKQ8k/s1600/nespresso+pods.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/TNiH6bPjrbI/AAAAAAAAPmU/MejXHEyKQ8k/s320/nespresso+pods.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537325179667197362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nespresso.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nespresso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tiene una sección en su web en la que habla del &lt;a href="http://www.ecolaboration.com/#/aaa/en/capsules/recycling"&gt;reciclado de las cápsulas&lt;/a&gt;, pero este anuncio de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bodum&lt;/span&gt; va directo a la linea de flotación...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/TNiG2adRGAI/AAAAAAAAPmM/sedqmF0j2dE/s1600/bodum.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/TNiG2adRGAI/AAAAAAAAPmM/sedqmF0j2dE/s320/bodum.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537324011225159682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nota. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La primera imagen la he sacado de uno de mis blogs favoritos, &lt;a href="http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/"&gt;businessmodelalchemist.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;La segunda es una foto sacada de una revista.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-354379656339155008?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/354379656339155008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=354379656339155008' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/354379656339155008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/354379656339155008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/11/nespresso-tiene-una-seccion-en-su-web.html' title=''/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/TNiH6bPjrbI/AAAAAAAAPmU/MejXHEyKQ8k/s72-c/nespresso+pods.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-9167578463105995177</id><published>2010-03-21T11:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T11:49:41.709-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arte'/><title type='text'>So far away, so close</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S6Zo4kGcYyI/AAAAAAAAPbo/MkZ4eTuSDOM/s1600-h/pieta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S6Zo4kGcYyI/AAAAAAAAPbo/MkZ4eTuSDOM/s320/pieta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451159719951229730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pietà, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italia) s. XV&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S6Zo4Gsn8HI/AAAAAAAAPbg/HTLZ_obmFhc/s1600-h/ife.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 221px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S6Zo4Gsn8HI/AAAAAAAAPbg/HTLZ_obmFhc/s320/ife.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451159712058306674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cabeza femenina, arte Ife (Nigeria), s. XIV&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-9167578463105995177?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/9167578463105995177/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=9167578463105995177' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/9167578463105995177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/9167578463105995177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/03/so-far-away-so-close.html' title='So far away, so close'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S6Zo4kGcYyI/AAAAAAAAPbo/MkZ4eTuSDOM/s72-c/pieta.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4264961127418112297</id><published>2010-02-16T14:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-16T14:35:39.635-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='just for fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publicidad online'/><title type='text'>Sidonie y el algoritmo de Google</title><content type='html'>Curiosa asociación de video de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;youtube &lt;/span&gt;y contenido publicitario. Avistada hace unos minutos en mi &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S3sdUyYcVRI/AAAAAAAAPZc/eaIu7D4Sk-4/s1600-h/sidone+y+adwords.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 357px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S3sdUyYcVRI/AAAAAAAAPZc/eaIu7D4Sk-4/s400/sidone+y+adwords.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438973217938887954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El disco de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sidonie &lt;/span&gt;se llama "El incendio". Google me oferta un curso de oposiciones a bombero...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El algoritmo ignora que hay fuegos que no hay que apagar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buenas noches&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4264961127418112297?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4264961127418112297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4264961127418112297' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4264961127418112297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4264961127418112297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/02/sidonie-y-el-algoritmo-de-google.html' title='Sidonie y el algoritmo de Google'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S3sdUyYcVRI/AAAAAAAAPZc/eaIu7D4Sk-4/s72-c/sidone+y+adwords.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-5394630816262014071</id><published>2010-02-10T14:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T14:48:19.686-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Primerísima impresión sobre Buzz</title><content type='html'>Aunque había leido algunas noticias sobre un twitter " a la Google", &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Buzz de Google &lt;/span&gt;me ha sorprendido conectándome antes de dar por terminado el día...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S3M2DFWks6I/AAAAAAAAPJE/hHAfg6FRgdI/s1600-h/buzz.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S3M2DFWks6I/AAAAAAAAPJE/hHAfg6FRgdI/s400/buzz.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436748601770685346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi primera impresión es que, con el acceso a la base de usuarios de gmail y la integración con el buzón de correo, tiene la potencialidad de convertirse en &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LA herramienta de comunicación social en tiempo real de Internet&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me gusta&lt;/span&gt; que esté la gente que ya son mis contactos, que se pueda seguir la conversación (al estilo gmail, con respuestas apiladas bajo el comentario inicial), me gusta que puedas responder, comentar y reenviar con sencillez, sin usar claves como RT, # y demás.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una pega de usabilidad a bote pronto es que pocas historias (una o dos) copan toda la pantalla. Se requiere también cierta proactividad para seleccionar a quién quieres seguir, y como en twitter, usuarios muy activos pueden monopolizar tu pantalla, lo que resulta molesto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Últimamente pocas cosas me habían dejado tan inquieto. Aquí creo que hay mucho más que buzz...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-5394630816262014071?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/5394630816262014071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=5394630816262014071' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5394630816262014071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5394630816262014071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/02/primerisima-impresion-sobre-buzz.html' title='Primerísima impresión sobre Buzz'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S3M2DFWks6I/AAAAAAAAPJE/hHAfg6FRgdI/s72-c/buzz.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2187933658732534273</id><published>2010-02-02T07:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-02T07:40:17.293-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='storytelling'/><title type='text'>el valor de las historias...</title><content type='html'>...se puede ver reflejado en el precio de ciertos artículos intrascendentes. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan Ariely &lt;/span&gt;en su blog &lt;a href="http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=708"&gt;predictably irrational&lt;/a&gt; recoge un curioso experimento en el que artículos sin interés particular (una figurita decorativa, un vaso, unos guantes de horno) son subastados por precios elevados al "adjuntarles" una historia ficticia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El experimento al completo en &lt;a href="http://significantobjects.com/about/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;significantobjects&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2187933658732534273?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2187933658732534273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2187933658732534273' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2187933658732534273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2187933658732534273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/02/el-valor-de-las-historias.html' title='el valor de las historias...'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6192749955491428235</id><published>2010-01-27T06:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-27T07:13:07.305-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social networking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publicidad online'/><title type='text'>Publicidad futura en redes sociales, al alza</title><content type='html'>Dos artículos que hablan sobre publicidad en redes sociales:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;A nivel mundial&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;: La prioridad máxima prioridad para  más del 45% de los ejecutivos de marcas serán las redes sociales&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.marketingdirecto.com/noticias/37581-redes-sociales-ser%C3%A1n-mayor-prioridad-para-anunciantes-2010&amp;amp;utm_source=MarketingDirecto&amp;amp;utm_medium=Teletipo"&gt;Enlace aquí&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="texto_neg3"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="texto_neg3"&gt;En España&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="texto_neg3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;: Un 66% de los encuestados&lt;/span&gt;, profesionales del sector del marketig directo, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;declararon que invertirán en canales sociales en los próximos 12 meses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.marketingdirecto.com/noticias/37587-anunciantes-est%C3%A1n-llevando-el-presupuesto-marketing-directo-redes-sociales&amp;amp;utm_source=MarketingDirecto&amp;amp;utm_medium=Teletipo"&gt;Enlace aquí&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Es curioso que, en cuanto a medición de resultados, en el primer estudio &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="texto_neg3"&gt;"Para el 27,9% lo más importante será medir el tiempo que pasan los usuarios en determinados sitios, seguido de las visitas únicas de una página (23,7%) y el CTR (16%). El &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ROI, sin embargo, es lo menos importante para el 59%&lt;/span&gt;". Curioso porque como usuario de facebook, por ejemplo, no me parece que preste más atención a los anuncios cuanto más tiempo paso conectado. Presto más atención cuanto más relevantes son.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me intriga saber si esa promesa de inversión en publicidad en redes sociales se materializará en los formatos de siempre. Si el ROI no importa tanto quizá no haya incentivo para buscar mejores formatos. Al menos el CTR sí cuenta...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6192749955491428235?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6192749955491428235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6192749955491428235' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6192749955491428235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6192749955491428235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/01/publicidad-en-redes-sociales-al-alza.html' title='Publicidad futura en redes sociales, al alza'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7135640707780063636</id><published>2010-01-26T10:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T11:06:55.700-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='facebook'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publicidad online'/><title type='text'>Publicidad de Facebook</title><content type='html'>Algunas cuestiones "mejorables" en la publicidad de Facebook...:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Segmentación geográfica&lt;/span&gt;: se basa en la "dirección IP y la información del perfil del usuario". Además de países se puede segmentar por regiones y ciudades (incluso localidades más pequeñas). El problema es que muchas regiones, e incluso capitales de provincia, no aparecen.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Segmentación por palabras clave&lt;/span&gt;: según Facebook, "Las palabras clave se basan en datos que los usuarios aportan en sus perfiles, como sus actividades o sus libros, programas de televisión y películas favoritos, por ejemplo". También las aplicaciones que utilizan y páginas de las que son admiradores... Pero como muchos perfiles son privados es difícil distinguir si ciertas palabras clave están relacionadas con mi producto. Por ejemplo, "acuario" es una pecera pero también un signo del zodíaco.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Iremos completando la lista...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7135640707780063636?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7135640707780063636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7135640707780063636' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7135640707780063636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7135640707780063636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/01/publicidad-de-facebook.html' title='Publicidad de Facebook'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-888705176333852625</id><published>2010-01-18T15:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-18T15:15:54.301-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advertising'/><title type='text'>Versiones de un anuncio</title><content type='html'>Versiones de un anuncio de Facebook, destinado a utilizar el importador de contactos de Gmail&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S1TqZDVoHmI/AAAAAAAAOtM/DdFEgs_tpEM/s1600-h/Picture+45.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 188px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S1TqZDVoHmI/AAAAAAAAOtM/DdFEgs_tpEM/s400/Picture+45.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428221167001935458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S1TqY8wwtFI/AAAAAAAAOtE/SlLhQ60tm30/s1600-h/Picture+44.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 192px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S1TqY8wwtFI/AAAAAAAAOtE/SlLhQ60tm30/s400/Picture+44.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428221165236696146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S1TqYjlnfDI/AAAAAAAAOs8/TiasVe0SQwQ/s1600-h/Picture+43.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 179px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S1TqYjlnfDI/AAAAAAAAOs8/TiasVe0SQwQ/s400/Picture+43.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428221158479068210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;El que he visto varias veces hoy pero no he capturado es el anuncio de Google Chrome en Facebook...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///Users/santiago/Desktop/Picture%2045.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-888705176333852625?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/888705176333852625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=888705176333852625' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/888705176333852625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/888705176333852625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/01/versiones-de-un-anuncio.html' title='Versiones de un anuncio'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S1TqZDVoHmI/AAAAAAAAOtM/DdFEgs_tpEM/s72-c/Picture+45.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-194074940855427612</id><published>2010-01-15T07:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-15T07:20:51.093-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>Rosell Meseguer - Fotografía</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://rosellmeseguer.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S1CFXaYzFVI/AAAAAAAAOs0/zZ_22ujXgf4/s400/rosell_meseguer_nave-esqueletodeballena.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426984188248266066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Podría hacer labores de promoción pero la obra de &lt;a href="http://rosellmeseguer.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rosell Meseguer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; habla por sí misma, así que os dejo que la disfrutéis por vosotros mismos. En &lt;a href="http://nuevashistorias.com/index/portfolio/meseguer/"&gt;nuevas historias&lt;/a&gt; podéis ver algo más.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-194074940855427612?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/194074940855427612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=194074940855427612' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/194074940855427612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/194074940855427612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/01/rosell-meseguer-fotografia.html' title='Rosell Meseguer - Fotografía'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/S1CFXaYzFVI/AAAAAAAAOs0/zZ_22ujXgf4/s72-c/rosell_meseguer_nave-esqueletodeballena.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-5353126464734615637</id><published>2010-01-13T04:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-13T06:07:06.513-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='entrepreneurship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>Almuerzo con Dídac Lee</title><content type='html'>Ayer tuve la suerte de asistir a un almuerzo con el emprendedor en serie &lt;a href="http://www.didaclee.com/es/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dídac Lee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, organizado por la &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fundación Rafael del Pino&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antes del turno de preguntas, Dídac repasó su trayectoria emprendedora desde que decidió abandonar sus estudios para montar su primera empresa, hecho este común con muchos otros grandes emprendedores como &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bill Gates&lt;/span&gt; de Microsoft, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Steve Jobs &lt;/span&gt;de Apple, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Larry Ellison&lt;/span&gt; de Oracle, o a nivel nacional &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Amancio Ortega&lt;/span&gt; de Inditex.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hubo varios elementos que me llamaron la atención de este interesante empresario:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ante la flagrante desconexión entre la carrera de informática y sus objetivos de montar una empresa de informática Dídac optó por la vía práctica: pedir 18.000 euros y perseguir su sueño.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;La oposición de su familia y otras dificultades...en general el hecho de tener que &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;luchar&lt;/span&gt; por su idea fue un elemento de motivación, no de desánimo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aunque relativamente pronto consiguió una recurrencia de ingresos que le permitió financiar nuevos proyectos, Dídac no se considera emprendedor hasta que las cosas le empezaron a salir mal, tras el estallido de la burbuja punto com.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Para Dídac &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;emprender&lt;/span&gt;, o &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;convertir una idea en realidad asumiendo y acotando el riesgo&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;es una actitud&lt;/span&gt;. Forma parte de la educación básica aunque una universidad te pueda enseñar las técnicas contables, financieras o de marketing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;A la hora de evaluar oportunidades, Dídac utiliza 3+1 factores: la necesidad de mercado, la persona y que se trate de un sector que entienda o en el que tenga cierta experiencia. El +1 es el "gut feeling", la pasión, el &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;¿me veo un sábado dejando de jugar a la PlayStation para trabajar en ese proyecto?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Dídac, dejó varias perlas que recojo a continuación (puede que la transcripción no sea 100% literal pero es muy ajustada):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Es mentira que los emprendedores no tengamos jefe. El jefe del emprendedor es el mercado&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;ul style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Me prometí que sólo entraría en negocios que pueda explicar en una línea a mi madre&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alcatraz es un pedrusco deficitario con muy buen marketing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-5353126464734615637?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/5353126464734615637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=5353126464734615637' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5353126464734615637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5353126464734615637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/01/almuerzo-con-didac-lee.html' title='Almuerzo con Dídac Lee'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7022120764959894634</id><published>2010-01-10T13:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-10T13:57:34.422-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='networking'/><title type='text'>Evento Networking y web 2.0, 27 enero BCN</title><content type='html'>Aquí tenéis &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://tinyurl.com/y9u22fb"&gt;información sobre un evento&lt;/a&gt; patrocinado por la &lt;a href="http://www.aercomunidad.org/"&gt;Asociación Española de Responsables de Comunidad&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AERCO&lt;/span&gt;) y &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;XING&lt;/span&gt; sobre &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;networking&lt;/span&gt; y &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;web 2.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;XING y la AERCO (Asociación Española de Responsables de Comunidad Online) organizan esta jornada en la que se dará respuesta a preguntas como el papel de la web 2.0 en los procesos de selección de las empresas, la importancia del networking para mejorar la carrera profesional o cómo se pueden utilizar las redes sociales en el entorno laboral. Si eres usuario/a de Internet y de las redes sociales, no puedes perderte esta jornada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fecha: 27 de enero de 2010&lt;br /&gt;Lugar: Auditorio de Porta 22. Calle Llacuna 162-164. 08018 Barcelona (España).&lt;br /&gt;Hora: 17:00 – 19:00 horas&lt;br /&gt;Inscripciones: La asistencia en GRATUITA. Como el número de plazas es limitado, será necesaria la inscripción.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7022120764959894634?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7022120764959894634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7022120764959894634' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7022120764959894634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7022120764959894634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/01/evento-networking-y-web-20-27-enero-bcn.html' title='Evento Networking y web 2.0, 27 enero BCN'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1929509923231633913</id><published>2010-01-05T03:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-05T03:59:43.577-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design-thinking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business models'/><title type='text'>Adaptación vs. lamentación</title><content type='html'>Para los que lloran por los negocios perdidos y se agarran a &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;modelos de negocio&lt;/span&gt; que ya no funcionan. La historia de los negocios, y de la humanidad, es una historia de evolución. Hay que adaptarse para sobrevivir y a poder ser, algo más que sobrevivir. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Alex Osterwalder&lt;/span&gt; no lo podría contar mejor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_546052"&gt;&lt;a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/Alex.Osterwalder/business-model-innovation-matter" title="Business Model Innovation Matters"&gt;Business Model Innovation Matters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=businessmodelinnovationmatters-1218145513554762-9&amp;stripped_title=business-model-innovation-matter" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/&gt;&lt;embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=businessmodelinnovationmatters-1218145513554762-9&amp;stripped_title=business-model-innovation-matter" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"&gt;View more &lt;a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/"&gt;presentations&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/Alex.Osterwalder"&gt;Alexander Osterwalder&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1929509923231633913?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1929509923231633913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1929509923231633913' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1929509923231633913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1929509923231633913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2010/01/adaptacion-vs-lamentacion.html' title='Adaptación vs. lamentación'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-8694862791095263780</id><published>2009-12-21T07:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T07:13:19.807-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><title type='text'>Copenhagen Wheel</title><content type='html'>Acabo de leer una noticia sobre este interesante proyecto, &lt;a href="http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenwheel/"&gt;the Copenhagen Wheel&lt;/a&gt;. Visto como está el tráfico últimamente en Madrid a ver si se generaliza un poco el uso de otras alternativas...(de hecho esta mañana con la nevada hasta el tren de cercanías estaba colapsado)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este es el video&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S7y3qIQu3Gc&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S7y3qIQu3Gc&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-8694862791095263780?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/8694862791095263780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=8694862791095263780' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8694862791095263780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8694862791095263780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/12/copenhagen-wheel.html' title='Copenhagen Wheel'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6702220900909229671</id><published>2009-12-17T08:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T09:29:33.124-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Manifiesto en defensa de los derechos fundamentales en Internet</title><content type='html'>Un poco tarde, pero ahí va, después de leerlo en el &lt;a href="http://www.merodeando.com/2009/12/02-2925"&gt;blog de&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Julio Alonso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Manifiesto “En defensa de los derechos fundamentales en internet”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Ante la inclusión en el Anteproyecto de Ley de Economía sostenible de modificaciones legislativas que afectan al libre ejercicio de las libertades de expresión, información y el derecho de acceso a la cultura a través de Internet, los periodistas, bloggers, usuarios, profesionales y creadores de internet manifestamos nuestra firme oposición al proyecto, y declaramos que…&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;1.- &lt;strong&gt;Los derechos de autor no pueden situarse por encima de los derechos fundamentales de los ciudadanos&lt;/strong&gt;, como el derecho a la privacidad, a la seguridad, a la presunción de inocencia, a la tutela judicial efectiva y a la libertad de expresión.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;2.- &lt;strong&gt;La suspensión de derechos fundamentales es y debe seguir siendo competencia exclusiva del poder judicial&lt;/strong&gt;. Ni un cierre sin sentencia. Este anteproyecto, en contra de lo establecido en el artículo 20.5 de la Constitución, pone en manos de un órgano no judicial – un organismo dependiente del ministerio de Cultura -, la potestad de impedir a los ciudadanos españoles el acceso a cualquier página web.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;3.- &lt;strong&gt;La nueva legislación creará inseguridad jurídica en todo el sector tecnológico español&lt;/strong&gt;, perjudicando uno de los pocos campos de desarrollo y futuro de nuestra economía, entorpeciendo la creación de empresas, introduciendo trabas a la libre competencia y ralentizando su proyección internacional.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;4.- &lt;strong&gt;La nueva legislación propuesta amenaza a los nuevos creadores y entorpece la creación cultural&lt;/strong&gt;. Con Internet y los sucesivos avances tecnológicos se ha democratizado extraordinariamente la creación y emisión de contenidos de todo tipo, que ya no provienen prevalentemente de las industrias culturales tradicionales, sino de multitud de fuentes diferentes.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;5.- &lt;strong&gt;Los autores&lt;/strong&gt;, como todos los trabajadores, &lt;strong&gt;tienen derecho a vivir de su trabajo con nuevas ideas creativas, modelos de negocio y actividades asociadas a sus creaciones&lt;/strong&gt;. Intentar sostener con cambios legislativos a una industria obsoleta que no sabe adaptarse a este nuevo entorno no es ni justo ni realista. Si su modelo de negocio se basaba en el control de las copias de las obras y en Internet no es posible sin vulnerar derechos fundamentales, deberían buscar otro modelo.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;6.- Consideramos que &lt;strong&gt;las industrias culturales necesitan para sobrevivir alternativas modernas, eficaces, creíbles y asequibles y que se adecuen a los nuevos usos sociales&lt;/strong&gt;, en lugar de limitaciones tan desproporcionadas como ineficaces para el fin que dicen perseguir.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;7.- &lt;strong&gt;Internet debe funcionar de forma libre y sin interferencias políticas&lt;/strong&gt; auspiciadas por sectores que pretenden perpetuar obsoletos modelos de negocio e imposibilitar que el saber humano siga siendo libre.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;8.- &lt;strong&gt;Exigimos que el Gobierno garantice por ley la neutralidad de la Red en España&lt;/strong&gt;, ante cualquier presión que pueda producirse, como marco para el desarrollo de una economía sostenible y realista de cara al futuro.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;9.- &lt;strong&gt;Proponemos una verdadera reforma del derecho de propiedad intelectual&lt;/strong&gt; orientada a su fin: devolver a la sociedad el conocimiento, promover el dominio público y limitar los abusos de las entidades gestoras.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;10.- &lt;strong&gt;En democracia las leyes y sus modificaciones deben aprobarse tras el oportuno debate público&lt;/strong&gt; y habiendo consultado previamente a todas las partes implicadas. No es de recibo que se realicen cambios legislativos que afectan a derechos fundamentales en una ley no orgánica y que versa sobre otra materia.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Este manifiesto, elaborado de forma conjunta por varios autores, es de todos y de ninguno. Si quieres sumarte a él, difúndelo por Internet. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6702220900909229671?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6702220900909229671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6702220900909229671' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6702220900909229671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6702220900909229671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/12/manifiesto-en-defensa-de-los-derechos.html' title='Manifiesto en defensa de los derechos fundamentales en Internet'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-5804515846374591800</id><published>2009-12-17T04:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T04:56:56.957-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coolhunting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer'/><title type='text'>Coolhunting por Víctor Gil organizado por AECEM</title><content type='html'>Acaba de terminar la presentación sobre Coolhunting realizada por &lt;a href="http://victorgil.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Víctor Gil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; y organizada por &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.aecem.org/"&gt;AECEM&lt;/a&gt;. Víctor Gil es un coolhunter, su empresa se llama Cool Insights, y es author de dos libros: Crossumer y Coolhunting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En unas dos horas Víctor nos ha proporcionado una visión general de lo que es el &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;coolhunting o a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;nálisis de tendencias&lt;/span&gt; y cómo se lleva a cabo, salpimentando su presentación con comentarios sobre tendencias pasadas, actuales y futuras. Además nos ha propuesto un ejercicio en el que tras apuntar varios fenómenos dispersos hemos acabado identificando varias tendencias subyacentes. La presentación estará pronto en &lt;a href="http://victorgil.com"&gt;su web&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estas son las&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; ideas principales&lt;/span&gt; que entresaco de su presentación:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;El coolhunting consiste en &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;anticipar&lt;/span&gt; gustos e intereses de los consumidores a través de detección de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cambios&lt;/span&gt; en sus &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;patrones de consumo&lt;/span&gt; y &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;valores&lt;/span&gt; que los inspiran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aun siendo conocido más como un arte relacionado con el mundo de la moda, hoy empieza a ser una disciplina o conjunto de competencias, con &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;metodología&lt;/span&gt; y creciente bibliografía.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Contextualizar&lt;/span&gt; es un elemento clave en la actividad del coolhunting: hay que conocer y referirse al grupo al que pertences el target y enmarcar todo en un espacio y tiempo determinados (las últimas tendencias de Tokyo son poco útiles cuando investigamos a amas de casa españolas)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Además de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;conocimientos&lt;/span&gt; sobre consumidor, marketing, psicología y sociología, el cool hunter requiere ciertas &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;competencias&lt;/span&gt;: saber dónde y como mirar, interpretar, comunicar y aplicar comercialmente las conclusiones extraidas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;acierto de las previsiones&lt;/span&gt; realizadas aumenta si se se verifica el enganche de los fenómenos estudiados con necesidades y hábitos existentes o latentes, su aparición en diferentes categorías y la confirmación por parte de expertos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Víctor ha finalizado detallando una serie de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;herramientas&lt;/span&gt; para contrastar y monitorizar tendencias (Google trends, trendpedia, lexicon para facebook, tweetmeme, entre otras).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En resumen, un estupendo panorama de qué es el coolhunting y cómo aplicarlo de manera "casera" con metodología y conocimiento de causa. Cierro con un consejo metodológico de Víctor: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;para ser coolhunter hay que desaprender&lt;/span&gt;". Saca el niño que tienes dentro: fíjate en los detalles y pregúntate por el por qué de las cosas. Amén.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-5804515846374591800?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/5804515846374591800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=5804515846374591800' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5804515846374591800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5804515846374591800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/12/coolhunting-por-victor-gil-organizado.html' title='Coolhunting por Víctor Gil organizado por AECEM'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-8856363973156512882</id><published>2009-12-14T14:57:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T15:05:27.319-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><title type='text'>Wordpress o Blogger?</title><content type='html'>Estoy dándole vueltas a una nueva web, mía, pero de tipo profesional. El formato principal será el de blog, pero con un par de páginas estáticas, para enlaces de interés e información sobre mi. Aún no he decidido si lo haré en wordpress o en blogger. ¿cúal es vuestra preferencia personal?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pros y contras de cada opción (se agradece si añadís o corregís lo que pongo aquí):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Blogger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pros&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;el interfaz es muy simple, postear resulta muy fácil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;los google analytics son muy potentes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Contras&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;no permite páginas estáticas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;no permite trackback&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wordpress.com&lt;/span&gt; (el gratuito)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pros&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;tiene más funcionalidades&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;permite páginas estáticas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Contras&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;el interfaz me resulta lioso (quizá por falta de costumbre...no encuentro las cosas)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;la version gratuita no tiene algunas funcionalidades&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;para analizar el tráfico hay que recurrir a otros programas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-8856363973156512882?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/8856363973156512882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=8856363973156512882' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8856363973156512882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8856363973156512882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/12/wordpress-o-blogger.html' title='Wordpress o Blogger?'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-9046488302080469830</id><published>2009-12-10T15:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T15:49:56.649-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marcas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lamardepeces.com'/><title type='text'>lamardepeces.com ¡a toda vela!</title><content type='html'>Quién nos lo iba a decir hace apenas 3 semanas... Mi proyecto lamardepeces.com va como un tiro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siempre hace falta algún retoque pero además de una &lt;a href="http://www.lamardepeces.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tienda online&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; completamente operativa ya llevamos varias semanas sirviendo pedidos por toda España. Pedidos tanto de acuarios, como de alimentación e incluso peces (y sí, viajan en las mejores condiciones posibles, no hemos tenido ninguna baja por el momento)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uno de los componentes de nuestra estrategia de los que me siento más orgulloso es de la presencia en la web, particularmente en los &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"social media"&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Podéis encontrarnos en:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;▪ &lt;a href="http://lamardepeces.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nuestro blog &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lamardepeces.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 168px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SyGH30gsxPI/AAAAAAAAOqk/Fyn6pUabHWE/s320/blog+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413757620134397170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;▪ &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/lamardepeces"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nuestro canal de Youtube&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.youtube.com/lamardepeces"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 157px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SyGHg-VGBCI/AAAAAAAAOqM/-IMqRd-4dkU/s320/canal+de+youtube+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413757227633083426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;▪ &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/yh6xo5d"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Facebook &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tinyurl.com/yh6xo5d"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 130px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SyGHggKk34I/AAAAAAAAOqE/DEjKjd-Pnw0/s320/pg+de+facebook+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413757219535904642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;▪ &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/lamardepeces"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Twitter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; y Skype: lamardepeces&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SyGHhJ6uRkI/AAAAAAAAOqU/U1ZPUTzcySI/s1600-h/lmdp+twitter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 97px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SyGHhJ6uRkI/AAAAAAAAOqU/U1ZPUTzcySI/s320/lmdp+twitter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413757230743701058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SyGHhQeR7TI/AAAAAAAAOqc/o75TsAm9vFU/s1600-h/skype.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 52px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SyGHhQeR7TI/AAAAAAAAOqc/o75TsAm9vFU/s320/skype.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413757232503450930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como siempre, se agradecen comentarios, subscripciones y adhesiones a las páginas arriba mencionadas tanto si eres un experto de los acuarios como si estas empezando o te gustaría empezar a aficionarte.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-9046488302080469830?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/9046488302080469830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=9046488302080469830' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/9046488302080469830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/9046488302080469830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/12/lamardepecescom-toda-vela.html' title='lamardepeces.com ¡a toda vela!'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SyGH30gsxPI/AAAAAAAAOqk/Fyn6pUabHWE/s72-c/blog+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-731622952759127064</id><published>2009-12-07T04:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T10:33:22.890-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='truquillos'/><title type='text'>Consejillo para firmar en Gmail</title><content type='html'>Si usas &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gmail &lt;/span&gt;y quieres tener una firma algo más sofisticada que el texto normal una muy buena opción es &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wisestamp.com/"&gt;WiseStamp&lt;/a&gt;, un complemento de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Firefox&lt;/span&gt;. Hay una versión gratuita que te permite diseñar una firma personal y una profesional. Con un simple click en la parte inferior del navegador seleccionas la firma con la que quieres cerrar tu mensaje.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Éste es el ejemplo de mi firma "profesional"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Teléfono&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://seeminglyunconnected.&lt;wbr&gt;blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="il"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="padding: 5px 0pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: gray;"&gt;Contact Me&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/santiagorodriguezdemiguel" target="_service" style="padding: 0pt 2px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/linkedin.png" style="padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" border="0" height="16" width="16" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Linkedin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He encontrado este &lt;a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=474"&gt;otro enlace&lt;/a&gt; que lo soluciona generando un script. No lo he probado, pero a lo mejor os resulta útil.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-731622952759127064?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/731622952759127064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=731622952759127064' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/731622952759127064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/731622952759127064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/12/consejillo-para-firmar-en-gmail.html' title='Consejillo para firmar en Gmail'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2352861431462624195</id><published>2009-12-01T09:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-02T14:28:46.831-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='entrepreneurship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>Y más inspiración, con Selva</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Ayer me reuní con &lt;b&gt;Selva María Orejón&lt;/b&gt;, de &lt;a href="http://onbranding.wordpress.com/"&gt;Onbranding&lt;/a&gt; y vicepresidenta de &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aercomunidad.org/"&gt;AERCO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (Asociación Española de Responsables de Comunidad), para charlar sobre la estrategia de comunicación de mi proyecto la tienda online &lt;a href="http://lamardepeces.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;lamardepeces&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - acuariofilia al mejor precio -. Selva me proporcionó muchas ideas y consejos muy prácticos para aplicar desde ya, además de directrices de por dónde ha de ir la estrategia de comunicación en general.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SxbMnRCg1VI/AAAAAAAAOp8/Rv5Z_NQXMqk/s320/Imagen+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410736977293137234" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 68px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Además de la inspiración "técnica" de marketing, Selva me impresionó mucho personalmente. Es una de esas personas "con las pilas puestas". Con conocimientos sólidos sobre su campo de especialización pero también con mucha energía y dinamismo. Con una gran capacidad para conectar ideas y personas (otra vez el networking, qué importante es para los emprendedores) y una actitud positiva como hacia mucho que no veía. Eso por no hablar de su habilidad para la multitarea. Antes de que me diera cuenta ya había blogueado sobre nuestra reunión, me había enviado enlaces de interés y había conectado a uno de mis socios con un amigo y cliente suyo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Espero que de una forma u otra nuestra colaboración se refuerce.  No cabe duda de que estar rodeado de personas con la actitud adecuada facilita el trabajo de un emprendedor. Más aún en estos tiempos de ambiente enrarecido por las grises perspectivas de la economía.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2352861431462624195?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2352861431462624195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2352861431462624195' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2352861431462624195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2352861431462624195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/12/y-mas-inspiracion-con-selva.html' title='Y más inspiración, con Selva'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SxbMnRCg1VI/AAAAAAAAOp8/Rv5Z_NQXMqk/s72-c/Imagen+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3188356163858881752</id><published>2009-11-25T07:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-27T10:59:13.315-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='entrepreneurship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>Inspiración de un joven emprendedor</title><content type='html'>Esta semana he conocido a &lt;a href="http://josesaez.net/"&gt;José Sáez&lt;/a&gt;, un joven emprendedor de Internet y estudiante de empresariales, además de experto en SEO. Con sus 20 (pocos?) años uno diría que el empuje y las ganas se le presuponen pero hace poco también he leido que más del 60% de los recién licenciados españoles aspiran a un puesto en la administración pública, así que ya de partida José es un especimen raro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me ha llamado la atención su madurez y naturalidad con la que lleva estar en el "mundo empresarial" en lugar de otros posibles mundos más típicos de sus compañeros. Otra cosa que me ha sorprendido gratamente es su disponibilidad para compartir conocimientos y echar una mano. La mayoría de los que emprendemos disfrutamos ejercitando este "buen karma", que además siempre acaba retornando de algún modo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por cierto, además de otras webs, ahora está implicado en &lt;a href="http://www.recetasyvinos.com/"&gt;Recetas y Vinos&lt;/a&gt;, una red social enfocada, como su nombre indica, a los amantes de la comida y el vino.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3188356163858881752?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3188356163858881752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3188356163858881752' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3188356163858881752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3188356163858881752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/11/inspiracion-de-un-joven-emprendedor.html' title='Inspiración de un joven emprendedor'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-5840977617704065539</id><published>2009-11-20T07:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T16:07:57.794-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publicidad online'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design-thinking'/><title type='text'>Reflexiones sobre publicidad online en FICOD</title><content type='html'>Después de estas notas a tiempo real sobre presentaciones y discusiones en el &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FICOD&lt;/span&gt;, quiero hacer algo de reflexión.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En el panel sobre la publicidad online, en el que no hubo palabra para los anunciantes (que de paso fueron muy criticados), escuche un tono quejoso tanto por parte de las agencias como por parte de los medios. Que si los anunciantes no pagan lo suficiente por branding en Internet, que si no se atreven con nuevos formatos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El elemento común a todas las quejas es en mi opinión la &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;aversión al RIESGO&lt;/span&gt;, predicable de todos los actores del sector. Es lógico que el anunciante no quiera experimentar. Elevadas inversiones en marketing necesitan elevados retornos. Si los formatos no están testados, si la medición no es buena o no se mide aquello que se definió como objetivo de la campaña nunca se justificará la inversión. Los medios, con contadas excepciones, tampoco tienen incentivos para asumir este riesgo. Las agencias, como diría &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Paul Tiffany&lt;/span&gt;, mi profesor de estrategia en Haas, gracias a las vacas gordas han estado FDH (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;fat&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;dumb&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;happy&lt;/span&gt;). Ahora simplemente están perdidas ya que sólo saben hacer dinero y tratar a los clientes como se hacia antes del nuevo paradigma digital (el de los audímetros de Sofres, ay).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Swx0p5OuNFI/AAAAAAAAOog/RarBfL4cDZs/s1600/spiderman.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 179px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Swx0p5OuNFI/AAAAAAAAOog/RarBfL4cDZs/s320/spiderman.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407825515651150930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;poder y responsabilidad van de la mano pero...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;...¿quién tiene el poder en el sector de la publicidad online?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿En qué tejado está la pelota entonces? Aquí el panel si pareció reconocer que la culpa es colectiva. Todos han de poner de su parte. En mi opinión son las agencias las que deben tomar el liderazgo y proponer opciones ya que su labor es seducir al cliente con &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;creatividad y resultados&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Que innovar es caro, arriesgado, complicado? claro. Y como ya sabemos el cliente tampoco querrá que se haga con su dinero. ¿La solución? Pues el &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;design thinking&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Observar al &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;usuario&lt;/span&gt;. Aprender de otros ámbitos, de otras disciplinas. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bernardo Hernández&lt;/span&gt; mostró en FICOD como el primer anuncio televisivo de la muñeca Barbie era la misma locución del anuncio de la radio con una serie de imágenes estáticas, en blanco y negro. Compárese con un anuncio actual de TV.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Generar &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;conceptos&lt;/span&gt;, testarlos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Generar &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;prototipos&lt;/span&gt; baratos, testarlos (en Internet es muy fácil!!!!!) (ah, cuando digo testar significa medir resultados con los que tomar decisiones)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Volver a empezar en 1.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;En el &lt;a href="http://www.merodeando.com/2009/11/18-en-ficod09"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Julio Alonso&lt;/span&gt; sobre el panel de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FICOD&lt;/span&gt; podéis ver un comentario mío con esta misma idea.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-5840977617704065539?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/5840977617704065539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=5840977617704065539' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5840977617704065539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5840977617704065539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/11/reflexiones-sobre-publicidad-online-en.html' title='Reflexiones sobre publicidad online en FICOD'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Swx0p5OuNFI/AAAAAAAAOog/RarBfL4cDZs/s72-c/spiderman.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-8005940272942778084</id><published>2009-11-17T10:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T11:31:39.953-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publicidad online'/><title type='text'>Claroscuros de la publicidad online 2009, FICOD</title><content type='html'>Algunos temas tratados en la mesa redonda sobre la publicidad online 2009 en España (&lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;Moderador &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="ponentes" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ficha_usuario/18785"&gt;José Domingo Gómez Castallo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;- Director General - Autocontrol)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intervenciones iniciales de los ponentes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" class="ponentes" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ficha_usuario/15705"&gt;Arturo Marín&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;- Director Gerente - As.com. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Falta de credibilidad de Internet a nivel de branding y notoriedad de marca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" class="ponentes" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ficha_usuario/15681"&gt;Gustavo Nuñez&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;- Director General - Nielsen Online. La medición es clave. Las impresiones no lo son todo, es una carrera sin fin que se vuelve en contra del sector. Se debe hablar de audiencias, targets, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" class="ponentes" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ficha_usuario/15697"&gt;Jaime del Toro&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;- Director Comercial de Internet - UNEDISA. Dificultad para poner un marco a la publicidad online. Internet contiene muchos soportes y dispositivos, que están infrautilizados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;&lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" class="ponentes" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ficha_usuario/18793"&gt;Javier Navarro&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;- Vicepresidente - IAB. Se ha pasado por un cambio grande (creatividades, comportamientos comerciales y de compra)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, pero se está avanzando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" class="ponentes" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ficha_usuario/15673"&gt;Joshua Novick&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;- Consejero Delegado - Antevenio. Muchas oportunidades &lt;/span&gt;gracias al poder de la tecnología. P.e. Internet tiene más facilidad para crear emociones. Dos puntos clave para el sector: la presencia de la publicidad ha de ser grande y el usuario ha de acostumbrarse a ello si los contenidos se le dan gratis  (alternativas de pago).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" class="ponentes" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ficha_usuario/15693"&gt;Juanjo Amorín&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;- Medioson - Director General&lt;/span&gt;. Una reflexión: crear una industria sostenible, que valore la calidad del creador de contenidos, para que los anunciantes se asocien a esa calidad y eficiencia. 1 petición: cambios legales para el desarrollo de la publicidad local (apertura del mapa de IPs locales - que es dato personal para la APD-). Otra petición: regular el mercado (publicidad institucional online). Un pado adelante en mediciones es la introducción de un sistema híbrido (muestral + censal) en el 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;&lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" class="ponentes" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ficha_usuario/18773"&gt;Julio Alonso&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;- Fundador - Weblog SL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Optimista sobre el sector aunque hay que trabajar más allá de la respuesta directa: el branding (formatos grandes, innovar, no estandarizar formatos para poder integrar comunicación racional, emocional y social), desde el respeto al usuario. Importancia de una medición adecuada: recuerdo espontáneo, afinidad con marca... dimensiones que se habían apartado por su dificultad de medición.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;- &lt;a class="ponentes" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ficha_usuario/15689"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Salvador Carrillo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="no_negrita"&gt;- Presidente - Mobile Marketing Association Spain. &lt;/span&gt;Crecimiento del 13% en inversión en marketing móvil. Mejores móviles con funcionalidades, tarifas asequibles de los operadores. 3 formatos internet móvil, mensajería (SMS, MMS, llamadas patrocinadas) y aplicaciones. otro formato más: geolocalización. Los resultados (y eficiencia) traerán más inversión.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Preguntas (me limito a apuntar las respuestas de los ponentes):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;- ¿Qué piden los anunciantes ante la multiplicidad de medios?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Comprar barato y ROI (a nivel ventas incluso).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El producto anunciado no está en las manos de los medios ni de las agencias, no se les puede pedir la respuesta directa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La inversión en branding es plantar para futura respuesta directa.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Importancia de la interactividad&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;No ser intrusivo, tratar de no molestar al usuario&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La TV es intrusiva, pero la gente está acostumbrada&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Es importante segmentar con la creatividad también, adaptarla a la audiencia, soporte, etc. Campañas integradas, segmentadas y bonitas (como National Geographic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;- Medición&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Es mejorable&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Es más que aceptable, de hecho se da mucha más información que la que da p.e. la TV&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;- Amenaza de Google&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Almudena Miranda&lt;/span&gt; (de la audiencia): se ha adaptado a los usuarios, ha sabido adaptarse a la velocidad del cambio.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;- Crecimiento de la publicidad online&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tenemos más recorrido (mercado menos maduro). Pe. aún no tenemos mucho ecommerce comparado con el resto de Europa, hay que conectar las zonas rurales.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;- Confusión de publicidad y contenidos (parcialidad en blogs)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;La transparencia y separación de contenidos es esencial (Julio Alonso), por propio interés a largo plazo (el soporte tiene 3 activos: contenidos, credibilidad y marca). Es importante señalar las malas prácticas, que además la ley prohibe. Usar el "test de la cara roja"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-8005940272942778084?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/8005940272942778084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=8005940272942778084' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8005940272942778084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8005940272942778084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/11/claroscuros-de-las-publicidad-online.html' title='Claroscuros de la publicidad online 2009, FICOD'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-8014613498917029783</id><published>2009-11-17T08:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T09:01:29.350-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nuevas tecnologías'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>Bernardo Hernandez en FICOD: cambio, innovación y tecnología</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="status-body"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-content"&gt;Principales ideas de la charla de Bernardo Hernandez &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="status-body"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-content"&gt;en &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/"&gt;FICOD&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="status-body"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-content"&gt; sobre cambio, innovación y tecnología (casi a tiempo real)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Change is overrated". Ha habido grandes cambios tecnológicos a lo largo de la historia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lo que hace diferente a Internet es la velocidad del cambio. Hay un periodo muy corto de aplicación de la tecnología y modelos de negocio adyacentes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Internet es el catalizador de un cambio más amplio: la Revolucion digital. Esta revolución está basada en 4 cambios estructurales: 1 capacidad de almacenamiento, 2 velocidad de procesado, 3 ancho de banda (velocidad de transmisión), 4 aumento de puntos de acceso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La clave son estos cambios estructurales en la tecnología. Las nuevas ideas de negocio han de aprovecharse de ellos. Cualquier empresa de internet ha de ser una empresa de tecnología&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Modelos de negocio en Internet tienen 4 componentes: 1 tecnología 2 contenidos 3 usuarios 4 publicidad (si esto funciona correctamente se da la creación de un ecosistema y externalidades de red).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;5 puntos clave y su evolución:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Acceso: antes la preocupación era el Internet móvil. Ahora el reto es el cloud computing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Contenidos: antes la clave era sindicar contenidos. Ahora es el contenido generado por los usuarios&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Publicidad: de los banners a la publicidad segmentada y controlada (adwords). Ahora el reto es el digital media (campañas globales con medición de todo lo que haces "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;marketing is the new finance&lt;/span&gt;")&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Comunicación: del email al chat. Ahora las redes sociales.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Seguridad: antes era la privacidad. Ahora el reto es el control (p.e. gestión de tu perfil en redes sociales)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Después de un video panegírico de Goggle (ejem) Bernardo se pregunta ¿Hacia dónde vamos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Toda la información va a estar online, con acceso a través de múltiples dispositivos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Potencial tecnológico. No construir modelos de negocio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El poder de los datos. Se puede analizar y sacar conclusiones muy efectivas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Modelos abiertos. Es más potente estar encima de plataformas abiertas (compartir)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pasa de la recesión! Grandes empresas lanzaron productos exitosos durante malos tiempos.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Larry Page tiene 3 ideas sobre lo que es clave:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pensar en solucionar problemas grandes (es una trampa dar soluciones complejas a problemas pequeños)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ser el mejor, la mediocridad no lleva a ningún lado&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Captar y retener talento&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;...y termina con un anunco de bing en el que la locución no deja de reptir que con bing puedes googlear todo, todo, todo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-8014613498917029783?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/8014613498917029783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=8014613498917029783' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8014613498917029783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8014613498917029783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/11/bernardo-hernandez-en-ficod-cambio.html' title='Bernardo Hernandez en FICOD: cambio, innovación y tecnología'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7068795762555421925</id><published>2009-11-12T05:56:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T06:14:40.111-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='online marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>Seminario Marketing Online - Traffic4u</title><content type='html'>Esta mañana he estado en un &lt;a href="http://www.traffic4u.es/eventos/programa-i-ciclo-practico-de-marketing-online-2009"&gt;seminario de Mk Online&lt;/a&gt; organizado por &lt;a href="http://www.traffic4u.es/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Traffic4u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. He asistido a las sesiones de SEM, introducidas por &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Miguel Reina&lt;/span&gt;, con &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Almudena Miranda&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Roald Shoenmakers&lt;/span&gt;, de Traffic4u, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;José María García&lt;/span&gt; de Idelalista y &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pablo Román&lt;/span&gt; de AT Internet. Se ha hablado de 10 errores y oportinidades del SEM, de la importancia de una tecnología adaptada a las necesidades del cliente y de web analytics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personalmente estoy lejos de preocuparme por si necesito una herramienta de análisis de pago, o APIs para optimizar el bid management y otras cuestiones del estilo. Estas son las principales lecciones que he entresacado, desde mi particular perspectiva de lanzar una web (estoy en los humildes comienzos):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;SEO y SEM van de la mano, no se debe descuidar uno a costa del otro. Mercados más maduros en Internet están enfocándose fuertemente en el posicionamiento orgánico (por insensibilidad del target a los enlaces patrocinados, por ejemplo)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Con respecto al SEO, nunca minusvalorar la importancia de unos buenos contenidos. La labor de un buen copywriter es clave, aspecto que no es muy cuidado en España&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adwords:&lt;br /&gt;- Usar keywords genéricas en concordancia exacta. Usar concordancias negativas para lograr mejores resultados.&lt;br /&gt;- URLs profundas garantizan una mayor relevancia. El usuario quiere rapidez. No obstante en idealista comentaban como dirigir al usuario a un formulario va en detrimento de su labor de educación en el interfaz de la web y perjudica a la fidelización del visitante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La conversión no es la única medida del éxito: atender a bounce rate, páginas vistas por visita, duración media acumulada, nivel de calidad y scoring de la visita, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7068795762555421925?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7068795762555421925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7068795762555421925' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7068795762555421925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7068795762555421925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/11/seminario-marketing-online-traffic4u.html' title='Seminario Marketing Online - Traffic4u'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2817890758314602721</id><published>2009-11-09T12:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T13:32:00.392-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><title type='text'>Las nuevas 4Ps de marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Although this post is in Spanish, you can click on the links for several interesting reads - in English - on marketing on the digital era: the new four Ps, marketing as a catalyst for change&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aparentemente &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;en el mundo digital &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;las 4Ps del marketing (product, price, place and promotion) que aprendimos leyendo a Kotler han sido reemplazadas por cuatro nuevas Ps:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;permission,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;proximity,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;perception&lt;/strong&gt;, and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;participation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Ya no hay &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;brand managers” sino “brand advocates.” Al menos eso dice este &lt;a href="http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/forrester-adaptive-branding-and-the-new-four-p-s-of-marketing.html"&gt;artículo del blog de Frog Design&lt;/a&gt;, citando un informe de la firma Forrester.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesante también la referencia de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Andreas Weigend&lt;/span&gt; al slogan de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GetSatisfaction.com&lt;/span&gt;:  “Customer service is the new marketing.” en &lt;a href="http://us.hsmglobal.com/notas/55082-part-2-exclusive-interview-with-amazons-former-chief-scientist-andreas-weigend"&gt;este otro artículo &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y para terminar con la lista de "interesanteces" (hoy hay poco comentario, pero ya saldrán más adelante), otra lectura sobre el &lt;a href="http://designmind.frogdesign.com/articles/power/wanted-chief-meaning-officer.html-3#"&gt;papel del marketing como catalizador del cambio&lt;/a&gt;, también del blog de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Frog Design&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2817890758314602721?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2817890758314602721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2817890758314602721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2817890758314602721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2817890758314602721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/11/las-nuevas-4ps-de-marketing.html' title='Las nuevas 4Ps de marketing'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6942810472921034765</id><published>2009-11-08T17:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T13:32:48.630-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mi nuevo proyecto: lamardepeces.com</title><content type='html'>Como es de sobra conocido por todos, el mercado laboral está muy complicado. He decidido empezar a ejercer de "freelance" de marketing, ya haré algo de venta personal en otro post, pero a lo que voy es a mi nuevo proyecto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.lamardepeces.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;lamardepeces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lamardepeces.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 189px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Svd107JDg8I/AAAAAAAAOm0/NR4SrpCC7h0/s320/LMDP_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401915830143517634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.lamardepeces.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;lamardepeces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;es una tienda online de acuariofilia. Disponemos desde acuarios y peceras a alimentación, aditivos, filtros y demás productos necesarios para el hobby de los peces. Por vender vendemos hasta los peces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La web está totalmente operativa (ya se puede comprar) y lista para lanzarse al gran público, pero tengo dos peticiones para mi selecta audiencia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;feedback&lt;/span&gt;: que echéis un vistazo a la web y me hagáis llegar vuestras sugerencias. Podéis mandarme comentarios a mi email personal, o a través de la propia página&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;que &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;enviéis el enlace&lt;/span&gt; http://www.lamardepeces.com/ a amigos o conocidos que tengan o les guste el mundo de los peces y acuarios. De hecho me gustaría poder charlar con ellos si me pasáis el contacto.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Quedo eternamente agradecido como Rosendo en la popular canción...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6942810472921034765?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6942810472921034765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6942810472921034765' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6942810472921034765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6942810472921034765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/11/mi-nuevo-proyecto-lamardepecescom.html' title='Mi nuevo proyecto: lamardepeces.com'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Svd107JDg8I/AAAAAAAAOm0/NR4SrpCC7h0/s72-c/LMDP_logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7037405736190676061</id><published>2009-11-04T05:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T06:11:19.407-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publicidad online'/><title type='text'>Internet y Pymes en España</title><content type='html'>Interesante artículo e interesantes reflexiones de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cristina Berzal&lt;/span&gt;, directora de affilinet en España: &lt;a href="http://www.intereconomia.com/noticias/las-pymes-que-no-apuesten-internet-no-saldran-crisis"&gt;Las Pymes que no apuesten por Internet, no saldrán de la crisis&lt;/a&gt;. Coincido con Cristina en que las Pymes españolas podrían sacar mucho más partido a Internet, un terreno en el que pueden competir en condiciones más favorables con empresas de gran tamaño.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///Users/santiago/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SvGLYO9zTJI/AAAAAAAAOmU/8RdxGloZJAA/s1600-h/Cristina-Berzal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 185px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SvGLYO9zTJI/AAAAAAAAOmU/8RdxGloZJAA/s320/Cristina-Berzal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400250676644367506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Cristina Berzal, directora de affilinet en España&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En estos tiempos de crisis y más aún, para Pymes que no pueden permitirse una gran inversión en creación de marca, Internet ofrece interesantes alternativas de inversión publicitaria enfocada a targets bien segmentados, con claros y medibles retornos de inversión.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En general aún tenemos mucho que aprender en temas de Internet, aún arrastramos ese famoso retraso de uno o dos años con respecto a otros países. Faltan profesionales y aún quedan cuestiones por desarrollar (como la confianza del consumidor en pagos online), pero las empresas pierdan el tren ahora lo tendrán difícil para salir adelante dentro de unos meses.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7037405736190676061?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7037405736190676061/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7037405736190676061' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7037405736190676061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7037405736190676061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/11/internet-y-pymes-en-espana.html' title='Internet y Pymes en España'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SvGLYO9zTJI/AAAAAAAAOmU/8RdxGloZJAA/s72-c/Cristina-Berzal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3108739445629046692</id><published>2009-10-29T07:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T07:49:31.265-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design-thinking'/><title type='text'>Barcelona Design Week, days 2 and 3</title><content type='html'>On day 2 I attended the design awards ceremony. Although the session started with a keynote speech in English by &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kathryn Best&lt;/span&gt; on her book "Design Management: Managing Design strategy, Process and Implementation", I felt the event lacked the international taste that the rest of the activities had.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On day 3 there was the so-called Design circuit or an open house day for design firms in Barcelona. I visited the graphic design firms &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Morera Design&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Corretje&lt;/span&gt;. Both firms are located in an old textile factory within the &lt;a href="http://www.paloaltobcn.org/"&gt;Palo Alto&lt;/a&gt; complex, a pretty appealing design-ish enclave. In the afternoon I dropped by the Barcelona office of Smart Design, where I met students, designers and people from the firm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all, the Barcelona Design Week has been for me a great networking experience. Plus all the inspiration and food for thought.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3108739445629046692?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3108739445629046692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3108739445629046692' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3108739445629046692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3108739445629046692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/barcelona-design-week-days-2-and-3.html' title='Barcelona Design Week, days 2 and 3'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6034820682196266938</id><published>2009-10-26T10:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T11:30:26.889-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='barcelona'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design-thinking'/><title type='text'>Barcelona Design Week Day 1</title><content type='html'>I attended the first session of the &lt;a href="http://www.barcelonadesignweek.es/en/page.asp?id=245"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Barcelona Design Week&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this morning. One funny fact is that in the marketing materials of the Barcelona Design Centre there´s a testimonial from my entrepreneurship professor at Haas, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jerry Engel&lt;/span&gt; from the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The audience was roughly 70% designers, 30% business people and some students scattered here and there. After several presentations there was an interesting panel with &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sue Siddall&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IDEO&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Matt Barthelemy&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Smart Design&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Michael Thomson&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Design Connect&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gus Rodríguez&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Philips Design&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Regarding the dialog between business and design it is a good thing that designers and business people are getting more fluent with each other´s language. Nevertheless my key takeaway was that it is the customer, and her needs, what forces design and business to speak the same language, as Sue Siddall very nicely put it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Other interesting thoughts from today´s session: there´s a growing post-ego, do-something-bigger attitude amongst firms or the importance of collaboration, co-creation and open and multidisciplinary approaches that dematerialize or blend design with other disciplines in order to solver higher questions (designing a more ambitious framing activity according to IDEO)...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6034820682196266938?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6034820682196266938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6034820682196266938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6034820682196266938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6034820682196266938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/barcelona-design-week-day-1.html' title='Barcelona Design Week Day 1'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4860420469461822755</id><published>2009-10-26T09:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T03:04:31.739-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='madrid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='architecture'/><title type='text'>Ciudad Bolardo, por UNTERCIO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Lo prometido es deuda y gracias a Marina, del estudio de arquitectura &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.untercio.com"&gt;UNTERCIO&lt;/a&gt; aquí está el texto y varias imágenes del proyecto Ciudad Bolardo:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Times;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;¿Es peor el remedio que la enfermedad? Este trabajo estudia la posibilidad de recuperar como solar el vacío urbano generado por los bolardos en el entramado de las calles de Madrid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial;" &gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SuXUXiY08YI/AAAAAAAAOmE/Rj4j36ilE-g/s320/ciudad+bolardo+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396953229306425730" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;El bolardo empezó a usarse en el centro como parche para evitar la invasión de las aceras por parte de los vehículos de los conductores poco considerados. Esta barrera delimita con violencia el ámbito del coche y del peatón en la calle, dando al automóvil la sensación de prioridad y desplazando al viandante a estrechas aceras invadidas por toda clase de obstáculos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La actual existencia del Servicio de Estacionamiento Regulado y del trabajo que realizan sus controladores, así como la existencia de otras zon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;as de coexistencia coche-peatón, permiten replantear la necesidad y oportunidad del bolardo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sospechamos, y por eso este trabajo, que a día de hoy, la política de implantación de bolardos no solo no supone un beneficio al peatón sino que es un obstáculo y genera un gran desaprovechamiento del espacio público en nuestra ciudad. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SuXUX302LCI/AAAAAAAAOmM/jTSbQfGBHco/s1600-h/ciudad+bolardo+3.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SuXUX302LCI/AAAAAAAAOmM/jTSbQfGBHco/s320/ciudad+bolardo+3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396953235061091362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SuXUXiY08YI/AAAAAAAAOmE/Rj4j36ilE-g/s1600-h/ciudad+bolardo+2.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SuXUXBZi_fI/AAAAAAAAOl8/utIohrZTUsY/s1600-h/ciudad+bolardo+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SuXUXBZi_fI/AAAAAAAAOl8/utIohrZTUsY/s320/ciudad+bolardo+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396953220451073522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El video de la presentación &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5xgqBjygn8"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt; (gracias a Marina del Mármol de untercio por enviármelo). También lo podéis ver a continuación:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/h5xgqBjygn8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/h5xgqBjygn8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4860420469461822755?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4860420469461822755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4860420469461822755' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4860420469461822755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4860420469461822755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/ciudad-bolardo-por-untercio.html' title='Ciudad Bolardo, por UNTERCIO'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SuXUXiY08YI/AAAAAAAAOmE/Rj4j36ilE-g/s72-c/ciudad+bolardo+2.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1211700087143286880</id><published>2009-10-23T07:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T07:38:23.994-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Crisis y ventas</title><content type='html'>Estoy colaborando en un proyecto de tienda online y el otro solicité a 5 empresas de logística presupuestos de gastos de envío (desde la 2ª a la 4ª llamé a un teléfono genérico tipo 900 0 902)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;El primer proveedor, con quien ya tiene cuenta la empresa con la que estoy colaborando, tardó, ya de partida 3 días en enviarme un presupuesto. Me llamó el comercial tras hacer yo una llamada de recuerdo.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El segundo proveedor me puso al habla con un comercial en mi primera llamada y el presupuesto me llegó en un par de días. Por lo visto hubo un error en el email de destino, debí haber tenido el email antes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El comercial del tercer proveedor se puedo en contacto conmigo al cuarto día de mi llamada.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;No he tenido noticias del cuarto proveedor. Volví a llamar y me pusieron varios minutos en espera con el departamento comercial. Colgué.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aún no he tenido noticias del quinto proveedor. Nada.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Dejando aparte las ineficiencias y lentitud de reacción de las empresas que han respondido, me pregunto en que tipo de crisis estamos, si tengo una oportunidad de negocio y 2 de mis potenciales proveedores ignoran los euros que directamente les estoy mostrando (soy yo quen solicita el presupuesto!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por otro lado, si yo fuera el gerente de dichas empresas me gustaría saber que sucede con las oportunidades de venta, si se responde a ellas o no, cuánto tiempo se ha tardado, qué respuesta se ha dado, etc. ¿Sabrán en los proveedores 4 y 5 que han perdido un negocio?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1211700087143286880?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1211700087143286880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1211700087143286880' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1211700087143286880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1211700087143286880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/crisis-y-ventas.html' title='Crisis y ventas'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1419160098421804572</id><published>2009-10-22T16:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T16:38:10.963-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>pecha kucha pecha kucha pecha kucha Madrid</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="status-body"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-content"&gt;De vuelta del &lt;a href="http://www.madpechakucha.org/"&gt;Pecha Kucha Madrid vol.6.&lt;/a&gt; Ha habido un buen mix de presentaciones. Personalmente me han gustado más las de la primera mitad (varías de arquitectura y la de poesía). Imagenes, palabras y pensamientos provocadores, bocanadas de aire fresco sobre todo para los que pertenecen (pertenecemos) a otras disciplinas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.madpechakucha.org/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 183px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SuDr9PUkGoI/AAAAAAAAOl0/jYhbmYuzoDI/s320/Picture+18.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395571790907185794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="status-body"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-content"&gt;Con qué distintos ojos somos capaces de enfrentar una misma realidad según seamos arquitectos, marketineros, publicitarios o lo que sea. Qué limitado por un lado y qué reduccionista pero qué enriquecedor cuando somos capaces de escuchar otros lenguajes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para mí la mejor ha sido la visión que sobre los bolardos tienen los chicos de &lt;a href="http://www.untercio.com/"&gt;untercio.com&lt;/a&gt;. No voy a revelar nada más de momento. Estoy pendiente de retomar mi conversación con ellos para mostraros su presentación pronto en este, mi blog y, por supuesto, suyo de ustedes también.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1419160098421804572?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1419160098421804572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1419160098421804572' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1419160098421804572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1419160098421804572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/pecha-kucha-pecha-kucha-pecha-kucha.html' title='pecha kucha pecha kucha pecha kucha Madrid'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SuDr9PUkGoI/AAAAAAAAOl0/jYhbmYuzoDI/s72-c/Picture+18.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3636580136389204948</id><published>2009-10-20T00:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T09:43:24.633-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brands'/><title type='text'>"Made like a gun, goes like a bullet"</title><content type='html'>There is something about bikes. In my case, there is something about old bikes. I have a fascination for Harley-Davidson motorbikes since I was a kid and listened to that unique roaring. My fascination is probably deeper for a brand I got to know when I lived in India: &lt;a href="http://www.royalenfield.com/default.aspx"&gt;Royal Enfield&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;zdil&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaBJ8HivinI/AAAAAAAAIkg/0mh85DF3Drc/s1600-h/royal+enfield+bullet-classic-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaBJ8HivinI/AAAAAAAAIkg/0mh85DF3Drc/s320/royal+enfield+bullet-classic-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305321658208193138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaBJ0HKdzYI/AAAAAAAAIkY/EajIrD2u1To/s1600-h/royal+enfield+bullet-classic-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaBJ0HKdzYI/AAAAAAAAIkY/EajIrD2u1To/s320/royal+enfield+bullet-classic-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305321520667413890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Originally manufactured in the UK, Enfield of India bought the rights to use the name in 1995. Interestingly enough, according to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Enfield"&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/zdil&gt;from 1955 to 1970, Royal Enfields were marketed in the US as Indian Motorcycles by a company who had acquired the rights to the Indian name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaBKCkInTjI/AAAAAAAAIko/c90PMWYqIjk/s1600-h/royalenfield"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 199px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaBKCkInTjI/AAAAAAAAIko/c90PMWYqIjk/s320/royalenfield" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305321768962444850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/St42oo_Y81I/AAAAAAAAOls/8mpAGf3p6m0/s1600-h/Royal-Enfield-500-1951.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/St42oo_Y81I/AAAAAAAAOls/8mpAGf3p6m0/s320/Royal-Enfield-500-1951.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394809475462394706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Made like a gun, goes like a bullet". There is no take away for this post. I just love the bike.&lt;zdil&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/zdil&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3636580136389204948?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3636580136389204948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3636580136389204948' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3636580136389204948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3636580136389204948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/made-like-gun-goes-like-bullet.html' title='&quot;Made like a gun, goes like a bullet&quot;'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaBJ8HivinI/AAAAAAAAIkg/0mh85DF3Drc/s72-c/royal+enfield+bullet-classic-10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3433006190330650110</id><published>2009-10-19T05:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T05:48:39.882-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design-thinking'/><title type='text'>BCN Design week 26-30 Oct</title><content type='html'>Next week I will be attending &lt;a href="http://www.barcelonadesignweek.es/en/page.asp?id=246"&gt;Barcelona Design Week&lt;/a&gt;. The conference opens up with several talks on &lt;a href="http://www.barcelonadesignweek.es/en/page.asp?id=248&amp;amp;ui=2473"&gt;Design thinking&lt;/a&gt;. Looks like the perfect excuse for visiting Barcelona.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3433006190330650110?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3433006190330650110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3433006190330650110' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3433006190330650110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3433006190330650110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/bcn-design-week-26-30-oct.html' title='BCN Design week 26-30 Oct'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2693554317734656369</id><published>2009-10-15T14:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T14:56:28.821-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Haas in the news</title><content type='html'>Great news for my school this week:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/News/Newsroom/091012williamson.aspx"&gt;Prof. Oliver Williamson, from Haas, wins Nobel price in Economic Sciences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/business-education/whichmba/print/?print=1&amp;amp;from=list&amp;amp;A=35&amp;amp;A1=25&amp;amp;A2=25&amp;amp;A3=25&amp;amp;A4=0&amp;amp;A5=25&amp;amp;B=35&amp;amp;B1=25&amp;amp;B1a=20&amp;amp;B1b=40&amp;amp;B1c=40&amp;amp;B2=25&amp;amp;B2a=75&amp;amp;B2b=25&amp;amp;B3=25&amp;amp;B3a=33&amp;amp;B3b=33&amp;amp;B3c=33&amp;amp;B4=25&amp;amp;B4a=25&amp;amp;B4b=25&amp;amp;B4c=25&amp;amp;B4d=25&amp;amp;C=20&amp;amp;C2=75&amp;amp;C3=25&amp;amp;D=10&amp;amp;D1=33&amp;amp;D2=33&amp;amp;D3=33&amp;amp;orderBy=economistScore&amp;amp;orderDirection=-1&amp;amp;orderByNumber=true&amp;amp;filter=All&amp;amp;filterType=region"&gt;Haas MBA ranks #1 in the US&lt;/a&gt;, by The Economist&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2693554317734656369?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2693554317734656369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2693554317734656369' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2693554317734656369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2693554317734656369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/bearspride.html' title='Haas in the news'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2320317816932319302</id><published>2009-10-14T12:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T15:14:03.701-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='entrepreneurship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>Iniciador en Madrid con Jorge Mata</title><content type='html'>Acabo de volver de la reunión de &lt;a href="http://www.iniciador.com/2009/10/09/iniciador-madrid-octubre-2009-con-jorge-mata/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Iniciador&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; en Madrid. La convocatoria para emprendedores ha mejorado mucho desde aquellas pequeñas reuniones a las que asistí hace más de dos años.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy el invitado era &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jorge Mata&lt;/span&gt;, emprendedor en serie, sobre todo en telefonía móvil (MyAlert, &lt;a href="http://www.berggi.com/"&gt;Berggi&lt;/a&gt;), con experiencia y contactos en Silicon Valley. De su charla destacaría el énfasis que ha hecho en el modelo de negocio frente a la tecnología: el emprendedor ha de tener claro cúal es la propuesta de valor (algo por lo que el usuario está dispuesto a pagar) y centrarse en vender más que perderse en desarrollos tecnológicos (necesarios pero no claves para el éxito empresarial).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Críticas que haría a Jorge: sus lecciones han sido más propias de un emprendedor consagrado y menos aplicables a las fases iniciales de una start-up. No ha mencionado la importancia de la prueba y error, y en general de la cultura del fracaso, tan importantes en Silicon Valley. Pocas veces el modelo de negocio inicialmente previsto por el emprendedor es el que acaba triunfando, así que no hay que venirse abajo si a la primera no sale. Puede que el usuario esté dispuesto a pagar, pero de otro modo, o por otro beneficio distinto al inicialmente previsto, o puede que sea otro implicado en el ecosistema el que pague...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2320317816932319302?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2320317816932319302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2320317816932319302' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2320317816932319302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2320317816932319302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/iniciador-en-madrid-con-jorge-mata.html' title='Iniciador en Madrid con Jorge Mata'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-948052464517094355</id><published>2009-10-13T04:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T15:08:58.428-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecommerce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>ecommerce y seguridad</title><content type='html'>Según &lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/mitad/espanoles/siente/inseguro/pagar/Internet/elpepusoc/20091013elpepusoc_5/Tes"&gt;publica hoy El País&lt;/a&gt;, de acuerdo con el barómetro del Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"más de la mitad de los encuestados cree que no hay ninguna seguridad al dar los datos de la tarjeta de crédito para hacer una compra y el 40% tampoco se siente seguro para realizar sus operaciones bancarias en la web"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apuesto a que en otros países europeos los porcentajes de desconfianza no son tan elevados ¿tantas razones tenemos los españoles para la desconfianza o es simple ignorancia? Alternativas muy cómodas como Paypal no están tan extendidas entre los consumidores a pie de calle (*). ¿Puede haber otras razones que frenen el comercio online y en las encuestas nos escudamos en la seguridad?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En cualquier caso parace haber una oportunidad de negocio para medios de pago seguros (y sencillos diría yo). Desde otra perspectiva, los proveedores existentes de tecnologías para el pago online tienen una oportunidad para comunicar que sí son seguras...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(*) &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fernando Aparicio&lt;/span&gt;, director general de Paypal España, apunta algunas razones en &lt;a href="http://www.consumer.es/web/es/tecnologia/internet/2009/01/29/182917.php"&gt;esta entrevista&lt;/a&gt;: prejuicios colectivos y falta de uso / retraso de Internet en nuestro país.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-948052464517094355?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/948052464517094355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=948052464517094355' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/948052464517094355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/948052464517094355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/ecommerce-y-seguridad.html' title='ecommerce y seguridad'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4615048078142974793</id><published>2009-10-07T17:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-08T08:57:09.947-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publicidad online'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='relaciones públicas'/><title type='text'>Blogs y publicidad</title><content type='html'>Las marcas siempre han estado interesadas en obtener opiniones favorables sobre sus productos sea en diarios, revistas, radio, TV... Si además dichas opiniones provienen de terceros independientes, o al menos lo aparentan, mejor que mejor (aunque &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum"&gt;P.T. Barnum&lt;/a&gt;, uno de los padres de las Relaciones Públicas modernas, ya decía aquello de "que hablen mal o bien de mí, pero que hablen").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A este respecto existe mucha controversia sobre la relación entre blogs y publicidad. Hay un espacio problemático entre las opiniones independientes y la clara publicidad de un producto en un blog. ¿Qué sucede si el autor del blog recibe pagos, o simplemente favores, de los anunciantes, por postear sobre sus productos?. Según informa el diario &lt;a href="http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/10/06/navegante/1254813691.html"&gt;El Mundo&lt;/a&gt;, en EEUU la Comisión Federal de Comercio (FTC) ha aprobado una directiva que permite imponer &lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;multas &lt;/strong&gt;a aquellos autores de blogs que no informen de sus relaciones con los anunciantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Está garantizada esta transparencia en los medios convencionales? Obviamente en medios como TV, prensa o radio vemos o escuchamos qué anunciantes están generando ingresos para cada soporte pero ¿y la independencia? ¿Es el soporte 100% independiente si sus ingresos por publicidad se concentran en un anunciante específico?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4615048078142974793?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4615048078142974793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4615048078142974793' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4615048078142974793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4615048078142974793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/blogs-y-publicidad.html' title='Blogs y publicidad'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3021642194185810903</id><published>2009-10-07T07:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T07:48:09.582-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design-thinking'/><title type='text'>¿Qué es Design thinking?</title><content type='html'>Ayer realicé una presentación en un curso de la &lt;a href="http://www.telefonica.com/ext/rc08/atlasrc/cspages/site/casestudypopup-09068.html"&gt;Escuela de Excelencia Comercial de Telefónica&lt;/a&gt;. Se trató de una introducción al &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Design thinking&lt;/span&gt; como herramienta de innovación estratégica. A continuación adjunto una adaptación del material que empleé en esta charla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_2153289"&gt;&lt;a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/santiago_rdm/que-es-design-thinking" title="Que es Design Thinking?"&gt;Que es Design Thinking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=queesdesignthinkingoctubre09-091007074651-phpapp02&amp;amp;stripped_title=que-es-design-thinking"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=queesdesignthinkingoctubre09-091007074651-phpapp02&amp;amp;stripped_title=que-es-design-thinking" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;View more &lt;a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/"&gt;presentations&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/santiago_rdm"&gt;Santiago Rodriguez de Miguel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El Design thinking no es ni más ni menos que el empleo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;estratégico&lt;/span&gt; de metodologías del &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;diseño&lt;/span&gt; para &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;solventar problemas&lt;/span&gt;. Por diseño se entiende la intersección de una necesidad humana con la tecnología y la economía. En palabras sencillas, consiste en "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ponernos las gafas del diseñador&lt;/span&gt;" para observar a los usuarios, detectar y comprender sus necesidades, idear soluciones e implementar prototipos hasta alcanzar la solución idónea (humanamente deseable, factible y rentable). Este enfoque es multidisciplinar, creativo, combina lo cualitativo con lo cuantitativo y defiende una elevada incertidumbre o divergencia inicial que se va reduciendo conforme nos acercamos a la solución por lo que requiere de flexibilidad o apertura de miras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Además de describir sus usos y aplicaciones en toda la cadena de valor (aunque principalmente con respecto a desarrollo de productos, servicios y experiencias de usuario), ilustré el proceso del Design thinking y algunas de las técnicas empleadas en esta interesante metodología (visual thinking, investigaciones etnográficas, rapid prototyping, etc.). La sesión terminó con un ejercicio conjunto con la técnica del Business Model Canvas, en el que los asistentes analizaron el modelo de negocio de la división de impresoras de HP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como siempre, queridos lectores, se agradecen los comentarios.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3021642194185810903?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3021642194185810903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3021642194185810903' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3021642194185810903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3021642194185810903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/que-es-design-thinking.html' title='¿Qué es Design thinking?'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-5338681149775399749</id><published>2009-10-05T01:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-05T01:35:22.840-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><title type='text'>Haas MBA and Design</title><content type='html'>Quick note. According to Business Week &lt;span class="status-body"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-content"&gt;the &lt;a href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0930_worlds_best_design_schools/28.htm"&gt;Haas MBA ranks proudly amongst the world's best design schools&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya lo sabía (I already knew it)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-5338681149775399749?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/5338681149775399749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=5338681149775399749' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5338681149775399749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5338681149775399749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/10/haas-mba-and-design.html' title='Haas MBA and Design'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7044249432121301693</id><published>2009-09-24T02:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-24T03:44:02.447-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advertising'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publicidad online'/><title type='text'>Publicidad online. 5 tendencias según Julio Alonso</title><content type='html'>Ayer asistí en el SIMO a la charla de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Julio Alonso&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.weblogssl.com/"&gt;Weblogs S.L.&lt;/a&gt;) "Anunciantes y consumidores convergen en la red".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tras dibujar la situación actual de la publicidad online en España pasó a ilustrar la distinción entre publicidad branding vs. respuesta directa en Internet. Como mencioné en mi anterior post &lt;a href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/09/la-publicidad-en-espana.html"&gt;La Publicidad en España&lt;/a&gt;, uno de los principales retos del mercado publicitario en Internet es el branding. Según Julio la solución pasa por innovar, abandonando el paradigma televisivo: creatividades unidireccionales, que "interrumpen" al espectador (interstitials, pop-ups, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En la parte final de la charla Julio apuntó 5 "tendencias" o factores que pueden impulsar el desarrollo de la publicidad online. Adjunto un par de ejemplos de mi cosecha:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Notoriedad&lt;/span&gt;. Formatos más notorios, nuevos estándares, más respetuosos y que se integren mejor con el medio. &lt;a href="http://www.pandora.com/"&gt;Pandora&lt;/a&gt;, una emisora de radio no disponible en España, lleva tiempo personalizando el &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;look and feel&lt;/span&gt; del sitio de acuerdo con el anunciante, de una manera elegante e integrada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Adaptación &lt;/span&gt;de creatividades a los objetivos perseguidos, al medio, y público. Julio habló de una publi de la serie 24 horas en &lt;a href="http://www.gizmodo.es/"&gt;gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;. Mi ejemplo es el anuncio de &lt;a href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-targeted-marketing-on-pandora.html"&gt;Fender en Pandora&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Interacción&lt;/span&gt;. Incrementar las posibilidades de que la audiencia interactúe con la publicidad a través de elementos sociales. En mi opinión, y aunque quizá es mas RRPP que publicidad, &lt;a href="http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US/Content/Pages/home.html"&gt;Harley-Davidson&lt;/a&gt; está haciendo muy buen trabajo con su &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/harley-davidson?ref=ts"&gt;grupo de Facebook&lt;/a&gt;. 275 mil fans y cientos de respuestas cuando los administradores preguntan a la comunidad sobre sus mejores experiencias como moteros. Hay incluso una opción para twitear sobre los nuevos modelos de moto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Reducción de la presión pubicitaria&lt;/span&gt;. Julio mencionó como tras reducir adsense (eliminándolo de la portada pero mejorando posiciones) han visto crecer los ingresos.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recuperación del &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;branding y medición adecuada&lt;/span&gt; del mismo. Julio propone la vuelta a las métricas tradicionales del marketing (recuerdo, asociación de marca, intención de compra, preferencia, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;La medición es el Santo Grial y supongo que es lo que los anunciantes esperan para "dar el salto" a la publicidad en Internet. Algunas reflexiones sobre esto mismo, el protagonismo de los consumidores y el papel de los medios y agencias  en el próximo post...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7044249432121301693?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7044249432121301693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7044249432121301693' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7044249432121301693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7044249432121301693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/09/5-tendencias-en-la-publicidad-online.html' title='Publicidad online. 5 tendencias según Julio Alonso'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-552463760115603264</id><published>2009-09-20T13:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-20T13:58:32.826-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quote of the day'/><title type='text'>Problems and solutions</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Cuando no hay solución no existe el problema"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;Manuel Vicent, citando a un amigo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-552463760115603264?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/552463760115603264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=552463760115603264' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/552463760115603264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/552463760115603264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/09/problems-and-solutions.html' title='Problems and solutions'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6541076045843828745</id><published>2009-09-17T13:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T15:51:14.677-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brands'/><title type='text'>KIWOKO tiendas de animales</title><content type='html'>Me comunica mi amigo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Javier Osa&lt;/span&gt;, uno de los fundadores de la cadena de tiendas de animales &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.kiwoko.com/index.php"&gt;KIWOKO&lt;/a&gt;, que acaban de lanzar su sitio web. &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.kiwoko.com/index.php"&gt;KIWOKO&lt;/a&gt; cuenta ya con 17 tiendas en España (Madrid y Galicia, por ahora).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kiwoko.com/index.php"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 152px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SrKkLsd8h3I/AAAAAAAAOHE/LUzClrvjSZg/s320/KIWOKOlogo-rojo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382545025483442034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;No soy un experto en el sector pero en un panorama muy atomizado, con pequeñas tiendas de barrio, me parece muy rompedora su imagen de marca unificada, atractiva y desenfadada, con un toque de comic que, como imagináis, me encanta. La aplicación en el punto de venta me ha gustado mucho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SrK32paeruI/AAAAAAAAOHM/dZU2-xBVdSM/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 42px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SrK32paeruI/AAAAAAAAOHM/dZU2-xBVdSM/s320/Picture+4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382566654118899426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aunque la web es principalmente transaccional, vamos, que está totalmente orientada a la venta de producto, me ha gustado la &lt;a href="http://www.kiwoko.com/declaracion.php"&gt;declaración de los derechos de los animales&lt;/a&gt; y el espíritu de profesionalismo y dedicación que se respira en la &lt;a href="http://www.kiwoko.com/presentacion.php"&gt;presentación&lt;/a&gt;. Como decía el Sr. Rato en su charla del otro día, las ideas, los principios, son importantes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6541076045843828745?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6541076045843828745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6541076045843828745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6541076045843828745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6541076045843828745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/09/kiwoko-tiendas-de-animales.html' title='KIWOKO tiendas de animales'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SrKkLsd8h3I/AAAAAAAAOHE/LUzClrvjSZg/s72-c/KIWOKOlogo-rojo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-5107749943575384669</id><published>2009-09-16T11:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T16:43:05.125-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='architecture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>Telefonica Distrito C</title><content type='html'>Today I have visited &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Telefonica&lt;/span&gt;'s HQ in Madrid, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Distrito C&lt;/span&gt;. It was a quick visit but I was impressed by such a beautiful and state-of-the-art campus, designed by Spanish architect &lt;a href="http://www.rafaeldelahoz.com/"&gt;Rafael de la Hoz&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SrE0l-HPk5I/AAAAAAAAOGg/p2zeIQUyo4o/s1600-h/DISTRITO_C_Exteriores_027.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SrE0l-HPk5I/AAAAAAAAOGg/p2zeIQUyo4o/s320/DISTRITO_C_Exteriores_027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382140856617636754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;400,000 square meters, 16 buildings with shopping centers and food courts, a 24-hour open space (access control is performed inside the buildings), 26,000 square meters of solar cells, a decicated underground station ... and a very pleasant feeling when you walk around the facility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SrE0mMm86iI/AAAAAAAAOGo/RoNm7l7Pn1o/s1600-h/DISTRITO_C_Exteriores_021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SrE0mMm86iI/AAAAAAAAOGo/RoNm7l7Pn1o/s320/DISTRITO_C_Exteriores_021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382140860508727842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mine is just the point of view of a visitor. I know there are many criticisms by people who have to commute and work every day in this kind of campuses (Banco Santander´s HQ in Boadilla, Madrid, called Ciudad del Santader, is another example) but I must admit that it reconciled myself with Spain´s capability to do great things (for the second time in 24 hours). &lt;a href="http://www.rafaeldelahoz.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-5107749943575384669?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/5107749943575384669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=5107749943575384669' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5107749943575384669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5107749943575384669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/09/telefonica-distrito-c.html' title='Telefonica Distrito C'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SrE0l-HPk5I/AAAAAAAAOGg/p2zeIQUyo4o/s72-c/DISTRITO_C_Exteriores_027.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6055980636978644933</id><published>2009-09-15T15:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-15T15:53:49.409-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='macroeconomics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Una nueva realidad. Vida despues de la crisis</title><content type='html'>Hoy en su conferencia en la Fundacion Rafael del Pino D. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rodrigo Rato&lt;/span&gt; ha analizado los efectos de la actual crisis económica. Tras plantearse la pregunta &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"¿sabemos donde estamos?"&lt;/span&gt;, el Sr. Rato ha ido detallando las profundas transformaciones que la recesión está produciendo, no sólo en cuanto a acontecimientos económicos sino tambien con respecto a la globalización y sus importantes repercusiones políticas o al cuestionamiento de la propia teoría económica.&lt;br /&gt;De la charla me quedo con tres puntos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- La importancia de la sociedad. Lo pongo en claro: de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cada uno de nosotros&lt;/span&gt;. Primero aceptando el cambio. Despues debatiendo. Despues decidiendo. La política viene detrás de la sociedad. En eso creo que los españoles, yo incluido, tendemos a escudarnos en nuestros políticos y sus incapacidades. Tenemos los políticos que nos merecemos y basta de llorar. A cambiarlos o a sufrirlos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- La importancia de las &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ideas&lt;/span&gt;. Las tranformaciones, como en la que estamos inmersos, son profundas sólo cuando cambian las ideas. Esto ya es de mi cosecha: para que las buenas ideas salgan a la luz se requiere debate. Y un presupuesto del debate es la seriedad, el rigor intelectual. No digo que no se pueda ser imaginativo, pero con responsabilidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Optimismo&lt;/span&gt;. El "milagro español" esta ahí y lo hemos logrado entre todos. Los últimos 50 años han visto una radical transformacion del país, pocos paises en el mundo pueden decir lo mismo. Tenemos innumerables recursos de los que carecíamos hace años. Pese a los errores cometidos, podemos salir de ésta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hay muchas sombras en estos tres puntos y me hubiera encantado escuchar a D. Rodrigo en clave española, pero este último guiño al optimismo me ha quitado algo de la mala leche que acumulo desde mi vuelta a mi país, España, que me guste o no, es el mío y por algun sitio hay que empezar.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6055980636978644933?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6055980636978644933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6055980636978644933' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6055980636978644933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6055980636978644933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/09/una-nueva-realidad-vida-despues-de-la.html' title='Una nueva realidad. Vida despues de la crisis'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2767172538719386617</id><published>2009-09-15T04:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T08:38:03.163-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advertising'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>La publicidad en España</title><content type='html'>Según datos de &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.infoadex.es/estudios/resumen2008.pdf"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Infoadex&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, el mercado de la publicidad en España asciende en 2008 a unos 14.900 millones de euros (lo que equivale aprox. a un 1.4% del PIB). De ese total el 48% corresponde a medios convencionales (TV, radio, prensa y revistas, Exterior, Internet, cine) y el 52% a no convencionales o below the line (mailings, PLV, telemarketing, buzoneos, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La inversión en medios convencionales está dominada por la TV que representa más de un 42%, diarios está en torno al 21%, revistas en torno al 10% inlcuyendo dominicales, radio un 9% y exterior un 7%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La &lt;strong&gt;inversión publicitaria en Internet&lt;/strong&gt; representa un 8.6% del total de medios convencionales y ascendió en 2008 a &lt;strong&gt;610 millones de euros&lt;/strong&gt;, con un crecimiento del &lt;strong&gt;26.5%&lt;/strong&gt; con respecto a 2007.  En el primer trimestre de 2009 la inversión en Internet tan sólo ha crecido un 2.6% con respecto al año pasado, pero es que es el único medio convencional que crece, cuando el resto se han desplomado un 29.2% (con cine y revistas cayendo más que la media)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De este panorama me gustaría destacar varios puntos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;La participación de &lt;strong&gt;medios no convencionales&lt;/strong&gt; en el total inversión se ha visto reforzada por la crisis: los anunciantes recurren a publicidad "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;táctica&lt;/span&gt;", es decir, aquella con un retorno más evidente.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;El auge de la publicidad en Internet indica la creciente preferencia de los anunciantes por &lt;strong&gt;inversiones publicitarias con retornos medibles&lt;/strong&gt;, y esta es una tendencia que permanecerá más allá de la actual coyuntura económica.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;El reverso de la moneda es la inversión en &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;branding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Las grandes marcas fundaron sus cimientos invirtiendo en "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;crear nombre&lt;/span&gt;" precisamente cuando los euros publicitarios huían hacia retornos evidentes. Recordemos la popular frase de John Wanamaker &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"la mitad del dinero que gasto en publicidad es inútil, pero no se qué mitad"&lt;/span&gt;. Hoy reina la marca blanca, pero ¿qué sucederá cuando acabe la crisis?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;A modo de conclusión, dejo algunos interrogantes en el aire:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;¿Están los anunciantes españoles preparados para adaptarse a las nuevas pautas de consumo de medios de los usuarios? El primer paso es la aceptación del cambio... &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;¿Serán capaces los medios de innovar y adaptarse a los cambios que se están produciendo? Por ejemplo ¿hacia dónde van la prensa y revistas? ¿Se están planteando la relación contenidos online-offline o simplemente están esperando acontecimientos?.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;¿Cúal es el papel de las agencias en este proceso? Por ejemplo, en la mayoría de los anunciantes se percibe una clara desconexión entre estrategias offline y online&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;El mercado español de la publicidad está lleno de retos, se avecinan tiempos muy interesantes en los que aquellos que se atrevan a arriesgar podrán obtener importantes ventajas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2767172538719386617?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2767172538719386617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2767172538719386617' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2767172538719386617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2767172538719386617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/09/la-publicidad-en-espana.html' title='La publicidad en España'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1119195675745745488</id><published>2009-09-03T22:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T06:14:37.539-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>Left AND right brain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;In &lt;a href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/04/meaningful-dialogue-between-business_24.html"&gt;one of my previous post&lt;/a&gt;s I addressed the lack of dialogue between Business and Design. I have just bumped into this article, &lt;a href="http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/news/viewpoints/nv_vp_co.htm"&gt;EQ meeting IQ&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;b&gt;Carina Oskarsson&lt;/b&gt;. She also points at the difficulties of communication when one side is wired around text and the other around visuals, the traditional left brain versus right brain argument. Her solution is for one side to adopt the perspective of the other:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A key to effectiveness is to seek to have the same mental ground as those I cooperate with. We cannot communicate through visuals, so we have to use words in order to gain a common understanding. Once we have a dialog, we develop trust. Trust is more than a brand; that is what design is about".&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely, traslation or "learning the other side´s language" does the trick. Nevertheless how enriching it is to be "bilingual". Tools like &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://prezi.com/"&gt;prezi&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;(to create presentations), or the &lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/richard.claassens/business-model-canvas-presentation"&gt;&lt;b&gt;business model canvas&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (to describe and analyze business models) come to my mind. I think is about time for Business to learn the language of Design. That fresh air is much needed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1119195675745745488?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1119195675745745488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1119195675745745488' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1119195675745745488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1119195675745745488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/09/left-and-right-brain-traslation-or.html' title='Left AND right brain'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-8679036477866337338</id><published>2009-09-01T09:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-01T09:13:38.606-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer internet'/><title type='text'>Alternatives in Spain to my favorite sites</title><content type='html'>I have just updated my previous post &lt;a href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/08/things-we-take-for-granted.html"&gt;[web] Things we take for granted&lt;/a&gt; with some alternatives to useful sites I have been intensively using while in California: craigslist, yelp, etc...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is work in progress so suggestions from my Spanish readers are welcome (thanks Maite, by the way).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-8679036477866337338?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/8679036477866337338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=8679036477866337338' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8679036477866337338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8679036477866337338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/09/alternatives-in-spain-to-my-favorite.html' title='Alternatives in Spain to my favorite sites'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1681809448246619339</id><published>2009-08-24T00:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-24T01:13:29.705-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='entrepreneurship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='startups'/><title type='text'>Some ideas for startups</title><content type='html'>Here is an interesting &lt;a href="http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html"&gt;list of startup ideas&lt;/a&gt; by Paul Graham from &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://ycombinator.com/index.html"&gt;Y Combinato&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://ycombinator.com/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a venture firm specialized in funding  early stage startups (mostly software and web services). Many of these ideas are just broad categories (enterprise software, auctions, outsourced IT, etc) but it could be a good starting point if you are considering opportunities to create your business.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1681809448246619339?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1681809448246619339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1681809448246619339' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1681809448246619339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1681809448246619339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/08/some-ideas-for-startups.html' title='Some ideas for startups'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-9026575498261309097</id><published>2009-08-20T14:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T15:08:46.867-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='just for fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><title type='text'>Simple details don't cost that much</title><content type='html'>Last Tuesday I took the high-speed train (AVE) from Madrid to Barcelona. In the super nice, less-than-3-hour ride I notice a tiny details I had already noticed in the Japanese bullet train (&lt;em&gt;Shinkansen)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/So3HQk6O8hI/AAAAAAAAOAY/PyRqAn314_M/s1600-h/Imagen030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 219px; height: 164px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/So3HQk6O8hI/AAAAAAAAOAY/PyRqAn314_M/s320/Imagen030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372169018122629650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That little thing on the wall it's a mini hook to hang your jacket, something you do not find in airplanes, at least not in the economy seats...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/So3HVWth2eI/AAAAAAAAOAg/mMWNRjRwWc8/s1600-h/Imagen029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 162px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/So3HVWth2eI/AAAAAAAAOAg/mMWNRjRwWc8/s320/Imagen029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372169100210592226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A very simple detail, not that costly, that makes the passenger's life a little bit better. For me design is strategy but also small things like this.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-9026575498261309097?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/9026575498261309097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=9026575498261309097' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/9026575498261309097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/9026575498261309097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/08/simple-details-dont-cost-that-much.html' title='Simple details don&apos;t cost that much'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/So3HQk6O8hI/AAAAAAAAOAY/PyRqAn314_M/s72-c/Imagen030.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-8077022279973029169</id><published>2009-08-14T03:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-14T04:04:51.666-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><title type='text'>The sexiness of statisticians</title><content type='html'>A follow up on one of my &lt;a href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/01/same-stones-different-cathedrals.html"&gt;previous posts&lt;/a&gt;. This is a &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/06stats.html?_r=2"&gt;New York Times article&lt;/a&gt; pointing at the importance of the ability to analyze data in tomorrow´s job market. Google´s Chief Economist, Hal Varian, talks again about the sexiness of statisticians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SoVEjZACukI/AAAAAAAAN_4/6B7ulI8W5SY/s1600-h/statistics.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 131px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SoVEjZACukI/AAAAAAAAN_4/6B7ulI8W5SY/s320/statistics.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369773505506359874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-8077022279973029169?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/8077022279973029169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=8077022279973029169' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8077022279973029169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8077022279973029169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/08/sexiness-of-statisticians.html' title='The sexiness of statisticians'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SoVEjZACukI/AAAAAAAAN_4/6B7ulI8W5SY/s72-c/statistics.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6618503146856730242</id><published>2009-08-12T10:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-12T11:07:02.476-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='just for fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design flops'/><title type='text'>Pavement marking. Why and What for</title><content type='html'>I have spotted this "design-flop" in Madrid. Actually it might not be that much of a flop. If we ask &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;why&lt;/span&gt; this pedestrian crossing is like this we would find several explanations. A very plausible explanation could be that a car was parked when the paint crew arrived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SoMCC4jynEI/AAAAAAAAN_w/M8orC40nedc/s1600-h/Imagen070.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SoMCC4jynEI/AAAAAAAAN_w/M8orC40nedc/s320/Imagen070.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369137429321260098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In many occasions rather than asking why it makes better sense to ask &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what for&lt;/span&gt;. In this case the unorthodox design of the pavement marking allows for one extra car to be parked in the street. And some paint savings too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6618503146856730242?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6618503146856730242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6618503146856730242' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6618503146856730242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6618503146856730242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/08/pavement-marking-why-and-what-for.html' title='Pavement marking. Why and What for'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SoMCC4jynEI/AAAAAAAAN_w/M8orC40nedc/s72-c/Imagen070.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1665129935747275748</id><published>2009-08-07T06:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-07T07:04:47.812-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><title type='text'>The Cultures of Design</title><content type='html'>In this month´s issue of &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Connect&lt;/span&gt;, the newsletter of the Design Management Institute (DMI), &lt;a href="http://www.portigal.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Steve Portigal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; outlines several archetypes or &lt;a href="http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/news/viewpoints/connect_vp_sp.htm"&gt;Cultures of Design&lt;/a&gt;. These archetypes respond to the classical choice between design processes based on a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;strong internal vision versus those centered around the customer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Squeaky Wheel&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;The Cult of Personality &lt;/strong&gt;archetypes are those in which one individual strongly influences the design outcome. Portigal mentions Apple or Dyson as examples of these archetypes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although many organizations claim to have a &lt;strong&gt;Uncover New Needs and Solve Them&lt;/strong&gt; approach most of the times they are just implementing literally what customers ask under a &lt;strong&gt;User-Pleasing&lt;/strong&gt; archetype.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portigal´s last archetype is &lt;strong&gt;The Department of Committee Meetings&lt;/strong&gt;, in which there can be room for the customer´s voice although most of the times is the squeaky wheel approach the one taking over.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1665129935747275748?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1665129935747275748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1665129935747275748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1665129935747275748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1665129935747275748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/08/cultures-of-design.html' title='The Cultures of Design'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-5700883655246391610</id><published>2009-08-03T08:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-01T09:13:58.781-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer internet'/><title type='text'>[web] Things we take for granted</title><content type='html'>Being back in Spain after two years in the Silicon Valley (SV) can be a little of a cultural shock. I already knew SV is the forefront of geekiness and consumer internet. What I did not know is how much I would take some things for granted. This is a list of things I am "struggling with" currently. I will start with Google Maps and add to the list as I find new ones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- [Google Maps] There is no "public tranportation" option. At least, if you are using public tranportation in Madrid there is &lt;a href="http://www.ctm-madrid.es/como_ir_a/como_ir_a_ppal.jsp?CODPANTALLA=1&amp;amp;CODBOTON=200"&gt;this option&lt;/a&gt;, similar to 511 in the bay area. I need to find the equivalent to nextbus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &gt; Sep 1st, 2009: Google &lt;a href="http://www.europapress.es/asturias/innova-00297/noticia-innova-responsables-google-transit-creen-iniciativa-permitira-mayor-cuidado-medio-ambiente-20090806141658.html"&gt;has recently launched&lt;/a&gt; Google Transit in Asturias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- [Google Maps] There are far less reviews. Many business lack their web address or an accurate description.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- [Amazon] Of course! Amazon! They do not operate in Spain, so you have to go for international shipping. Their user-generated product reviews are amongst my favorite shopping tools. Here´s a blog post in Spanish commenting on &lt;a href="http://carrero.es/amazon-espana/3675"&gt;Amazon´s potential launch in Spain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- [Craigslist] I still haven´t found that ultra simple go-to place for virtually anything, from rooms to rent to last minute tickets for a Coldplay gig, bikes or second-hand cars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &gt; Alternative: &lt;a href="http://www.loquo.com/"&gt;loquo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- [Yelp] Again, tons of reviews and ratings about a restaurant give you a very close idea of the quality of the place. This doesn´t mean there is not an alternative for the Spanish market, it´s just that the ones I have bumped into do not have as many customer datapoints...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &gt; Alternative: &lt;a href="http://www.11870.com/"&gt;11870&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-5700883655246391610?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/5700883655246391610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=5700883655246391610' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5700883655246391610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5700883655246391610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/08/things-we-take-for-granted.html' title='[web] Things we take for granted'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-208604754464587637</id><published>2009-08-03T07:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T09:14:51.878-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Transition</title><content type='html'>My dear readers, as you might know I recently decided to go back to Spain, my home country, which will seemingly impact the way to go about this blog. My primary goals are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;having fun&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;sharing my thoughts on interesting stuff I come across&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I will be definitely incorporating more Spanish components but at the same time I want it to keep a global perspective. I am not planning on shifting the language to Spanish but I might translate some posts... good for those of you brushing up your castellano!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Expect some trial and error, you know I like prototyping...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meanwhile, why don´t you share your thoughts with me? email me or add your comment to this post. I´ll be glad to hear from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I´ll keep on blogging about the seemingly unconnected. Stay tuned!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-208604754464587637?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/208604754464587637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=208604754464587637' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/208604754464587637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/208604754464587637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/08/transition.html' title='Transition'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7898536978764660115</id><published>2009-07-22T01:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T01:14:13.779-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='just for fun'/><title type='text'>Another cool video. By Coldplay</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iEQpZcqxNDs&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iEQpZcqxNDs&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is just the trailer. you can watch the whole thing &lt;a href="http://www.babelgum.com/3022304/coldplay-strawberry-swing.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing that I love about it is the connection between video and reality. I attended Coldplay's concert in Sacramento last week and at some point they bring the color butterflies to life. I will not tell more in case you are scheduled to see them live soon...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7898536978764660115?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7898536978764660115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7898536978764660115' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7898536978764660115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7898536978764660115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-cool-video-by-coldplay.html' title='Another cool video. By Coldplay'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1691303191309134164</id><published>2009-07-17T15:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T15:12:26.661-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creativity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='innovation'/><title type='text'>Stop solving the problem if you want to solve it</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/31891105"&gt;Interesting read&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;em style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Matthew E. May&lt;/em&gt; &lt;span class="cnbc_sbhd_comp"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;on how taking a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"break"&lt;/span&gt; can help us achieve a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"breakthrough"&lt;/span&gt;. Here you have one of the highlights of the article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Neuroscientists now believe that the ability to engineer creative breakthroughs hinges on the capacity to synthesize and make connections between seemingly disparate things, and a key ingredient is time away from the problem."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The post starts with another enticing reference to the "less is more" principle: great ideas have something missing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1691303191309134164?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1691303191309134164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1691303191309134164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1691303191309134164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1691303191309134164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/stop-solving-to-problem-if-you-want-to.html' title='Stop solving the problem if you want to solve it'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2786730505511597274</id><published>2009-07-17T10:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T15:13:14.975-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='good marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brands'/><title type='text'>More targeted marketing on Pandora</title><content type='html'>Listening to Eric Clapton on &lt;a href="http://pandora.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pandora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Best Buy offers me a Fender guitar. The model, of course, is Eric Clapton's legendary Stratocaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SmCv5iqi-II/AAAAAAAANvc/eKzk-1wSqzg/s1600-h/Picture+26.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 207px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SmCv5iqi-II/AAAAAAAANvc/eKzk-1wSqzg/s320/Picture+26.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359476959663552642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SmCxYelNIHI/AAAAAAAANvk/N0FOvUti4_k/s1600-h/fender+on+pandora.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 163px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SmCxYelNIHI/AAAAAAAANvk/N0FOvUti4_k/s320/fender+on+pandora.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359478590654980210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is &lt;a href="http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7931544&amp;amp;type=product&amp;amp;id=1214611418012&amp;amp;ref=90&amp;amp;loc=06"&gt;what you get &lt;/a&gt;when you click on the link. Not quite flashy as the add, but they offer free shipping...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2786730505511597274?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2786730505511597274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2786730505511597274' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2786730505511597274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2786730505511597274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-targeted-marketing-on-pandora.html' title='More targeted marketing on Pandora'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SmCv5iqi-II/AAAAAAAANvc/eKzk-1wSqzg/s72-c/Picture+26.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2101904626321080846</id><published>2009-07-13T17:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T15:13:35.840-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='good marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>A variation on Amazon's recommendations</title><content type='html'>A couple of days ago I was browsing through &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Amazon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, getting to know more about how their gift certificates work. Today I got this in my inbox:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SlvXM0VaPhI/AAAAAAAANuc/NZbYjNY8Fno/s1600-h/Picture+13.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 227px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SlvXM0VaPhI/AAAAAAAANuc/NZbYjNY8Fno/s400/Picture+13.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358112796894182930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Thanks for visiting Amazon Gift Cards"&lt;/span&gt;... wow! they know...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mixing the right amount of images and words, this short, catchy email is a masterpiece of simplicity and effectiveness:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clear &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;value proposition&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;spread the smiles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How it works&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;email, print it, mail it...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Actionable&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;buy a Gift Card button, Quick Gift Idea, Pay with Points&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;even &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cross-selling!&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amazon Gift Cards are redeemable at endless.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I do not know the cost of the technology that tracks the pages I have visited and determine that I didn't buy a gift card. The rest is simple, dirt cheap, good marketing&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2101904626321080846?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2101904626321080846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2101904626321080846' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2101904626321080846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2101904626321080846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/variation-on-amazons-recommendations.html' title='A variation on Amazon&apos;s recommendations'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SlvXM0VaPhI/AAAAAAAANuc/NZbYjNY8Fno/s72-c/Picture+13.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2647384647567449724</id><published>2009-07-13T00:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-13T01:00:43.859-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='just for fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brands'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Great &lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/vineta/?d_date=20090713&amp;amp;autor=Erlich&amp;amp;anchor=elpporopivin&amp;amp;xref=20090713elpepuvin_2&amp;amp;type=Tes&amp;amp;k=Erlich"&gt;comic strip by Erlich&lt;/a&gt; in El Pais&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.elpais.com/vineta/?d_date=20090713&amp;amp;autor=Erlich&amp;amp;anchor=elpporopivin&amp;amp;xref=20090713elpepuvin_2&amp;amp;type=Tes&amp;amp;k=Erlich"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SlrpLZIGCgI/AAAAAAAANuU/eu-L89ML_aQ/s320/apple_erlich.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357851088643295746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It reads:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Yes, the rent is more expensive" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"But take into account the design"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2647384647567449724?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2647384647567449724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2647384647567449724' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2647384647567449724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2647384647567449724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/great-comic-strip-by-erlich-in-el-pais.html' title=''/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SlrpLZIGCgI/AAAAAAAANuU/eu-L89ML_aQ/s72-c/apple_erlich.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4416698116181154749</id><published>2009-07-11T14:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-11T14:33:33.236-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='innovation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><title type='text'>Measuring innovation and design</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; Interesting article in the &lt;a href="http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Innovation/McKinsey_Global_Survey_Results_Assessing_innovation_metrics_2243?pagenum=5"&gt;McKinsey Quarterly&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;on innovation metrics. You can't improve what you are not measuring. In a nutshell McKinsey's research shows that companies that measure innovation are satisfied carrying this activity. It provides a useful understanding of their innovation performance although there is room for improvement, for instance, developing incentives that are aligned with metrics or communicating this information to investors. There is also this podcast + post in &lt;a href="http://www.killerinnovations.com/blog/2008/12/podcast_proving_the_value_of_i.html"&gt;Killer Innovations&lt;/a&gt; with an introduction on how to prove the value of innovation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another interesting connected topic is the value of design. Does design have value? How can it be measured? Sara Beckman, my New Product Development professor at Haas, talks about it in an &lt;a href="http://adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/001049.php"&gt;interview with Adaptive Path&lt;/a&gt;. In this presentation...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_1497560"&gt;&lt;a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/applying-design-thinking-principles-in-product-management" title="Applying design thinking principles in product management"&gt;Applying design thinking principles in product management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object style="margin: 0px;" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=cuserswhatidiscoverdownloadsapplyingdesignthinkingprinciplesinproductmanagement-090527150813-phpapp01&amp;amp;stripped_title=applying-design-thinking-principles-in-product-management"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=cuserswhatidiscoverdownloadsapplyingdesignthinkingprinciplesinproductmanagement-090527150813-phpapp01&amp;amp;stripped_title=applying-design-thinking-principles-in-product-management" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;View more &lt;a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/"&gt;documents&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover"&gt;whatidiscover&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...she mentions three examples of organizations taking a stab at those questions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Corporate Design Foundation. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"BusinessWeek IDEA Design Award winners outperform those who didn’t win in stock performance"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The California College of the Arts has compiled a &lt;a href="http://www.designmba.org/blog/DMSI_details.php"&gt;Design Strategy Market Index&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"The index shows that for companies who invest in design and use it as part of their strategic management, on average, they’ve gained 274% of their value. This considerably beats all market averages and indexes for the same time period."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The UK Design Council has developed the &lt;a href="http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Research/Value-of-Design-Factfinder/"&gt;Value of Desing Factfinder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;There is always subjectivity in defining what constitutes good design and what does not, but this is a good point to get the dialogue started.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4416698116181154749?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4416698116181154749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4416698116181154749' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4416698116181154749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4416698116181154749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/measuring-innovation-and-design.html' title='Measuring innovation and design'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7968687480210643322</id><published>2009-07-11T00:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-11T00:48:45.286-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brands'/><title type='text'>Stop motion: the PEN story by OLIMPUS</title><content type='html'>When things are done with such an amount of love there are no words...behold and enjoy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m9Et7UQh1tg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m9Et7UQh1tg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7968687480210643322?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7968687480210643322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7968687480210643322' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7968687480210643322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7968687480210643322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/stop-motion-pen-story-by-olimpus.html' title='Stop motion: the PEN story by OLIMPUS'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1293728681746342287</id><published>2009-07-06T00:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T08:13:25.274-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>Solar branding</title><content type='html'>I saw this last week walking up Bancroft Avenue in Berkeley. The fact that the signal was powered by solar energy and labeled accordingly with the name of &lt;a href="http://www.solartechnology.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SolarTech&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; drew my attention:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkxQ-_4W_EI/AAAAAAAANrM/e5wRGCnnyJc/s1600-h/IMG00412.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkxQ-_4W_EI/AAAAAAAANrM/e5wRGCnnyJc/s320/IMG00412.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353743100266609730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkxQ-qOBP-I/AAAAAAAANrE/ZtIkPZFoYy0/s1600-h/IMG00411.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkxQ-qOBP-I/AAAAAAAANrE/ZtIkPZFoYy0/s320/IMG00411.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353743094451879906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkxQ-WE2aaI/AAAAAAAANq8/5OW9lH0SsUY/s1600-h/IMG00410.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkxQ-WE2aaI/AAAAAAAANq8/5OW9lH0SsUY/s320/IMG00410.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353743089044711842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The product is manufactured by &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.solartechnology.com/"&gt;Solar Technology, Inc.&lt;/a&gt;, but if you google &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Solar Tech&lt;/span&gt; you will also come up with an industry consortium promoted by the &lt;a href="http://svlg.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Silicon Valley Leadership Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (a group of companies involved in public policy issues in the Silicon Valley). There is also another company called Solar Technologies...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the confusion, this "solar tech label" made me think how it could be used to create awareness on how solar energy can power our everyday life. I would argue that solar energy must be made tangible in the same fashion that Intel made us see that they were powering PCs - Intel also captured most of the value in the PC industry along the way-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SlGj_b4TmdI/AAAAAAAANrk/45OTogpPcSM/s1600-h/IntelInside_2-450x10000.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 114px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SlGj_b4TmdI/AAAAAAAANrk/45OTogpPcSM/s320/IntelInside_2-450x10000.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355241742131239378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;from intel inside...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SlGmG6_Xo9I/AAAAAAAANrs/K6g2zqshe9E/s1600-h/solar+inside.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 102px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SlGmG6_Xo9I/AAAAAAAANrs/K6g2zqshe9E/s320/solar+inside.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355244069764703186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;...to solar inside,&lt;br /&gt;well, maybe with a cute little sunny icon...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there a "solar energy label" or industry certification? I am thinking of something potentially pervasive like that "recyclable" green icon...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1293728681746342287?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1293728681746342287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1293728681746342287' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1293728681746342287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1293728681746342287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/solar-branding.html' title='Solar branding'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkxQ-_4W_EI/AAAAAAAANrM/e5wRGCnnyJc/s72-c/IMG00412.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1719056143781866943</id><published>2009-07-02T13:20:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-02T13:25:39.105-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creativity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='innovation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>Quick reminder to self: think creatively</title><content type='html'>Simple presentation on creative thinking by Joanna Maxwell. Bumped into it in slideshare. Too many stock pictures for my taste, although some of them do a great job conveying the idea. I also liked the "play" recommendation and the quote on the power of connecting the seemingly unconnected :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_1509338"&gt;&lt;a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/joanna_maxwell/slideshare-creative-thinking-1509338" title="Creative Thinking: Your Edge"&gt;Creative Thinking: Your Edge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object style="margin: 0px;" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=slideshare-creativethinking-090530024537-phpapp02&amp;amp;stripped_title=slideshare-creative-thinking-1509338"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=slideshare-creativethinking-090530024537-phpapp02&amp;amp;stripped_title=slideshare-creative-thinking-1509338" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;View more &lt;a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/"&gt;presentations&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/joanna_maxwell"&gt;Joanna  Maxwell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1719056143781866943?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1719056143781866943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1719056143781866943' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1719056143781866943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1719056143781866943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/quick-reminder-to-self-think-creatively.html' title='Quick reminder to self: think creatively'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3342243986924603310</id><published>2009-07-01T21:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-01T23:43:13.127-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You can ring my bell</title><content type='html'>At &lt;a href="http://www.maestromarket.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Maestro Market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the start-up I am working for, we have decided to be noisy about our accomplishments. These are the Cowbells of Victory&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Skw64i83KOI/AAAAAAAANq0/SmDK7lyosJ4/s1600-h/IMG00413.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Skw64i83KOI/AAAAAAAANq0/SmDK7lyosJ4/s320/IMG00413.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353718800165841122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We ring them with each new customer that joins the platform. For other smaller successes we have a key chain cowbell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think is a great way of keeping the team fired up about accomplishments. It puts some healthy peer pressure on you when you see your buddies ringing it. It brings the team together around one shared meaning...and it is fun to have a cowbell break!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Symbols are that important. I have noticed that when we are disengaged we stop caring about them. Or is it the other way round? We stop caring about the meaning of what we do and then we disengage ourselves?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3342243986924603310?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3342243986924603310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3342243986924603310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3342243986924603310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3342243986924603310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-can-ring-my-bell.html' title='You can ring my bell'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Skw64i83KOI/AAAAAAAANq0/SmDK7lyosJ4/s72-c/IMG00413.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7434143816045470858</id><published>2009-06-29T00:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-10T09:44:30.398-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='entrepreneurship'/><title type='text'>Entrepreneurial work-life balance</title><content type='html'>One of the things that I like the most about the entrepreneur's life is the "holistic" approach or connectedness with a broad range of realities: resources, relationships, processes, from ideation to implementation...Obviously in order to be consistent with this philosophy of connection, "holistic" should include having a life out of the venture. We need fresh air to come up with new ideas and recharge our batteries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Along these lines, check out this great &lt;a href="http://steveblank.com/2009/06/18/epitaph-for-an-entrepreneur/"&gt;post on work-life balance&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://steveblank.com/about/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Steve Blank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. For those with a significant other and kids the family rules are worth taking a look at. I also liked the &lt;em&gt;This life isn’t practice for the next one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7434143816045470858?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7434143816045470858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7434143816045470858' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7434143816045470858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7434143816045470858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/06/entrepreneurial-work-life-balance.html' title='Entrepreneurial work-life balance'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1013082416604557734</id><published>2009-06-28T22:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-28T23:14:10.230-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life lessons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal development'/><title type='text'>Negativity and stickiness</title><content type='html'>One of the main messages of &lt;a href="http://strengths.gallup.com/110659/homepage.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Strengths Finder 2.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a book by &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gallup's&lt;/span&gt; Tom Rath, is that most of the times we focus too hard in solving our shortcomings instead of in boosting our strengths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First thought:&lt;br /&gt;We &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;focus on the negative&lt;/span&gt; -improving defects-, instead of  going with the flow -prop up our strengths- which definitely sounds a little bit less strenuous. This reminds me to that martial arts' principle that advises to leverage the force of the opponent instead of wasting our energy opposing him directly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second thought:&lt;br /&gt;Tom Rath estates that our culture has created icons out of people who have succeeded thanks to this &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"you can do anything"&lt;/span&gt; approach: underdog, no talent, works hard, faces the challenge and prevails. From Chip and Dan Heath's &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Made to Stick&lt;/span&gt; perspective, this is a perfect example of the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"David vs. Goliath"&lt;/span&gt; plot. This would be one factor that explains why these icons - or stories at the end of the day-  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"stick"&lt;/span&gt; in our minds. (see other factors, in my previous post &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2008/11/mice-and-books.html"&gt;mice and books&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1013082416604557734?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1013082416604557734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1013082416604557734' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1013082416604557734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1013082416604557734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/06/negativity-and-stickiness.html' title='Negativity and stickiness'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-1164863206640298106</id><published>2009-06-24T23:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-24T23:09:20.741-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life lessons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>7 random recommendations for a [road] trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkMUgwIK9WI/AAAAAAAANok/2Z3PmXrxluY/s1600-h/P1020398.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkMUgwIK9WI/AAAAAAAANok/2Z3PmXrxluY/s320/P1020398.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351143335153825122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My turn for free advice. I have distilled the following recommendations from my last road trip but I think they are applicable to other situations:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Plan the trip.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ditch the plan as soon as you hit the road.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Live the present time, go with the flow, seize opportunities as they appear. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Accept. Everything happens for a reason.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Smile. Doors will open.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wear a hat.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dance.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;In case of doubt - and I am being shamelessly corny here - love and be grateful. I mean it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wherever it is that you are going, enjoy your trip!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-1164863206640298106?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/1164863206640298106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=1164863206640298106' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1164863206640298106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/1164863206640298106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/06/7-random-recommendations-for-road-trip.html' title='7 random recommendations for a [road] trip'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SkMUgwIK9WI/AAAAAAAANok/2Z3PmXrxluY/s72-c/P1020398.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6229617161228056524</id><published>2009-06-23T22:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T22:18:08.854-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life lessons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='entrepreneurship'/><title type='text'>Startups in 13 Sentences by Paul Graham</title><content type='html'>I know, there are many tips for entrepreneurs out there and as my friend Javi says, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;free advice, for what it's worth&lt;/span&gt;... but I found &lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Paul Graham's&lt;/span&gt; "Startups in 13 Sentences"&lt;/a&gt; through Narayan, one of my colleagues at &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.maestromarket.com/"&gt;Maestro Market&lt;/a&gt;. #2 and #3 resonate louder:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Launch fast.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason to launch fast is not so much that it's critical to get your product to market early, but that you haven't really started working on it till you've launched. Launching teaches you what you should have been building. Till you know that you're wasting your time. So the main value of whatever you launch with is as a pretext for engaging users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. Let your idea evolve.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the second half of launching fast. Launch fast and iterate. It's a big mistake to treat a startup as if it were merely a matter of implementing some brilliant initial idea. As in an essay, most of the ideas appear in the implementing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;You can read the rest &lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html#"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. By the way, click on the link to &lt;a href="http://etherpad.com/ep/pad/slider/13sentences"&gt;EtherPad&lt;/a&gt; and you will see dynamically how the text was written. Cool...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6229617161228056524?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6229617161228056524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6229617161228056524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6229617161228056524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6229617161228056524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/06/startups-in-13-sentences-by-paul-graham_23.html' title='Startups in 13 Sentences by Paul Graham'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3826563034716567108</id><published>2009-06-22T18:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-22T18:44:55.272-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='entrepreneurship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>Inspirational entrepreneurial</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/T6MhAwQ64c0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/T6MhAwQ64c0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3826563034716567108?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3826563034716567108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3826563034716567108' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3826563034716567108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3826563034716567108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/06/inspirational-entrepreneurial.html' title='Inspirational entrepreneurial'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2115024395975229145</id><published>2009-06-21T20:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T20:25:16.598-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='passion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the flow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>The recurring theme of passion, the flow and happiness in life</title><content type='html'>In the last 10 days I have been out of town, on a road trip through Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina. Most of the journey is not just what you see but (1) who you travel with and (2) who do you know along the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In relation with (1), I should talk about my travel companion's ability to attract positive interactions and generate unexpected events (she's the best karma magnet I have ever known) but I might leave that for another post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding (2) In Knoxville we met Kevin Bradley from  &lt;a href="http://www.yeehawindustries.com/home.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress &amp;amp; Design Co.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and some of his co-workers and friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.yeehawindustries.com/home.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjyV-LpRVHI/AAAAAAAANZ4/xmk5S1MDxB0/s320/P1020484.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349315352919626866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;Yee-Haw Industries Headquarters&lt;br /&gt;413 South Gay St. , Knoxville, Tennessee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The firm was was founded in 1997 by Kevin and Julie Belcher. Their work is custom-to-order, designed, set, and pressed by hand. By the way, &lt;a href="http://www.yeehawindustries.blogspot.com/"&gt;this is their blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjyV9veZqpI/AAAAAAAANZo/-vL__13z6Co/s1600-h/P1020455.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjyV9veZqpI/AAAAAAAANZo/-vL__13z6Co/s320/P1020455.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349315345357843090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;T-shirts, grocery totes, exhibition or local musicians posters, calendars...&lt;br /&gt;if it's printable, you name it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjyV96Je1XI/AAAAAAAANZw/ganio0wl4ZE/s1600-h/P1020472.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjyV96Je1XI/AAAAAAAANZw/ganio0wl4ZE/s320/P1020472.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349315348222891378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;a sample of their wonderful working letterpress collection&lt;br /&gt;most of it is salvaged equipment, bought from retired printers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is so much I can tell about visiting Kevin's beautiful art - should I say dreams?- factory. Above all I confirmed the power of passion I referred to in my post about &lt;a href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/gift-of-fermentation.html"&gt;Adam from Oakland's very own Linden Street Brewery&lt;/a&gt;. A somehow quaint facility that invites to dream and work, generosity, love for even the smallest detail, contagious good mood and smiles, time flying unnoticed...To me that' s how work should look like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjyV-qHtMKI/AAAAAAAANaA/NOqF6OL1tmc/s1600-h/P1020479.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjyV-qHtMKI/AAAAAAAANaA/NOqF6OL1tmc/s320/P1020479.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349315361100345506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;and a sense of humor...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2115024395975229145?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2115024395975229145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2115024395975229145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2115024395975229145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2115024395975229145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/06/recurring-theme-of-passion-flow-and.html' title='The recurring theme of passion, the flow and happiness in life'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjyV-LpRVHI/AAAAAAAANZ4/xmk5S1MDxB0/s72-c/P1020484.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-162459797671654565</id><published>2009-06-19T11:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-19T11:44:19.254-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quote of the day'/><title type='text'>Moderation and alternatives</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;Dr. Henry Kissinger&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-162459797671654565?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/162459797671654565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=162459797671654565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/162459797671654565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/162459797671654565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/06/moderation-and-alternatives.html' title='Moderation and alternatives'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2915338799852891400</id><published>2009-06-15T23:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-16T14:54:46.738-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maestro market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>Maestro Market, a marketplace for speaking engagements</title><content type='html'>Are you looking for a public speaker that can deliver an unforgettable mark on your audience? Are you a professional looking for speaking engagements?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If that's the case I would like to talk to you.  This summer I will be working with &lt;a href="http://www.maestromarket.com/"&gt;Maestro Market&lt;/a&gt;, a marketplace connecting people of talent with customers who can benefit from the talent for events, appearances, and other engagements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.maestromarket.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 107px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjdDrPXsZ_I/AAAAAAAALQw/nuDNqkOj5Lc/s320/Picture+7.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347817492665100274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although being an early stage start up we are all helping out with pretty much anything, I am primarily in charge of Marketing and Product development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two things that get me excited about this project:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;One is the team. We are five people, coming from very different backgrounds yet passionate about entrepreneurship, high-performance and making better matches between talent providers and talent seekers.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The second one is the possibility to put in practice all that I have learned about user-centric design and customer development. In fact right now I am leading our efforts to map our customers needs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I enjoy the level of excitement and energy we all share. We are definitely off to a great adventure.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2915338799852891400?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2915338799852891400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2915338799852891400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2915338799852891400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2915338799852891400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/06/maestro-market-marketplace-for-speaking.html' title='Maestro Market, a marketplace for speaking engagements'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SjdDrPXsZ_I/AAAAAAAALQw/nuDNqkOj5Lc/s72-c/Picture+7.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7911362970271113049</id><published>2009-06-03T17:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-03T17:56:50.400-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social networking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communities'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>Bart is on twitter</title><content type='html'>Not Bart simpson but &lt;a href="http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2008/news20080731a.aspx"&gt;BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is on twitter&lt;/a&gt;. It says a lot about how fast this site is spreading around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the moment they are twitting on services updates (such as &lt;span class="status-body"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-content"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;10-min. delay between Concord &amp;amp; Pleasant Hill in Pittsburg &amp;amp; SFO directions due to equipment problem. Get all advisories at bart.gov/alerts&lt;/span&gt;.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, other BART news, give-aways and promotions, pics and videos related to BART or trains...You can check it out &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/SFBART"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://twitter.com/SFBART"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SicaboMD6OI/AAAAAAAALE0/32dqJ-emQjE/s320/IMG00391.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343268544845179106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7911362970271113049?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7911362970271113049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7911362970271113049' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7911362970271113049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7911362970271113049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/06/bart-is-on-twitter.html' title='Bart is on twitter'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SicaboMD6OI/AAAAAAAALE0/32dqJ-emQjE/s72-c/IMG00391.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2572988052265667619</id><published>2009-05-31T01:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T01:59:11.132-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the flow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>Are you in the flow?</title><content type='html'>A couple of weeks ago I went sailing in the SF Bay. I am total novice sailor so excuse my ignorance of the nautical lingo. During part of the trip I was in charge of guiding the boat, which was not very intuitive. Steer to the right, ahem! starboard,  and the boat turns to the opposite side. Try to correct the trajectory and off it goes, too much of a swerve. You loose the sail's optimal angle with the wind and the boat slows down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SiIvB9GAu3I/AAAAAAAALD4/0japY8xKz7c/s1600-h/sailing2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 63px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SiIvB9GAu3I/AAAAAAAALD4/0japY8xKz7c/s320/sailing2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341883818640980850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At some point instead of fighting with my brain I decided to let go and just "feel". Magically I started getting the boat "on track". Moreover I was able to led my fellow seamen in the complex maneuver of tacking(*). I felt a connection between my hand, the rudder, the boat and the sea. I was able to rationalize my moves and I had the theory in my mind when I performed them but my ability to guide the boat was not the direct result of a conscious rational effort. Time passed by without me noticing it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This evoked Mihalyi Csikszentmihaly's concept of &lt;a href="http://www.tcrecord.org/library/abstract.asp?contentid=266"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;flow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity"&lt;/span&gt;. Here's a link to his &lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html"&gt;presentation at TED&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29#cite_note-0"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; quotes the formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna regarding his qualification for the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"I was already on pole, [...] and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car. And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. It was like I was in a tunnel."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Music and Arts in general, Sports, Spirituality... seem to be fields prone to generate the flow. Apparently software developers call it the "Zone" or "Hackmode" and stock market operators say they are "in the pipe".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;(*) Tacking consists on changing course by turning the boat's head into and through the wind and is relatively complicated, especially for a rookie mariner like me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2572988052265667619?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2572988052265667619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2572988052265667619' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2572988052265667619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2572988052265667619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/are-you-in-flow.html' title='Are you in the flow?'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SiIvB9GAu3I/AAAAAAAALD4/0japY8xKz7c/s72-c/sailing2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4555444701146901733</id><published>2009-05-30T02:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-30T23:49:06.589-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MBA closure. A 10,000 feet recap</title><content type='html'>After the graduation ceremony and an bunch of farewells it looks like I have put a closure to my &lt;a href="http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MBA at Haas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, one of the most intense and satisfying periods of my life (till date). Nevertheless I would like to put in writing what I have learned, even if it is just a 10,000 feet picture. so this is a chronological stab at it, including travels:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;First semester (2007, Aug to Dec): core curriculum, brushed-up business basics. Qualified as finalist of the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucC0IA5PSD0&amp;amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.darden.virginia.edu%2Fhtml%2Fentrepreneur.aspx%3Fid%3D18118%26menu_id%3D586&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded"&gt;Darden Innovation Challenge 2007&lt;/a&gt;. Started collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://www.smallschoolsfoundation.org/"&gt;Oakland Small Schools Foundation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;  &gt; Winter break: Spain and Mexico&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Second semester (2008, Jan to May): more core curriculum. Put together a business plan for the Entrepreneurship course. Carried out an independent study on social networks&lt;br /&gt; &gt; Spring break: Japan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Summer 2008: &lt;a href="http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/HaasGlobal/IBDindex.htm"&gt;International Business Development (IBD) program&lt;/a&gt;, developed a business plan for a new undergraduate business program in Vietnam's National University at Hanoi, Vietnam. Interned in the Product Marketing department of &lt;a href="http://www.salesforce.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;salesforce.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; defining positioning strategies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Third semester (2008, Aug to Dec): a deep dive into design-thinking. Created &lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5928156330577338347&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;Senior Web&lt;/a&gt;, an info gathering and communication solutions for senior citizens, as part of the New Product Development class.&lt;br /&gt; &gt; Winter break: Spain, Israel and Jordan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fourth semester (2009, Jan to May): discovered, and loved, open innovation. Reinforced design-thinking skills creating a new &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/4452271"&gt;information management system for the MBA experience&lt;/a&gt;. Led the marketing committee of the &lt;a href="http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/groups/alumni/llc/"&gt;LifeLong Connections 2009 campaign&lt;/a&gt; (Haas Alumni Annual Fund), achieving a 100% participation rate (first time ever in Haas history)&lt;br /&gt; &gt; Spring break: Costa Rica&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;A lot of learning in a bit less than two years. Some times I was gulping and some other times I could sip knowledge enjoying it calmly. You know what? I am still thirsty&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4555444701146901733?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4555444701146901733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4555444701146901733' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4555444701146901733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4555444701146901733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/mba-closure-10000-feet-recap.html' title='MBA closure. A 10,000 feet recap'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7606144396311396423</id><published>2009-05-27T22:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T16:31:28.373-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><title type='text'>On Business and Design: the discipline of Business Design</title><content type='html'>Graduation has put me out of circulation for a while, but here I am again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In one of my previous posts I mentioned my struggles with how Business and Design can talk better to each other. IDEO's &lt;a href="http://www.ryanjacoby.com/2009/05/the-business-design-curriculum-of-2012.html?cid=6a00e54fbcba8b8833011570ab2044970b#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ryan Jacoby&lt;/span&gt; has posted&lt;/a&gt; about the curriculum of &lt;span id="comment-6a00e54fbcba8b8833011570ab2044970b-content"&gt;a discipline that would be the perfect marriage between both worlds: Business Design. Quoting his reply to one of the comments in his post:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;[..] "I’m not envisioning a "business for designers" curriculum or a "design for business-types" curriculum. It isn’t Design+Business or Business+Design, but instead the program would be focused on the new discipline of business design: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;a practical mix of entrepreneurship, commerce and art all with the "making" focus&lt;/span&gt; you mention.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" id="comment-6a00e54fbcba8b8833011570ab2044970b-content"&gt;" [..] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This brings together a lot of interesting things I have been in touch with lately: my Customer Development, New Product Development, Design as Competitive Advantage and Open Innovation classes, the clinics at the Berkeley Institute of Design ... Now that I am done with my MBA I am all fired up about putting it to practice in a start-up I will be collaborating with during the summer. Additional info to come in the next days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me conclude by pointing at the &lt;a href="http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html#"&gt;Cult of Done Manifesto&lt;/a&gt;, a link I also got from Jacoby's blog. This is all about the importance of doing, failing fast and often and learning [and enjoying it] along the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SiW2MjLLGLI/AAAAAAAALEU/DVXrI3XfQ1U/s1600-h/cultofdone.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SiW2MjLLGLI/AAAAAAAALEU/DVXrI3XfQ1U/s320/cultofdone.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342876859661752498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7606144396311396423?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7606144396311396423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7606144396311396423' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7606144396311396423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7606144396311396423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/on-business-and-design-discipline-of.html' title='On Business and Design: the discipline of Business Design'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SiW2MjLLGLI/AAAAAAAALEU/DVXrI3XfQ1U/s72-c/cultofdone.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-8610390238257093022</id><published>2009-05-08T01:24:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-08T01:30:34.279-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><title type='text'>My business and design portfolio</title><content type='html'>I am updating my portfolio with the latest projects, but here it goes the April version. Following the advice of my fellow Haassie Maiken I have structured my experiences according to the following framework: Challenge, Process, Solution, Learnings. &lt;br /&gt;In order to visualize it properly you have to go to full screen mode. The formatting is not 100% consistent after the upload but it does suffice.&lt;br /&gt;Feedback is greatly appreciated&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_1404377"&gt;&lt;a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/santiago_rdm/santiago-rodriguez-portfolio-april-09-slideshare?type=powerpoint" title="Santiago Rodriguez Portfolio April 09 Slideshare"&gt;Santiago Rodriguez Portfolio April 09 Slideshare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=santiagorodriguezportfolioapril09slideshare-090508032200-phpapp01&amp;stripped_title=santiago-rodriguez-portfolio-april-09-slideshare" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/&gt;&lt;embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=santiagorodriguezportfolioapril09slideshare-090508032200-phpapp01&amp;stripped_title=santiago-rodriguez-portfolio-april-09-slideshare" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"&gt;View more &lt;a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/"&gt;presentations&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/santiago_rdm"&gt;santiago_rdm&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-8610390238257093022?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/8610390238257093022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=8610390238257093022' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8610390238257093022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8610390238257093022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-business-and-design-portfolio.html' title='My business and design portfolio'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-8754015289105624882</id><published>2009-05-07T02:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-07T18:29:41.856-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>The gift of fermentation</title><content type='html'>Almost one month ago my classmate and friend Sergio introduced me to Adam, the founder of &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.lindenbeer.com/"&gt;Linden Street Brewery&lt;/a&gt;. Adam's beer factory is located in a 1890's red brick building in the port of Oakland. Most of the space as you can imagine is reserved to tanks, pipes, fermenting tanks and other elements for the beer making. Close to that space there's another big room decorated with objects from all over the world, school desks and theater chairs, brewer's magazines and lots of books, especially travel guides.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SgOJS7gt7TI/AAAAAAAAKFY/0wuwO_qzALc/s1600-h/LB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 203px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SgOJS7gt7TI/AAAAAAAAKFY/0wuwO_qzALc/s320/LB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333257342042369330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sergio and I met Adam again last night over tapas, beers from around the world and fascinating conversation. He is one of these unique individuals who is able to transmit the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;passion&lt;/span&gt; about what he does. He believes in cherishing the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;product&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="line-height: 19px;" class="style"&gt;he brews using methods that originated in the Bay Area during the Gold Rush days. He told us &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We play music to the yeast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px; font-style: italic;" class="style"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;If you love your yeast, the yeast is gonna give that love back to you"&lt;/span&gt;. Revolutionary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His dream was born in the community, for the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;community&lt;/span&gt;. Last week they became the first  microbrewery to brew beer in Oakland after 50 years. Without planning it, and starting with a small get together, they have been sharing &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"the gift of fermentation"&lt;/span&gt; with whoever showed up at their parking lot on Fridays.  Read the &lt;a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/linden-street-brewery-oakland"&gt;Yelp reviews&lt;/a&gt; to have an idea of the magnitude of this true grassroots movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lindenbeer.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 188px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SgOIkXctmYI/AAAAAAAAKFQ/v0pE_iVjV6o/s320/lsb+full+logo_oval_flat1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333256542087911810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From a business perspective Adam is into something big. He knows beer. He has practically had a job in every step involved in the making of beer. He knows the industry, from the hops to the beer tap, from world trends to the numbers of his business. Man, he knows his numbers. His passion and personality are a magnet for positive events to happen around him. Events are stories and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;stories&lt;/span&gt; are &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;differentiation&lt;/span&gt;. No MBA-planned marketing campaign will ever match that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I talked to Adam I saw something that reminds me of an artist in the moment of creation. Some people call that &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;"the flow"&lt;/span&gt;(*). People like Adam inspire you to find what you have been &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"programmed for"&lt;/span&gt; and realize your dreams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;(*) check out the following TED video by &lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html"&gt;Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-8754015289105624882?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/8754015289105624882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=8754015289105624882' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8754015289105624882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/8754015289105624882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/gift-of-fermentation.html' title='The gift of fermentation'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SgOJS7gt7TI/AAAAAAAAKFY/0wuwO_qzALc/s72-c/LB.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3856313593861793065</id><published>2009-05-04T20:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T20:37:21.813-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sustainability'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brands'/><title type='text'>Worn out. Play on</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.nikereuseashoe.com/"&gt;ReUSE A SHOE&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href="http://www.nike.com/nikeos/p/nike/en_US/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nike&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s initiative to recycle used shoes into surfaces to play. Old shoes are turned into grind that can be used in running tracks, playgrounds, soccer fields and basketball courts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nikereuseashoe.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf-zYLOgReI/AAAAAAAAKD4/0qKOtyy2TBE/s320/nikeshoes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332177711741814242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;your old shoes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nikereuseashoe.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf-zYD2UjKI/AAAAAAAAKEA/fQgLGuxHPWA/s320/nikegrind.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332177709761334434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;...reincarnate as a basketball court&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the site it takes 50,000-75,000 pairs to  resurface a full field or soccer pitch but only 2,500 pairs for an outdoor basketball court.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3856313593861793065?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3856313593861793065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3856313593861793065' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3856313593861793065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3856313593861793065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/worn-out-play-on.html' title='Worn out. Play on'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf-zYLOgReI/AAAAAAAAKD4/0qKOtyy2TBE/s72-c/nikeshoes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-5540767279473009419</id><published>2009-05-04T00:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T15:14:21.644-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='good marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><title type='text'>Marketing strategy "Zildjian's Own Way"</title><content type='html'>This afternoon I bought tickets for Fleetwood Mac's concert at the Oracle Arena in Oakland. Then I surfed youtube and while watching &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Go Your Own Way"&lt;/span&gt; I realized of something...look at the upper left corner of the following image:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4581_YdKT0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf6UnFmliAI/AAAAAAAAKDo/azLcFTaFvkM/s320/zildjian+fleetwoodmac.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331862408093075458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zildjian.com/EN-US/home.ad2"&gt;Zildjian&lt;/a&gt;. I do not know how much you like music, whether you go to live concerts or you prefer to wacth videos on TV or the Internet but I am sure that logo sounds familiar. In fact it has always been there, as far back as I remember watching a drummer beating on the drums, Zildjian was there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you check out the video you will realize that the logo in the cymbals is strategically placed so it is always inside the frame of the camera that follows exclusively Mick Fleetwood, the drummer. Nice case of product placement, isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, many cymbal manufacturers probably never thought of visually branding a product that (a) is valued for its acoustic properties, not for how it looks; and (b) only specialized demand care about. My bet is that in its early times Zildjian also signed up star drummers to win their prescribing influence over potential buyers. It smells like a great marketing strategy in a niche market.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-5540767279473009419?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/5540767279473009419/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=5540767279473009419' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5540767279473009419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/5540767279473009419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/this-afternoon-i-bought-tickets-for.html' title='Marketing strategy &quot;Zildjian&apos;s Own Way&quot;'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf6UnFmliAI/AAAAAAAAKDo/azLcFTaFvkM/s72-c/zildjian+fleetwoodmac.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3067295229668241833</id><published>2009-05-03T17:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T00:05:48.791-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='innovation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>A thought on innovation by Arun Sarin</title><content type='html'>On April 16th, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Arun Sarin&lt;/span&gt;, ex-CEO of Vodafone delivered a keynote at Haas. He shared with the audience his views on the new state of the world, leadership and innovation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf6SgKoOfkI/AAAAAAAAKDg/Q4-KooTwSBE/s1600-h/ArunSarin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 140px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf6SgKoOfkI/AAAAAAAAKDg/Q4-KooTwSBE/s320/ArunSarin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331860090159791682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Regarding the latter he noted how innovation this days can arise anywhere in the world and presented an interesting concept: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;boomerang innovation&lt;/span&gt;. Boomerang innovation consists on sending ideas and being prepared to receive them back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Sarin illustrated the concept with an example regarding deployment of telecom infrastructure. Vodafone's HQ made a proposal to their subsidiary in India. The Indian team could not implement the recommendations due to lack of resources. Nevertheless, leveraging on the power of scarcity they came up with an improved solution that eventually became the company's benchmark for that particular process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Constraints are a powerful way to come up with creative solutions. We tend to do our best when resources are  scarce and we are forced to work around problems.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3067295229668241833?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3067295229668241833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3067295229668241833' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3067295229668241833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3067295229668241833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/thought-on-innovation-by-arun-sarin.html' title='A thought on innovation by Arun Sarin'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf6SgKoOfkI/AAAAAAAAKDg/Q4-KooTwSBE/s72-c/ArunSarin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6522164061469617403</id><published>2009-05-01T01:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T00:44:27.531-07:00</updated><title type='text'>UC Berkeley Bplan Competition</title><content type='html'>Today I attended the finals of the &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bplan.berkeley.edu/"&gt;UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition&lt;/a&gt;. First price, a TB diagnosis device; second, a biotech venture that beefs-up bacteriophages to improve antibiotics effectiveness; third price, a HIV diagnosis device.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They were all great ideas, supported by brilliant technical teams and backed by impressive advisory boards...but...my impression is that all three winners focused too much on the solution and far too little on the business model or even the go-to-market strategy to make it commercially viable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know eight minutes is not that much time and that VC judges are probably right prioritizing certain factors such as how defensible is the IP. Nevertheless, as a business guy I cared less about PhD horsepower and more about how are the teams going to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"make it happen"&lt;/span&gt; in the market. I didn't see a lot of innovation on that front. In fact I think that &lt;a href="http://steveblank.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Steve Blank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; would have had the cold shivers contemplating a couple of slides that showed sales force ramping up early in the game. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Smack! smack! Can't you hear the spooky music?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf6cxNleAHI/AAAAAAAAKDw/kNeXERELLU4/s1600-h/P1010803.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf6cxNleAHI/AAAAAAAAKDw/kNeXERELLU4/s320/P1010803.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331871378127585394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apart from that, here it goes a big cheer for an awesome student-organized event. Great presenters, very professional teams and as I said, outstanding PhD and MBA horsepower, in all the cases directly connected to &lt;a href="http://berkeley.edu/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;UC Berkeley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  It made me proud of being part of this university and &lt;a href="http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Haas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in particular. And congratulations to the winners!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6522164061469617403?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6522164061469617403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6522164061469617403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6522164061469617403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6522164061469617403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/05/today-i-attended-finals-of-uc-berkeley.html' title='UC Berkeley Bplan Competition'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sf6cxNleAHI/AAAAAAAAKDw/kNeXERELLU4/s72-c/P1010803.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2070164066323006980</id><published>2009-04-29T01:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-29T01:30:49.243-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quote of the day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>Friction</title><content type='html'>Friction is &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"the force that makes the apparently easy so difficult"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clausewitz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The means to overcome friction is the will. We prevail over friction through persistent strength of mind and spirit"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From "Warfighting". US Marine Corps&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2070164066323006980?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2070164066323006980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2070164066323006980' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2070164066323006980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2070164066323006980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/04/friction.html' title='Friction'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7795344956678394503</id><published>2009-04-24T00:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T00:05:51.767-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>A meaningful dialogue between Business and Design</title><content type='html'>In the last months I have had many informational interviews with people in the Design Thinking* space, mostly designers. When I asked them about the value of a Business School graduate in their companies one single comment came up over and over, surprisingly with almost the same words every time: Business and Design do not "talk" to each other. I do not like that. At all. Today more than ever we need the integration of Business and Design in order to solve this mess of interconnected pressing challenges our world is facing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's the reason why I have launched &lt;span style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;b&gt;The DesignBusiness SandBox&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;For the Design and the Business community, the DesignBusiness SandBox is a &lt;b&gt;meeting point&lt;/b&gt; that brings the &lt;b&gt;Desig&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;n&lt;/b&gt; perspective into &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; and viceversa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sebh1ZJhl3I/AAAAAAAAJsg/4DCPpyLijNk/s1600-h/DBsandbox.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sebh1ZJhl3I/AAAAAAAAJsg/4DCPpyLijNk/s320/DBsandbox.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325191916812343154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using Design thinking as the underlying methodology, the goal of this tool is to create a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;meaningful &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;dialogue&lt;/span&gt; between the Design and the Business world.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Although it has been originated as a student-driven Independent Study Project, and right now it lives within UC Berkeley, I eventually would like to open the site to the Design and the Business community. The site is in an very early and shameless prototyping stage. As the first topic for discussion I am focusing on storytelling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any of the previous paragraphs appeals to you, &lt;a href="mailto:s_rodriguez@mba.berkeley.edu"&gt;[contact me]&lt;/a&gt; and become a collaborator. You will make this man happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Here it is IDEO's &lt;a href="http://designthinking.ideo.com/?p=49"&gt;Tim Brown's definition of Design Thinking&lt;/a&gt;. Here, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking"&gt;wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;, not as catchy as it should be for such an important concept. I should address What is Design Thinking in another post but this might work as a beginning for those of you unfamiliar with the term.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7795344956678394503?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7795344956678394503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7795344956678394503' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7795344956678394503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7795344956678394503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/04/meaningful-dialogue-between-business_24.html' title='A meaningful dialogue between Business and Design'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/Sebh1ZJhl3I/AAAAAAAAJsg/4DCPpyLijNk/s72-c/DBsandbox.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-6522377629029946434</id><published>2009-04-18T23:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-18T23:46:58.844-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brands'/><title type='text'>Google Book Search offline campaign on Campus?</title><content type='html'>Found this week at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. The poster has good printing quality and the paper is thicker than normal.&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SerE0IZiGNI/AAAAAAAAJsw/QvpTn3_LLnk/s1600-h/google+campus+guerrilla.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SerE0IZiGNI/AAAAAAAAJsw/QvpTn3_LLnk/s320/google+campus+guerrilla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326285909205850322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;offline marketing... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is Google Book Search launching a student-driven, ambassador-like promotion campaign at universities? Anyone knows? I will try to find out more about it... By the way, this is what you find when "googling" (or "googleing"?) the term "Search Books"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&amp;amp;hs=zal&amp;amp;q=book+search&amp;amp;btnG=Search"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 476px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SerHrfkHxVI/AAAAAAAAJtA/JCxLSur8N9c/s400/google+booksearch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326289059340338514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;...complementing AdWords and organic search positioning&lt;br /&gt;Click to enlarge or just google "book search"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Google Book Search owns the main sponsored link and ranks first, third and fifth in the organic search results.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-6522377629029946434?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/6522377629029946434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=6522377629029946434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6522377629029946434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/6522377629029946434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/04/google-search-offline-campaign-on.html' title='Google Book Search offline campaign on Campus?'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SerE0IZiGNI/AAAAAAAAJsw/QvpTn3_LLnk/s72-c/google+campus+guerrilla.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4626033296136595837</id><published>2009-04-14T22:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T13:47:57.134-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve Blank and the The Secret History of Silicon Valley</title><content type='html'>Since I arrived to California I have been keeping a personal blog to update friends and family about my experience in this land of dreams and opportunity. Approximately one year ago I briefly posted about &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Secret History of Silicon Valley&lt;/span&gt;, a presentation I bumped into by chance surfing the Internet. The author happened to be a UC Berkeley professor. Not much more to it at that moment, it was interesting to know what is behind the visible history of "The Valley"...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This semester I enrolled in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Customer and Business Development&lt;/span&gt;, a course taught by &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://steveblank.com/"&gt;Steve Blank&lt;/a&gt;, by the way one of my favorite classes at Haas. Some days ago he mentioned &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"The Secret History of Silicon Valley"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and I realized how "unconnections" are playing around us all the time, we just have to pay attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mentioned Steve's book, &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/0976470705"&gt;the Four Steps to the Epiphany&lt;/a&gt;, in my post on the &lt;a href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/03/design-process.html"&gt;Design process&lt;/a&gt;. I really recommend if you plan to start a business, if you are running one or if you started one and, as Steve likes to put it, left a crater behind and you are curious about what went wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/0976470705"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 161px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeaZFLd7IrI/AAAAAAAAJsY/Exj9b-hD2_Y/s320/4stepstoepiphany" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325111923668886194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;...draftish and could use some design too, but useful as can be...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The book's main thesis is that a start-up is not the small-size version or a regular firm. Applying the traditional cookie-cut product development approach in a start-up is the recipe for disaster. Entrepreneurs must identify what kind of market are they in (new, existing, re-segmented), get to know their customers and learn how to scale up sales before switching on the cash-burning machine. This methodology has interesting contact points with the design thinking methodology (user observation, fail often and fail cheap in order to learn quickly...). It provides a great framework with actionable milestones to help you launch a business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://steveblank.com/"&gt;Steve's blog&lt;/a&gt;, some posts tend to be too long for those with &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;MBA / Harvard cases induced attention deficit disorder&lt;/span&gt; but they are well worth it...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4626033296136595837?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4626033296136595837/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4626033296136595837' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4626033296136595837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4626033296136595837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/04/steve-blank-and-the-secret-history-of.html' title='Steve Blank and the The Secret History of Silicon Valley'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeaZFLd7IrI/AAAAAAAAJsY/Exj9b-hD2_Y/s72-c/4stepstoepiphany' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2255327454449353793</id><published>2009-04-14T21:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-02T02:41:03.973-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='innovation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brands'/><title type='text'>The Most Innovative Companies 2009</title><content type='html'>I have been flipping through Businessweek's &lt;a href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0409_most_innovative_cos/index.htm"&gt;Most Innovative Companies top 50 for 2009&lt;/a&gt;. Apart from the expected technology-related companies (Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Intel...) there are retailers (Target, WalMart), several telephone carriers (AT&amp;amp;T, Verizon, Vodafone) and surprisingly auto and financial services companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, regarding the two latter categories, if they have not been innovative they'd better get their innovation mojo working. The main problem for me is that they have so much at stake that it would be complicated for them to reinvent (=destroy) themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;They could potentially do it from the product side if they think wildly enough. In &lt;a href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2008/10/dot-1-power-of-moment.html"&gt;one of my first posts&lt;/a&gt; I mentioned a lecture by Mr. Tetsuya Kaida from Toyota Motor Corporation. One of his aspirational principles was being able to produce cars that not only do not pollute but also have a positive impact in the environment.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ditching their current business models is a very different thing. This is probably the critical issue. I cannot think of companies "disrupting" their own business models before they are in dire need. Any examples?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;In the top 50 list there is another interesting finding, particularly for me as a Spaniard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeV1X0jPMwI/AAAAAAAAJsQ/9G0mvWD7YEc/s1600-h/%C3%91.svg.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 137px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeV1X0jPMwI/AAAAAAAAJsQ/9G0mvWD7YEc/s320/%C3%91.svg.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324791186539361026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;España is in the Businessweek Innovation Top 50!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are three Spanish companies in the top 50:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;#28 &lt;a href="http://www.telefonica.com/home_eng.shtml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Telefonica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the leading telecommunications operator in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; #39 &lt;a href="http://www.iberdrolarenewables.us/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Iberdrola&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the world's biggest wind-power company.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; #42 &lt;a href="http://www.santander.com/csgs/Satellite?accesibilidad=3&amp;amp;canal=CAccionistas&amp;amp;empr=SANCorporativo&amp;amp;pagename=SANCorporativo/GSDistribuidora/SC_Index"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Banco Santander&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, pioneer in applying consumer-marketing techniques to the financial services industry in Spain, worldwide top 3 bank in terms of profits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;All three are large companies that have been around for a long while. In fact most of the companies in the list are large and relatively old firms. It can be a bias in the methodology employed to select the candidates, but why aren't there smaller, crazier companies? The study is based on a research by a major management consulting firm, does that play a role in the final selection of companies?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2255327454449353793?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2255327454449353793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2255327454449353793' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2255327454449353793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2255327454449353793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/04/most-innovative-companies-2009.html' title='The Most Innovative Companies 2009'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeV1X0jPMwI/AAAAAAAAJsQ/9G0mvWD7YEc/s72-c/%C3%91.svg.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7381678421277310188</id><published>2009-04-07T15:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T15:21:03.091-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='just for fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><title type='text'>By popular demand: cocido madrileño</title><content type='html'>This was my &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Design as Competitive Advantage&lt;/span&gt; class first day presentation. We had to present an example of a well designed product, service or experience. I was debating whether to talk about my inexpensive Casio F-91W or go for a more holistic experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I eventually decided for Madrid's signature dish, something I enjoy shopping for, preparing and eating with friends. Cocido madrileño or Madrilenian stew. People keep asking me for the recipe. Yesterday a classmate of mine told me her family in the Philippines cooks a similar version every week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src='http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?docid=ddq45tcb_252cb6r7rdp' frameborder='0' width='410' height='342'&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7381678421277310188?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7381678421277310188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7381678421277310188' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7381678421277310188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7381678421277310188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/04/by-popular-demand-cocido-madrileno.html' title='By popular demand: cocido madrileño'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4799909194004412286</id><published>2009-03-30T23:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-31T18:57:25.953-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='innovation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business models'/><title type='text'>Business Model Innovation and Design</title><content type='html'>Yesterday, as part of my Managing Innovation and Change course with Prof. Chesbrough, I attended a lecture on Business Model Innovation and Design by Alex Osterwalder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex started by providing a definition of business model, "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;how an organization makes (or intends to make) money"&lt;/span&gt;, which he maps around a simple yet powerful visual tool, the business model canvas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://business-model-design.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-is-business-model.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 155px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SdKzmx8iTiI/AAAAAAAAJDg/RKyflxCtO5s/s320/Business-Model-Canvas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319511588701621794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The business model canvas by Alex Osterwalder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the center we have the value proposition of whatever business model we are looking at. To the right we have the customer, segments and relationships, and how the revenue is generated. To the left we have the company resources, activities and partners and its cost structure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This unified framework captures a lot of information in a snapshot. Alex successfully used it to describe existing business models and to compare them to those of competing companies. Such a simple tool helped the audience generate insights "on the fly". Visual representation, a design tool, does a great job helping describing and applying a business concept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex went on explaining how design thinking can be applied to design new business models providing examples of design tools for observation, ideation, prototyping and visual thinking. You can find more in his blog, &lt;a href="http://business-model-design.blogspot.com/"&gt;Business Model Design and Innovation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex's work is an example of how meaningful the dialogue between business and design can be. There are many interesting things going on around this subject and I am currently working on a project along these lines so I will be blogging about it soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4799909194004412286?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4799909194004412286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4799909194004412286' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4799909194004412286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4799909194004412286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/03/business-model-innovation-and-design.html' title='Business Model Innovation and Design'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SdKzmx8iTiI/AAAAAAAAJDg/RKyflxCtO5s/s72-c/Business-Model-Canvas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2722144291720214023</id><published>2009-03-15T23:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-16T00:00:54.642-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quote of the day'/><title type='text'>My Personal Theory of Risk</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;"&gt;"Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"But where danger is, grows the saving power also" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;Friedrich Hölderlin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2722144291720214023?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2722144291720214023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2722144291720214023' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2722144291720214023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2722144291720214023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-personal-theory-of-risk.html' title='My Personal Theory of Risk'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-2672639060526597852</id><published>2009-03-09T23:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T23:57:45.415-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='innovation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>Storytelling and technology</title><content type='html'>My favorite feature of many many web 2.0 sites is the status update feature. Such a tiny thing is a crazy mix of personal news update, ego-exhibitionism, gossip and who knows what else (probably this is the reason why it appeals to so many people). Such a simple feature can serve many different purposes as casual or as transcendent as you can imagine. Actually there is a debate going on regarding uses of microblogging, &lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2213036/"&gt;Twitter in this case&lt;/a&gt;, beyond its traditional purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 149px; height: 137px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SbYMCVwlJZI/AAAAAAAAImw/-XsGlx_oDvA/s400/twitter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311446044870256018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;twitter tweets...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to bring here the case of Twitter as an example of how users can find innovative use cases for existing technologies. Recently, going through Frog Design's blog I found &lt;a href="http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/coup-detat-on-twitter.html"&gt;this interesting post&lt;/a&gt; on how Twitter has been used for a &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/23f?page=1"&gt;real-time reenactment of the 23 feb 1981 coup d’etat in Spain&lt;/a&gt;. In a country that was struggling to consolidate a budding democracy those were uncertain days. I was too young to recall anything but my parents have told me how we were driving home, close to a military cantonment, not knowing if tanks would be out blocking the roads. The whole country held on to their radios and TV sets listening to the pieces of news that kept on dripping every other minute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SbYNJyCG1tI/AAAAAAAAIm4/kwyXbPNIjzw/s1600-h/Spain_flags.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 92px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SbYNJyCG1tI/AAAAAAAAIm4/kwyXbPNIjzw/s400/Spain_flags.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311447272230672082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;...also en español&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twenty eight years later, Twitter users have revisited, minute by minute, this historical event for my country. Isn't it a wonderful way of telling a story with today’s latest technical tools and language?. I am shocked with what people can come up with when given the adequate resources...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-2672639060526597852?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/2672639060526597852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=2672639060526597852' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2672639060526597852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/2672639060526597852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/03/storytelling-and-technology.html' title='Storytelling and technology'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SbYMCVwlJZI/AAAAAAAAImw/-XsGlx_oDvA/s72-c/twitter.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-244931845804210825</id><published>2009-03-08T00:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-08T00:27:18.504-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design flops'/><title type='text'>Some Blackberry Pearl design flops</title><content type='html'>A simple design mistake can trigger a call to 911. Such a simple thing is a total turnoff for me as a user.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src='http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?docid=ddq45tcb_139hp8dvz85' frameborder='0' width='410' height='342'&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-244931845804210825?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/244931845804210825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=244931845804210825' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/244931845804210825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/244931845804210825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/03/some-blackberry-pearl-design-flops.html' title='Some Blackberry Pearl design flops'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-4288582075254957797</id><published>2009-03-06T15:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T16:56:31.388-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social networking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communities'/><title type='text'>Are we social capital pack rats?</title><content type='html'>On a previous post, &lt;a href="http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/01/note-on-branded-email.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A note on "branded" email&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I mentioned the study I carried out together with several classmates on the value proposition of social networking. Thang has spotted an article on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The McKinsey Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Organization/Talent/When_job_seekers_invade_Facebook_2317"&gt;When job seekers invade Facebook &lt;/a&gt; , that touches on two of the subjects we dealt with in our study.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first subject is &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The transferability of "Social Capital" from offline to online&lt;/span&gt;. In our study we supported the thesis that, amongst other benefits, the value proposition of social networking has to do with accumulating social capital. As the article reads &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Anthropologists tell us that it’s impossible to maintain stable social relationships with more than 150 people." &lt;/span&gt;True! Of course users do not maintain stable social relationships with all of their contacts. In-depth interviews with users showed us that usually social networking websites like Facebook work as a repository of potentially useful contacts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, we collect acquaintances, people we think we might reconnect with, be it for leisure or professional purposes. Given that storing contacts is virtually free, why not doing it? Who knows if I might need those contacts later?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;[ Side note 1: Facebook uses a rigid and awkward mechanism to manage people in our network. Facebook forces us to label such an heterogeneous set of online contacts as friends. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;What about mimicking the offline categories we already use: friend, relative, work colleague, acquaintance.... "Contacts" could be the generic or default term. This taxonomy would allow users to manage privacy and content-sharing permissions in a more natural and transparent way. ] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[ Side note 2: Something that intrigues me are the psychological / sociological reasons behind this "contacts-collector" behavior.  Does it have to do with a culture of not giving up choices?]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From a business perspective it results that within our social networks we have a humongous amount of potential value that we rarely convert into anything real. Deeper friendships,  job opportunities, favors, or even romantic dates go unrealized.  The biz question is very straight forward then: is there a way of materializing that diffuse social capital? In a meaningful way, beyond casual apps, I mean. The entrepreneur in me has a couple of ideas about it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me finish with another quote from the article:&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Overall, online social networking, with its support groups and trusted access, is governed by a culture of sharing, not selling."&lt;/span&gt; That also appeared as a clear conclusion of our user research. Does that mean that business models that rely on selling are completely preempted in social networking? Well, that is the second subject of our study I alluded to at the beginnig of this post: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Creating and capturing value: Specialized vs. generalized social network platforms&lt;/span&gt;. I better end this post here or I would have to rename it as the never ending post... Audience, the discussion is served...anyone?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-4288582075254957797?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/4288582075254957797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=4288582075254957797' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4288582075254957797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/4288582075254957797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-previous-post-note-on-branded-email.html' title='Are we social capital pack rats?'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-570617867775319043</id><published>2009-03-03T14:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T15:13:43.770-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quote of the day'/><title type='text'>About winning</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Winning continuously is a complete disaster"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;Takeshi H.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This little wisdom pearl that could be attributed to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sun Tzu&lt;/span&gt; comes from my classmate and friend Takeshi. He initially alluded at the negative effect on personal relationships of having one side always winning. The quote can have many other different readings.  It could also point at the need of commiting mistakes in order to learn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Takeshi introduced me to the work of the Japanese architect &lt;a href="http://www.andotadao.org/"&gt;Tadao Ando&lt;/a&gt; and is also a fan of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/101-Things-Learned-Architecture-School/dp/0262062666"&gt;101 Things I Learned in Architecture School&lt;/a&gt;, by Matthew Fredderick, a great read for anybody who likes to connect dots.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-570617867775319043?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/570617867775319043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=570617867775319043' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/570617867775319043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/570617867775319043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/03/about-winning.html' title='About winning'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-7225183990031700697</id><published>2009-03-01T23:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T15:24:36.672-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design-thinking'/><title type='text'>The design process</title><content type='html'>The design process is my favorite tool for problem solving. Lines 1 to 5 in the following exhibit describe different approaches to map this process:&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The design process -&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Click on the image to enlarge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaulRYyY4aI/AAAAAAAAImg/78iqHYO9pjQ/s1600-h/design+process1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 183px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaulRYyY4aI/AAAAAAAAImg/78iqHYO9pjQ/s400/design+process1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308518303916417442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Sources:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Universal Traveler. Koberg, D. and Bagnall, J.     Thomson Crisp Learning, 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory as explained in the New Product Development course - Haas MBA 290N-2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;IDEO Product Development. Harvard Business School case study, April 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sypartners.com/website.html"&gt;SY Partners&lt;/a&gt; approach to innovation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Design Thinking. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Tim Brown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;. Harvard Business Review, June 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; The first phase, in &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;red&lt;/span&gt; in the previous exhibit, consists in looking around you, and inside you too, to understand the problem. The second phase, in &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;orange&lt;/span&gt;, is about coming up with alternatives and selecting the one that would be applied in the third phase, implementation, in &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;green&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;What I like about the Universal Traveler's approach is that it explicitly adds the problem definition at the end of the observation stage and singles out evaluation at the end of the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two considerations. The process is iterative in each phase and as a whole:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;In each phase because problems are complex and dynamic and there always room for us to do more research, come up with new ideas, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;As a whole because after evaluation -feedback- the process should start all over again. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Other related approaches are John Boyd's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_Loop"&gt;OODA  loop &lt;/a&gt;(Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) or the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development"&gt;Agile software development methodology&lt;/a&gt;. I find interesting similarities in &lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/venturehacks/customer-development-methodology-presentation"&gt;Steve Blank's Customer Development&lt;/a&gt; philosophy, or should I say religion after reading his book &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/0976470705"&gt;The Four Steps to the Ephipany&lt;/a&gt;? Yes, I am a believer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-7225183990031700697?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/7225183990031700697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=7225183990031700697' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7225183990031700697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/7225183990031700697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/03/design-process.html' title='The design process'/><author><name>Santiago Rodríguez de Miguel</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SeVo8kOKSZI/AAAAAAAAJrw/yWJY9j8PIWo/S220/dibu+clear+line+SRM+face.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SaulRYyY4aI/AAAAAAAAImg/78iqHYO9pjQ/s72-c/design+process1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268539414030303512.post-3449608971702051522</id><published>2009-02-28T03:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-02T12:23:21.897-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brands'/><title type='text'>Walkin' and a-Talkin'. ATT&amp;T true colors?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SakhET-qynI/AAAAAAAAIlY/QlWaHJkxNrY/s1600-h/walking+and+taling2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mhUkadU9Jxo/SakhET-qynI/AAAAAAAAIlY/QlWaHJkxNrY/s400/walking+and+taling2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307809993799158386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is what I received together with my AT&amp;amp;T monthly bill. A total of 8 pieces of paper of different shapes and colors. In one of them, the green one, I was encouraged to save resources and "go paperless"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7268539414030303512-3449608971702051522?l=seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/feeds/3449608971702051522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7268539414030303512&amp;postID=3449608971702051522' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3449608971702051522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7268539414030303512/posts/default/3449608971702051522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seeminglyunconnected.blogspot.com/2009/02/walkin-and-talkin-att.html' title='Walkin&apos; and a-Talkin&apos;. 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