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Pekka Himanen’s Keynote – MindTrek

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Episode: VMC #189 – Pekka Himanen, MindTrek

I’m convinced that Pekka made some good points in his presentation, he is one of the internationally best-known researchers of the information age, but he simply has his ‘own way’ of saying it. I gathered my thoughts based on the feedback coming from the audience.

Andrea

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43 Responses to “Pekka Himanen’s Keynote – MindTrek”

  1. Ramine Darabiha 4 October 2009 at 4:02 pm Permalink

    Jesus. I only read the tweets. Thanks for the vid :P

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  2. Andrea Vascellari 4 October 2009 at 4:06 pm Permalink

    @Ramine: Yep… It was ’something’… BTW love the new home page look of http://www.mysites.com/ Keep up the great work!

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  3. Ramine Darabiha 4 October 2009 at 4:12 pm Permalink

    Thanks. Will update you when there’s news!

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  4. Anne Rongas 4 October 2009 at 4:17 pm Permalink

    Andrea, thank you a lot about sharing these wonderful moments with Pekka Himanen, the hope on Finland…

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  5. Andrea Vascellari 4 October 2009 at 4:25 pm Permalink

    @Anne: Thanks to you for joining the conversation. Honestly, I have a lot of respect for the guy but I hope he’ll take this video to re-think about certain aspects of ‘how’ he presents his concepts.

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  6. nethunt 4 October 2009 at 4:41 pm Permalink

    Thanks very much! Now I saw it. Well ;P But maybe a little overedited. It seems that the presentation is at its best without any editing lol.

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  7. Andrea Vascellari 4 October 2009 at 4:52 pm Permalink

    @Kari Hintikka (nethunt): Hehh… yes I understand, although it would have been a bit difficult to follow 1 hour video at that rhythm. Probably that’s also one of the reasons why many left the room before the presentation was over…

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  8. nethunt 4 October 2009 at 4:54 pm Permalink

    Was it only 1 hour? Ooh 8D

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  9. Andrea Vascellari 4 October 2009 at 4:57 pm Permalink

    @Kari Hintikka (nethunt): Uuupss! Sorry you are right… it was 1 hour and 10 minutes ;)

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  10. lindstorm 4 October 2009 at 5:00 pm Permalink

    If I was in the audience this would make feel myself underrated. As if Pekka had not bothered to even go through his presentation and think through the key points that he wants to give out.

    This estimation is made after seeing this flick by Andrea only, but if many listeners left the room like @nethunt said, that says something about the level of presentation, too.

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  11. Andrea Vascellari 4 October 2009 at 5:08 pm Permalink

    @lindstorm: It would have been different if I was the only one that felt this way. But you just need to have a look at the stream of tweets to get the idea + of course if you were there it would have been even easier to understand. Again, I hope this will help Pekka to better pitch his future presentations.

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  12. Teemu Arina 4 October 2009 at 5:16 pm Permalink

    With all due respect to good people like Pekka who’s ideas I’ve admired over the years, this was absolutely hilarious :) In the age of Twitter you can no longer repeat stuff you have been talking about for years and get away with it with bad execution.

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  13. nethunt 4 October 2009 at 5:46 pm Permalink

    @tar1na +1. Public presentations are now really public ;)

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  14. Juho 4 October 2009 at 7:44 pm Permalink

    Oh dear. I’ve seen some absolutely superb talks from Himanen, perhaps this time it was a case of mismatch with audience expectations. He can be both a scholar and a rockstar, not sure what this one was…

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  15. Tuija Aalto 5 October 2009 at 10:39 am Permalink

    I wonder where is the diffenrence or the fine line between poignant commentary and due feedback and cyberbullying? There certainly are strong tools for both available these days online.

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  16. Andrea Vascellari 5 October 2009 at 12:19 pm Permalink

    @Tuija: Poignant commentary, due feedback and cyberbullying are three different things.

    This video certainly is a feedback but it doesn’t define or sits on any of these categories.

    It simply gave echo to commentaries that were already out there, thoughts and opinions that people had during the presentation and that I simply gathered to let people smile rather than ending up with less happy/satisfied faces like the ones, me and others, noticed in audience present that day.

    Again, I’m not questioning the knowledge of Pekka, he is a great researcher, but I (and apparently many others) think he should just work a little bit on his presentation skills.

    If he hosted a minor session at the conference probably it would have been different, but when you have to deliver a keynote to the entire audience, so everyone is there to listen to you because no parallel sessions are running, I think you should keep in mind all these aspects that people were pointing out like stage behavior, play with the voice, melody, looking, engaging info, engaging with the audience, etc.

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  17. Tuija Aalto 5 October 2009 at 6:47 pm Permalink

    Andrea, I intended my comment as a mere observation, not an accusation. This #stophimanen meme incident that I only witnessed via Twitter left me thinking about perveived power and reactioins to it. Association leap: brands; or journalists, not present online – when you turn your back to your audiences, so to speak – you invite them to be annoyed with you behind your back.

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  18. Andrea Vascellari 5 October 2009 at 7:22 pm Permalink

    @Tuija: No worries, I didn’t take it as an accusation, but I just wanted to clarify and make sure there were not misunderstandings ;)

    Yes I noticed the #StopHimanen meme just today when people sent me tweets about it. It apparently started back on Friday during Himanen’s keynote.

    You touch a very good point when talking about brands, journalists, etc. not present online. The conversation happens and will keep happening anyway, with or without people like me that join it or with or without people that gather it through memes. Individuals and organizations should at least listen and join wisely when and where is needed.

    BTW Good that you told me via twitter because your comment actually ended up in spam! You go and figure that out… It’s not the first time that I’m facing this problem. So now I added a note in the comment form:

    “If your comment doesn’t show up, contact me. It probably got stuck in spam or moderation”.

    Thanks for letting me know about it Tuija!

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  19. Samuli K 6 October 2009 at 9:54 am Permalink

    The banjo, the banjo!

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  20. Selena Ze Arteest 12 October 2009 at 6:07 am Permalink

    It seems he didn’t write a plan for his presentation.

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