Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarm Creativity
Peter Gloor, Hauke Fuehres, Jonas Krauss
Tue Jan 19, 03-06:00pm, E51-345
Wed Jan 20, Thu Jan 21, Fri Jan 22, 03-06:00pm, NE25-746
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 18-Jan-2010
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Discover what’s going to be cool—before everyone else.
In this course you will find out how to:
- discover cool trends through finding the trendsetters: tap into the collective intelligence of the Web, Blogs, and online social networks (coolhunting)
- develop the new trends through self-organizing teams (coolfarming). You will also learn how to use our Condor, CoolPeople and CoolTrend software for coolhunting and dynamic social network analysis. This is a condensed version of a distributed course, which has been taught for the last 5 years at MIT, Helsinki, Cologne, and Savannah.
Web: http://www.ickn.org/html/IAP.htm
Contact: Peter Gloor, NE25-749, x3-7018, pgloor@mit.edu
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Jewelry Making 101
Caitlin Lynch
Fri Jan 8, 02-04:00pm, E51-390
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 15 participants.
Fee: 10.00 for Materials Fee
Participants will create a lovely bracelet with faceted glass and silver-plated or pewter beads. This class will cover simple, single-strand stringing and design.
Contact: Caitlin Lynch, E52-126, x3-0384, clynch@mit.edu
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Memoir Writing Workshop
Jyl Lynn Felman, Rochelle Weichman
Sat Jan 16, 10am-12:30pm, E51-385
Signup by: 16-Jan-2010
Limited to 8 participants.
Single session event
Write about your life! Preserve your memories. This three hour workshop covers the basics of autobiographical writing including creative writing exercises to help you remember those fabulous hidden details of your story. We’ll look at voice, character development, and scene; and discuss passages from successful contemporary memoirs, deciding what works and doesn’t work. Limited to 8 participants.
Bring an object that holds many memories for you to the workshop.
Web: http://www.jyllynnfelman.com
Contact: Rochelle Weichman, weichman@mit.edu
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Tax Issues for Employees and Entrepreneurs
Howard Mandelcorn, Joseph Weber
Tue Jan 26, Wed Jan 27, 01-04:00pm, E51-151
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This course intends to expose students to a broad range of tax issues students will encounter shortly after graduation as an entrepreneur or an employee. For a new employee, taxes are an important consideration in decisions regarding deductions and retirement savings (through employee and employer contributions such as 401k's IRAs, etc). Taxes also feature prominently in decisions with respect to stock option-based compensation. Also, tax related issues for U.S. taxpayers working overseas will be addressed. For the entrepreneur, taxes also influence a new business venture's choice of entity: Corporation, LLC, Partnership, Sole Proprietorship. Instructor: Howard Mandelcorn is a partner at the Hutchings Baramian LLP law firm in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Contact: Patrick X. Brown, (617) 253-6130, pxbrown@mit.edu
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Technology, Leadership, and Innovation in the Services Economy
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Wed Jan 27, 01-04:00pm, E51-149
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Over the past century, science and technology have been successfully applied to innovation in the industrial sector of the economy. The services sector comprises between 70 - 80% of the GDP and jobs in advanced economies around the world. Advances in information technologies have enabled us to bring significant innovation to services and services industries. The seminar will explore the differences between "classic" industrial sector innovation and innovation in the services economy. We will illustrate the nature of services innovation with concrete examples across a variety of industries.
Contact: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, E40-237, (203) 856-4915, irvingwb@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Engineering Systems Division
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