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Coolnetworking 3.0: Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarm Creativity
Peter Gloor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This course consists of three parts, part I is the foundation for parts II and III, parts can be taken separately.
Day 1: I. How to Be an Efficient (Online) Networker
Part I is for everybody who would like to learn how they can be more efficient in their online and face-to-face networking.
Day 2: II. Coolhunting
Part II is for the power user who would like to learn how to apply Social Network Analysis to discover and predict emergent trends on the Web by mining Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Wikipedia and the Web at large. Coolhunting means finding new trends by finding the trendsetters before anybody else, by tapping into the collective intelligence on the Web, and interpreting it through dynamic semantic social network analysis.
Day 3: III. Coolfarming
Part III builds on the basics from part II, it shows you how you can develop new trends through self-organizing teams (Coolfarming) by nurturing COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks), and how you can better advertise your products on the Web through viral marketing using Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia.
This is a revised and condensed version of a distributed course, which has been taught for the last 8 years at MIT, Helsinki, Cologne, and Savannah. (http://sites.google.com/site/coincourse2012/)
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Peter Gloor, NE25-749, x3-7018, pgloor@mit.edu
| Jan/09 | Wed | 03:00PM-06:00PM | NE25-746, Bring your laptop |
How to Be an Efficient (Online) Networker
twenty rules for networking :
You will create a "virtual mirror" of your own communication behavior, telling you how much of a "star" or a "galaxy" you are, analyzing your own Facebook and e-mail networks.
Peter Gloor
| Jan/10 | Thu | 03:00PM-06:00PM | NE25-746, bring your laptop |
Coolhunting
As part of the course you will get Condor-2.6.6, which allows you to analyze Web sites, Blogs, Twitter, Wikipedia, Facebook and E-Mail.
Peter Gloor
| Jan/11 | Fri | 03:00PM-06:00PM | NE25-746, bring your laptop |
Coolfarming
In this part we will use Condor-2.6.6 to analyze organizational e-mail networks, and study interpersonal networks on the Web, Twitter, and Facebook.
Peter Gloor
Entrepreneurial Strategy for Engineers
Jorge Guzman
| Jan/22 | Tue | 09:00AM-04:00PM | E51-151 | |
| Jan/23 | Wed | 09:00AM-04:00PM | E51-151 | |
| Jan/24 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-151 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Many engineering students hope to build their own business one day, some might even already be working on it, or would do so if they just thought they could make a business out of their work. Business strategy, however, is a foreign concept for them. As they start their businesses they often only learn what strategy they can from observation, conversation, and reading online. Though it has results, this approach is quite suboptimal.
This course provides a “crash course” on entrepreneurial strategy, prepared specifically for engineering students (both graduate and undergraduate) with no previous knowledge of business. Jorge Guzman, the instructor, has been on both sides, he is a former software developer and is a current PhD student at MIT Sloan, TIES (the S stands for Strategy). He observes that strategy concepts are very different from engineering concepts, and that it is often hard for engineers to appreciate their value. In the structure for this class, he tries to bridge that gap.
This class is useful for anyone who wants to start their own business, join an early stage company, or join an established firm in which (s)he some someday hopes to create new product lines.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Jorge Guzman, jorgeg@MIT.EDU
Having more Time per Minute - An Introduction to Time Management
David Engel
| Jan/22 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | E51-145 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Time is one of the most precious assets we have and we should make sure that we are spending it wisely. Time management is a broad term that includes a wide variety of techniques and systems to improve the way you approach your tasks and goals. This course will give an introduction to some of the main ideas and some suggestions where you might be able to improve your own time management system. We’ll discuss topics such as “What time management can do for you”, “Why your inbox should not be your to do list”, “What should I do next” and “How 15 minutes could save you a lot of stress”.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: David Engel, dengel@MIT.EDU
Intro to C++
Peter Vassallo
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/28
Attendance:
The goal of the course is to provide students with no prior experience in C++ with an introduction to the basics, as well as the resources and guidance to enable them to pursue self-study on their own time after IAP. The course will provide some context as to how C++ is used in practice and what employers would expect of someone who can program in C++. It is organized by the Quant Finance Club at Sloan and examples from Finance will be used wherever possible. Tracy Licklider is an independent software projects advice & rescue consultant. He mainly consults on or directly does rescue of projects in trouble -- one of the fastest growing segments of the computer software industry.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Peter Vassallo, pav87@mit.edu
Politics, Economics, and the Euro Area Crisis.
Athanasios Orphanides
| Jan/29 | Tue | 10:30AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Until its tenth anniversary and even after the start of the global financial crisis, the European economic and monetary union was a considered a success. Since 2009, however, the euro area is mired in a crisis that presently threatens the survival of the monetary union and even the European Union in its current form. This session will briefly review the framework of the euro area and some of the weaknesses that have been playing a role in perpetuating and magnifying the crisis. One focus will be the governance of the euro area, the absence of a representative government that can decisively tackle the crisis, and the role of political considerations at individual member states. Another focus will be the role of the ECB and economic considerations for the euro area as a whole. Questions serve as a backdrop: Will the euro area survive? What are possible paths towards a resolution of the crisis?
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management, Economics
Contact: Athanasios Orphanides, orphanid@mit.edu
(CANCELED) RESCHEDULED to 2/15/13 Structuring Your Scientific Paper
Dr. Jean-luc Doumont,
| Jan/30 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | Rescheduled for 2/15/13 in 32-123 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Papers are one of the few deliverables of the work of researchers. Well-designed, they efficiently allow each reader to learn only what he or she needs to. Poorly designed, by contrast, they confuse readers, fail to prompt decisions, or remain unread. Based on Dr Doumont's book Trees, Maps, and Theorems, about “effective communication for rational minds”, the lecture shows how to structure scientific papers, theses, and technical reports effectively at all levels to get the readers' attention, facilitate navigation, and, in this way, get the message across optimally.
Sponsor(s): Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE), Teaching and Learning Lab, Sloan School of Management
Contact: Leann Dobranski, 5-122, x3-3371, leann@mit.edu
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