We had an inspirational guest speaker on Monday. He was Jaakko Alasaarela from ZEF solutions Oy.
Jaakko Alasaarela and Zlatan
He told us a story about his company. One day people from ZEF had written down their dream. That dream was that they wanted to cooperate with Facebook and do a voting advice application for USA's presidental election. Magazines somehow heard this and published this as a fact even though it was still just their dream. By chance they actually ended up doing a voting advice application for Egypt's first democratic presidental election on Al Jazeera. After this they finally got a chance to do cooperation with Facebook regarding a voting advice application! So Mr Alasaarela's lesson was that it is important to write down your dreams down because they can come true!
"Say to yourself: I can do it!" Jaakko Alasaarela
Second speaker was familiar to us. She was Camilla Tuominen from Emotion Tracker Oy. She told us about Emotion Tracker and how it works. Our team and one other team had already heard about it when we were visiting Digi People Studio (and at the same time Emotion Tracker.) I think an interesting thing she said was "The more specific your word choice, the better insight you have into exactly how you are feeling, what caused it, and what you should do abot it". This is why it would be good to use Emotion Tracker because it helps you with it.
About emotions by Simon Sinek
Our task this week was to analyze thesis in our group and make a presentation about thesis. We chose to do a video. Surprise, surprise! But this time it is in Finnish.
Behind the scenes
On Thursday two of our digital coaches were lecturing, Jabed Kaisar and Bui Duong. First it was Jabed's turn. His subject was SEO. We have had quite many lectures about that topic before.
What is SEO:
- optimizing your particular web pages
- act of modifying a website by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase its ranking
Why use it?:
- search engine rankings
- organic search engine presence visitors through search
- wordwide use of search engine
- cost efficient
- builds trust and credibility
Then it was Bui's turn to tell us about Freshdesk. What is it? It is a cloud based customer platform that was founded with the mission of enabling companies of all sizes to provide great customer service. It has over 50 000 business and organizations as customers.
Also:
- fast growing
- integrated helpdesk solution
- great reviews & feedback from users
- affordable price
Jabed Kaisar and Bui Duong lecturing
After this it was time for some groups to present their presentations that they had done this week. All presentations sounded almost the same because the subject was same. But it was fairly interesting to hear what they had to say about the same thesis. Then day day was over quite quickly.
On Friday we had a school day (usually it's a day off for us). We heard about next spring's courses and what we could choose to study. I think that I'm going to study marketing, management and Swedish at least. I don't have to take that many courses and I think I'm going to graduate in a year :)
Happy Sunday!
- Tanja