Category Archives: conferences

How to Unconference your Birthday – The Book

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: September 23, 2011
[UPDATE: download it now, read it and share your thoughts on Facebook] Last year, when Ton turned 40, we organized an unconference to celebrate (of course we also had a bbq party!), and we invited people from our various circles. The topic was ‘Working on Stuff that Matters‘, ‘WSTM’. Some 40 people participated in the unconference, [...]
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How to get totally energized…

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: June 7, 2010
…or how to work your ass off? Answer: State to an organizer of an event that you’re willing to record and produce movies during that 5-day event and get the job. Last week my municipality held an Open Innovation Festival in Enschede. It was held previously in Amsterdam and one person in particular thought it was such a [...]
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Priceless moment

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: May 23, 2010
This is serious from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo. I taped many things during Ton’s Unconference Birthday Party, but this shot ruled them all.
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Stuff that Matters to Me and You

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: May 13, 2010
Tomorrow, Ton and I will host a group of 40 people in our home for a birthday unconference to celebrate Ton’s 40th. The theme Ton chose is “Working on stuff that matters.” It’s a theme that we both discussed for a longer time now. We feel the deep need to work on projects that have a [...]
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Watch my FabLab documentary now!

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: April 21, 2010
A ‘How I did it’ series of blogposts will follow, but for now I just want to show you what I’ve been passionately creating over the past few weeks. Take your time for this 14 minutes piece of work and enjoy watching it. A Shift: a documentary on FabLab in The Netherlands. from Elmine Wijnia on [...]
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My SHiFT viral on Portugese TV

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: April 21, 2010
How cool is that Bruno added the logo at the end.
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My presentation at SHiFT2010

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: April 20, 2010
It’s been a hectic week. First finishing up on the documentary on FabLab, then flying to Lisbon for the conference, just before the cloud disrupted flights in Northern Europe, then just in time preparation for a talk and the premiere of the documentary on Saturday and afterwards worrying about getting home and arranging for our [...]
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An unpronounceable vulcano keeps me in Portugal…

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: April 20, 2010
…where I was attending SHiFT2010. So I have the privilege to spend some time at Josien’s place, a farm an hours drive from Lisbon. Worse things could have happened
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It wasn’t worth it.

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: March 21, 2010
And I hardly need an excuse to visit London. Tube in Tube out. Let me explain what I’m talking about. Together with Ton I was invited to join the Somesso/Headshift/Dachis Social Business Summit in London last Thursday. The program looked promising: only two speakers to kick-off the day, including the always inspiring JP Rangaswami), followed by [...]
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Experimenting with stop-motion

By Elmine Wijnia | Published: February 22, 2010
It’s been on my list for a while now, to experiment with stop-motion. Creating a viral for SHiFT using Lego is the perfect excuse to work a tad late. 73 pictures each displayed for 3 frames long. Here’s the result. SHiFT 2010: DIY from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
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