About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Category Archives: conferences
Stuff that Matters to Me and You
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 [...]
Watch my FabLab documentary now!
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 [...]
My SHiFT viral on Portugese TV
How cool is that
Bruno added the logo at the end.
It wasn’t worth it.
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 [...]
Experimenting with stop-motion
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.
I sent in a proposal for SHiFT
So I’m finally getting out of my comfort zone and proposed a (speaking) session at SHiFT, Lisbon, April 16-17.
SHiFT is a happening, an international conference and unique event, gathering leaders and participants from all walks of life, to discuss and share Social and Human Ideas For Technology.
The conference theme this year is DIY. This is [...]
Shift 2010 (21)
Now that the Shift-site (finally) has been updated with the new dates for the conference, it’s time to start thinking about a story I could share at Shift. There’s not an obvious story on the surface, so I’ll have to digg a little deeper. Hmmm…what could it be?
How to get totally energized…