The watering hole at Ohravaara 2014.
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The Vuokatti Skiing is a family event.
We're going there, sure.
We'd a Lions Club meeting at Ohravaara a few days ago and discussed the upcoming Vuokatti Skiing Event. http://www.vuokatti.fi/en
Participate in Vuokatti Hiihto ski race
About two thousands of skiers come to Vuokatti Hiihto every year to enjoy well-groomed trails and spend time with other passionate skiers.
Vuokatti Hiihto is one of the most famous cross-country skiing events, held annually on Vuokatti slopes in Finland.
In 2014 new distances and techniques were introduced to make the competition even more diverse.
Time for boarding the Lufthansa Airbus; 12 hours flight to Mexico City.
Still collecting memories, making notes, and organizing my mind concerning the most interesting trip to Mexico.
We visited the Taxco Silver City at the end of December 2014.
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Our five week Mexico tour is over. We're back home, experienced a dramatic temperature change; Cancun + 30 C and Sotkamo yesterday - 30 C.
The Anthropology museum in Mexico City provided inspirational insights into the past of Mexico.
Ten days in Cancun. We've seen a lot in the Yucatan region but also in other parts of Mexico.
It would take much more time to learn more about this country.
We hope that Sotkamo is having an important role.
Did you have time to participate in this event?
There're things happening in the mining industry.
I'm waiting for additional information from the organizers.
The Global Mining Industry: http://www.globalmining.com.au/
WELCOME TO GLOBAL MINING INVESTMENTS TRUST
The Global Mining Investments Trust will invest in a globally diversified portfolio of shares listed on recognised stock exchanges in accordance with the following investment guidelines:
Benchmark: MSCI Commodity Producers Index
Performance Objective: to outperform the benchmark over rolling three year periods
Sectors: the Fund will invest in companies exposed to Energy, Mining & Agriculture
Geographies: the Fund will invest in companies domiciled in Developed & Emerging markets
Other: the Fund will not use leverage and will not invest in derivatives
Cash: the Fund may hold up to 15% of its assets in cash
The Collaboration of China and Nordic Countries Seminar was organized a year ago at Hanaholmen, Helsinki, with speakers and participants from China and the Scandinavian countries.
Focus on China. A high-level forum about International Cooperation in Higher Education and ICT.
China-Finland ICT Alliance Finnish Partners Workshop
A followup workshop with the Finnish partners of China-Finland ICT Alliance was held in Espoo on 11 February 2014. The key target was to share current accomplishments of each project, and plan cooperation activities and actions in 2014.
In addition to the Phase II project representatives, also invited experts from universities, companies and funding organisations were attending the workshop to discuss new activities in 5G and future networks and other areas such as sensing, traffic and geo-services.
The workshop had two specific parallel sessions on future networking with 5G, and intelligent sensing and services in urban environment including traffic and mobility.
The Fennovoima nuclear power plant was represented at the fair in Tampere. New experts from various fields have started to work in Fennovoima during the past few months. There are over 140 people working in Fennovoima at the moment.
Finland's third nuclear power company Fennovoima was founded in 2007. Fennovoima will build its Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant in Northern Finland.
Fennovoima proceeds to political decision-making. Fennovoima has today submitted to the Ministry of Employment and the Economy a clarification concerning the current ownership situation of the main Finnish owner Voimaosakeyhtiö SF.
Voimaosakeyhtiö SF owns 66 % of Fennovoima. Reserved at the moment is 54,72 %. The increase of about 1 % compared to the figure presented yesterday is due to Vantaa Energia’s decision that was made this morning to increase its share by a little less than 1 %.
Voimaosakeyhtiö SF’s negotiations with new potential owners continue. The target is to keep the ownership in Fennovoima in the current 66 %. Fennovoima’s other main owner with a 34 % minority share is Rosatom’s Finnish subsidiary RAOS Voima.
The Ministry of Employment and the Economy has announced yesterday that it proposes for the Government to approve the supplement for Fennovoima’s Decision-in-Principle on September 18th, with the condition that the Finnish ownership must be at least 60 % at the time of the submittal of the construction licence application. Fennovoima applies for the construction licence by summer 2015.
Fennovoima project proceeds towards the construction phase in accordance with the schedule. Today, the start of the very first construction work is celebrated at the plant site on Hanhikivi headland in Pyhäjoki as the construction of the new access road to the plant site is launched by Suomen Maastorakentajat Oy.
Fennovoima’s nuclear power plant Hanhikivi 1 starts generating electricity in 2024.
A few weeks ago, Irja Kallio and myself participated at the Energy 2014 Fair and Congress in Tampere, Finland.
There was an interesting television program where the Dutch Almere Self Build District was mentioned. I think it would be a good idea to let Finnish builders know more about this unique project. It's my understanding that this is the biggest self-build experiment in Europe.
Outline history of the site
- This innovative experiment in large scale self build involves a 100 hectare space (250 acre) extension to the south west of the city, in the Poole region. The land was reclaimed from the sea in the 1950’s.
- The entire area has been master planned by the local authority into a number of districts. Each of which has around 720 self build plots and by early 2012 around 1000 homes had been built; eventually some 3,000 self built homes are planned.
- Each of the self build districts is themed – for example there are areas for live/work self build homes; there are terraced areas and there is a zone for very sustainable homes. There is also an area set aside for canal side homes, and another for houses with bigger gardens. And there is a zone specifically aimed at housing developers, who assemble collectives of people who want a block of apartments or a terrace of similar homes built for them.
- Individual plots vary in size from 86 m2 to more than 1200m2.
It's time to talk about how the sharing economy can build itself on true sharing.
We discussed Open Innovation and Collaboration with Jos Schuurmans today. How could we help our clients to find their way in the social media landscape?
Quite a few are afraid to take their first step towards the "House of Social Media Terror" ;) even though that's the way every single producer and service provider has to take sooner or later.
Finnish companies are reluctant to speak out while being afraid that their competition will learn to much about their products and services.
Effective transfer of tacit knowledge generally requires extensive personal contact, regular interaction[3] and trust. This kind of knowledge can only be revealed through practice in a particular context and transmitted through social networks.[4] To some extent it is "captured" when the knowledge holder joins a network or a community of practice.[3]
The "Keep Quiet, Stay Silent" attitude is huge challenge for those who would like to improve customers Internet and Social Media presence.
Small and Medium Size companies are afraid to disclose valuable information about their IP's, patents, and innovations.
Jos Schuurman's company Cluetail Ltd. promises: "Be found, be seen, be heard! We optimize your web channels, get your message out, and help you to keep improving. Let’s give your brand’s online presence a boost!"
Cluetail is the brain child of Jos Schuurmans (LinkedIn), a seasoned journalist, early Internet adopter, and corporate communications veteran.
Jos has conceptualized, project-managed and run online publishing concepts since the early 1990s. He’s worked for public media, educational institutions as well as in corporate communications settings; for local not-for-profits as well as stock-listed companies. The teams that Jos has worked with have won several communications and media innovation awards.
The name ‘Cluetail’ is derived from the Cluetrain Manifesto and the Long Tail, two ideas that have profoundly influenced our thinking about marketing communication and the Internet.
Credibility. To build a positive brand reputation can take up to 25 years, the equivalence of a new generation growing up. Yet, reputations can be destroyed in the blink of an eye.
For a brand therefore, in expressing itself, credibility is more important than anything.
The way one attends to credibility in communication is by submitting fact and opinion relevant to one’s audience, in a balanced fashion. Cluetail's background in journalism is their asset.
Ostrobothnia, or the Coastline from Kristinestad in the south to Kokkola in the north, covers an area of about 10,000 sq. km.
About 200,000 people live on the Coastline, of which 51 % are Finnish-speaking and 48 % Swedish-speakers.
The area has a strong tradition of entrepreneurship and the largest number of companies per capita on the mainland of Finland.
The export share of approximately 70 % is exceptionally high. Another indicator of the area's strong economy is that the unemployment rate is the lowest in the country.
KK-Net is studying the potential of this region. We participated at the Kokkola Material Week 23. - 26.9.2014 and are now wrapping together old and present findings and experiences. We've been working several companies from this region for more than three decades.
