My Farm – FarmVille in Real Life to Increase Awareness & Knowledge About Food Production
Anyone who has been on FaceBook for a while will know that one of the most successful app-game onthe giant social networking site has been Farmville. But as popular as Farmville has been, the reality today is that many people hardly know where the food they eat comes from. This is especially so when you [...]
June 26th, 2011 by Jonas WieselInigral – Use The Power of Facebook to Increase Student’s Engagement During College Applications and Beyond
For students preparing to join college and that have received their admission letters, the initial excitement is usually tinged with a fear of the unknown. Having already established a circle of friends in high school, they will in many respects have to make new acquaintances in college. The discovery process will be a mixture of [...]
May 19th, 2011 by Jonas WieselQuest2Learn – Gamify Education to Increase Student Engagement
The active involvement of information technology in education has mainly focused on the development of digital books (called eBooks) and the creation of internet based learning portals (known as e-learning platforms). Quest2Learn believes there is a lot more that technology can do in improving the learning environment. And so at its core, Quest2learn is a [...]
May 4th, 2011 by Jonas WieselSilk – Get Answers to Complexe Questions in Minutes with Breakthrough Accessible Semantic Technology
Silk is a dutch Start up who won the Start up Rally organised by the Next Web. Like many apps out there their aim is to make us more efficient and more productive than we are with our current tools. Every single bit of information can be found on the web but it often happens [...]
May 1st, 2011 by Jonas WieselResunate.com – Personalize Your CV Automatically For Specific Job Opportunities
We all know how looking for a job is a job on its own. Look at the size of the recrutement industry and how fragmented it is. It is really time-consuming to make sure you are sharing the correct information in order to stand out from the crowd The first contact an employer has with [...]
April 25th, 2011 by Jonas WieselHyperweek.net – Entreprise Socials Networks made in Switzerland
As something that initially started as a way for people to connect with friends, former classmates and family, online social media has moved from a casual medium to one that has seen big business take notice – and increasingly participate. What business can ignore the opportunity to plug into a 650 million user-strong online social [...]
April 19th, 2011 by Jonas WieselInTheDoor.com : Get Your Job Connection Through Facebook
As organisations move to cut costs, they are doing less and less advertisement of their job openings and relying more on headhuntng and networking to get the most suitable candidate for the job. For job seekers to know of the existence of such vacancies, they must proactively use different means to network. But knowing an [...]
April 11th, 2011 by Jonas Wiesel33needs.com – Crowdinvesting for the good causes
Over the last 10 or 15 years, the term corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gained traction worldwide as an integral part of the responsible business’ strategy. However, the growth of CSR has inadvertently created the impression that activities to make the world a better place are difficult or near impossible to monetize. Of course, nothing [...]
April 10th, 2011 by Jonas WieselWhy throw away Student Business Plans
During our studies we work our asses off to create fictional project that could very well be amazing real projects. The question is: Why throw them away and forget them? why not create a database where students can upload their work. A sample for the project would be available and fee for the complete project [...]
February 18th, 2010 by Jonas WieselWhen Schools can really mean business…
Having been asked to work on a real life project in my school I was thinking. So many businesses would be really keen to get feedback or professional insights from qualified students at a very intresting fee. It’a already a common practice but no one has really treated it as a business except some schools [...]
December 8th, 2009 by Jonas Wiesel