Oct15
Here’s another quick Flip video of an event we had earlier this month.
After an introduction to entrepreneurship support at Edinburgh, six teams of students each came up with a new business idea and pitched it to the audience.
The ideas all fit into one of the six categories for the Business Idea Competition we’re running. This year, students will be awarded specific prizes for arts and culture businesses, social enterprises, e-commerce sites, product design, science or technology-based businesses (including software), and new ideas in retail. I’ve put up a page on LAUNCH.ed with all the details about the competition. continue reading »
Tonight we had our second event with iCUE, an entrepreneurship society on campus. This one was an Idea Generation Workshop, led by one of the guys at SIE’s head office (Anthony Ives).
Anthony raised some interesting points, and clued us all in to some current trends in product design. Anthony’s lessons: continue reading »
Sep16
Freshers’ Week is back. Seventeen and 18-year old students are descending on the campus from all directions. New post-graduates are mingling in the student bars. And we’re madly trying to print fliers and get our website up to date.
I’m at work early this morning to pick up 500 fliers that we’re hoping to hand out over the next couple of days. We’re giving out a couple of modest cash prizes to induce students to register with our new website, and we’re trying to sign up at least 300 new students to our mailing list. All told, it would be excellent if we could reach 2000 incoming students this week. continue reading »
My job has just taken me to new and exciting frontiers: Filmmaking.
I borrowed a snazzy webcam from SIE headquarters to take some footage of the Enterprise Expo, which was held in June. We’d worked for months to put the event together, to showcase 50 companies founded by University of Edinburgh students, staff and alumni. I was determined to get some of it on film so we’d have a record of how it turned out. continue reading »
I recently stayed at the Stirling Highland Hotel. Stirling is a small, quaint town built around a castle-topped hill with houses and farmland stretching out below. I was there for team-building with the other SIE interns.
We had the benefit of hot, sunny weather all weekend long, and the hotel was snazzy enough to host a wedding on Saturday afternoon. But that did not stop the food from being terrible. The worst offence was the oatmeal.
Though the staff made a game effort to provide appropriate food for a group with two vegetarians, a vegan and a celiac, they failed completely when it came to breakfast grains. I eat oatmeal nearly every morning for breakfast, so I know something about the subject. Here’s my two cents about how it should be properly made: continue reading »
This weekend is our annual teambuilding “Debrief” session. All the SIE interns are gathering in Stirling to reminisce about our year and to say goodbye to those who are leaving. To celebrate, my boss asked us all to put together some sort of presentation about our favourite thing to happen this year.
It was the perfect opportunity to use a new tool: Prezi, an amazing new PowerPoint alternative. It’s easy to use, free, and makes cool presentations. (PowerPoint is so ’90s. At least, it is now that I know I can use something else.)
Here’s the presentation I made for the weekend:
http://prezi.com/82606/
I’m afraid you’ll have to provide your own narrative, but if you just click the arrows, Prezi will take you straight through the images.
Prezi. Consider it recommended.
