Presentation of Sometu at the Mindtrek conference in Tampere, Finland, October 2009, by Ville Veneläinen and Jos Schuurmans.

1. The Story of Sometu
A place to share and play with thoughts
Jos Schuurmans
Ville Venäläinen

2. Ville Venäläinen
ville.venalainen(at)otavanopisto.fi
+358 44 794 5102
twitter.com/villevenalainen
skype:ville.venalainen
www.otavanopisto.fi
www.villevenalainen.net
www.linkedin.com/in/villevenalainen
www.sometu.fi/profile/villevenalainen
Presentations online:
www.slideshare.net/villevenalainen

3. What is
Sometu
?
www.sometu.fi Kuva: CC-lisenssillä -bast- http://www.flickr.com/photos/-bast-/349497988/sizes/l/

4. Some data
1780 members
today
53 theme groups
Sometu.fi had
14,000 visit last
month
300-600 visits per
day

5. Emergence of
the network
Experimental work shop
in november 2007

6. Experimenta
l workshop
themes
Democracy
Citizen
activism
Education
Entertainmen
t
Business
(was
removed)

7. Network of individuals
working together

8. • Sometu is a wide group of
innovative, experimental,
enthusiastic, keen-to-learn,
interactively active and less
active members sharing the
www.sometu.fi
same forum
• I could say that working with
Sometu has become a hobby to
me
• As to Sometu, You should
remember that you should be
careful what you wish for,
because these wishes tend to
come true : )
Pauliina Mäkelä

9. Timo Rainio
For me Sometu is a place to learn
as part of work
It is a forum that blurs the
distinction between traditional
education and learning by
working
In the short run, this new kind of
creative dialogue culture will take
more of my time. But I believe
that, in the end, it will pay back
many times
www.sometu.fi

10. Markku Silen
For me Sometu has been a place with
interesting people with interesting
thoughts.
• In the future Sometu could be a more
disciplined society for building new
innovations. It could also be a place for
groups with clear objectives to develop
and pilot new concepts.
• We should create places where we can
develop and share knowledge, and from
where we can pass on our best practises
to wider audiences. I’ve seen this
happening in Accenture where our
organization grew from 20,000 to
200,000 people.
www.sometu.fi

11. Harto Pönkä
Sometu is a set of people sharing a common
interest.
• With some of Sometu’s members I also
interact through other social networks.
• People who are following things in Sometu
contain hidden social potential.
• Sometu is offering an audience for what I do.
• Most of the time on Sometu I’m following
what is happening but I try to be in an active
role too. Being active will give me a response
from others.
• The more you share about yourself the more
everyone benefits.
www.sometu.fi

12. Jos Schuurmans
Founder & CEO
Cluetail Ltd.
<jos.schuurmans@cluetail.com>
twitter.com/josschuurmans
http://www.sometu.fi/profile/JosSchuurmans
josschuurmans.com
cluetail.com

15. You can't learn to play
the blues by reading a
book.
In order to innovate, you
need to experience the
social web first-hand
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17. When Doc Searls met Sayo Ajiboye
"Markets Are
Relationships."
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/2105160960/

18. Come and grab a shovel!
Sometu is the
perfect sand box.
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