Inspirationsdag
2006-03-23 | 23:12
Idag har jag varit på en inspirationsdag på Storan här i Göteborg som anordnades av SACO. Jag var på en liknande dag förra året och jag kan verkligen rekommendera det om ni har möjlighet.
Det finns så otroligt många intressanta människor att lyssna på och den här gången var det Soki Choi som delade med sig av sina erfarenheter och tankar i ett föredrag som kallades ’Våga vinn- mina tankar om entreprenörskap, forskning och livsutveckling’ och efter lunchen var det Maria Forsséns ’Byt hierarki mot nätverk för tillväxt och roligare liv’ som stod på programmet. Soki verkar ha haft fullt upp och berättade om hur man kan gå från konsertpianist, via Handels i Stockholm och Accenture, till att starta ett bolag som utvecklar mobilapplikationer för att (för tillfället) sluta som doktorand på Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm. Och få det att hänga ihop... Någon av alla mina föreläsare genom åren på Chalmers och IT-universitetet nämnde en gång att det inte är någon slump att de mest omskrivna människorna i världen ofta är mångsysslare eftersom de har en förmåga att se samband mellan helt skilda områden som många missar, och så kanske det är’ En intressant föreläsning var det i alla fall.
Maria pratade om hur viktigt det är med (det nya ordet’) nätverkande och hur man kan utnyttja nätverk för att alla ingående personerna skall tjäna på det. Många intressanta idéer och jag tror stenhårt på att man kan dra nytta av varandra även om man inte jobbar inom samma bransch eller befinner sig på samma ställe i livet.
Dagen slutade i alla fall men att jag gick där ifrån med några visitkort till riktigt trevliga människor som jag gärna träffar igen, så något snappade vi nog upp...
Comments
Tuesday 06:50, March 28
Inte mycket action pa den har sidan for tillfallet, maste ha for mycket att gora nu nar du ar arbetslos antar jag ;-) sjalv har jag ett par dar ledigt och ar nere och halsar pa i mitt gamla hus i Jan Juc, grymt skont o vara tillbaka vid surf-beachen igen...
- Jakob
Tuesday 16:20, March 28
Förstår att det är skönt att få surfat lite igen - det närmaste man kommer här i Göteborg just nu är forsränning eftersom all snö har börjat smälta, och det var ju en del... Vi hörs snart!
Tuesday 03:07, April 18
I have a painting (probably watercolor) dated 1920 by O. Sandin of my relative's former farm titled "Backen" from Brandsdorp Sweden. Searching the net your site came up. Goteborg is not that far from Bransdorp, so I thought you might know who O. Sandin is. The story handed down in the family is Sandin painted barns for a living, and also painted pictures of the farmscapes associated with those barns. My Grandmother came to Chicago in about 1900 from Ostra Amtervik in Varmland when she was 17. Her maiden name was Nordlund and she died in 1977 at 93 years old. I don't know how Bransdorp figures into her history, but am curious about the painting, and I do have a B&W photo of the farm. If you can shed any light on this painting or O. Sandin, I'd be grateful.
BTW, I work for DIAB, a Swedish company with HQ in LaHolm.
Small world
Regards
Marc Peterson
My paternal family name in Sweden was Perrson.
- Marc Peterson
Tuesday 17:01, April 18
Hi, read your message and got curious. I dont know if you misspelled "bransdorp" and meant" brandstorp". Searching the swedish "yellow pages" on the web I got no hits for bransdorp but 27 hits for brandstorp. "torp" in swedish is a very common suffix for small villages and means basically "small farm". Searching for "sandin" I got 2000 hits, sadly I don't no much about the history of my family and relatives.
- Mikael Sandin (brother)
Thursday 23:37, April 20
The only little tip I can give you is that "backen" in Swedish can be interpeted as "the little hill" or "the slope" - so the name of the painting might reflect the motif instead of the name of the farm? If you're able to find out something else it would be fun if you can give us an update as well.
Take care and good luck.
Friday 09:40, April 21
Just wanted to give you some more info...Östra Ämtervik lies, as you say, in värmland and near Östra (eastern) Ämtervik lies a two places with names similar to "backen" namely "backarna" (the slopes, plural of slope) and "mossbacken" where "moss" means the same as in english "moss" or mosse". So the name "mossbacken" can be translated as "the slope with moss". I dont know if there is a brandstorp near Västra Ämtervik, it might be...
- Mikael again
Friday 14:34, April 21
and by near we're talking about, say, a couple of hundered meters (500-1000). It should be said though that a search for "backen" gives around 500 hits in Sweden...
- Mikael again again
Wednesday 03:34, August 02
Sorry for no reply. I just discovered your message today 8/1/06. Use my work address for reply to above as it's faster and gets daily attention.
Upon viewing the Sandin picture, it does seem as the farm house is on a small rise or hill. The picture is truly titled "Backen" at "Branstorp", so I believe the name of the farmstead really was "Backen". My Dad (2nd generation in the US, but knew how to speak and understand Swedish and travelled there twice as a kid, but now has had a stroke and is no help in this search) placed the engraved tag on the picture. I don't think he would have just made up the name and gone to the trouble of making an engraved tag with the wrong name. I believe he visited this very farm, probably around 1924-5. I still have relatives in Sweden (the family of Nordlund), as well as here (same Nordlund), of the exact same line. I will try to contact them here for more information. I'll send a jpeg of the picture and black and white photo of the O. Sandlin drawing if you would find that interesting. I have my garandmother's account of our family (Nordlund) history back to King Karl the 12ths time. I assume it is accurate as she was in her 60's when she wrote it down. She was a remarkable woman. She was born on a farm in Ostra Amtervik in 1884, came to the US in 1905 +/-, divorced in 1922, raised my Dad alone, travelled around the world 3 times, saw a man land on the moon, and lived to 93 in Chicago, then decided to die and did. A very strong woman, less than 5 feet tall, but tough as nails, and taught me many things.
I may have a chance to visit Sweden for business (DIAB LaHolm) in a month or 2, and may take vacation time to research this.
Again, sorry for the long delay to your reply.
Regards,
Marc Peterson
- Marc Peterson
Sunday 03:19, December 13
Another long delay, sorry. New email address. No new information. Dad has died (Aug 2007), as well as all of his generation except some cousins at 95+. The're no longer lucid. I did get to LaHolm, but not to Ostra Amtervik. Thanks for your help.MP
- Marc Peterson
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