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Taking a snapshot of the Digital Media Industry

Written by: Jonathan Briggs

August 19, 2007 [2671 views]

Next week I will be at Hyper Island in both Karlskrona and Stockholm where both schools have just restarted for the new year, Stockholm for the very first time. As part of my day in each place I will be contrasting the experience of Hyper Island graduates already working in industry with the expectations of those about to start their studies.

Over the last few months I have been building up my contact database of Hyper Island graduates(using Linked In) and today I sent out a survey (using Zoomerang) to each graduate asking about key skills, job titles and how they expect the industry to change over the next few years.

It will be fascinating to compare their answers with those of the recent recruits. I will publish a summary of the results here. A big thanks in advance to all those who were prepared to take part.

Recent comments:

On August 19, 2007 at 8:51 PM, Fredric Öslöf wrote:

It would be intresting to hear what kind of communities ex-students use to keep in touch with eachother. I don't expect linked-in to be the most populare. Facebook seems to be on a rise in between swedish users. What are your experiences?

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Jonathan replies: I think FaceBook and LinkedIn are for very different things. FaceBook is certainly growing in popularity in the UK. Perhaps Hyper Island needs one of its own.

On August 20, 2007 at 9:17 PM, Kalle Lind wrote:

We use email-lists, one for each crew. Works really well, a medium not too intrusive but still used on a daily basis. And best of all, it's just for us students so we don't get email from outside the school (we spam ourself enough as it is)

Jonathan replies: Yes - these email lists seem to work well but of course email is very one-to-one rather than a proper discussion. I wonder whether something a bit more like Craigslist would be better. Of course you would still want to keep out the spam.

What do you think?






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