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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 | Author: Axel

Just a little more than 7 years ago, around Christmas 1999, I was asked by a professor at TUHH to support him in a preparation meeting for a new European research projectin. The goal of this project was the development of an online solution for democratic decision processes based on moderated discussions. This request had far-reaching consequences for me:

  • it brought me to Berlin,
  • it made me experience the high time of the New Economy,
  • and made me feel the downfall hardly with personal consequences,
  • it led to my meeting my beloved wife,
  • it had the consequence of my my meeting my current boss,
  • and that I now may/can/must commute between Berlin and Hamburg.

The project application in the end was successful and of course the project now has come to an end. The project manager now is my colleague and manages a small department in our company. This department keeps a small but interesting blog about e-Participation and e-Democracy in German, the DEMOS Monitor. I think it is quite readable, so just check it out if you know German.

My personal story will be told later at a suitable moment.

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    Hannaxel’s English Blog » Blog Archive » Once from Hamburg to Berlin and nearly back (via Pingback)

    [...] Unfortunately I only decided after 10 long years that I was not really adapted to selling my skills, especially as services in German research and development only reluctantly were being paid. And also I am not a good salesman, I am particularly good in understanding the concerns of potential buyers. My colleagues (based in Paris) got me some projects, so that I got along fairly well for 10 years. But I got tired to chase for new customers. So it came as an opportunity that a colleague of mine from my first company introduced me to a professor of the Hamburg Univerity of Technology (TUHH). After having performed well on a couple of projects he asked me to represent him with a new project.  I still was a shareholder. [...]