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Team building at Nokia USA: Bust out the saw and don’t forget the meat

By: , IntoMobile
Friday, February 23rd, 2007 at 7:52 PM

Karl from Experience Curve:

so i’m part of a team at Nokia doing a team building event, this involves making an “interactive online dining experience”. Believe it or not, we’re in an apartment in the financial district of San Francisco with a pile of lumber, to build the table, some wifi access, a flickr account, a blog and $1,000 for food and drink. It’s a little more fun than the normal teambuidling event, and we’ve put a blog up to track our progress and get peoples feedback:

http://onlinedinner.wordpress.com

Anyway, we’ve got 20 people working on this right now, with lots of camera phones, some people are shopping, some people posting to the blog, some people uploading to youtube.

This has got to be the most creative thing I’ve seen when it comes to employee bonding strategies. You’ll definitely walk away closer to Bob from the other side of the cubicle thanks to this.

Favorite post:

Meat

Breakfast, lunch and dinner of champions. Meat.

What about employees in Nokia’s other global locations? What do you do to meet your fellow Nokian? Care to comment?

Better not be golf.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.