About Helge Fahrnberger

My name is Helge and I live in Vienna, Austria. In case you want to get in touch with me click contact.
 

My professional background

 
I am co-founder of Toursprung, the company behind Bikemap, Runmap, Maptoolkit and other digital maps products. In case you were asking, we’re currently working on world domination.

I occasionally help companies you with their online product strategy – be it by strategy workshops, writing concepts or specifications. Customers include the ORF, Shapeshifters.net (see this arcticle in BrandEins) and O2 Germany. Back in web1.0-times I was head of product development of uboot.com, an international mobile community for teenagers and winner of the prestigous German OnlineStar Award in 2001.

Additionally I teach at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna. My students and I run the Austrian media watchblog Kobuk.at. Last but not least I volunteer as board member of the NGO Laafi, financing health projects in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

Conferences and talks

Find a few slide sets of mine on Slideshare. Past talks, panels and presentations include (numerous BarCamps and):

In English:

• Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innvoation, University of Economics Vienna (Talk)
• World Blogging Forum, Bukarest (Talk)
• IST Africa, Pretoria (Talk)
• European Capital of Culture Linz09 / 80+1, Linz (Panel)
• Mobile Communities Conference, London (Talk)
• CycleSummit, Constance (Talk)
• Startup-Weekend Vienna (Panel)
• Numerous BarCamps (Talks)

 
In German:

• VÖZ Digital Media Day (Pecha Kucha)
• E-Government Donau-Universität Krems (Talk & Workshop)
• Marketing On Tour, Vienna (Keynote)
• IdeenAlm, Alpbach (Panel)
• PR Verband Austria, Vienna (Talk)
• Voest Alpine, Linz (Talk)
• FH Wien, Vienna (Panel)
• PR Verband Austria, Vienna (Talk)
• Trainerausbildung “Heimat verbindet Menschen”, Graz (Course)
• Digital Marketing Summit 2009 & 2010, Vienna (Panel Moderation)
• Digitalks, Vienna (Talks)
• Bund Österreichischer Tourismusmanager, Gastein (Talk)
• Romanian Culture Institute, Vienna (Panel)
• Lange Nacht der Forschung, Vienna (Talk)
• Grüne Wirtschaft, Innsbruck (Panel)
• Stadtarchäologie Wien (Talk)
• CycleSummit, Constance (Talk)
• Digiday, Vienna (Talk)
• Institute of Publicistics, University of Vienna (Talk)
• Netzwerk Humanressourcen, Linz (Talk)
• Die Grünen, Innsbruck & Vienna (Talks)
• IAB Austria, Vienna (Panel)
• BSO-Enquete, Salzburg (Talk)

My best-known presentation (and the only really self-explanatory) is “About Lions and Ants”:

Helge elsewhere

Network – folks I enjoy working with

 
A few companies and people that I enjoy working with from time to time include Knallgrau, Die Socialisten, Digitalks, Kodama, MMC, Medienwirtschaft, Hannes Treichl and of course the BarCamp ecosystem.

About this site

 
In one way or the other I’ve been blogging since late 1999 (see my 10 years posting) and on different domains and software platforms. This site is my notebook, public voice (more or less frequent rants and raves) and technological playground. Most of my posts are in German meanwhile, that’s the way it is, hey I’m Austrian after all.

This site was made with the help of Markus Schmeiduch (design) and Jürgen Koller (HTML, CSS and WordPress). Thank you guys, you are great! (And thanks to WordPress, of course.) The picture of me on this page was shot by the fabulous Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek.