Game Changer Indonesia 2012

Finally, we met! We had lunch together. Unfortunately, Widy and Stevani couldn’t join us because they were not in a good health (It’s uncompleted for not having them thereL). Get well soon, Stev and Widy!

We had a lot of chat and funny stories (like circling inside busway corridor and many stories that I can’t mention one by one). However, we didn’t forget about our project too. So, we discussed a little about the idea. We brainstormed it and we got a good concept for Friday meeting with Mr. Rhesa. Hopefully, it can be accepted.

Ah! I almost forget that we made some pictures too! heheh.. here it is.. :D

It is a nice picture, isn't it? I hope moment like this can be happen more often. See you again.

Hi!! It’s been two days since the last post. Wondering about our progress? Here we go!!

Today, we have online meeting. Widy has made points that will be discussed. For the questioner, Ester has some ideas to be added. It mak­e our questioner more details. However, we think that it is enough for now because we haven’t met our mentor yet. We also share our ideas about the campaign and we will discuss it again very soon.

And the coolest thing from today meeting is hang out! Yes! We are going to hang out again. It is more excited if we meet people face to face than via social media, right? We can say something more easily and directly. So, we choose Plaza Semanggi and we’ll meet around 12 pm. For sure, tomorrow will be great day! Have a good sleep!!

Saturday, 14 July 2012. The day that we will remembered forever. Our journey, as a team, has started from this day.

It was begun with an event held by British Council and Impact Factory, titled “Skills For Employability: LEARN WHAT YOU NEVER LEARN AT SCHOOL!” Aha. Maybe you feel like, hmmm, curious? So do us. Even just heard from its tagline just made our heart want to explode and keep pounding, because we are really excited!

Okay. Let us continue this story!

The training itself held in Mandarin Oriental Hotel, famous with its “Fan” Icon and located near Bunderan HI. Of course, because it’s Saturday, the traffic is really smooth. After arrived and registered, we get to know each other participants, but maybe because we are strangers before, we can’t remembered other participant’s name easily! Urgh.

Then, Miki from BC introduced all of her team, including who are speakers of this whole day training. And yeah... The sessions begun!

You maybe know or have ever heard Rene Suhardono, or follow his twitter (@ReneCC)? Yeah, this famous career coach was there to share motivations for us. How grateful we are! And you should listen to his inspirational quotes: “YOUR JOB IS NOT YOUR CAREER. JUST WORKING BASED ON YOUR PASSION”. His sentence actually has crossing deep in participants’ heart, for sure.

And not just that! Even yourself need to look stunning and grooming when you have presentation or any sort of business things. Followed after Rene’ session, is a Beauty Class from The Body Shop. Such a fun session we had together, and it was good session especially for those who don’t understand about make-up before. (Sssh, guess all the girls feel so happy, rite?)

So, next two sessions was brought by Doni, another speaker from Impact Factory. He spoke about how important a collaborative work is and of course, we as a team who consisted from different majors are have own speciality skills. The point is, how we unite together? Through some fun games, we learned about it, and how to make a good future plan by visualizing it. How wild your dream is, no matter what, if you believe, it will be comes true.... That’s what we learned from these sessions.

Just don’t have enough? This, will be the most exciting part of the training.

WE, finally meet nine patrons! They are from different companies, and background, just like us. But they have more experiences (and of course already SUCCESSFUL!) from us. They aren’t feeling hesitate to share their achievements and some inspiring stories from their works. Good thing is, they are ready to be mentors of all teams to do those projects. Such a honor, sir and madam.

Next is what you are waiting for. Yeah. Projects presentations from those four companies: MICROSOFT, NESTLE, THE BODY SHOP, BANK DANAMON. (We’ve told you, these companies are magnificient!)

Each companies giving project presentations as challenges for all teams. Later, the teams are announced about who are members and which project each team got. And guess what? This is our first time, we finally met together as a team! Whoaa.

We introduce ourself each other of course, and realized how diverse we are, who all come from different major. All of us are assigned into Microsoft-A team and ready to do our project together.

So, here we are as a team: EVITA (IT), STEVANI (Geology), YOS STEVEN (Management), ESTER (Accounting), and our team leader, WIDY (Industry Tech-Mgmt) !!!

Everyone, we will begin our journey. Be prepared and wrap it! Hopefully, we can do our project assignment together, and enjoy all of those learning process as a good team. And keep praying so that we can bring a VICTORY! Wohoow.

Keep up our teamwork, Game Changers!

Today, we have online meeting again. Ester and Stevani can’t join us. However, we continue our discussion about the questioner. We add details and replace some questions. The objective of this questioner is to get perception of the genuine Windows. We will summarize the result, so we can understand costumer’s reason of using the pirated software. All of us hope that the questioner is filled seriously and based on the real condition.

The final questioner was great and it is just a matter of time for publication. Today, Yos also succeed contacting patrons. His name is Suhe. He will help us for our project and Yos has told him about our team profiles and project information. Thank you Suhe for being our patron!! C:

We wanted to make an online meeting again. We were going to online around 3 pm, this afternoon. First, we tell Widy and Stevani what we have got. Yesterday, we have discussed about the questioner and how the concept of our social media. Yos explained it and he shared the question list. Ester was late because one of her family was passed away (sorry to hear that). We focused on the questioner first because this is our beginning step. We use the questioner to know the costumer’s perception about the genuine Windows.

We started with the first idea and generated it. One by one, the question arranged. Through this online meeting, we got 9 questions. The questioner was almost done and we just need to arrange it. The online meeting was finished on 6 pm. We planned the next online meeting will be held on tomorrow at 10 am. Thank you for all my teammates!!

On the second day, I attended training at Microsoft Indonesia Office on ISE Building. I was really excited about this opportunity because I could see the working environment on Microsoft. For an IT student like me, working at Microsoft is something awesome. And there, I met my teammate (Yos Steven) which is my acquaintance on mentor training.  The training was begun at 9.15. I was sitting with my team and we got 2 computers on our desk.

First, Mr. Sandro gave introduction about office 365. He explained clearly and he has a good sense of humor. He explained what cloud is and the features of office365. There are four packages on office365. They are Office Professional Plus, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online. I summarized the explanation and I got keyword from each packages. Office Professional Pro is the Microsoft Office complete version. Exchange Online is for email which has 25 MB capacity. SharePoint Online is a feature to share or post the project team. Lync Online is feature which allowed us to video conferencing and instant messaging. Lync Online is the coolest feature office365 has. Through this feature, we can attend meeting without present on the location. We can also use office365 offline. So, in case, I do not have internet connection, I still can work with my document.

After he finished, we had to wait for Mr. Ferro to get prepare for the trial. He explained how office365 transform the business and add a few detail about the features. After his explanation, we had some trial. We made account for office365 online and registered our name. We had one year free trial for our project.

Then, the training was closed by taking picture.. :D


 All of participant of Game Changer Indonesia gave their best smile and everyone look very excited. Hopefully, it can be our sweet memory together. Cheers!!

July 17, 2012

Today, we have an online meeting via Skype. We planned a lot of things. Our leader leads us very well (Thank You, Widy!!) and also all of my teammates are very cooperative. Before we start, Widy had made a few points which have to be discussed. They were when and where we want to hang out, our availability, dividing group for Thursday (July 19, 2012), and role within the team.

My team wants to gather, so we can know each other better and we want to keep this relationship not only for the project but also after the project. After we discussed it, all of us agreed to have lunch on 19 July in Pacific Place.  The next agenda was our availability. In this session, we spoke honestly about our activity during holiday. We don’t want any misunderstanding happen if one of us can’t attend meeting or busy.

On July 19, we have to attend on Microsoft Office and British Council Office on the same time. So, we have to share task. We divided the task based on education background and experience. Those who will come to Microsoft are Ester, Yos, and Evita. Stevani and Widy will come to British Council.

The fourth agenda was defining individual role within team. Widy had divided role into Financial and Government, Documentation, Relationship Manager, and Leader. The leader has function as person in charge for Microsoft and British Council. The leader has to make sure everything is according to the plan and keep the plan’s flexibility.  Widy is the leader, so it is not a problem anymore.  Financial and Government has responsibility for the expanses report and other financial matters.  Ester understands about finance and her major is accounting, then The Financial and Government is the most suitable role for her. Next is Relationship Manager. Relationship Manager has function to maintain the relationship between our team and patrons. Since Yos has experience as Staff of Corporate Relation, he takes this role. The last role is Documentation. Documentation has responsibility on taking photo and video and writing daily journal. Evita is asked for this position and she agrees. Evita will be helped by Stevani too. They have to manage file and write daily journal. Related with documentation, Ester had brilliant idea to make blog. This blog has main function to publish our activity and progress about the project. It would be a very effective way to communicate the idea. We hope our collaboration will bring us victory.

July 19, 2012

We talk about many different things. There are so many unique stories from majors and universities. Start from activities, experiences, until traditional stories. Joke and hoax are made this lunch feels more easy. They make fun and enrich my knowledge. And we also take some pictures (Thank you for Ester and Yos who bring camera. Because of them, this moment can be captured.). Then, we also have a little discussion about this blog. However, before all of the idea split out, time requires us to go to Microsoft.

There is a little change from the initial plan. Stevani who should come with Widy hasn’t come yet. She is still on her way because she is lost (do not ever ask direction to her heheh..). As replacement, Ester will accompany Widy to go to British Council. Evita and Yos go to Microsoft.

Mr. Sandro has waiting for us and he shared his experiences when he was working for Microsoft. Then, he starts the meeting by explaining about our project. Our project is related with Windows 8. Specifically, we have to convince the costumer to buy the genuine product. Our team will be mentored by Mr. Rhesa.

After the meeting is closed, we want to discuss a little about the project. However, it is canceled because Widy is not in a good health and Stevani has to go home. So, Ester, Yos, and Vita are going to home too. On the way, we are still talking about the project. Then, we decide going back to Pacific Place. We sit on @America. The place is very comfortable, quiet, and had layered security. We discuss about the social media that we will use and what the beginning step is. Although, they haven’t been perfect, these ideas can give a big contribution for our next discussion.

So, today we get many lessons and ideas. However, the most important (and above everything) is to keep our team solid. Honesty, understanding, and tolerance are needed. Idea, without friends who support it, isn’t mean much. If the idea grows and is completed continually, then it will make changes. Good luck for us!! :D