Our new face

Head over to our new facebook page! We are changing our brand around a bit by going back to where we started. In 2006, we began recruiting international students to study primarily in the UK.  This year we will be working for students interested in studying in other parts of the world like the US, Canada and Eastern Europe. Besides recruitment, we will be developing creative projects like QR4 World which is gaining attention in more than 30 countries. Pop over to our new page.

QR4World Show

Entries are in for A QR Code for the World-exhibiton to take place on June 24th at the Winston House in London.

The theme of the show is Connecting People. 

QR's have been around since the 1970's. They were primarily used to track items during shipping or manufacturing. With the advancement of micro technology and global communication systems as well as mobile handset development, QR Codes are becoming more than a logistic item. The QR Codes are now connecting people to all sorts of digital content that can be shared across borders.

There are many creative ways to use a QR Code and we will see how participants from different countries apply the QR's to a postcard size material. 

Partial list of Exhibitors:

Frederic Daubagna-aestetype (France), Philip Warbasse (USA), Jassen Popp (USA), Monkey Design (Taiwan), Twan Verdonck (Netherlands), Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni (Switzerland), Micah Olson-Walt Horton Studios (USA), Laird-QRazy Art (USA), Nothing Like Chocolate (Grenada), Bartek (Poland), Lynnda Pardoe (USA), David Popp (USA) 

A selection of postcard size images will be viewable at Popabroad

QR Code Exhibition-London

QR Code For the World—Calling For Entries (London, UK) – A QR Code postcard exhibition is calling all aspiring artists, website owners, bloggers, students, organizations, and anyone that has an interest in QR codes to create a postcard-size work and enter it in an exhibition in central London at the Winston House.

There is one crucial design requirement: the postcard must incorporate a QR Code. We encourage all participants to use a QR Code that they like or have designed.  However, upon entry each entry will receive a QR Code that can be used to customize their postcard. Five postcards will be selected by Sotheby’s Institute of Art and further displayed at their London Institute from July 5, 2011. 

Theme:  Connecting People 

The exhibition attempts to encourage the use of QR Codes across a variety of sectors and interest levels throughout the world. Perhaps this event will provoke a global discussion about about how QR Codes can or should be used in communication material such as postcards.

Who is Eligible: The exhibition is open to individuals and groups worldwide. 

Entry Deadline: June 11, 2011 

Exhibition Date: June 24, 2011

Where: Winston House, London, UK 

Entry Fee: See website or visit 

This is an exciting time to engage a variety of organizations and individuals such as artists, designers, marketers, and website owners to participate in the advancing use of QR codes. The exhibition is being organized by Jassen Popp, Founder/Designer at Popabroad. 

Study Gaming in the UK

Do you have the potential to engage in, and experiment with, practical games creation, with workshops lead by designers working in the industry? Would you like to explore a range of theories and concepts with which to analyse the values of games, play and pleasure. We are recruiting students for a range of gaming studies at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Contact us for details.

Internships Abroad

Internships abroad are a relatively new and still not fully explored and widespread concept. They are a branch of a broader education abroad phenomenon in higher education that have still generally not gone mainstream in many countries.

Considered as a privilege for the elite or doomed inaccessible for the masses due to structural, academic, language, and financial constraints, studying abroad is slowly opening up opportunities for students.  Internships abroad have a real chance of changing educational landscape and extending learning beyond the usual classroom. 

As studying abroad is contributing to the development of new cohorts of global citizens, internships abroad are shaping the new generation of globally trained and easily accessible candidates, able to comfortably compete for job openings wherever they happen to be. The invaluable professional experiences interning abroad brings about are becoming more available. Their biggest advantage in today’s economy seems to be the creation of required skills and the emergence of a mindset capable of grasping the complexities of globalised and interconnected world on a practical, individual level. 

Commitment to not only studying abroad, but actually immersing oneself in the professional community in another country carries an immense value when competing for a job. Internships abroad are becoming the necessary commitment all students should fit into their course of studies.

Internships in Poland

Description:

The internships take place in Poland with the University of Lodz and a mobile marketing company.

The Internships are 4 or 8 weeks in duration, and are unpaid. Interns work together in a supervised mentor-lead group and may also be assigned an independent project during the program.

The intern will be working side-by side with professionals and with local representatives on an international project. This may include participation on project teams, research, and assisting international marketing officers in an educational context.

More info at goabroad.com 

MADE IN AMERICA - QR Code

Popabroad adds MADE IN AMERICA - QR Code image to its portfolio of designs.  The design is an interactive representation of a US flag. The idea is for people to scan the QR Code with their cell phone and find out what products and services are made in America. More info

Love & Gratitude

Love & Gratitude, a florist boutique in Golders Green, is harnessing the 50 Million Dollar QR Code to market their flower shop across London. The boutique is offering customers who mention the 'QR Code'  a 50 % discount on all floral arrangements who visit their shop on the high street.  

Popabroad is developing these voucher style mobile promotions for clients that want to increase foot traffic through their retail outlets and for generating traffic to online stores. As the 50 Million Dollar QR Code gets more popular so do the businesses and sites connected to it. 

The 50 Million Dollar QR Code ad campaign can work for almost any personal or business related product, service and event. For example, if you have an ebay store and would like to promote your items, Popabroad can design you a mobile page and link your seller's page to the 50 Million Dollar QR Code. 

Connecting your site to the code is just the beginning. The more popular the code becomes the more we will promote it both online and offline. Plus we provide you with your own QR Code that links to your newly created mobile page so anyone that scans it will land directly on your page. 

50 Million Dollar QR Code

Popabroad is now hosting the '50 Million Dollar QR Code' ad campaign, a first of its kind for mobile marketing. Anyone with a website, blog, networking page can take part in it. The idea is to make 2011 the 'Year of the QR Code' by building the world's most valuable QR Code out of identity features like logos. This QR Code has the potential to link over 1 million websites into one single image. Sites that are attached to the QR will be readable on a mobile phone.

"For organizations who would like to mobilize their marketing efforts this can be a affordable gateway for exploring QR Codes as well as an opportunity to be part of mobile history." Jassen Popp (Founder/Designer)

First Social Card with Memory

Tississippi offers the first of its kind social greeting card with the power to remember things. Each time a person interacts with the card it collects memory. You can expand the card's memory by adding stories, photos, videos, songs, and even tweets to it online and with your mobile phone.

The card can be purchased online at Zazzle where you can personalize it with your own photos and text. 

View Card.

Tales of Tississippi

Tississippi is Popabroad's latest development. For more info visit Squidoo. 

Mgoing Abroad

How can Higher Education Institutions reach the 'Thumb Generation' ? 

Well just not thumbers but savvy, smart, highly intelligent and sometimes very mobile students.

The questions should be rephrased to: How can Universities engage 'thumbers' in their brand.

Popabroad has taken an active step in this direction with its Mgoing publication available this fall, 2010.

Try it! Scan one of our QR Codes :-)

Internships in Poland

Popabroad is publishing an interactive global education magazine this fall and has internships available to international students and recent graduates. 

The internships are 10 weeks in duration, and are unpaid. Interns work together in a supervised mentor-lead group at the PopHatch office and at the University of Lodz. 

The intern will be working side-by-side with professionals and with local representatives on an international project. This may include participation on project teams, research, and assisting international marketing officers in an educational context.

This is a fee based program which includes: Room & Board.

Not included: Flight to Poland and travel insurance. 

Internships are open to international students 18 years of age.

What's Available:

• INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

• JOURNALISM & NEW MEDIA

• GRAPHIC DESIGN/PRODUCT DESIGN

Contact Popabroad for details and an application.

Pop Prototyp

At the 'ProWein' , International Fair for Wines and Spirits, in Dusseldorf, Germany, Popabroad's "Education and Innovation" brand extension called Pop Prototyp, offered its pre-market services focused on the Polish market to a host of leading producers from Portugal, Spain, South Africa, America, New Zealand, and Germany. 

The feedback received was very positive and organizations indicated a strong interest in opportunities in the Polish market. Many producers simply want importing opportunities for their current products that at an educational level such findings can be researched. The main question was how?

Pop Prototyp's position on this was that they will work closely with researchers and students at the University of Lodz in Poland and with MBA students at London School of Business and Management in central London as well as Interns recruited through Popabroad from America and other countries to assess opportunities via case studies, brand audits and alternative (Social Market) researching methods. Concerns of measurability for research and development was addressed in two batches.

The first batch is a tangible prototype. Besides a marketing report provided to clients at the end of each project a printed/assembled prototype is developed. As an example it could be in the form of a soft drink pouch package for sampling for promotional purposes or an interactive online prototype that can be used for on demand purchases.

The second batch is feedback. A combination of social channels or from direct methods of sampling potential opportunity. At an educational level clients can reduce costs associated with hiring a marketing firm. Plus, Pop Prototyp's service is for a full calendar year at an educational rate. The international students/interns/researchers taking part in these projects may also provide a word of mouth channel that could inflate equity across borders just because they have a real world project to work on. 

This hands on approach to an international project will provide our clients with an exceptional pre-market service and our participants with experience that can be showcased at a future job interview or land them a position in the process. 

Brunel Study Abroad

Brunel University based in west London, UK has added a Study Abroad program to its competitive range of international programs. According to Brunel International, "The University is dedicated to providing a world class education for its 13,000 students, which includes an international student population of more than 2,000, who come from over 110 different countries." 

In the United States, "Brunel University currently maintains undergraduate student exchange agreements with the San Francisco State University (Design, Sport Sciences), State University New York (SUNY) Brockport (Social Sciences, Arts, Sport Sciences and Business), and Iowa State University (Mechanical Engineering)." 

Brunel has two main terms for their study abroad program, Junior Year/ Term Abroad.

Junior Year Abroad-One Full Academic Year

"The Junior Year is an academic year of study, from September to the end of May in the following calendar year. It consists of three terms; two teaching periods of 12 weeks each-the Autumn and Spring Terms-and the summer period of revision and examinations."

Autumn or Spring Term- One semester

"Autumn or Spring Term Abroad runs for the 12 weeks of the first term from late September to mid December. The Spring Term option begins in January and runs for the 12 weeks of the second term, followed by the Summer period of revision and examinations." Additionally there is an option for Junior year abroad and terms with English called JYA plus English for non-English speaking students.

There is a wide selection of courses to choose from in the Arts, Social Sciences, Sports Science and Foreign Languages. Please see course list.

Please contact Popabroad for information regarding Brunel's study abroad program for application assistance.

Cult Film and TV-Studies in London

Where do the creators of Vampire fiction movies hang out?

According to Brunel University in west London, "Over the last 20 years there has been an explosion of interest around the patterns and traditions of cult film and television. Whether defined by horror, kung-fu or science fiction film, or fantasy television formats such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel, critical interest in cult media has become a prominent source of interest for the academic and the cult film/TV fan alike. This new, cutting-edge MA is the first academic programme of its kind dedicated to the study of global traditions of cult media. Check out details here.

Ecological Impact In Bath

The thermal spa in Bath can be an ecological delight in itself. The water temperature may be at a similar degree when the Romans first threw a cursed pledge into its waters and today remains a central location for well being. Besides the warm waters and friendly people, I encountered a photography open air exhibit called "Earth from the Air" by the French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, that had a splendid overtone of Ecology. 

In response to this exhibit, I would like to promote a graduate program that may help foster knowledge needed for managing our environment.

The postgraduate program, Ecological Impact Assessment is at Bath Spa University. According to Bath Spa's prospectus, "the course addresses skill gaps identified by the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and the British Ecological Society, in terms of: Biological survey; data interpretation; environmental legislation; and, professional practice."

Please have a look at this link for more information and contact me for an application.

QR Codes in Education

Creating a survey for a dissertation or a report can be difficult because people may not want to go online or be bothered by filling in a paper form. For anyone that has tried this on the street it can be even more difficult to get a person's attention. From a personal experience of mine of taking a student survey during my MA thesis in London, I realized that most people will not stop to chat especially when there is shopping to be done. 

Possible Solution

Create a mobile survey. Find mobile free site like Winksite, make a free QR Code with a link directly to the mobile survey and include the code in your project. Scan the one above for an example. It will lead you to this survey.

A 360 Perspective

Places to see in London.

Golders Hill Park

St. James Park

Hampstead Heath

London Images

More places to see while studying in London.

London Bridge

Temple Church

Tower Bridge