Month: February 2009

The success of Twitter

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. Who said it? The French philosopher Blaise Pascal in 1662.

Using your employees in commercials

I saw this commercial somewhere and thought it had a great message for all brands to hear. It’s about how all of the employees are passionate about beer and that everyone learns how to brew beer, no matter what their position in the company. We always talk about the importance of putting your employees first […]

The new pornographers

I read this article in yesterdays Salon.com, written by Tracy Clark-Flory. I’m posting it – it’s well worth reading! Here it goes: What’s more disturbing — that teens are texting each other naked pictures of themselves, or that it could get them branded as sex offenders for life? The photographs show three naked underage girls […]

A fantastic seminar about politics and social media

Friday the 13th March (yeh, I know…), INMA together with us at Confetti and Dagbladet will invite to a huge seminar about the use of social media in politics. One of the new and exciting politicians, Hadia Tajik from Arbeiderpartiet, will tell us some of her experience in her campaign at YouTube. The list of […]

The new Simpsons main title

It’s actually a step forward, how could ever think else…. nice one by adding the side characters Don’t miss the first ever HD episode of The Simpsons, this Sunday only on FOX! For full episodes of The Simpsons visit: http://www.fox.com/fod

The Pirate Bay trial

The Swedish government is aiming its cannons at The Pirate Bay, but the torrent site’s administrators say that they don’t plan to abandon ship. The charges filed yesterday against The Pirate Bay by Swedish prosecutor Håkan Roswall (you can here it live at SVT and follow it at Twitter) allege that four of the torrent […]

Twitter is accelerating

The use of Twitter here in Norway has exploded the last couple of months. The real value of Twitter is both in acting as a central portal to bring together and point to all social media activity, and also a true engagement tool! In fact, when brands use Twitter and in Norway are we so […]

No surprise – Facebook is no 1!

Data released today from Compete.com supports what will not be a surprise to most. Facebook is the most visited social network, with nearly 1.2 billion visits in January 2009. This also represents significant growth, with visits to Facebook up 36% on December, and 256% over the previous twelve months. MySpace slipped into second place at […]

Is she the Obama of Norway?

In a way I have the greatest sympathy for Hadija Tajik, a candidate for the Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) as she will become the trail and error case – does social media comes in handy running for office? Together with the production company CIK who is making the campaign for here, they will do whatever […]

Is she the Obama of Norway?

In a way I have the greatest sympathy for Hadija Tajik, a candidate for the Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) as she will become the trail and error case – does social media comes in handy running for office? Together with the production company CIK who is making the campaign for here, they will do whatever […]

Baseball in crisis, again

I read this article yesterday, written by ESPN senior writer Jayson Stark, about Sports Illustrated article Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 03. Mr Stark is very angry and I do agree, like he says in his article “In baseball, we love our numbers. And we love our heroes. And that brings us to […]

Great conferance in Berlin

I’m at the INMA conference in Berlin, discussing and learning about more of all possibilities in digital media. The program is really good and the day has been a pleasure so far. Good speakers, good interaction and a lot of debates. I presume the evening will continue in the same way. Tomorrow, it’s time for […]

Winter at last

So what do I do, go skiing of course. Handball World Championships is over, so is Super Bowl (great game by the way, go Bucs!) Here is a view from yesterday Sunday, and absolute brilliant day skiing – I don’t know hoe to prepare my skis, a lot of people and dogs, but I was […]