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Entries from March 31st, 2009

About this social media thing…

March 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Marketing, Technology

What was my strategy when launching this blog? How about when I started using Twitter over two years ago when most people dismissed it as a fad, trend, and a tool for narcissistic individuals who wanted to tell the world what they had for lunch? My strategy – learning by doing!
I made mistakes, I also [...]

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Elvis

March 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music

I have just seen The King singing smorgasbord in a movie called Spinout. I became so stunned by it I had to write something about – The King singing smorgasbord, wow!

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A disaster!

March 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Misc

Something have happened with my css-file, as you can see…
Somebody have a solution, please contact me at !
Updated news: thanks to Ørjan Svendsen at PresisPR – he pointed me in the right direction!

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Japan Wins The World Baseball Classic

March 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Sports

And it was a really good game, here is the wrapup:
Japan Wins The World Baseball Classic

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My guess about Tippeligaen

March 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Sports

Since there has been two matches played in the Norwegian tippeliga, this is my shot at guessing what will be the outcome.
Rosenborg
Brann
Stabekk
Tromsø
Viking
Lillestrøm
Molde
Fredrikstad
Lyn
Bodø/Glimt
Strømsgodset
Start
Vålerenga
Sandefjord
Aalesund
Odd Grenland
On paper, this should, unfortunately, be a walk in the park for the trønder boys…

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The Arbeiderparti debate on radical muslims

March 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics

The President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) and former Labour party leader, Thorbjørn Jagland, went on a rampage on the Prime Ministers 50th birthday (can you imagine…) and attacked his own party, and particularity the Secretary General Martin Kolberg for its role in the ongoing debate on Islam, saying it is creating fear.
Jagland says the [...]

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Video from the INMA seminar, part 2

March 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing

Here is the second video from INMA’s seminar last Friday (the 13th of March), starting with one of the key note speakers, Jan Omdahl.
Live video chat by Ustream
The sound isn’t the best, but we will edit it as soon as possible, but I wanna’ show what was said.

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Twitter Weekly Updates 15.03.2009

March 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Misc

Veldig glad for snøfreser! Mer sne – oh glede #
I just like to watch outside the house, 1.5 meter of snow #
done with everything, here comes the new week with a lot of exciting things #
still working, hell of a fun week ahead! #
@yapluka du har helt rett! in reply to yapluka #
Here’s [...]

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The video from todays seminar

March 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing

is here, INMA’s nyhetsseminar part 1.
Free TV : Ustream
I will post the other videos as soon I have them available.

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Exhausted

March 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing, Politics

A great INMA seminar about politics and social media earlier today. Thanks to Sindre F. Beyer, Arbeiderpartiet, Hanne Bjerknes, Høyre, Tone Liljeroth, FrP, Marius Myhrvold, ColtPR, Marius Eriksen, Sermo Consulting, Thomas Moen, 4AM, Jan Omdahl, Dagbladet for making this such a great day.
A lot of Twitter and LiveStreaming – I will post it as soon [...]

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Political ads on TV in Norway still banned, or?

March 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing, Politics

Despite the fact that the Norwegian government won’t appose the verdict in the European Court of Human Rights, regarding the political ads on TV, the minister of Culture, Trond Giske still says no!
They are supposed to allow the smaller parties and I really don’t know how they can explain this — for real. You allow [...]

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The INMA seminar on Friday the 13th

March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Marketing, Politics

I’m quite convinced that the seminar on Friday will be a success. We have started a group under the INMA-name, which will focus on social media as a profession and how to use it.
As far as I know there will be a ton of people, both participating and watching, at location and live. Thomas Moen [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates – 08.03.2009

March 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology

@philiplund hvofor ikke en sak om hvorfor Twitter har eksplodert i Norge siden årsskiftet in reply to philiplund #
nye muligheter – ny uke! #
@Manheim høres ut som en god plan – jeg legger det inn i kalender #
@philiplund skjønner problemstillingen bra artikkel idag f.ø på Kuttisme! in reply to philiplund #
RT @AthleticsMLBB [...]

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The Frenzy of Twitter

March 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Marketing, Technology

Twitter’s the subject of a lot of debate at the moment and a lot of coverage in the media and press. Twitter is growing fast and as it does so it is changing and evolving to follow its users needs.
I truly believe that Twitter is growing and that 2009 will see it evolve beyond what [...]

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This thing with Twitter

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing, Misc

Thought I post something that I twittered (can you say that??) last week, it looks a bit corny but anyway. And I do feel that Pascal has a point!
Oh, almost forgot, Kuttisme had a really good article today about the use of Twitter in marketing. Read it!

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Twitter Weekly Updates – 1.3.2009

March 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Technology

ferdig med snemåking, nå er det #
trying to buy an #
peppes på røa godt å synde en skjelden gang #
@skipet veldig bra tips! in reply to skipet #
really good handball game tonight, won 28-16, and we played well! #
will this be another glorious day for Norway at the cross-country world championships in Liberec? #
new improved [...]

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