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Entries from September 29th, 2009

Sylvia Brustad visiting

September 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Marketing, Politics

Just now we had the Norwegian minister of Trade, Sylvia Brustad, over for lunch! The discussions was about the conditions for small companies like us at Confetti. A nice chat for an hour and a half!

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Jarle Aabo creats rage.. in the Norwegian Twitter elite…

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing

Jarle Aabø wrote an article about a week ago, regarding the misuse of Twitter amongst Norwegian journalists. What happend, of course, he was hung by the lot….
But the thing about that is that they are absolutely right! Marius Eriksen, partner at Sermo wrote this in Kampanje. Besides what he is writing I would like [...]

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ØHIL Royals does it’s best to win the title

September 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sports

ØHIL Royals, the baseball team for Bærum, are in a 0-2 hole in the Norwegian championships against the defending champions Oslo Pretenders. A good video article from Budstikka tells you why:

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Challanges ahead

September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics

Norway’s red-green government did win the elections on Monday, winning 86 seats to the oppositions 83 seats. Venstre fell out of the parliament and KrF, together with Senterpartiet stayed somewhere around the six present of votes.
The results indicated Norway would continue to buck a trend that has seen center-right blocs take power in its Nordic [...]

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Who won the Norwegian election in the digital media?

September 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Misc

Valgpanelet has done a remarkable job on their site, following the election in digital media. Their conclusion is that Arbeiderpartiet has won it, and I completely disagree.

The reason (is Norwegian) is:
Den digitale vinneren av årets valgkamp er Rødt! På samme måte som dere kårer AP, så har Rødt gjennomført akkurat sin politiske kampanje etter [...]

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A definition of conservatism

September 10th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics

Just a thought, what is conservatism? I asked yesterday at Twitter and got several responses. But what struck me was more ideas about political parties, like Høyre and FrP than what it could be as an ideology.

Could you say, today, that conservatism could stand for “you’re happy with what you got and don’t wanna’ change” [...]

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Medie- og avishusenes 10 mest populære løgner!

September 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Marketing, Politics, Technology

Hmm, here we go again – writing in Norwegian… Anyway, this post is very much inspired/copied from the brilliant people at Mindpark, so the wrap-up is more a translation into Norwegian.
Judy Sims,from Toronto Canada, a very interesting professional have written a blogpost about Top 10 Lies Newspaper Execs are Telling Themselves, and here is the [...]

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Article at Hashtaggen.no

September 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing

I wrote an article for hashtaggen.no, about presence in social media which creates a stronger branding, it’s in Norwegian..
Nå begynner det så sakte komme informasjon som påviser hvordan tilstedeværelse i sosiale medier skaper finansielle verdier, og det mener jeg er noe som virkelig trengs! Henriettes artikkel på hvordan man selger inn dette internt i bedrifter [...]

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