Not surprisingly, there were little about the EU elections in the Norwegian media. Mostly, the discussion was about two things, right-wing extremists joining the European parliament and the Swedish Piratpartiet taking place. The most interesting I think is the total collapse for the social democratic side, I was kinda’ expecting the opposite, looking in the […]
The same discussion as we have in Norway about the use of social media in politics is still under heat, this time in Sweden, for the upcoming EU-election. But, and I don’t know if this the world famous ‘jantelov’ (a Scandinavian expression) – both consultants and researchers agrees what has gone wrong . The message […]
The University of Agder, together with the Kristiansand based company 4AM, arranged a seminar about the use of social media in the forthcoming Norwegian elections. A lot of interesting people said a lot of interesting things, here is the link to the program (in Norwegian) and I will get back to ya with some interviews […]
This afternoon, one of the biggest investors and most discussed CEO in Norway, Kjell Inge Røkke, had his long awaited press conference, about the sales of Aker shares, and the heated discussions with the minority owner, the Norwegian State. It was a blow out! You really have to understand Norwegian to get a grip on […]
Yet again, the Red/Green coaliation shows all the signs of making political harakiri, this time the Aker-case. The oppsition have happy days, poundering the message that the Government shouldn’t be involved in business, the way we do here in Norway, which means highly imvolvmeny from the state in different areas, especially related towards oil/energy and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Few presidents have taken office facing higher expectations than Barack Hussein Obama. For the record millions who will fill Washington to hear his inaugural address Tuesday and the rest of the watching world, he is nothing less than America’s new prince, all the more charmed for his improbable rise and the mess he inherits. He […]
I have written some stuff about the role social media played in Obama’s campaign in the US. Politicians can make great use of social media and online communities to engage with the public. One real benefit of engaging people in this way is that you can focus people round a specific topic or issue, a […]
It’s really really bad what is happening on the Gaza-strip, Israel bombing innocent children and Hamas are putting them in schools and others public building to prevent this from happening. But, in a country the size of Western Europe, a war rages that has lasted nine years and cost four million lives. Rival militias inflict […]
It’s funny in a way, and making people laugh but one of the few things making people vote for Arbeiderpartiet in the forthcoming election. Take a look: Kinoreklame Ap
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg Thursday said in a statement yesterday that Norway’s restrictions again political TV-ads is against the freedom of speech, and because of that we can have political ads in the election campaigns next year. Is this a good thing? Yes, I absolutely think so! During an election year, […]
I couldn’t help, I’ve found this article in todays Aftenposten where Orri Vigússon, an Icelandic entrepreneur and environmentalist and in this matter – the Chairman of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund. He’s making some points on the Norwegian way of doing politics, in this case fish… And guess what, it’s not very flattering, again the […]
Barack Obama, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States. Mr Obama received 349 electoral vote vs John McCains 159. A landslide if you ask, and in my mind, quite surprising. And my thoughts about this, well – Mr. Obama can not […]