Category Archives: Social Media

Pin Me Pretty: What is Pinterest?

Hello there! I’m back after a loooong silence that has been mainly caused by extreme busy-ness, no inspiration and a general drought when it comes to ideas. Today, I’ll do my comeback with a new social network that has been … Continue reading

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‘Facebook effect’ on grades?

Today one of the bloggers on Mashable, Jolie O’Dell wrote an interesting post and started an interesting discussion regarding students’ usage of social media and the impact on grades. She asks whether we students perceive our activities on social media to have … Continue reading

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The SIME Experience Part 2

The SIME Experience part 2 continues with some interesting company presentations and reflections. First up is, Gowalla– CEO, Josh Williams Where are we going –the story of Gowalla and the social future? Having the idea of connecting places online, Josh … Continue reading

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The SIME Experience Part 1

SIME After having spent two awesome days @ SIME with some of the world’s most creative minds within online media and business development, I thought I would share some of the contents that was presented. It will be a selective … Continue reading

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Banned from TV!

Pokerstars.com, the online gambling website, made a commercial for Germany that is not fit for German TV, according to the always so credible newspaper Aftonbladet. Take a look: Oooh yeaaahhhhh, some good ultra violence there. To me, it is pretty … Continue reading

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Facebook Places

If true and if successful. This can be huge. This can change a lot. According to Mashable, Facebook is launching Facebook Places in their I-phone-app. The application show local deals on places near you. There are different kinds of deals, … Continue reading

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Improve the CV by making it interactive

Have you also questioned why we still are supposed to send in letters (even if they are digital) to our potential future employers? Letters were invented thousands of years ago when that was the only way of communicating with two … Continue reading

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The Social Job Hunt: Build your Online Brand and ‘Tweet’ your Way to a Great Career

The recruitment game has changed! It’s no longer about formal resumes or cover letters. Recruiters all over the world are sourcing talent through social media. The Online Urban Legend Turned REALITY Did you heard about the Stanford student who got … Continue reading

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Blow up school kids, get some buzz

Environmentalist group 10:10 wants you to decrease your carbon dioxide emissions (or whatever, one of those bad gases anyway) with ten percent. Coolio. To spread the word, they made a three minute long clip where they make köttfärssås out of … Continue reading

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PR on Facebook

Do you use Facebook as a PR tool and measure your success by the number of likes? Recently Facebook released statistics on the value of a “Like”, read about it on Media Culpa, a blog by a Swedish PR consultant, … Continue reading

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