Hi, my name is Finnur. I have spent a good chunk of my life online. I'm a parallel entrepreneur, intrigued by social media. Like my coffee strong and whiskey from the cask. More →
My company helps reduce fuel consumption and emissions for large ships. On a work related voyage onboard Dettifoss I snapped this photo and tagged it with the #maersk hashtag. This was in the early days of Maersk Social Media efforts and I thought that this photo of their containers might have a fighting chance to [...]
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T-shirts: 10 Black 10 Single colour 17 Printed Sweaters: 6 V-neck 4 Polo 3 Wool Pants: 8 Jeans 5 Other Shirts: 4 White 6 Single colour 8 Pattern 6 Short sleeve 1 Havaiian Suits: 3 Coats: 1 Jackets: 3 Overcoat: 2 Ties: 6 Belts: 4 Shoes: 11 Underwear: 12 Socks: 12 Total: 142 items
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I did not do the year in review post 365 days ago like I usually do. Thing is that I find it hard to write more than 140 characters on any given subject these days #scatterbrain. So here you have 2012 twitter style: Jan 1, 2012 – Happy new year – first photo of the [...]
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Stitched together a couple of interesting examples from Icelandic corporate Twitter accounts and presented at ÍMARK Mannamót. Main takeaways: Be authentic, get your feet wet, tone of voice is of great importance. Opportunities for service, travel, export and companies wanting to hit it off with the twitter crowd. Twitter á mannamóti ÍMARK View more presentations [...]
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Facebook has been hyper active these first weeks of 2011 and keeping us developers and community managers on our toes. The latest twist for page owners was introduced on the 10th of February with the iFrame tabs for pages blog post. I was a bit surprised to see them let go of their full control [...]
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I’ve been doing the odd social media seminar now and then up on requests from companies and organizations. Each seminar ranges from one to four hours. The slides are a mix of case studies, strategy, hands on tips and tools of the trade. I posted the deck to my SlideShare account today and managed to [...]
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Location is taking the internet by storm according to all the hip tech blogs. I’ve used every possible means of publishing my location for a few years now and finally I can testify that it’s not as lonely as it used to be. Foursquare and Google latitude are reaching medium adoption with higher smartphone penetration [...]
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I love spending some quality time in the kitchen tinkering with new recipes. Last night I stumbled upon a photo online that sparked an impromptu culinary masterpiece. At least it got rave reviews from the youngest family member. Conclusion; Icelandic sausages are not ideal for 10min+ in boling water. Take care when removing from pot.
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It has become a tradition in my house for me to sit down and update this blog at this point in time every year. Let’s kick this off by summarizing the work bits. I have noticed that people have kind of given up on asking what I do for a living cause of many hats [...]
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I live in a friendly country, yes we might have fudged that Icesave thing and grounded all air traffic for a few days, but compared to other countries on the Inter-nets, Iceland is the friendliest. http://icelandwantstobeyourfriend.com might not be the friendliest of URLs, but I love everything else about it. Having the actual country represent [...]
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