Archive for 'Social Media'

Twitter Iceland

Posted 30 November 2011 | By | Categories: Social Media | No Comments

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 [...]

Social media training day

Posted 25 February 2011 | By | Categories: Social Media | No Comments

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 [...]

The great scvngr hunt

Posted 17 February 2011 | By | Categories: Social Media | 3 Comments

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 [...]

My country wants to be your friend

Posted 17 November 2010 | By | Categories: Social Media | No Comments

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 [...]

Flying cars and GEO apps on my iPhone

Posted 05 August 2010 | By | Categories: Social Media | 7 Comments

Today it dawned on me, the future is now! Who needs flying cars when you have an iPhone. I was doing 50km/hr on my bike when I got the idea for this blog. My phone was dutifully tracking my bike ride home through GPS satellites and modern wizardry. It got me thinking about all the GEO [...]

Crowdsourcing your ToDo list

Posted 13 July 2010 | By | Categories: Social Media | No Comments

I’ve been tossing questions into my social graph for a while. Asking my friends, family and followers for guidance on things that would take me ages to work out myself. Most of the time it results in great twists and marvelous solutions to tedious tasks on my ToDo list. I hate cars. Stupid piece of [...]