Finnur Palmi Magnusson aka Gommit

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been receiving requests for Social Media experts doing freelance work in Iceland. Companies are realizing that there might be some value in a solid social media strategy while the Icelandic advertising agencies don’t seem to meet the demand. Community managers are a scarce resource on our island but I’ve compiled a short list. Mainly [...]

Er búinn að vera að fylgjast með ótrúlega góðum spretti hjá @islandsbanki síðastliðna tvo daga. Þetta er fyrsti bankinn á Twitter og eitt af fyrstu fyrirtækjunum sem hlustar og svarar (augljóslega séð fyrirlesturinn minn) Þetta fór af stað með smá skotum en mér finnst bankinn hafa staðið sig vel í að svara og dæmin tala [...]

We excel in everything per capita. Today Facebook states that we have 170,400 Icelanders registered which equates to roughly 54% of the total population. After reading this post I decided to dig a bit deeper and create a similar graph for the Icelandic Facebook demography. No real surprises there, similar to the US except for the [...]

My Gov 2.0 heart still beats strong and this recent report (PDF)highlighting the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce Online Engagement making the rounds online sparked my interest. Just the thought of having a social media task force in matching uniforms on a Hummer with a theme tune would be awesome. But having the Icelandic government actually consider [...]

I have been watching closely how Obama is embracing the Government 2.0 ideas and effectively engaging with people through the medium of the web. So with nothing better to do, I decided to do a quick survey on how the Icelandic political parties are using Facebook. Framsókn 174 members, 2 discussion topics and 11 wall [...]

Practical applications for driving efficiency within companies. One of my last tasks at VYRE was to produce a White Paper on applying social web patterns behind the firewall. I touch on social web authoring patterns, social web elements and polish it off with some relevant case studies. It is an ongoing crusade which was the [...]