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If Strategy is Like Porn, Tactics is The Real Thing

June 4, 2010

“What do you do?” “Oh me? I work with strategy and… stuff”. How many times a day do we hear that said? If you’re anything like me, you hear it quite a few times. And while I really appreciate the value of an excellent strategist, it’s really a misused term. A lot of times the [...]

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Do Dictatorships Use Social Media More Effectively Than Corporations?

September 24, 2009

I‘ve done quite a bit of thinking about how the social web will make the world a better place. I’ve written about it, and also lectured about the social web, good, and evil. So when a talk by Evgeny Morozov popped on TED on the topic of how the net aids dictatorships, I was naturally [...]

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How to Love Mean People and Embrace Failure

September 22, 2009

First off, thanks for putting walternaeslund.com and honesty.se at two out of the three top positions for fastest growing sites in Sweden on SIS-Index. Awesome! They weren’t very big to start with, but success is not an absolute, but a relative. Today I really don’t feel like talking shop. It’s just one of those days. [...]

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Sweden’s Most Swedish Job Completed

August 6, 2009

Today the “Sweden’s most swedish job”-campaign that I was involved in with Syrup Sthlm and Bizkit earlier this year came to an end. Calle Engström, who has been traveling around Sweden blogging, filming and tweeting about his experience, arrived to Stockholm and the STF hostel Af Chapman after posting 82 YouTube-films, 371 blog posts and [...]

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Naked Blogging From The Boat: Bloggers Killed The Journalism Star?

May 25, 2009

Im out in the sailboat reading a couple of newspapers from yesterday and the day before. A couple of different articles caught my eye. One of them is by Thomas E Patterson, media researcher at Harvard university. In the article, he talks about the future of the newspapers, or rather the production of news in [...]

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Navel-Gazing Sunday With DDB, Dagens Media & Tewonder

April 12, 2009

Most of my time reading is spent on blogs. I still love picking up a magazine every now and then, and when I do my favorites are Fast Company, Monocle, and Guns & Ammo (just kidding about the last one). I rarely read the print versions of our local Swedish marketing press, but today I [...]

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The Bar Brawl of The Swedish Twittersphere

February 6, 2009

It all started when the fashion brand Acne started following Fredrik Wass of Bisonblog fame on Twitter. Fredrik felt spammed and wrote a heated post on his blog. Jesper Åström responded at his Online PR-blog. In essence he made very good points i think, but his angle was all crooked. Instead of heading into a [...]

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Fruit & Blogging Workshop With Super Strikers.

January 26, 2009

Today I’m spending time with the brilliant minds of Super Strikers, preparing a secret pitch. I can divulge that it concerns monetizing the blogosphere. Our work process today is to sit around a conference table stacked up with fruit, collaborating hunched over our MacBook Pros. It’s turning out rather nicely. Some of these things are [...]

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True Blogging

January 23, 2009

I think it’s interesting to see how the Insider’s Journal-blog of Björn Borg is posting pictures from their work on the SS10 collection. I think this is the way to do a blog. Very open, very involving, taking your customers with you on the journey. Screw secrecy, and tease the nextopia nerve by being smart, [...]

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Being Efficient in an Economic Downturn

January 14, 2009

Rock n’ roll is dead, order and neatness is here. The economic downturn puts us all in a different spot. And what does it mean for our business? Well, reason would suggest two things – first, people will need to change their priorities. New business will be a tougher job, and there will be less [...]

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Is IR The Killer Marketing App of Social Media?

December 26, 2008

Ok. Granted, I keep pushing all these “killer apps”. Last time it was honesty, this time internal relations (IR). But I really think this is worth looking into. And honesty has a great deal to do with it. A while back I wrote about how the breakdown of privacy leads to a better society and, [...]

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The Invisible Internet

May 5, 2008

Perhaps one day we’ll laugh at the fact that we once had something called a “web browser”. Maybe it will sound just as stupid as having a generic “electricity browser” where you can choose from “light”, “hair dryer”, and “vacuum cleaner”. I don’t know. Let me elaborate: What do you use the web for? Personally [...]

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Agencies: Forget Web 3.0. At least for now.

March 25, 2008

I went for a walk yesterday in the spring sun of Södermalm with Carl Waldecrantz from Superstrikers. We discussed Web 3.0 and the dangers of that concept. Everyone wants to claim it. I’ve heard it several times now. F&B for one mentioned it for their new site which has been “coming soon” now for longer [...]

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The Message is the Medium

November 6, 2007

I’m doing a quick browsing pass through my feeds again and of course, the live bloggings from Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote are hard not to read. We might be witnessing historical events here. The quote below is from Techcrunch’s blog: Zuckerberg: “Once every hundred years media changes. the last hundred years have been defined by the [...]

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