photo credit: Chris_Carter_ “Video killed the radio star” hit the airwaves at the end of the seventies. Soon it might be time to sing “Facilitation killed the Twitter star” as social media development coupled with information overload and fatigue merge for a not so catchy chorus. Twitter is merging as both an inlet and outlet for the latest news. Journalists

photo credit: philippe leroyer In any given business, there’s nothing like an engaged customer. Because engagement spells loyalty, and that sure beats trying to recruit new customers 24/7. In the news industry, it’s what all the hype is about, as we refer to the past and on-going situations in Iran, London, Japan, Egypt and London again. But how about all

[Warning: This blog post is purely subjective speculation, and not built on any empirical facts.] This morning, I read an interesting editorial on Wikileaks by Swedish journalist Anders Mildner. One of his points was that Wikileaks might not be som big among in the eyes of common man, as it is in social media. Nerds like us might think and

One day after being in the world press limelight for a premature terrorist tweet (that ended up to be 100% correct), Sweden’s foreign secretary Carl Bildt was suspended from Twitter. And so the speculation started. @jmacfear: If @CarlBildt account was suspended by US officials, we are going nowhere really fast. You cant stop global press. #WikiLeaks #Cablegate @BeardedWhale User has

NBA-players seem to live in a world of their own. A world in which many of them is the emperor of their own kingdom. Today’s example: Dwyane Wade, the Miami Heat superstar who announced on Twitter (@DWadeOfficial) that he’s “shedding his nickname Flash” as a sign of his maturity. Mhm. Yeah. Well, isn’t the thing about nicknames that you don’t

So, how come I am in Turkey blogging for Nokia during the world championships in basketball? It’s actually part of a wider strategy of Nokia and word of mouth marketing bureau 1000heads from London. As a digital PR nerd, I really like that strategy! Nokia might not be topping the sales lists in Western Europe and the US right now,

My life is pretty much sponsored by Twitter right now. It’s starting to get to a point where it’s becoming silly really, just look at my Tuesday; I got up to go to work at Drivhuset, a job I got thanks to Twitter: it was announced by my new boss a Tuesday morning a couple of months ago. I started

The other day, Swedish blogger Emanuel Karlsten (Google Translate it!) quoted an unknown source about the difference between Facebook and Twitter: “Facebook is for friends that are now strangers, Twitter is for strangers that should be friends” Really like that quote, and the little more nastier ones that has being going around as well. “Facebook is for the friends you had

It’s fascinating to see how a market is maturing right in front of your eyes. I’m of course speaking about social media, and how it slowly but steadily is moving from an entity of its own to what it really is: a group of communication tools. One of the most intriguing phenomena is how self-proclaimed experts are being replaced by

Did you have the chance to follow the outcome of the first Influencer Project on Wednesday? If not, I recommend you to head directly over to www.influencerproject.com and have a peak. This could very well be the next big knowledge movement like TED(x). Sam Rosen, Steve Haase and Christiana Briddell at ThoughtLead collected 60 speakers to speak 60 seconds each