My intention...

Monday. My intention is to write in this blog at least once a day now. Busy times. Get up at 5.40 am, take the bus to work, come home from work at 6 pm, (GYM after?!), finish dinner at 8 or 8.30 pm, TV, sleep. Thank god for the weekends :)

So this thursday I got up at 3.45 and went to Helsingborg, and from there with my colleague Björn to Skövde. We attended Apticdagen, by Aptic - a software program we use at our organisation. Since I work with communications, marketing, social media I felt a bit lost there among all facturing company representatives but I had fun anyways. I love to meet new people and learn new things. And also, it was a banquette later that evening and a party after that. Some of us stayed up until 4am. (Yes I was awake for 24 hours). Got up the day after at 7. My voice was gone, but many others were quite tired as well so.

This weekend Carl's sister Anna and her boyfriend Johan visited us. I was a bit sick (I always get sick when I sleep too little), but could join them on several activites anyways. Stayed home a couple of times. Yesterday, we went to the christmas fair at Tivoli. I love Christmas and I love tivoli. Too bad I was not in a very good shape.


Anna, Carl, Johan

Slogans.

What's your favourite slogan? I like slogans that are short and clear, for example Nike's "Just do it" and Nokia's "Connecting people". I think it is important that a slogan really says something about the business idea and its values. And of course that the company can live up to it! :)

Here are some other slogans by well-known companies and brands.

Harley Davidson – American by Birth. Rebel by Choice.
Volkswagen – Think Small.
Porsche – There is no substitute.
Adidas – Impossible is Nothing.
Calvin Klein – Between love and madness lies obsession.
Marks & Spencer – The customer is always and completely right!
IBM – Solutions for a smart planet.
Sony – Make Believe.
PlayStation – Live in your world. Play in ours.
EA – Challenge everything.
Blogger – Push button publishing.
Nikon – At the heart of the image.
Kodak – Share moments. Share life.
Olympus – Your vision. Our future.
FedEx – When there is no tomorrow.
Red Cross – The greatest tragedy is indifference.
Disneyland – The happiest place on earth.
McDonalds – I’m loving it.
KFC – Finger lickin’ good.
Burger King – Have it your way.
Coca Cola – Twist the cap to refreshment.
M&Ms – Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.
Nokia – Connecting people.
Vodafone – Make the most of now.
Airbus- Setting the Standards. 
Boeing - Forever new frontiers.
Dell Computer - Get more out of now. 
Ericsson - Taking you forward. 
IBM - We make IT happen.
Philips - Sense and simplicity. 

Fifa - For the game. For the world.

Another job! :)

Today I got a new job! :) I will be responsible for communication and especially social media activities for eFinance Nordic AB. I am super excited! I will continue my work for Nina as well, since I really enjoy it, meet many nice people, get a bigger network, and learn a lot. I actually think it is good for me to work with different things, since I become more productive that way :)

Today I also interviewed Linus Zackrisson, who is an expert in job searching and especially LinkedIn (and knows a lot about other social media channels also). It went very well! I think it can be a very good article of that information I got! And also some inside info about how recruiters use social media to find their candidates ;)

Now, I have started to think about something... we'll see what happens with that.

Happy girl! And it's friday! And we're having guests :)

Busy day.

So today, I have done a lot of things! First, it was a breakfast event in Malmö at Mindfloor; Måndagsboost. Met many nice people, and we listened to a lecture about how sex, money and leadership are related/affected by each other. Interesting subject, and it opened up for many discussions and debates. Some people were critical to her focus and limitations in her focus and organisation. Interesting discussions! 

After the breakfast event, I had a short meeting with Nina before I went to next event. 

It was a lunch event with the business network BNI. I did not know what I could expect and it was an experience for sure! I am not so comfortble with talking of myself and what I am good at etc, but here everybody had to. So I presented myself, my job, my vision, my dreams, who I want to talk to for opportunities etc. Kind of different, but I think it is very good to practice at it :) Got some new contacts and have some meetings booked to discuss career and learning opportunities. 

THEN, I got another offer from an event agency to work as a hostess on wednesday. The company Absolut has an event in Sweden and many of the attendants are landing at Kastrup so I will be there, welcome them, show them to their trains, call cabs to them etc:) 

Busy day. Super tired now. 

www.mindfloor.se

To do list.

I am starting to feel done with the article about Kakfateriet. I don't know why, but that articles has taken longer time than any other to finish. I thought it would be easy, but now. It is so much I want to write, but I have to limit it to only 3000 characters (approx. 1 page). Also, I didn't know it would take so long time to understand how Google Adwords and Search engine optimization work. It is kind of impossible to understand everything since it is a very complicated algorithm that control search results, so I focused on more overall understanding.

Nina also told me that the article I wrote about Helene Colak and Mindfloor was OK so it will be published soon :)

For next week, I have several plans with my PR and social media job. On monday morning, I will attend Måndagsboost (monday boosting) on Mindfloor, where we will listen to an inspirational lecture about how sex and money affect how we are as leaders. I met Maria, who will hold the lecture, at Paddy's and I think it will be very interesting :) Also the attendants will boost and be boosted by each other there. The event is primarily for Small/medium company owners. I think it would be fun to start a company, but I don't feel I can or want to do it all by myself. Marketing and communication is my thing, and I would need someone who are more of a risk-taker than I am, and good at management and financial stuff etc. Maybe one day, we will see.

On monday at lunch I will also attend the BNI event, that I wrote about here yesterday. On wednesday, I have the interview with Cathrin and on friday an interview with Anna who owns the company "Gourmetbudet". And I will also, of course, try to write som articles and job applications!

Looking forward to all the activities :)

Business and networking.

At Paddy's in Malmö I met a man who works as a regional manager for BNI. They organise business networking events, and recommended me to come to those to meet people that could help me in my career within marketing and communication. So today I contacted him and he sent me an official invitation to a lunch event on monday. That feels good! I am a bit nervous since he told me that many big business and marketing associations will be there. But I have nothing to lose :) I will have the opportunity to mingle and talk to more than 20 orgs in 1½ hour. 

I did not finish the article so I am still writing. Search engine optimization service is a really long word in Swedish (sökmotoroptimeringstjänst). Any suggestions on what I can use instead? :P I am still too picky when I write my articles, so it takes a lot of time for me to finish them.