Today I had the honour on behalf of  Transfers (Swedish organisation working to bring the industry into class rooms) meet students at IT-Gymnasiet in Gothenburg studying Digital Design and Communication to talk about my work as communicator.  We had a good discussion about what communication is, how best to brand oneself and private vs personal.

I also took the opportunity to ask the students if they were friends with their parents  on Facebook. I had the belief that in general one would not want to have once parents as freinds but a majority of the about 20 students did.  Most of them felt that their relationship with their parents was open and trusting and therefor it didn’t matter that the parents saw what they posted. And if they posted anything that they didn’t want their parents to see they simply selected who could see it. A few had also blocked their parents from viewing the wall.

I also asked their teacher if the school had a policy on wether teachers are allowed/not allowed to be friends with their student. She mentioned that the questionm had been rasied and a discussion was to be held after Easter. It’s an interesting discussion adn as the teacher said, in the fufuter it might not be an issue at all because it has become the norm but we are not yet 100% comofrtable with it. A student also mentioned the issue of unfair treatment as it is important that the teacher is unbiased when grading a student.

I find these discussions about where to draw the line very interesting, not just when it concerns me as a person but also in regards to ethics as a professional.

I spent the weekend in Gothenburg at Lindholmen Science Park where the unconference Webcoast manifested for the second year running. A great mix of people and topics.

At an unconference the participants create the agenda, or the Grid as it is called. At 20:00 on Friday the Grid opened up and everyone then had the same chance to add [...]

Last Wednesday Swedish television station SVT aired the first of two programmes where they revealed the truth about IKEA and Ingvar Kamprad (text in Swedish) – their own words. After the show the comments on IKEA Sverige’s Facebook page started pouring in and the love Swedes have for its yellow and blue company was obvious [...]

I’ve been running my consultancy business for a bit over a year now and something like that requires a celebration, right? I wanted to celebrate in a way that wasn’t just fun but also made a difference.

I decided to support the work of Hand In Hand. Their aim is to eliminate poverty through enterprise [...]