Blog of Johan Ronnestam

Tag: social media

  • Dear CEO’s, Board Members and Top Management – what's more important? Wine or Change?

    This post is probably most stupid post one can write since CEO’s and board members seems to have decided to stay behind with the dinosaurs while the rest of us look for new ground where we can thrive and prosper. Basically on average they read three local newspapers of their own choice, Wall Street Journal, […]

  • What comes after Facebook? A social world?

    Almond Butterscotch named his photo Connected and lonely That’s one of the most common questions I get when I’m giving speeches or meeting clients. Hell if I knew but the last couple of weeks I’ve been giving it some thoughts, new thoughts though. If you’d asked me one year ago I’d dreamed up some sort […]

  • How to think when recruiting social media experts for your brand or company

    Mother Teresa knew social media long before it existed! Tons of brands are recruiting social media experts. Here’s a little something for you all to think about. A typical ad reads: To apply for this role we believe you; are an expert in social media, know how to spot trends, got extraordinary abilities to express […]

  • Answering 10 questions about the future of communication (in Croatia to some extent)

    About 2 month ago I was invited to Best Internet and beautiful Zagreb in Croatia to host a full day workshop on the future of communication. Me another 85 people had a great day where I mixed speaking sessions with, what I love the most, open discussions. Before this event I was contacted by the […]

  • Top 100 Posts On The Future Of Communication by Johan Ronnestam Posted Between 2005 and 2011

    Some of you might have followed my blog since way back while others followed me only a couple of days. So I decided it was time to dig into Google Analytics and gather my top 100 blog posts, based on traffic, (I have written 596 to this date) between the years 2005 and 2011 for […]

  • Future Integrated Communication From A Digital Perspective

    Leading a brand? Thinking about how to create a long term integrated communication platform? Think no more cause I’ll share the model I’ve been using for the last three years when leading brands into the future of advertising, communication and advertising. Normally I’d work a company or brand through a series of workshops. We would […]

  • Social Media. It's There To Give Your Brand A Body

    We’ve all heard it before. A brand is not a logo, nor is it your products or services. Your brand is the sum of peoples feelings when they think about your brand. Or said in a more ‘techy’ way – An emotional translation of what first comes to mind when neurons fire in the brains […]

  • Social Marketing Simplified

    There are no secret formulas, no secret recipes or magic potions when it comes to social media marketing. All you’ve gotta do is take in one single fact: People have moved lots of their behaviors online and you’ve gotta follow. To succeed in moving your business, communication and advertising into the digital world, ask yourselves […]

  • How Traditionalists Think About Social Media

    State your problems first. Then it might turn out social media is not what you need. And if it is. The do something unique made to work. Don’t just treat it like another channel where you can dump your offline activities. A sloppy little drawing I did this morning inspired by the works of Al […]

  • The Power Of Participation – The Ushahidi

    Every now and then when I spend time online I find things that make me shiver cause they’re so freakin cool. Today I found an open source project that matches that description and I’d like to share it with you. It regards an organization called Ushahidi and their kick ass crowdsourcing platform. Ushahidi, which means […]

  • Social Media And Our Beloved Europe? The Truth Or At Least Part Of It.

    Students over at the Berghs School of Communication asked for some advice on research about social networking behaviours in Europe. As I gathered my links and sources from my Delicious account I ran into this wonderful presentation below by Tom Smith from Trendstream. The presentation was given by Tom to the IAB Europe Social Media […]

  • What are people doing online while you're reading this post

    A Tweet from Gary Hayes caught my eye this morning. I followed a link and found this wonderful social media counter. Gary has built and coded this app based on data collected from a range of social media sites. Sit tight and watch the thing start counting. After a couple of seconds you’ll grasp the […]

  • 21 Steps on How to Monitor Your Brand Online and Keep Track of the Conversation

    And now to a very sensitive issue – monitoring. As some of you know my profession is leading brands into the future of communication. One of the more important parts of this is teaching them how to keep track of their own brands in the jungle of conversation. What are people saying about my brand, […]

  • Skittles innovates their brand through the use of widgets and social media

    Candy brand Skittles have produced some kick ass TVC’s (Skittles leak being one of my favorites) through out the years and now they’re innovating the use of social media within fast moving consumer goods. This blog post started in my head after seeing this discussion below between two of the bloggers I’m following. David Armano […]

  • The Swedish Royal Court makes history as they announce the engagement between crown princess Victoria and Daniel Westling

    Today his Majesty King Carl Gustav was proud to announce that princess Victoria was getting engaged to her boyfriend Daniel Westling. This is cool both because it’s time for the girl to get married and the fact that the King did it on YouTube. It’s obviously not only Barack Obama that has gotten the idea […]

  • Updated: Dalai Lama joins [did not] Twitter and nothing will ever be the same [still goes]

    [updated] It turns out someone fooled us all and created the Dalai Lama name on Twitter. At more than 16,000 followers in one weekend, the fake Dalai Lama was one of the fastest growing accounts that Twitter has ever seen. If you didn’t know about Twitter before you’ll definitely learn about it now. The American microblogging service has […]

  • An answer to Jonas Söderström and 15 things to think of when getting into conversational brand marketing.

    Blogger and planner Jonas Söderström a nice guy who’s running his own company – Planning STHLM posted a question the other day. I started to write an answer to Jonas in his commentators field but then felt I needed to elaborate a little bit more. On top of that I think my thoughts might be […]

  • Controlling your brand with creative excellence

    Who is heading your brand? Does he or she have an understanding for all, and I mean all, steps in the consumer interaction with your brand. The new generation of consumers crave 4 things from their favorite brands. These 4 things was something we found in a global focus group study we did for one […]

  • If you wanna get some brand love tomorrow you better get into the conversation today

    Branding today is about creating a brand platform, then dramatize it and start screaming to people – COME ON AND BUY MY PRODUCT. IT’S GREAT. Of course in a slightly creative and modest manner than that. But it very often about traditional advertising in classic media channels. Branding of tomorrow is about knowing who you […]

  • Wondering how to get a viral spread of that great video of yours?

    There’s a lot of talk about viral marketing through video. But given that you have produced something worth seeing, how do you actually get it on the run? Well, it’s not necessarily that easy and the biggest single mistake brands do is they believe a good little piece will take off by it self. Is that the […]

  • People powered journalism outbeats mainstream media when reporting on the Hudson River crash

    Yesterday Janis Krums found himself on a ferry outside New York witnessing the Airbus that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River. Only seconds later his first Tweet appeared on Twitter with a link to TwitPic and his now world famous photo of people leaving the plane. Later during the day pictures started to […]

  • Luxury champagne brand Krug pops up their brand and shows how entertain the masses with minimum effort

    Nothing is like it used to be. A couple of years back I attended a Luxury marketing meeting in Monte Carlo. I was one of the speakers and I spoke about how the younger generation will want to see more things from the Luxury brands than just good old beauty shots of expensive products. A […]

  • Sociala media på frammarsch men social värme lyser allt mer med sin frånvaro.

    Internetworld frågade om jag ville skriva en krönika till Internetworld. Det gjorde jag och den publicerades i dagarna. Här återger jag den på min egen blogg. Adventsljusstakar och julstjärnor lös med vackert sken i våra fönster. Helgerna var fyllda av glöggfester och julstök. Det såldes mer fyrverkerier än någonsin trots strängare förbud och regler. Vi […]

  • Get your clown suit ready if you wanna reach out to consumers in 2009

    A couple of days ago ComScore published a Top Social Media Sites 2008 list. The list that I found on Techcrunch is an interesting read since I for one thought that Facebook and MySpace would be on top. But instead we find Blogger as the largest social media site in the world. Blogger and WordPress […]

  • Absolut.com gets a more user friendly user interface but I lack Innovation.

    One of the worlds most awarded websites has been redesigned. And the way Absolut.com is heading doesn’t come as a surprise. The new site has been give an slick, well designed user and SEO friendly interface. Many parts of the site has been moved from a flash based interface to a classical CSS based interface. Everything […]

  • The World Economic Forum in Davos 2009 show how to communicate global brands

    On Techcrunch I noted The World Economic Forum has launched the Davos Debates on YouTube, an open discussion on the state of the world. As well as inviting videos and comments from the YouTube community, the best of which will be shown at the Meeting, the person who submits the most thought-provoking video will have […]

  • Social media predictions for 2009

    All over the blogosphere we can expect 2009 predictions covering our feeds like fireworks on new years eve. Entrepreneur Peter Kim is one of the first out. He has put together a quite interesting paper that highlights what he think will be the things to watch for in 2009 when it comes to social media. Worth a […]

  • Why conversational marketing is the communication of tomorrow

    In this recent study Forrester asked people in North America what information sources they trusted. Look at the 2 bottom bars. The least trusted source of information is a company blog and social networking initiatives from a company or brand. Lately I’ve been talking a lot about how communication must shift from event based communication […]

  • Put your strategy first says Ford Motors when it comes to social communication

    Stuck on Arlanda airport on my way to London. Its pretty f*#n snowy so my plane is delayed. Sooner or later I’ll get there though! As I’m browsing some feeds I noted that Anton had bookmarked a case study by Amber/Altitude. The case study is basically an Interview with Scott Monty the head of social media […]

  • Videogame + urban sport + music + innovation = viral spread

    This video below got the ingredients you gotta have to cook that viral soup. It opens up with a quick association to one of the world most sold (and best) games – Guitar Hero. The sign also promotes that the video is about music – Prisoner of Society by The Living End. Shortly after the […]

  • A glimpse of what to come

    ReadWriteWeb reports on a new startup from Portugal called Tarpipe. Basically Tarpipe does for PR companies and social networking nerds what Yahoo Pipes does for Web 2.0 developers and feed junkies.  Hmm what the heck does that mean? Well, with Tarpipe you can ad all kinds of social networking accounts like Flickr, Jaiku, Twitter, Tumblr, […]

  • Amazon is stepping out of the jungle only to fall into a trap.

    For years people have been wondering – when will Amazon redesign their site. Of course it’s been changed in small iterations over the years but all in all it’s not that far from what they launched in 1995. Amazon is absolutely one of the best example of a formula one shopping experience from a social […]

  • A little article by Lars Bastholm worth reading

    Lars Bastholm and I worked together on a Nike project at Framfab back in 1999. Ever since then I’ve had a great deal of respect for the man. He’s now the Co-Chief Creative Officer at AKQA New York. The other day Lars wrote an article on Social Storytelling. Lars is commenting on the fact that […]

  • The US election will be won with small collectibles and online strategy

    When I opened my mailbox this morning yet another mail from the Barack Obama campaign machinery had landed. The header read: Deadline tomorrow: Your Car Magnet. Quirky enough to make me wonder what it was all about. I opened the mail and read: “I can tell you right now who’s going to win this election […]

  • Few companies lead. Most follow when it comes to Web 2.0

    This morning I read this survey on ‘Trends and Best Practices in Adopting Web 2.0 in 2008’ made by Awareness, a US based research company. The report explores the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and the future of social media initiatives for Enterprises in 2008. Of course it contains a bunch of interesting stuff (read […]

  • IKEA makes relevant use of web-TV

    It makes me warm to see that companies out there are starting to utilize the possibilities that comes with social media. IKEA has definitely understood how to make good use of web-TV as they started their own IKEA.SE/TV where you are invited to upload your own interior decoration tips. What’s even better is the fact that they’ve […]

  • Where in the world is the social buzz?

      So, you’re into communication and you know you have to at least try some social media activities in order to be on track with your competitors. You meet up with your consultants who says Facebook is the shit…ah mean Myspace…eh, LinkedIn…nooo Twitter…maybe… You get it. It’s a jungle out there and planning has taken […]

  • What the F**K is social media

    Found this great presentation by Marta Kagan on Slideshare.net. Another eye opener for you guys/girls out there who hasn’t really understood what social media means to the future of communication. A couple of qoutes from the presentation: Only 18% of TV ad campaigns generate positive ROI 90% of people who can skip TV ads, do […]

  • How important is social media technologies for business among the Fortune 500'

    Think Social Media is something strange that should be kept in the closet and not used for big business? Well, then think again. The answers above are taken from ‘Social Media in the Inc. 500’ – first statistically significant, longitudinal studies on the usage of social media in corporations. The new study is made by The University of Massachusetts […]

  • Implement "Ideastorms" on any company

      Some companies get it, some don’t but now at least it’s easier for you to do something about it.   Dell hosts this fantastic site called Ideastorm where they invite everyone to be involved in their products and services development. The site allows anyone of us to post ideas, then the community (including you) […]

  • Why the Eurocup 2012 will be broadcasted on Socialtelevision.com

    Right now people all over the world tune into Eurocup 08 in Switzerland/Austria. I live in Sweden, so TV4 and Canal+ are the channels of my choice since they are the ones holding the rights to the show. They paid a shitload of money for it. This will not be the case in Eurocup 2012 […]

  • What is this Social Media?

    Today I am: happy about iPhone 3G, working on signing people up, had Japanese Gyoza for lunch and talked to Björn. Björn, is a good friend of mine who tipped me about a YouTube video that outlines what Social Media is all about in a very pedagogic way. I liked it, so I blogged it. […]

  • The advertiser who forgot who he is married to

    In case you haven’t seen this video from Microsoft Advertising you should take a look. It says a lot about the challenge with modern communication-  If you have – then continue down to the second video in this post and learn about the sequel “Inspiration anyone” coming up.      

  • This is 60 minutes about the Millennials

    This episode of 60 minutes that I found while reading a post on ReadWriteWeb is a goodie if you spend your days thinking about how to reach young people with your communication.  

  • Football Freestyle SM has come to an end

    Let me tell you about our latest campaign for Stadium. This fall we were challenged by Stadium (Sweden largest sports retailer) to create an online campaign for the Swedish championships in Football Freestyle.  This project is extra dear to me as Stadium really listened and we got them to try social media in the way […]