Digital Problem Solving & Inspiration courtesy of Mads Kristensen

Blogging will be highly unregular here in the coming days and potentially weeks. The reason for that is that my dear wife is very, very ill, and at this point there is the possibility that she’s not going to make it.

So everything but attending to her needs while trying to come to grips with my unbelivable grief has been put on hold.

Service will resume on and off as I feel up to it.

Today is a day of celebration for users of Denmark’s biggest online dating portal, Dating.dk. Because it is now 10 years ago that the site opened up its virtual doors to people looking for friendship and true love.

And what a ride it has been. Not only is the service the biggest of its kind in Denmark today. It has also proved that if you have an offering that is appealing enough, you can actually make loads of money directly of end users. [Read more →]

Media companies are struggling. Big time. We all know that. We have all heard the news of circulation dropping, viewership dropping, advertisers droppen, audiences dropping - everything dropping. What we are still wondering is: Why?

There are a lot of people trying to explain what is happening - either directly or indirectly. But today I think Kevin Kelly has nailed it in a stellar post, I will encourage everybody to go and read. [Read more →]

A new research project at Aalborg University in Denmark wants to find out, if bringing together expertise from different sectors and industries can result in new business models and new ways of developing products. It’s kind of taking some of the thoughts and ideas from “Blue Ocean Strategy” and add an element of crayons and kindergarten to it.

I like the idea. In fact I love it. But alas I also fear that it won’t succeed on a broader scale. For the sheer reason that all the business systems, we have put in place today simply don’t accommodate such ways of thinking. [Read more →]

This week I’m featured in a theme on online networking in the popular Danish womens magazine, ‘Femina’, where I try to explain some of the opportunities and pitfalls of putting yourself out there on the web.

Besides feeling honoured to be considered worthy for such a treat and slightly put off by how I look (I’m not that photogenic), there are a couple of points, I mention in the interview with me that I would like to reiterate here. [Read more →]

Cision, an analytical institute, has come out with a report claiming that 55 % of Danish bloggers are essentially for sale if someone would offer them money or something else to write about a specific product.

It seems like a lot - and perhaps a bit surprising. But the truth is that the survey is so deeply flawed that it’s really useless. But there are a couple of things at least Cision can learn from it. And perhaps a note for bloggers too.

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