We are very proud to announce that starting Tuesday next week
Lola Akinmade-Åkerström will be our new picture blogger. 
If you want a glimpse of some of Lolas beautiful pictures you can have a look here: http://www.lemurworks.com/lola/travel/sweden/2010/arctictrip/
Check out the site on Tuesday if you want to know more.
Welcome Lola!
//Cecilia
Actually Sweden in you pocket is not far away. Earlier this year we launched the blog you’re now reading. Still some polishing left to do (please let us know what you think!), but at least we make some progress—one step at the time. The blog CMS (content management system) we’re using is WordPress, which makes it easy to install new plugins that makes the portal even better. If you have a smart phone your experience is something like below. To the left a mobile version or template and to the right the blog if you turn that function off (actually there’s a slider in the mobile template footer, so you can easily do it yourself) and blog is there out of the box sort to speak. Still looking ok, right? It’s partly because we’re on a mission to nuke flash on or websites and it’s going pretty well. The top navigation on both Sweden.se and this blog is now built-in HTML5. Sweden.se/watch is also in pipeline, so mobile film is around the corner.
Mobile blogs.sweden.se in an iPhone, using a mobile template to the left and Safari to the right.
If you’re still reading I would like to mention the RSS-feeds. They have had somewhat of a revival lately and they’re pretty much involved in everything that makes out the web of today. Below you se how our RSS feed can look. Actually the design it’s up to you, depending of the reader of your choice, but the point is that blogs.sweden.se is available however, whenever and wherever you want (even offline on a plane). Check out the “RSS feed for this page” link in the blog header and add it to your RSS reader (ie reader.google.com). Are there any improvements to make? Let us know!
The "apple-touch-icon.png" on an iPad
blogs.sweden.se RSS on an iPad.
Now the staffblog have been up and running for a while and we cannot help wondering who you, our readers, are. And the other day when looking for a photo blogger we kind of realized that there are a lot of interesting people out there reading the blog and we just got even more curious.
So what do you say – don’t you think it’s time for a presentation round?
We would be so happy if you wrote a comment about yourself. Who are you? How come you read the blog? How did you find us and most important of all – is there something you would want us to write more about?
Here are some of the staff bloggers at the office today - Andrés, Mikaela, Cecilia, Oliver, Rikard and Per.
We’re looking for a photo blogger in Sweden who wants to share his/her everyday life with (us and the rest of) the world. We don’t expect you to be a professional photographer but you should enjoy taking pictures.
The selected blogger will blog for two months from the end of October — or, if successful, longer. The purpose of the photo blog is simply to show non-Swedes what everyday life in Sweden may look like.
Are you the one or do you know someone who would be perfect for the job? Leave a comment here or send an e-mail to cecilia.sundstrand@si.se or mikaela.gustavsson@si.se.
Have a nice weekend!
Cecilia and Mikaela
We’ve been to New York City, the Seychelles and the Pyramides in Kairo! No just kidding… what you see above is just me playing in Photoshop with the new staff blog picture. To be techy for a moment, we have some blog development in the pipeline:
To wrap things up we’ve been running this blog for two months now, and we kind of like it. What do you guys think?
/per
…is Sweden.se’s very own outlet of individual opinion. We all work at the Swedish Institute in Stockholm, with our offices right next to the Royal Palace in the Old Town. But what is said here does not necessarily represent the views of the Swedish Institute.
