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Social media in Sweden – what’s going on?

I sat in front of my computer at work yesterday following Disruptive Change, a conference arranged by Disruptive Media. It was streamed live to all of us who couldn’t sit there in person. Twitter was full of buzz on #dchange and a lot of interesting things were said.

My favorite speaker was Mark Comerford, @markmedia, a social media guru who is always fun to listen to. I tweeted a few things he said and here are the essentials:

You will never reach me if you don’t reach my network and you don’t lose an individual, you lose a network.

The color of shit = If content is king, context is empress. Theres no such thing as too much information. Something that is uninteresting to you might be today’s best for me. Information overload is not a problem of consumption but of filter failures. If your network gives you shit, it is your fault – you have chosen the wrong network.

You can see the conference at Livestream if you are interested in the meta debate about social media in Sweden right now. http://www.livestream.com/disruptivemedia/

Searching for #dchange at twitter will also give you a hint on what was going on. A lot of it is in Swedish but there’s almost as much in English, from those of us that cannot translate and tweet at the same time.

Is our Twitter page really this gay??

Just visited Stockholm Pride’s website and took their “How Hetero” test which measured just how straight or unstraight our Twitter page Swedense is, based on the tweets. Here’s the result when I said Swedense was a boy:

1% HeteroSwedense is 1% HeteroHow hetero are you? How hetero is Martha Stewart? Try out any Twitter name and get the real picture. Are we really the words we use? Hope to see you at Stockholm Pride!

As you can see, Swedense as a boy is nowhere near hetero according to Stockholm Pride. The reason, said the website, is because we’ve tweeted about Abba, pirates, Stockholm, Marie Antoinette, and Pride. When I re-took the test and said Swedense was a girl, the result was not quite the same. But either way, we’re far from hetero:

39% HeteroSwedense is 39% HeteroHow hetero are you? How hetero is Martha Stewart? Try out any Twitter name and get the real picture. Are we really the words we use? Hope to see you at Stockholm Pride!

/Oliver

PS. Yes, it was I who tweeted about Abba, the Pirate Bay and Stockholm, I admit it. Hell, I probably tweeted about Pride, too. But I swear to God, I never tweeted about Marie Antoinette, that was someone else. French royalty never was my cup of tea. DS.

We’ve made it into the world’s first Twitter artwork

It’s called Don’t Tell Ashton – an initiative by a handful of students at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm. Our logo is near the top left corner. Man, we are so social media!

/Oliver