Happy New Social media year 2012!

Thank You 2011 was an amazing year!

Hallstaviksnätverket and Roslagens Savings Bank who invested in creativity and social media based on my idea to use Open Innovation.

International Child Art Foundation (ICAF), Ashfaq Ishaq who invited me to run a creative activity on the World Children’s Festival in Washington DC. Special thanks to our host families, Ms. Portia Davidsson and her husband Mike who guided us so well and CDR Kirby Sniffen and his wonderful family.

Hallsta and Gottsta School in Hallstavik and Husbygårdsskolan in Husby for your creative and inspiring cooperation when we filled the forum with all the students work which were presented on the World Children’s Festival.

Coompanion, Bridget Wedberg for your referral to Coop who hired me as an inspirational creativity coach.

BNI Royal Haga, Business Network International (BNI) all members in my team are outstanding and you really follow “givers gain”. A special thanks to Mette Bungerfeldt, Qualitas who has given me some great referrals and also opened your office to run a workshop in social media.

Orjala Consulting, Patric Orjala is a licenced coaching certificator at ICC and we have just started up an interesting collaboration related to a Social media strategy.

Addhuman, Mats Hagelin and Britta Lundkvist who work with Mindfullness and hired me to get some advice related to creating a social media strategy.

ValuesOnline Leadership Centre, Bobby Forshell for your introduction to a work with leadership and values. Our collaboration will have an impact on many levels and this is something I am really looking forward to deepen. It was Bobby who introduced me to Edward de Bono’s, Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking in the 90′s.

Rotary Järfälla Rotaryklubb, Rotary International. I am very grateful for the members friendship and trust in me. A special thanks to Bala Kamallakharan who invited me to Rotary Reykjavik International Iceland club.

Arbetslivsresurs, Johan Bittner who hired me for inspiring unemployed to creative networking twice this year. I love to interact with an audience who cares about their future.

Spring Magic Life who introduced me to write in her book about my dreams and how I am working with fulfilling them. Spring has also introduced me to join her mastermind group and we have virtual meetings using Social media. “Everybody can make a change in the world and there are always something good we can do for ourselves and others. If you feel and see something which you have passion for just go for it and follow your heart and act with Love.”

Kim Garst for your friendship and invitation to your amazing group with social media experts who I am collaborating with and learn from on a daily basis.

ESBRI Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute. I was invited to talk about Open Innovation and my work with inspiring and encouraging the citizens in Hallstavik to collaborate on an idea forum. This link is to video only in Swedish and I talk about in part 2 after 26 min.

Niketo, Kerstin Eriksson for interesting discussions about new opportunities and collaboration.

New opportunities and collaborations in 2012

There are no limits and every day has a new opportunity. What do You dream about and do you want to join me on this amazing journey where there are no limits except our imagination?

Creative Collaboration and Contribution

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I have recently joined a social media Facebook group created by Kim Garst which is absolutely amazing. All members are so helpful and encourage each other in an outstanding way.

The atmosphere and attitude among the members reminds me about givers gain as BNI (Business Network International) and service above self as Rotary. I know most of them are extremely occupied but they spend several hours for helping and supporting each other.

When working with social media is there always something new to learn and you have to be very open minded for getting new impressions and adopt new tools. It’s therefore important to be creative and search for optimal solutions and contribute with your knowledge.

This group of people was exactly what I have been searching for since I left IBM and re-launched my company. We cover several branches and a lot of countries which gives our team a unique strength to come up with the best creative solutions for our customers.

What is so fantastic is that everybody care about values, environment and creation of a sustainable society. There are some outstanding coaches and relationship builders and business people with several years experiences.

I was creating this posting yesterday and didn’t finish it, but when starting up today there was something new in Google+ from a former colleague I wanted to share. Luis Suarez mentioned IBM and Twitter collaboration which is interesting for me as a former IBM employee and IBM Business Partner.

Are social values and social media related?

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Social values are seldom discussed in social media but I think it’s one of the most important questions to ask for being successful. There is an awakening ongoing but I think we can achieve much more if we focus on our thoughts and feelings related to social values.

This is personal and it can take some time to open our minds to something we normally only share with close friends and family. I don’t say we have to be to open about our private life but we can use our own experiences and values as a source and trigger to increase our authenticity and presence to get result.

Think of the difference between a person who follow her dream working with passion and someone who are just doing her job. I am participating in several groups on LinkedIn and joined recently an amazing Facebook group which has blown me of completely. Wow! There are so many wonderful people who share their experiences and encourage each other with passion to work in social media.

Social values makes the whole difference and another group I adore is Spring Magic Life Society – Love Wisdom Happiness where people discuss life with a purpose and everything else to inspire each other.

One of my biggest challenges are how to get paid for a creative work with the elderly and children without being to involved in the health care or school system. I want to continue to be free and search for new ways since working with creativity and passion is essential for me without any boundaries.

To work with creativity and social media is so amazing and one of this years highlights was when four students and two teachers traveled with me to US, Washington DC and participated on the World Children’s Festival in June. I am now Sweden’s representative for International Child Art Foundation and prepare for the coming festivals and spread our work starting with Rotary.

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