Passion Makes You:

August 4, 2011

My daughter Ebba has a passion for Swings. I have a passion for Instagram. Run a million miles Walk deserts Dive to the bottom of the sea Fly to the moon Surf monsters Jump skyscrapers Dance all night Party all day Get a tattoo Kiss first Do stupid things Do bad things Do good things [...]

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

June 23, 2011

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 [...]

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Helping The World Is Just a Couple of Keystrokes Away

May 29, 2011

Who will you help today? Never forget that helping the world is just a click and a couple of keystrokes away. Visit any of the organisations below now and type away! Kiva (My personal choice today – 115$) Amnesty Red Cross Unicef WWF Médecins Sans Frontières Greenpeace Now get going!

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Hur följer du bäst konversationen under 24 Hours Live? Så här:

May 4, 2011

Du har säkert sett att jag själv och Göran Adlén har kommit på den fantastiska idéen att prata om kommunikation, trender, teknologi, reklam, design och massor av andra aktuella ämnen oavbrutet i 24 timmar i sträck på Clarion Sign Hotel nu på fredag den 6:e maj. Och som om det inte var nog – Robin Danehav, [...]

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Art, Experiment, Inspiration or Plain Stupidity – Introducing Adlen & Ronnestam 24 Hours Live by Danehav

April 30, 2011

Me and partner in crime Göran Adlén, one of Swedens most hired and admired speakers on future trends, had a nice lunch a couple of weeks ago. Half way into a wonderful Pizza at Vapiano we suddenly cracked, what probably is our most stupid or…genius idea so far: “Why don’t we lock our selves up somewhere [...]

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I Am Free. You Are Free. We Are All Free!

March 31, 2011

I was born into this world as free as any child. No religion, no political point of views, no ideas about what was right or wrong. Nothing. Just free. And I screamed! Me – around two years old walking our dog named Gorko. Then, just as you, I was brought home, fed, raised and I started [...]

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The Essentials Of Great Branding Building

March 30, 2011

There are tons of consultants (including myself) selling branding services around the world. Most tend to say (not including myself) that branding is complexed. A quick search on Google image search reveals tons of models. What if we look beyond those models and all those advices that often lead to heavy brand manuals that no [...]

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Tänk om! – Därför behöver vi en kunskapsrevolution i Sverige NU!

March 13, 2011

Året är 2011 och jag sitter här tryggt och säkert i lilla Sverige och läser i tidningarna om hur vi skall förbättra våra skolor och säkerställa Svea rikes framtid. Jag funderar en stund på det hela och tänker vidare. Världen krymper fortare än vi tror Tänk om? Tänk om det blir så att jag om [...]

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Stay Ahead Of The Competition – Here’s How I Do It.

March 11, 2011

Back in 1980, Michael Porter (most famous of creating Porter’s Five Forces) published the study Competitive-Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. It was more or less the beginning of what you today would call Competitive Intelligence - the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect of the [...]

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

February 16, 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 [...]

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Here’s To The Crazy Ones

January 25, 2011

I am at Bromma airport in Sweden on my way to speak in Gothenburg tomorrow. As I’m sitting in the lounge surfing the web I suddenly found myself reading the copy of what in my opinion is one of the most inspiring texts in the world. The think different campaign by Apple in 1997. To [...]

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Baidu Maps Makes Me Smile

January 21, 2011

If you have people smiling after they’ve interacted with your brand I’d say half of the game is won. Just seconds ago I browsed through Visualjournalism where I read a post about Googles Chinese competitor Baidu and their newly launched equivalence to Google Map. Baidu has launched a SimCity styled map engine. It made my day. [...]

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