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Espen Skoland

Espen

Espen Skoland is probably the laziest Norwegian that you will ever meet, but that didn’t stop him from founding BlogCampaigning way back in August 2006 while he was studying at Griffith University in Australia. His masters thesis discussed the impact of blogs on political campaigns and you can download it here.

Espen currently works as a junior consultant for a Norwegian Public Relations consultancy. He also worked as a consultant for New York-based Social Marketing/Online PR firm Converseon a few months this summer after finishing a Master of Arts with Honours in Journalism and Mass Communication at Griffith University’s Gold Coast in June, 2007. During his stay in Australia Espen worked at BamMedia, where he was involved primarily with public relations for Lexmark Indy 300 on the Gold Coast. Before coming to Australia, Espen was a board member and Public Relations Director at Hulen, a concert venue in the city of Bergen, Norway. In 2004, he graduated from the University of Bergen with a Bachelor in Media Studies and Comparative Politics. Espen created the BlogCampaigning website as a way to analyse and centralise the information circulating about the topic.

His work has appeared online here at BlogCampaigning and in an online article:Why politicians should stop spinning and learn to love the blog. He was also quoted in in The Age, an Australian newspaper:Blooper politics easy as fall off a blog

Contact: espen.skoland (at) gmail.com

Tagged Again!

It looks like Michelle has tagged me in one of those social media, blogging games. The rules of the game in this one are to post 7 personal things about yourself, and then tag seven other people. Since BlogCampaigning is a primarily written by both Jens and I (nobody has heard from Espen in months), I [...]
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How To Get Your Company Into The Financial Times

Occasionally we’re lucky enough here at BlogCampaigning to have someone guest write a post for us. The latest person to share their knowledge with our readers is Malte Goesche, CEO and cofounder of Iliktotallyloveit.com, a website that “allows users to publish and share products with the broader public which they find cool, innovative, exceptionally beautiful, [...]
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Welcome Back!

Hopefully, everything is working out and you’ve arrived at BlogCampaigning after our transition. I haven’t had time to customize this template, but at least we’ve got our RSS Feed going (subscribe here). -Parker
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Woof, woof!!

Guest post: Hans Geelmuyden is a partner and leading senior adviser at the norwegian public relations agency Geelmuyden.Kiese. Since 1989, he has acted as adviser to major Scandinavian projects involving power changes both in the public and private sector, and he is often employed as a lecturer in strategic communication. In journalistic circles, trusting communication advisors [...]
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A Meditation on Public Speaking

  I just got back from CPRS’s 15th Annual CEO Award of Excellence Luncheon, which honored Francis Larkin this year. Larkin is the President and CEO of the United Way of Greater Toronto. The award goes the recipient who best understands, fosters and implements public relations practices.   I’ve been particularly noticing how people speak orally lately because I’m [...]
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Guido Fawkes responsible for Britain’s first genuine blogging scalp?

This is “the topic” in the UK-blogosphere these days. “If my recollection is right, it was Guido Fawkes who first broke the story on Peter Hain’s campaign funding on the afternoon of 3 December HERE. It was this story which provoked Peter Hain to contact the Electoral Commission. If Guido hadn’t run it, would Hain have [...]
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Social Media and Social Paranoia

Parker’s last post raised a question I have been toiling with for some time: what do I do with my Facebook page? I joined Facebook in my last year at McGill  in 2004. At that time, only students from certain post-secondary schools were able to join; I mostly interacted with friends from US because of the [...]
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Landing your first Public Relations job

Landing a job in a top Public Relations firm is a dream more and more young people are trying to turn into reality. In Norway, the PR industry has grown at an almost astronomical rate in the last few years. So has the number of people looking to get a foot inside the industry door. Unfortunately, [...]
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Ten years for the word Weblog

It’s the 10th anniversary of the word weblog! I’ve decided to post my contributions to the blog roll to celebrate! PR Conversations Much like our own BlogCampaigning, the contributors of PR Conversations seem to take pride in their international perspectives. They have twelve different authors from all over the world. This blog was recommended to me by [...]
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BI and TNCA forms research center focusing on Corporate Communication

The Norwegian media magazine, Propaganda, reports today that the Norwegian School of Management (BI) in cooperation with The Norwegian Communication Association will establish a research center focusing on corporate communication. BI Center for Corporate Communication will be working to professionalize communication in Norwegian companies and organizations. The Center is the first of its kind in [...]
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