Posts Tagged ‘Jens Schroeder’

Behind the scenes of BlogCampaigning, I’m often giving Jens a hard time for not contributing more often. Some of it is good-natured ribbing about how he’s lazy, some of it is a little more serious.

The reality is that for the past few months he’s been busy finishing up his PhD, and is now on a speaking tour of Australia, so I really shouldn’t be so hard on him. (Espen, however, has no excuses.)

Part of Jens’s hard work has paid off in the form of recognition by the Sydney Morning Herald, which published an excerpt from the abstract of one of his presentations:

“For Europeans, as the Swiss banker father of a friend of mine once said, Australians are the plebeians of the Western world.

“The clichés were presented by the editor-in-chief of the German broadsheet Die Welt, Thomas Schmid, last year in an editorial. He argued that Australia lacks civilisation, everyone is dressed informally, there is a lack of social differentiation and the only thing setting the upper class apart from the middle is its higher income.

“It is an empty place with nothing in the middle—in geography nor identity. These are prejudices Australians have had to deal with almost since the arrival of the First Fleet, a fate they shared with other New World societies such as the United States.”

Read the full article here.

-Parker

Congrats to a few members of the BlogCampaigning crew:

The official notice of Heather Morrison’s new position at Sequentia Environics went out (over the newswire, no less) last week, saying that she’ll “supervise the daily operations and performances of client service teams.” A good move indeed; Sequentia is  a digital communications firm that “focuses on the online relationships between companies and their customers.” It’s also part of the Environics Group.

In other celebratory news, Jens “Schredd” Schroeder sent me an email last week to say that he handed in his doctoral thesis last Monday. “I can’t really believe it’s over… ” he wrote. “But I suppose you never reach the point where you’re convinced that it’s the right moment to hand in a project of this size.” The paper is titled ‘Killer Games’ versus ‘We Will Fund Violence’ :The Perception of Digital Games and Mass Media in Germany and Australia, and Jens is hoping to make it available here on BlogCampaigning sometime soon.

-Parker

It brings a tear to my eye when I realize that Espen Skoland wrote the first post on BlogCampaigning three years ago today.

Almost 700 posts later and we’re still blogging. We don’t write about American politics as much as we used to, but there is still the occasional political post from Jens and I always try and mention communications or PR.

Thanks to everyone for reading!

I wonder if we’ll go another three years? And is there anyone out there that has been reading BlogCampaigning since the beginning? (if so, leave a comment or send me an email – I can be reached at  parker (at) blogcampaigning (dot) com).

Its been a while since we last posted on BlogCampaigning, and I know that a lot of our readers are wondering what happened: PR message boards have been flooded with rumours and speculation, and Jens and I have been getting emails and phone calls at all hours from fans. Everyone has been wondering what happened to BlogCampaigning.

The short answer is that we don’t really know.

The long answer is that the site got messed up and that I’ve been super-busy with real life (work, soccer and summer drinking). Thanks to Tommy Vallier at Wordpress by the Minute, we were able to get rid of the spammy links and Javascript that had pervaded our RSS feed (if you need any blog work done, I highly recommend his services).

I haven’t been writing much for the site because I was working on a product launch for CNW Group (more on that in an upcoming post), Jens hasn’t been writing much because he’s been “working on his thesis” (which I equate to playing Xbox), and Heather has probably just been busy with her own blog, Toronto Uncovered.

We still don’t know where Espen is, but we hope you like the BlogCampaigning redesign and that you’ll continue to read our thoughts about Public Relations, Video Games, Technology and whatever we feel like.

But don’t spend too much time reading BlogCampaigning—get out there and enjoy the summer weather.

-Parker

Well we’re finally back from our unannounced vacation here at BlogCampaigning. We hope you missed us.

In the new year, we’ll have lots of great stuff coming up! Espen will continue to be difficult to track down whenever I’m trying to get him to write a post, but hopefully he’ll give us an insider’s look at the European world of PR as he starts his new job. Jens will be brewing up his own unique brand of thought as he gives us insight about the world of video games and social media in European politics. And last but not least, Toronto’s own Jess Bennett will share her insightful musings about Public Relations and social media as she heads into her second semester of school.

Thanks for checking back in!

-Parker