spreading jam

You have never seen any posts made by me in this blog before, as I never had the opportunity. Arriving in London from Stockholm, Sweden and joining the Jam team three days ago I am the greenhorn of the gang. In a few days (weeks?) however, I will hopefully feel right as rain at the far end of the row of Social Media planning geniuses. If you want to know me a bit better, here is a Spotify playlist hastily put together. Its long, its weird…but its me.

There is a lot of change going on around me at the moment. First and foremost, I have once again left my hometown for a new city, a  quite different one I might add (except for the weather, the weather in London is almost as bad as in Stockholm). But there are also massive changes going on in marketing industry, of which we are working in. In HP’s newest transformation video about how digital platforms are reshaping communication it is stated that by 2010, 70% of the online content will be created not by corporations but by individuals. This means that the corporations are losing their power and must start listening to their customers and start rethinking their communication. I do not think the old ways have to go completely, not all communication should go online. However, traditional messages has to be tweaked and delivered to where the audience wants to listen to it. I am still waiting for an amazing campaign where online and offline will go hand in hand in perfect synergy. The old must become integrated with the new: