Category Archives: International
Talking Points
May, June and July seem to have rapidly become ‘speech time’ as I’m giving talks at events almost every week over the next few months, but I’d like to highlight three of them. May 24th I’ll be at a destination…
Stockholm is The Capital of Scandinavia. But is it really kaxig?
More fury, which isn’t exactly a core Scandinavian trait, has broken out again over Stockholm as The Capital of Scandinavia. Headlines in national newspapers across Scandinavia have appeared raising the debate once more. This time the Norwegians have accused the…
A New Way of Thinking & Working
It’s increasingly obvious that the world needs to change and change quickly and radically. It needs to find new ways to work and new ways to do business. Five years ago I used to spend at least three hours a…
@sweden (Curators of Sweden): A social experiment or a publicity stunt?
I recently came across this story on Mashable back in December and then again on the BBC News website about Visit Sweden’s recent Twitter experiment, or as they called it, a social experiment. It’s titled, Curators of Sweden and the…
Highlights of Nobel Peace Prize Concert Press Conference
Just a few short hours before the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Concert, the artists and hosts gathered to discuss why participating in this much-anticipated annual event was important to them. The media had a chance to engage the celebrities in…
Countdown to Nobel Peace Prize Concert
The Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway is just a few days away, and it’s a very exciting time for several of us at UP THERE, EVERYWHERE. Not only because we are thrilled about going to the Concert (we…
City in the Clouds
At UP THERE, EVERYWHERE we’ve been working for several months now on a new brand strategy and identity for Airport City Stockholm. We launched it last week at a real estate event called Business Arena in Stockholm, at the Water…
Barcelona & the Beautiful Game
Today Barcelona is one of Europe’s, if not the world’s, most successful destinations for both tourism and as a business location. People even talk of adopting the Barcelona model when it comes to redefining a post-industrial location. However, it was…