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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 marketing event in Jönköping calledSmartaPlatser. Here I’ll be talking about the marketing of destinations and [...]

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 Swedes of being too ‘kaxig’ a Swedish word that means arrogant. Exciting stuff. Well I [...]

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 day in a car, driving around 120 kilometers (70 miles) a day to and from [...]

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 premise is that they give a different Swedish citizen control of @sweden for seven days and [...]

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 questions about their thoughts on world peace and the contributions of the year’s Nobel Peace [...]

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 are). Or because we expect it will be a fantastic show and amazing experience (it [...]

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 Front Arena.

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 all very different forty years ago. In the 1975 series “Fawlty Towers,” Manuel, the hapless [...]

Today in the Netherlands it’s Queen’s Day, a national holiday honoring the royal House of Orange.  While technically the Queen’s birthday is in January, Queen Beatrix decided to keep Queen’s Day on April 30th in honor of her own mother’s birthday.  And the weather is generally nicer this time of year, too!

A good friend, who has been a client several times during our relationship, pointed out to me one of the really big advantages from his perspective of *UP There, Everywhere. He knows that if he takes his business to an agency he will end UP being given a team to work on his business that [...]