Your local, your bit

Whether you like footie or not, you cheer for your local team or the big sqad some miles away I got the feeling you will enjoy this video-commentary:

Notas Nortenhas

Os finlandeses são o terceiro povo mais pesado da Europa depois de Gregos e Malteses, num estudo efectuado em 20 países da UE (não vi Portugal nos resultados). Salsicha, disse ele que também pesa nas estatísticas.

Na Finlândia a brutalidade policial é praticamente inexistente; já os seguranças não são lá muito mansos… (video no youtube -requer registo.)

Felicidade é um Volvo na garagem, impostos altos e um estado que cuida de nós? (Denmark #1, Finland #6, Sweden #7)

Reputation management

Have you ever googled yourself or do you care how you come up on google? Will it make any difference for you? How about applying for a job, will the recruiters use Google’s aid and will it present you in a bad light or can it help you to get the job? These are questions you might want to consider way before in advance, it will take along time to tell your story to Google. Consider reputation management:

Leonsis — vice chairman of AOL (…) was disappointed to see that whenever he typed his name in Google’s search box, the results were a hodgepodge of news stories.

That didn’t work for him. He wanted to figure out a way to manipulate Google’s complicated search engine to put the information he wanted people to see at the top of his results.

[…]

As of Friday, a Google search for “Ted Leonsis” brought his profile from the AOL company Web site, followed by a page from “Ted’s Take” [his blog] and then his biography on the Washington Capitals Web site. [The Washington Post]

For this guy, already a pulic figure a blog was his solution to come on top of results, but that might not work for everybody. or be advisable to everyone (for example, some employers might have prejudice against blogs) but the point here is that you can take action and can influence Google.

Try googling yourself, add specific information such as city, country, profession, company and other details that can be found on your CV. What do you see, do you think others would be happy to meet the “person” they find in the results?
Are you going to do anything about it?

Teaser

Thinks you might not like to know

10 things they didn’t tell you about blogging

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Markku, from Finland

This is Markku. Markku is from Finland. Finland won this years Eurovision after 40 years of disappointing results and got the right to host next year’s competition.

Markku from Finland took on the mission to introduce his country to foreigners on his very own way, with a series of amusing and self-depreciating videos. If you know or have visited the country prepare to laught untill it hurts, his stuff is so damn funny.

At his website you can see all of his videos (I suggest you turn off the music beforehand) and read more about this soon to be famous persona… (LATER: I wonder is there any finnish cliche or stereotype missing from this character?