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Tomorrow I leave for the States on a journey to be inspired, receive an award for my work and charge positive energy. To all of you out there who supports and beliefs in Awoque, our values and share our High5:s, the Gutenberg Award is for you.

“The Gutenberg Award recognizes individuals for distinguished professional achievement. We are so pleased to honor Victoria Ahlen for her excellent work as a leader in the use of social media for not only effective dissemination of news and marketing information, but also for her commitment to its use for the greater good. She emulates what we want our students to accomplish as professionals in mass media”, says Dr Cheryl Bacon at Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at ACU.

Awoque socialized the World Transplant Games in Göteborg in the summer of 2011 and increased awareness for organ donation. Our team at the time – Maria Gustafsson, Björn Kåberger, Paul Williams, Martin Lindeskog, Kristina Svensson and other fantastic co-workers. I will blog more about you in the days to come.

Follow my journey in a videoblog. High5 to you.

We feel passionately about food. We like eggs. Why not help inspire more people to create an omelet, cook food?

Learn how to make an omelet and join our group for passionate food creators at Folkmästerskapen i Omelett. Last year´s winner Jeanna Kanold, chocolate entrepreneur at Flickorna Kanold, shares her winning recipe from 2011 with white chocolate and strawberrys. 

To all of of you fantastic #High5 people who read this:
- ONLINE – Sharing comments, retweets, pushing a like button, asking a question etc in channels such as  Facebook, Linked In, Twitter and other places, we feel connected with you even if you are far, far away.
- FANS – who encourage and send virtual and real hugs when needed the most and spread the #High5:s
- CLIENTS – who trust us and engage with us on a continual basis.
- PEOPLE – we meet in real life at events, meetings and networks. You rock our world and make it happen.
- FOLLOWERS – we look forward to more interaction with you in 2012.

2012 will be a honest, straight forward year with many #High5 projects to manage and enable. We look forward to it.

For all the joy we have experienced this past year, I (+every co-worker that have been apart of the Awoque-team in Göteborg) want to say thank you and lots of big hugs.

Have a fabulous end of 2011. We will take a pause here on the blog and see you again on January 9 2012!

MERRY CHRISTMAS  & A HAPPY NEW YEAR !

I got inspired yesterday. Jonas Bauer, CEO at Vasaloppet, visited the popular breakfast club in Kungsbacka yesterday to tell us the story on why/how a ski race got to be so much for than just a single event. The event inspires thousands of volunteers to get involved, more than 7 000 fans on the Facebook, and a leader who talks strategically and passionately about all events, actions and communication plans. A big High5 from my heart. Go Go!!

Follow your heart. Stay true to your passion. Some days you might not see the reasons why things are the way that they are. But if you do right by yourself and to others, I know great things will happen.

At Awoque, we wish to share great examples of people who do High5 actions and step out of the ordinary to do so. We get inspired by insightful survivors who dare to ask questions when they do not know the answer themselves. We follow leaders who listen and communicate from their hearts. I met a role model yesterday. Jan-Åke Jonsson, former CEO for SAAB, who inspired at Empirkalaset in Uddevalla yesterday. Both on and off stage I felt his honest engagement. Hopefully, he reached into the hearts of younger leaders in the audience and got positive motions in action.

My personal wish is to inspire you and share positive stories to make this world a better place through the power of social media. I will follow my heart and get going on a project that has been in my heart for almost ten years. What will you do?

Is there really any excuse for not doing what you love? If you ask Navid Modiri and Johannes Hansen the answer is No. Together they are touring Sweden with Mitt Företag, and yesterday it was time for Gothenburg to “talk about love, passion, and of course have the participants start touching each other!” as Navid and Johannes phrased it. Their energy is highly contagious, and when they left the stage after their session “Earn money doing what you love” we all had trouble standing still!

Clearly a High5 team!

I want to wish two of the greatest people I met the best of luck with their new adventures in life.

Thina Grotmarks started a new work position at Redcats to focus on her passion for Plus-Size fashion. She has brought a great big smile to the office every day. Together we have shared many laughters and tackled many reports for clients. High5 to you!

“It has been fun and I have thoroughly enjoyed my time developing and executing social networking opportunities for clients and partners at Awoque. The company is evolving and taking a direction that is best suited to and led by Victoria, who is at the heart of the company,” says Paul Williams.

Paul has been an amazing business partner, his insight and skills are second to none. We have enjoyed working together and we have had many high5 moments. I wish him all the best and look forward to connecting with him again through our many networks. Paul, will depart from Awoque on Monday November 21.

And once and Awoquian always and Awoquian. We stay in touch and keep inspiring each other . Stay tuned for job opportunities.

Lars Backström, CEO of Västtrafik, decided to get the views of the fans who comment on issues concerning public transportation in the area surrounding Göteborg. Since he keeps an active dialogue on Twitter, he posted the invitation there under the #vasttrafika last week. The goal was to get a dialogue going and answer questions.

At Awoque, we think this a a great positive example of starting in the right mind set. High5 to you! Always start my listening and asking questions. This time Lars Backström chose a meeting place at the central coffee house Condeco. We will keep you posted on what happens next. Follow us on twitter @awoque and you will not miss a thing . We can also help you socialize your events and save all the positive energy!

We did this short interview with Lars Backström right before the fans started arriving.

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We get inspired my tough questions about a field we are passionate about – Digital Trends and Communication. Yesterday, we gathered fans and great people for an evening of dialogue and soup together with our friends at DTRT. Thank you to all for your questions and a great conversation both IRL and in various social media channels (#thaisoppa on Twitter). We got inspired. High5!

Thomas Ivarsson, CEO at Tivalux won a prize for the best question

PS – If you want to get your hands on the Faktum-calender, get in touch!

Do you share our curiousity to find out the latest about social media? Did you know there is a meeting point with the same name in many cities around the world – Social Media Club. In Göteborg, the person in charge is Maria Gustafsson. She deserves all the High5:s for her professionalism and hard work!

Each Friday meeting focuses on a current topic. Yesterday, Martin Lindeskog led the discussion on Location Based Services. What we said and to join our conversation go to on Twitter/Bambuser at the #smcgbg.

Do not miss out! The last Friday of every month at hotel Gothia’s Incontro if you are in the Göteborg area.