Kära vänner och kollegor / Dear friends and colleagues / Chers amis et collègues / Liebe Freunde und Kolleg(inn)en and etc. …
“Rock on!!” says my friend Björn, who designed this site for me. (By the way – Any comments on the site design and usability are welcome, to both Björn and me. I myself am now getting acquainted. )
I will continue slowly filling the various pages of my site with content, mainly from my work and research, and also try to write now and then some more substantial blog posts; so far, as you noticed, blog posts have but announced site updates. As usual, as autumn begins, ambitions are high, there is energy uploaded during a long and sunny summer in the Stockholm archipelago and on Danish island. The result may be somewhat less sporadic blog posts.
I also have another blog (almost exclusively in Swedish) on Blogger, at http://akesandberg.blogspot.se. Most posts are opinion texts, comments to ongoing debates and processes in the Swedish society: Culture, media, IT, work, organization – and politics, especially now with elections to the Riksdag (Parliament) coming up, on Sunday Sept. 19.
The outcome may turn out to be of fundamental importance for the the economy, competitiveness and welfare. Can competitiveness and material prosperity be combined with a high ambitions in social welfare, high taxes, equality/solidarity, strong union and employer organizations and collective agreements between management and labour?
Some believe that the above characteristics constitutes the ‘Swedish model’ that has served us so well for decades. Others seem to believe that essential principles and parts of the welfare system must be dismantled in order to secure economic development – while repeatedly saying they want to maintain and develop the ‘Swedish welfare model’. I may come back to the election in a blog post in English here soon.
My blog at blogspot.com, in Swedish, thus mostly contains opinion articles, while the blog here will have a leaning more towards research-related issues, which is not to say neither that my other, Swedish, blog is not influenced by research – It certainly is! – nor that my English blog here would not present opinion and comments.
This is my first real and substantial blog post. So I now hope I will find followers, and also get comments. If not immediately, as this post is rather general and introductory, but on posts to come.
Hej då, Cheers, Salutations, Ciao / Åke
Hey Åke, quite important:
I noticed you missed writing a category for this post. The Category is displayed in the little blue field above the posts headline. Its also displayed in cloud form in the sidebar under Cloud of categories. If you look there now there is only one category used (Site Update!) but after a while if you use say at the maximum 20 different categories you will build up a small cloud there where the most frequently used ones will be displayed bigger and the lesser used ones smaller. If you click one of the categories, for example Site Update, you will be able to read all posts on Site Updates.
You find the category box to the right of the post in the admin interface.
/Bjorn