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Monday, October 20, 2008

 

CompuSchmooze Podcast #26: A conversation about the Icelandic Economic Collapse with Hjortur Smarason, Social Media Consultant in Reykjavik

In June, the International Association of Online Communicators (IAOC) held its international conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. In October, the Icelandic economy collapsed, the three largest banks were nationalized, and tens of thousands of Icelanders found themselves unable to withdraw money from their savings accounts to pay for ordinary expenses. Mortgages and car loans written in foreign currencies became impossibly expensive, and the country's government went hat in hand to the International Monetary Fund and even to Russia for foreign aid.

Reykjavik, Iceland, 2008In the forthcoming Fall issue of Attitudes, the semi-annual color magazine of the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey (on newsstands in early November), I'll have an article about Iceland as a travel destination. In this podcast conversation with Hjörtur Smárason, we update the economic situation in Iceland and talk about how Icelanders are coping with their changed status. Hjortur is an Icelandic social media and marketing consultant who also authors several blogs in Icelandic, and one, Marketing Safari, in English. Recently, he's focused some of his blogging on the emotional and economic impact of the credit crunch on Iceland.

Photo taken at Hotel Holt, Reykjavik. From left: Steve Lubetkin, Belgian blogger Luc Van Braekel, Hjörtur Smárason.

Download the podcast file here (19.3 mb stereo MP3 file, 00:14:02 length).


Keywords: compuschmooze, lubetkin, cherry hill, jewish, voice, iceland, iaoc, reykjavik, attitudes, smarason, hjortur


Produced in the studios of Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ

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Thursday, October 09, 2008

 

CompuSchmooze Video Podcast #1: PNC Bank Virtual Wallet

PNC Bank has launched a new online banking product targeted at Gen Y customers, young people who've grown up with the Internet and prefer to manage their finances online. The product incorporates spending, short-term savings, and long-term growth accounts into a single online interface, making transferring money between the accounts simple. Steve Lubetkin reports on the Virtual Wallet from the PNC Bank branch in the Erlton section of Cherry Hill, NJ. You can read the print version of the CompuSchmooze column at  http://www.jewishvoicesnj.org/news/2008/1008/columns/039.html


 

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