I could do consultancy on larger projects, but mainly with regards to recommending and finding others that can take on the project itself.

Diehtu mainly works with local Norwegian customers so the site has no English page. Write me if you think you might want my services.

Well mostly the whole internet presence I can handle, easily and with flexibility suited to your or your companys need. Nice discounts or no-cost for friends. Here’s some of what:

• Web and e-mail hosting (for extremely low or no cost since the solutions I use are either hosted on my own server or with Google for free)
• Domain registration and management.
• Website planning, evaluation and development
• Installation of Content Management System to provide for easy website management by one or thousands of users (Mostly using the fabulous open source tool called WordPress)
• Mailinglist management
• Training and courses to ensure you or your users know how to manage the system.
• Search Engine Optimizatio – making sure that your website shows up on Google for what you define as your most important key-words.
• Advisory on current website and services – giving or seeking answers to any question one may have about the cyberspace.
• Easy to manage remote backups for small business/single users.
  Ie. a nice way to ensure that you don’t loose your documents and pictures by storing a copy on a server somewhere else in the world.

As I plan to do webdevelopment as a part-time job I/we are looking for time limited development projects. That is projects where I can do intensive and time-consuming development over the winter months and minimal follow-up from May to November.

Get in touch if you have questions.

I first got an invite to LinkedIn by my former master thesis supervisor. Usually sceptic to such online networking «schemes» I was this time caught by the flow, maybe because I was unemployed and with too much spare time. Too much spare time to «collect coke caps» as a friend formulated it.

I still hold that it might have a function, and that the way it is done with LinkedIn might prove useful to me. Also the fact that I rapidly found a couple of former colleagues already registered in the system weighed in. That is when I decided to e-mail close to one hundred of my contacts in one go.

So what is LinkedIn? It’s a tool to maintain a database of your professional network. This can be in order to keep in touch with past colleagues and to find jobs or contacts through your network. I found some other reasons to read about too. There are some hints on usage in that link, but I’ll summarize my own thoughts too.

1. Avoid creating two accounts.
   The system works badly if you have some contact relations on one account and some on another. Plus there is little likelihood that you’ll keep both «profiles» updated. The way to avoid creation of duplicate accounts is to make sure you add all past (even if you do/can’t use them anymore) and current e-mail addresses. This also means that if someone you know uploads their address book with an other address than your main one, they will still see that you’re available on LinkedIn.
   If you have created a second account you have to write LinkedIn support in order to delete it.
2. Upload your address book(s).
   This way you can quickly see which of your friends are already registered. It is a lot easier asking those who already are to link up. Plus it is much easier than entering all the e-mails and names yourself. The other side of this is that if some of those addresses uploaded should sign-up to LinkedIn at a later stage (before you’ve added them) you’ll know through your LinkedIn homepage.
   You can import from most e-mail programs and webmails – instructions provided by LinkedIn.
3. Write personal invites.
   If you really do wish for people to accept your invitations you should write personal text in the invite messages. At least for those contacts that haven’t already registered with LinkedIn. Explaining briefly what LinkedIn is and why you think they should sign up, is a good idea.