Oct 20, 2008
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.
In 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
