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Lars Guthorm Kavli

  • Lars Guthorm Kavli is a senior consultant at Headshift and is currently working with many of our key clients. Lars is focusing on user engagement processes based on real user needs, as well as looking at ways of developing sustainable business models online.

    His academic labels are: sociologist of the media and ethnographer of media uses.

    His experience in the field of media engagement and social media ranges from running a blogging consultancy start-up for three years to advising web 2.0 start-ups as a freelancer for just as long. He's also worked as a press officer for the Norwegian foreign service both in the US and the UK, as well as an ideas-developer for a major UK TV and radio production company.

    Lars holds an MSc from the London School of Economics, as well as an MA from The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. His BA was earned at Goldsmiths College.

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  • Commented on I live or die by my Facebook - understanding social media through the works of sociologists
    Thanks for your comment Piers. First I would say, in line with Giddens I hope, that your ontological security is not threatened on a day to day basis if you are able to maintain a coherent life-story and feel relatively...
  • Posted Royal Dutch Shell: David Hone's climate change blog to Blog
    The projectIn recognizing that the debate about climate change has ended, Royal Dutch Shell decided to focus on the policy associated with mitigating climate change. Shell wanted to engage the informed public on the topic of climate change policy through a...
  • Commented on I live or die by my Facebook - understanding social media through the works of sociologists
    The clerics would hopefully be clueless ;) I agree that stressing the ontological security for those of us who worry about what to wear and what party to go to might sound a bit forced in comparison to the issues...
  • Posted I live or die by my Facebook - understanding social media through the works of sociologists to Blog
    I would argue that to keep an active and continued presence on Facebook or similar social networks is not a trivial activity, but an important part of a necessary strategy to feel safe and sustained and understood in our daily...
  • Posted Major Private Equity Firm to Projects
    Headshift put a social network in place for a large investment firm and its portfolio companies to increase the value of their investment by enabling them to network, share knowledge and discover commercial opportunities in a safe environment.Using Ruby on...
  • Posted One & Other to Projects
    One & Other is an art project conceived by Antony Gormley. The idea was to create a living portrait of the U.K. by putting 2400 people from all over the UK on the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square London...
  • Posted British Airways - Metrotwin to Projects
    BA's Metrotwin, created in partnership with Agency.com, BBH and Made by Many, is a community platform for BA customers living in and frequently traveling between London and New York. By allowing people to "twin" neighborhoods, businesses and attractions Metrotwin looks...
  • Posted Compass to Projects
    Compass is an independent democratic pressure group that campaigns and organises on behalf of its members, operating on the centre left of the political axis.The organisation wanted to challenge existing industry processes for policy formulation by opening up to their...
  • Posted The Big Green Challenge to Projects
    A NESTA  initiative, the Big Green Challenge is a competition designed to encourage and reward those who work together towards developing and implementing new approaches to CO2 emission reductions. The finalists compete for a prize fund of £1 million to...
  • Posted Creating that Niche Social Network, or Not? to Blog
    So here you are. You have a company. You have some customers, quite a lot of them in fact, and some of them are loyal, very loyal. And now you're thinking it might be a good idea to get some...
  • Posted EdMedia 2008 - Vienna, Austria to About
    Anne Bartlett-Bragg form our Headshift office in Australia is presenting a paper at EdMedia in Vienna, Austria.
  • Posted PubCamp - The Web 2.0 Media Day to About
    Kate Crawshaw from Headshift's Australia office is attending PubCamp - The Web 2.0 Media Day on the 23rd of June 2008.
  • Posted Festival of Games to About
    Tom Armitage from Headshift will be giving a talk at the Festival of Games conference in Utrecht, The Neterlands, 19th of June 2008.
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