Social media and search engines
About Nicklas
Hi! I’m Nicklas Koski and I’m the man behind this web site. I’m blogging about social media, online communities and search engines every now and then. I started blogging because I’m intrested in these topics and I think that information and comments about the topics may be helpful for other people, as well. I write mainly in Finnish.
I have a 13 year experience of developing web sites. As from 1999 I have taken part in developing some of the largest online communities and search engines in Finland.
Currently I'm working for the Finnish media company Fonecta as the Product Manager for vertical search engines and new products.
In the beginning of 2007 I co-founded a new company Jemino Ltd, whose CEO I am. Jemino develops Internet media sites and during the summer of 2007, we launched Starttis. It's an easy to use starting page and a navigation tool for the Internet.
Previously I was in charge of the business and product development at Suomi24. That is the most popular online community and social media site in Finland with extremely popular message boards, chat rooms, dating services and many other services.
I have also been the manager of the predecessor of the search engine Eniro.fi, when it was a part of Suomi24, and before that, the manager of the Evreka search engine. At Sirkus.com, the predecessor of Suomi24, I was in charge of the product development of the community services.
Often I’ve given comments and statements to the media about the operations and development of online communities and social media.
I made my first home page back in 1996 I started blogging in 2002. You can read more about the history of this web site at the About this site page.
Recent articles from me
- Kauppalehti näyttää yritysten verkkotunnukset
- Isompia kuvia uutissivuille
- Starttiksen suosituimmat linkit
- Lamaantuuko verkkomainonta?
- Linkitykset uutisartikkeleissa
- Wall Street Journalin uudet vaatteet
- Starttis.fi:ssä kävijäennätys
Visited countries
Experience
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Product Manager
Currently I'm working with the product development of vertical search engines and new products, like the home improvement site Kotitieto, the restaurant guide Ravintolaopas, the accomodation guide Majoitusopas and the regional city guide Huviopas.
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Entrepreneur
My company Jemino, publishes the starting pages Starttis and Startis Svenskfinland. At Jemino I helped some Finnish media companies with ideas for the development of their online communities, I run large and small search engine marketing campaigns for clients in Google and I did search engine optimization for large and small customers.
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Business Manager of Suomi24
I was in charge of the Suomi24 online community with focus on business and product development. We managed to multiply the revenues and the usage.
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Nordic Portal Manager
I was in charge of the nordic product development in Stockholm of Eniros’s portals and community services.
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Product Manager, Evreka.fi and communities
I worked with the search engines and the Suomi24 online communites. Member of the management team.
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Editor and Web Developer, Sirkus.com
I wrote IT related news articles and developed the concept of an online gaming and multimedia service.
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Page Designer
I made layout for the news pages in the newspaper and updated the web site of Hufvudstadsbladet with fresh news.
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Reporter and Internet Editor
I wrote local news articles to the newspaper and updated the web site of Vasabladet with fresh news.
Education
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University of Tampere
Master of Social Sciences. Graduated from the Electronic photojournalism Masters’ programme with mass communication as my major subject.
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Åbo Akademi University
I studied social sciences, mass communication and economics in the city of Vasa.
Commissions of Trust
- Board Member at IAB Finland
- Leader of the Finnish Advertising Task Force at IAB
- Secretary of the co-operation organization of the Swedish People’s Party in Vasa
Interviews
- Starttis on uudenlainen lähtöalusta nettiin
- Valvontavirastosta heippa
- ”Missä menee raja, onko joku video todellisuutta vai ei? Siinä on loputon suo”
- Uusin Suomi
- Nettimainonta jäsentyy
- Vertaistuki voi olla tuhoavaa eikä auttavaa
- Ylläpitäjä luottaa Seiska-adressin aitouteen
- Netti ilman mainoksia
- Webbsidor som är för ätstörningar sprids på nätet
- Netti toipuu lamahinnoista
- Finnmatkat valtasi Suomi24.fi:n
- Skvaller på nätet kan få konsekvenser
- Verkko ei ole Villi-Länsi
- Sähköpostissa kulkee jouluviikolla monen megatavun jouluterveisiä
- Suomi24-keskustelupalsta sai selvityspyynnön rasismista
- Rasistiset nettikeskustelut johtivat selvityspyyntöön
- Lähettääkö nettikortti vai perinteinen?
- Muutama prosentti viesteistä asiattomia Suomi24:n palstoilla
- Tavataan netissä
- Aukkoja valvonnassa
- Suomessa alkoi internet-mainonnan standardointi
- Suomenkielisiä nettisivuja epäillään modeemikaappauksista
- Poliisi kaavailee chat-valvontaa
- Keskustelupalstojen valvonta on vapaaehtoisten käsissä
- Kuka lisää tietoni Googlen hakukoneeseen?
- Internetistä tullut kriisityön väline
- Suomi24 näkyy taas
- Kohti lasten Googlea?
- Hakukone Google kerää massiivista tietopankkia
- Yhteisöllinen Suomi24 vie tiedon lähteille
- Intervju med Nicklas Koski på finska söktjänsten Suomi24.fi
- Ajankohtaiset aiheet kiinnostavat nettikeskustelijoita
- Hakukoneissa tekniikka ratkaisee
- X3M-dag: söktjänster
Projects and activities
I have taken part in the development, concept planning or launch of the following web services:
- Starttis starting page
- Suomi24, front page and user interface
- Suomi24 Keskustelu message board
- Suomi24 Chat
- Suomi24 Tori classified ads
- Suomi24 Treffit dating service
- Suomi24 Posti e-mail service
- Suomi24 Pelit guide to web games
- Suomi24 Galleria profile pages
- Suomi24 Kartat map search
- Suomi24:n Kaupunki-info local search
- Yritystele.fi, new design
- Suomi24 Linkkiopas web directory
- Consolidation of Suomi24 and Evreka.fi
- Evreka.fi search engine
- Suomi24 Ohjelmat, Tucows software archive
- Haku.net web directory
- Sirkus Areena multimedia service
- Sirkus Kone&Peli news service
- Finlands Press, new design
- Tidningarnas Förbund, new design
- Mediahuset, new design
- Österbottens förbund, new design
Public appearances and workshops
- Marketing yourself and online reputation management
- Search Engines
- Panel discussion: Verkko - dinosaurus vai joustava media
- Online reports, lectures and workshops
- Online reports
Publications and essays
Profile
- Name: Nicklas Koski
- Age: 35
- Location: Turku, Finland
- Profession: Social media and search engine specialist.
- Education: Master of Social Sciences
- Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English, German. I also understand Norwegian and Danish.
- Interests: Travel, movies, sci-fi, hiking, photography, gardening.
- Computer: MacBook
- Wishlist: Amazon
Contact
- E-mail
- Phone from Finland
050-534 1708 - Phone from other countries
+358 50 534 1708 -
Skype
nicklaskoski
- Windows Live Messenger
Profiles in other places
Google Advertising Professional
