Life At Bonnier - A Week in the Life

Rachel Feddersen, Babies Galore!

By Rachel Fishman Feddersen on 2009-03-24
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A Week in the Life: the Parenting.com Director turns thousands of cute baby photos into traffic gold

Photo by Sarah Amato

Sunny and crisp in NYC. Not terribly spring-y yet, but way better than yesterday, when I was super-virtuous and went for a run before work in the 22-degree F wind chill. Although, actually, I'm guessing that temperature sounds kind of warm to the Nordic among you. I realize I'm a little weather obsessed, but I can't be unique; there's a reason that weather.com is so popular.

Here in the office, we're counting down to the launch of the Babytalk/GMA cover contest. It's a huge, huge traffic driver for us.

Meet Rachel Feddersen

By Rachel Fishman Feddersen on 2009-03-23
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A Week in the Life: the Parenting.com Director kicks a nutty week off with a bunch of launches

Photo by Sarah Amato

Good morning! (It's still morning in New York, anyway.) When I enthusiastically signed up to blog for a week, it felt like my assignment was ages away, so far in the future I didn't even need to start thinking about it. But, as usual, time passed, and suddenly it's now, and I have nothing in the can ready to go.

Jenny Larsson: TGIF

By Jenny Sjöö Larsson on 2009-03-13
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A Week in the Life: A very good morning at SF!

Life is wonderful when you come to work and face this vision already in the lobby, at least for a cookie monster like me. Bun Friday is a real institution in SF. Our buns are more sacred than cows in India. During some leaner times, I heard one of our former managers, do not know which, joked that he would pull the plug on Bun Friday. He wasn't around for very long.

 

Jenny Larsson: SF or SF Bio?

By Jenny Sjöö Larsson on 2009-03-13
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A Week in the Life: Jenny works for the SF that doesn't sell popcorn

Foto: Anders Ryderling

Now we sort this out—SF or SF Bio?

Have you caught on that SF and SF Bio are two different companies yet?

SF (AB Svensk Film Industry), who I work for, produces, exports, buys and distributes film and video. We are therefore with film.

Sweden's largest cinema is SF Bio, a sister company to us. Someone (not me) said that "SF Bio is the property that sells popcorn." I have, by the way, worked for SF Bio and sold popcorn in the past...sometime around Jurassic era, or maybe it was the Cretaceous period.

Jenny Larsson: Pirate Fight

By Jenny Sjöö Larsson on 2009-03-11
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A Week in the Life: Jenny books a zillion travel arrangements and fights off web "pirates"

Are you as crazy busy as I am?

Jenny Larsson: A Good Cause

By Jenny Sjöö Larsson on 2009-03-10
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A Week in the Life: Jenny talks about losing colleagues to cancer, and supporting Swedish cancer research

It's the e-mail you least want. It begins, "With great sadness we must announce that our colleague XX has died after an illness ...". Sometimes the e-mail is expected, but it still hits you in the heart. In SF, many received this mail twice within a very short time. Our dear friends and colleagues Inger Sjöstedt in Svenska Bio and Wenche Lerdahl on SF in Norway have recently lost the fight against cancer.

Both have left large gaps, and of course there are no words can express how they are being missed.

Jenny Larsson: Snowed In

By Jenny Sjöö Larsson on 2009-03-10
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A Week in the Life: Jenny Sjöö Larsson wonders where spring is

What happened to spring? Yesterday, birds chirped obsessively, but when we pulled the blinds in the morning it was just snow, snow, snow. In the winter boots, into the wind and into the Subway, which of course was late because of weather. Coffee cup is on the desk now, so I'm going for it!

Chris Cote: Peak Surf

By Chris Cote on 2009-03-10
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A Week in the Life: ASP World Tour, surfing rivals, and a film premiere

Last night I stayed up late watching the Quiksilver Pro on the Internet. My friend Dane Reynolds lost to Taj Burrow, but my personal pick for the winner of the event and the whole shebang, Joel Parkinson, advanced to the semi-finals where he goes up against his friend, rival, and in-form Mick Fanning. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'll explain.

Meet Chris Cote

By Chris Cote on 2009-03-10
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A Week in the Life: The Transworld SURF Editor-in-Chief parties on Australia's Gold Coast

My name is Chris Cote, and I am the Editor-in-Chief of Transworld SURF magazine and transworldsurf.com. This is day one of my five-day blog bonanza. I just returned from a week in Australia. Transworld SURF teamed up with New Era (a leading American hat manufacturer) and rented an amazing house right on the beach in Coolangatta, on Australia's Gold Coast.

Jenny Larsson: 90 Years of SF

By Jenny Sjöö Larsson on 2009-03-09
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A Week in the Life: A kick-off for 190 people - and this year it is Jubilee Year!

Foto: Anders Ryderling

Monday has been busy, as usual. Right now I'm working to piece together a kick-off in April when we get together with our Nordic subsidiaries go to Elsinore in Denmark. It is a lot of work to get nearly 190 people travel and accommodation, taking allergies and other needs into account. Many lists are there, but I know that once we we're done, this inconvenience will have been worth the effort. We usually have lots of fun at these meetings. This year it is our 90-year anniversary so it feels a little extra festive.