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This is a blog by Mervi Emilia Eskelinen, Digital Craftswoman, from Helsinki, Finland, Europe. Mostly geeky and idealistic. Likes web, design, cats, blogging, tea, tv, social media, movies, books, running, music and virtual worlds. Also known as tasselflower.

Perhaps interesting facts about me

• I am a Digital Craftswoman.
• I live in Helsinki, Finland.
• I speak and write Finnish and English, understand some Swedish and know the basics of French.
• My complicated definition: Social media are relatively easily accessible, mostly highly modifiable and scalable Internet based tools, which content is created and/or modified by the users of these tools. My easy definition: Social media are communication.
• Spring 2010 I graduated as Bachelor of Culture and Arts/Medianomi (AMK) from Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
• I consider myself as a geek and take pride of it.
• My mad skillz include: Social Media, Marketing, Web Design, Web Development, (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, basic Flash, Concept Design, Virtual Worlds (Second Life)...
• My bachelor's thesis was published 2009 and it's titled Sosiaalinen media business to business -markkinoinnissa (Social Media in Business to Business Marketing; abstract in English, the rest in Finnish). I created it in co-operation with digital media agency Gyllene Skor and received an excellent grade of it.
• Social media and it's services are like living and evolving organisms and users of these services evolve and their ways using them change all the time.
• I've been working on web design and development for over 10 years. I designed and created my first personal site 1998. It was terrible.
• Photographing, drawing, painting and other ways to create interest and entertain me.
• The Net is all about communication and being social online is not some sort of a new thing.
• In addition to the web related jobs I have worked in many customer service positions.
• Cats and other animals are close to my heart as well as nature and protecting it.
• Customer service should be treated as one of the foremost marketing efforts of an organization, product or a brand.
• I learned to read long before going to school, thanks to my sisters.
• My favorite books include such titles as Shame (by Salman Rushdie), Around the World in Eighty Days (by Jules Verne), Dune (by Frank Herbert), Emily of New Moon (by L. M. Montgomery) and The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy (by Nick Bantok).
• I don't drink coffee, but in time to time I truly enjoy a nice cup of tea.
• If you ask me for my favorite movie I'll probably say The Double Life of Veronique (1991) or maybe Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

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You can find me from the usual and then some:
Twitter . Pinterest . Flickr . Instagrid/Instagram . LinkedIn . Facebook . Quora . Goodreads . COLOURlovers . dailymile . Tumblr . Delicious . Last.fm

Photos © Timo Martiskainen.