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Fans Score Coveted 2011 IKEA Catalogs Two Weeks in Advance at the First IKEA-Sponsored Fan Event

Announcements, Contests & Giveaways, Weblogs

TheIKEAWorld.com has just launched, and they’re looking for IKEA co-workers to guest blog!  Do you have stories at the end of your day that you’d love to share with someone else who would just ‘get it’?  Tired of having your friends and family stare at you blankly when you talk about working at IKEA?  Then you NEED to blog at TheIKEAWorld! Find out more about guest blogging about the IKEA World!

The private forum for TheIKEAWorld.com is being hosted at IKEAFANS.com, which has an established group of IKEA Co-Workers who are active on the forums. If you’re an IKEA Co-Worker and you’d like to join the IKEA Co-Worker’s Private Forum at IKEAFANS.com, send a request for an invite to: Susan@IKEAFANS.com.

Hej!

Communities, People, Weblogs IKEA Co-worker, ikea co-workers, IKEA Private Forum, IKEAFANS.com, TheIKEAWorld.com

Totally cool story about how social networking through Twitter saved the day for one IKEA customer. Story told by OzDJ (@OzDJ) on his Phlog and retold by LaurelPapworth on her Social Media Blog: the business of being social.

Long story short:

1. @OzDJ needed some shelves. 
2. @aDB was at the local IKEA.
3. @OzDJ bribed @aDB with some IKEA food and instant karma to check on the stock.
4. Less than an hour later, @aDB posted a picture on TwitPic as evidence of available stock.
5. Social Networking for the WIN!

I actually saw these tweets go by in my twitter stream, (!!) and having witnessed the same on IKEAFANS on many occasions, I nodded and went back to work. The difference here is IMMEDIACY. Within an hour, OzDJ had posted this picture of said stock:

Now, THAT’s the power of social networking. I always knew IKEA fans are just the best kind of people there are! Now, proof.

Check out the evolution of TwitterCaching that grew out of this exchange: #twittercache and OzDJ’s post about it here: Forget the Obama Inauguration – this is the first ever #twittercache.

Communities, People, Weblogs #twittercache, @aDB, @OzDJ, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

There is an email circulating that appears to come from homeplanner@ikea.com which contains a virus – supposedly the Netsky worm.  The email looks like this:

DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT. DELETE THE EMAIL IMMEDIATELY. This is not a legitimate email from IKEA – it is an email containing a dangerous worm known as Netsky.

[Photo and tip via IKEAFANS.com Blog]

IKEA Product Recalls, Weblogs IKEA Home Planner, Netsky, Phony email, Trojan, Virus, Worm

IKEA Hemnes Ad – Not quite as funny as previous IKEA ads, but clever nonetheless. Love the old woman, “I don’t judge.”

[via YouTube courtesy of http://advmania.blogspot.com/]

P.S. IKEA Orlando – Don’t forget ChanuIKEA! Tonight at IKEA Orlando in the Restaurant starting at 6pm. Send pictures, please!

Advertising & Marketing, Television and Video, Weblogs advmania.blogspot.com, ChanuIKEA, Hemnes, IKEA advertising, IKEA Commercial

Found reference to IKEA Dialogues on Minor Tweaks at IKEAFANS – hysterical!  IKEA Anna is always fun, but Tom Bartlett give Anna a run for her money in 13 separate dialogues with Anna, and (hopefully) counting….

Anna: The IKEA business idea is: “We shall offer a wide-range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.”

Me: Wow. Did you memorize that? Read more…

Humor, Weblogs IKEA Anna, ikea humor, Minor Tweaks, Notebookism

Positive Fanatics is back!

We’re thrilled to announce that Positive Fanatics is coming back.  After chatting with Armand about the future of Positive Fanatics and our commitment to the longevity of its position in the online IKEA community, we’ve agreed to take over and continue in the tradition of offering timely news on IKEA, information on store openings, events and sales, and other tasty tidbits about the store we all love – IKEA.

We don’t plan to change much, though we’ll be posting more frequently (like Armand was able to in the beginning) and focusing on the stories of IKEA fanatics – that’s YOU!

So, please…help us get off on the right foot!  Do you have a story to tell?  Photos to share?  A complaint, grudge or just comments?  Send them in!  Let’s get this baby moving!

Welcome back, Positive Fanatics!

Susan and James

www.ikeafans.com

Announcements, Communities, Weblogs IKEAFANS.com, PositiveFanatics

The Ikea Factor is a project created in hopes of creating a collective of ideas from anyone who thinks they can improve upon Ikea. Whether it be the designs themselves or the stores, everything’s up for grabs. What would Ikea be like if done through the eyes of the people who shop there?

Edit 2008: theikeafactor.blogspot.com no longer exists.

Good luck Dylan!

Weblogs ikea blogs, the ikea factor

Don’t forget to drop by IKEAhacker for the latest mods. This one was sent in by a reader who buys her furniture unpainted and finishes them herself.

LINK

Weblogs ikeahacker

IKEA Hacker has a FLICKR slideshow of the 2007 line.

Check it out

Weblogs IKEA catalog, IKEA furniture, IKEA on Flickr, ikeahacker