Quite a lot has happened since my last blog post about the 4 Nations Cup, I know I'm a baaad blogger. I've planned to take a new direction on that at least now during the Olympic trip and share some of the athmosphere and feelings here. And yes btw, I was picked for the Olympic Team (haven't officially said that here yet) - yippeee! :D
We arrived in the USA and Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center yesteday where we're staying before travelling to Vancouver. First impressions to put it short: Jet lag, beautiful mountains, sports spirit and aaaah - the sun! It's so much brighter here than in Finland.
2010-01-30
2009-11-08
Women's Ice Hockey - 4 Nations Cup in Finland
The 4 Nations Cup is an annual women's ice hockey tournament, held between major national teams in the sport; currently, these are Canada, United States, Sweden and Finland. In general, it is held in or around November each year (Wikipedia).
I was picked for Team Finland that was playing the tournament this year in Finland. I've had somewhat of a break from the national team during the past couple of years so it was really great to got to play in the lion shirt again and especially that the games were played in Finland.
Me interviewed by MTV3 before the 4 Nations Cup tournament (in Finnish).
We stayed the week in the Finnish Olympic training center in Vierumäki, where we practised and did also some testing. The other teams had their games there in the training center, where as we played in different locations including Mikkeli, Kerava, Hartwall Arena and Tikkurila.
The result of the tournament was not too good as we lost the bronze game against Sweden in the penalty shots. I'm really confident though on the good work that the team has been doing, for example the tight game against Canada (4-2 for CAN) showed us that we're on the right track.
4 Nations Cup 2009 tournament statistics.
The first game against Sweden can be seen in MTv3 Katsomo (registration and a 5 €/day fee). My brother Petri @mertanen also took some pictures in the game against Sweden. Warning, there's a bit of a focus on Temppa (that's me!) in the pictures :D.
I was picked for Team Finland that was playing the tournament this year in Finland. I've had somewhat of a break from the national team during the past couple of years so it was really great to got to play in the lion shirt again and especially that the games were played in Finland.
Me interviewed by MTV3 before the 4 Nations Cup tournament (in Finnish).
We stayed the week in the Finnish Olympic training center in Vierumäki, where we practised and did also some testing. The other teams had their games there in the training center, where as we played in different locations including Mikkeli, Kerava, Hartwall Arena and Tikkurila.
The result of the tournament was not too good as we lost the bronze game against Sweden in the penalty shots. I'm really confident though on the good work that the team has been doing, for example the tight game against Canada (4-2 for CAN) showed us that we're on the right track.
4 Nations Cup 2009 tournament statistics.
The first game against Sweden can be seen in MTv3 Katsomo (registration and a 5 €/day fee). My brother Petri @mertanen also took some pictures in the game against Sweden. Warning, there's a bit of a focus on Temppa (that's me!) in the pictures :D.
2008-12-01
Internet Marketing Conference in Stockholm
Last week I participated in the Internet Marketing Conference in Stockholm. My brother Petri Mertanen was also there and I was glad to see his presentation on Campaign Tracking and Marketing Optimization. The link is to his blog Pete Box of Analytics where he has some nice pics about the event and people, also me ;).
There were lots of interesting presentations at the event and it was actually a tough job to choose between presentations as there were two going on at the same time. The ones that I saw and caught my attention the most was Interwoven presenting Multi Variate testing, Web Trends' presenting their Ad Director (a Search Advertising Optimization Software) and Anna Eriksson from Keybroker giving presentation on Proactive and Result-Oriented Search Engine Marketing.
Without being buyest - for true - I also think that Steve Jacson's (from our Analytics Unit at Trainers' House) presentation about the Insight Model was also insightful (and fun with all the bananas). To put it short what the presentation was all about, the Insight Model combines data from different sources and generates a 360-degree view of the visitor.
I definitelly recommend participating, and actually the next IMC is held pretty soon in March in Helsinki.
There were lots of interesting presentations at the event and it was actually a tough job to choose between presentations as there were two going on at the same time. The ones that I saw and caught my attention the most was Interwoven presenting Multi Variate testing, Web Trends' presenting their Ad Director (a Search Advertising Optimization Software) and Anna Eriksson from Keybroker giving presentation on Proactive and Result-Oriented Search Engine Marketing.
Without being buyest - for true - I also think that Steve Jacson's (from our Analytics Unit at Trainers' House) presentation about the Insight Model was also insightful (and fun with all the bananas). To put it short what the presentation was all about, the Insight Model combines data from different sources and generates a 360-degree view of the visitor.
I definitelly recommend participating, and actually the next IMC is held pretty soon in March in Helsinki.
2008-04-27
Short interview of me
nSee a short interview of me in the Video Bar or in my brothers blog Pete Box of Analytics , where you can find also other interesting web analytics stuff.
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