In December 2008, the New York Israel Consulate held the first government press conference on Twitter and in doing so public diplomacy took one more step into social media. The purpose of the 2-hour open conversation in 140 characters was to engage and provide the public with a platform where citize...

Today I noticed an article in the Wall Street Journal title, "When Bad Times Make Good Movies" and thought that is exactly what is occurring today in the marketing community. Bad times are making us better marketers. It's back to marketing basics but with new strategies in our tool box...

Gast artikel van Florian Kwakkenbos. Florian is Small Business student aan de HU Amersfoort, .NET Web Developer en mede-eigenaar van Play4Life. Op dit moment werkt Florian aan zijn afstudeerproject bij ondernemerslog.nl om te bedenken hoe ze meer bezoekers kunnen krijgen. Iedereen komt langzaam binn...

Friday Fun is Diva Marketing's virtual happy hour from cosmos to Jack to lemonade. A waiting for the weekend 'playground' time to be sophisticated-silly. Or sometimes just plain silly. Toss of a pink boa to Geoff Livingston and Debbie Weil for walking the social media talk when it comes to Blog Poto...

Friday Fun is Diva Marketing's virtual happy hour from cosmos to Jack to lemonade. A waiting for the weekend 'playground' time to be sophisticated-silly. Or sometimes just plain silly. Toss of a pink boa to Geoff Livingston and Debbie Weil for walking the social media talk when it comes to Blog Poto...

Donderdag 12 juni is het dan zover, het Social Media Event in Meeting Plaza te Utrecht. Het wordt een zeer interessante dag voor kleine ondernemers zoals freelancers, zelfstandigen, ZZP-ers, starters of eigenaren van een klein bedrijf. Deze dag gaan experts de deelnemers op weg helpen in de wereld v...

Waar ik super veel zin in heb is het Social Media Event dat Laura Babeliowsky en ik op 12 juni a.s. organiseren in MeetingPlaza te Utrecht. Vorig jaar hebben Laura en ik met veel succes en plezier de Business Blog Meeting georganiseerd; dit jaar wilden we weer met een dergelijk voor zelfstandigen en...

Last Friday my friend Colleen Coplick presented to the Vancouver chapter of CPRS (PR people group) on blogs and social media.  I got a sneak peak at her slides Thursday night (she asked for feedback).  I think she was right on the mark and didn’t have too many (26, about right for an...

It’s always good, crucial I think, to read what other people think about your panel.  I usually think it has gone well, but always hard to know if you’ve hit the mark.  In my wrap up post, I focused on us not being able to give the “magic formula” for people.  ...

Next week I’ll be at the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas.  Yeah, no I won’t be gambling.  I would like to ride that roller coaster on the top of the building though.  Regardless I’m on what is going to be a kick-butt panel talking about social media to affiliate market...