How to network
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Doing effective networking actually is pretty easy, and most of us do it all the time. But there are a few rules, which are more like concepts to approach networking from a more effective perspective.
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Basics of a Social Media Campaign
What is social media campaign?
Social media campaign is giving away something for free that is of value to someone else. With this, you buy someone’s attention with something you give away for free. Then you use that attention to initiate an interaction between the different members or people that are actually looking for what you are giving away. Since that group will be a specific group, they are looking for a specific answer or a specific product, and you are giving them a chance to connect. Chances are, they have something to tell to each other because they are looking for the same thing.
The importance of Making Mistakes
A world without mistakes. Wouldn’t we all say that this is the ultimate attainable goal that we should strive for? Just imagine what would that would mean, a world without mistakes. What would that mean in our day to day life? That would mean a world without change. If there were no mistakes, then everything would be perfect. However, if everything would be perfect all the time there would be no chance for improvement, because we wouldn’t know what to improve. We would have a lack of information.
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You cannot buy happy customers
A reason why businesses hesitate to start with social media is that they don’t understand what they actually means. For a long time, we lived in a world when businesses could buy pretty much everything they needed, and sell their aimed product. They could just buy most of their resources and call whoever is selling it and they just buy it. However, the age of social media is also the age of the post-industrial production where industrial manufacturing has gotten so cheap that, for a lot of things, it doesn’t make sense to have them made anywhere else but in the cheapest countries. I guess that is mostly China, India, Bangladesh, and places like that.
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Adapting Social Media
In this article, we discuss why businesses in government agencies are slow to adapt to social media. In my last article, I discussed how social media is changing the way we think and talk about products and services. In this article, I ask why businesses and government agencies are slow to adapt to the social media age.
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Dutch-German: Cultural Differences
First let me say that it’s not right to talk about the Dutch or the German people, because every country and tribe has very different people in them. However, there are general tendencies, or stereotypes, and it’s just interesting to think about cultural differences. So here come some thoughts:
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Our South Africa trip
We’ll be traveling in South Africa next month. Yeah!
View Südafrika-Reise in a larger map
Use Prezi (=Flash) on the iPad
The iPad got one problem: It can’t “do” flash.
Not anymore (okay it’s not perfect, but it works!!)…
Alright…just do the following:
- get an iPad (yeah!)
- install the teamviewer app (http://www.teamviewer.com/download/iphone.aspx)
- install the teamviewer programm on your computer (http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx)
- start the programm on your computer
- log in with your iPad
- Enjoy Prezi on your iPad
Okay…let’s be honest – no moving stuff, nothing fancy – BUT IT WORKS!
When is a difference really a difference?
I often see businesses compare their data and then they come up with two means that might be, for example, the return of investment of an adverts campaign versus the return of investment of a Facebook advertisement campaign. The means might describe a year, so that would be the result of a whole year. What you need to take in mind when making a decision and using means is that there is a random factor, at least if you agree with the underlying propositions of the general linear model. The truth is that the statistics we use today might not really be suited to do what we want do.
People who inspire me: Daan Weddepohl
This is about a person called Daan Weddepohl. We first got to know each other when I was applying for a room in a student house in the center of Nijmegen. Daan was happy living there for about two years. I actually got the room, and we were roommates for quite some time; around one and a half years or two years. We got to know each other pretty well during that time, and we started out as just having a fun roommates relationship. We were just joking around, drinking beer and having a good time. That went on for quite some time; we did that for quite a few months before I discovered that Daan was an amazing person to talk to.